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XXX. Paragraph 87.
XXXI. Paragraph 88.
XXXII. Paragraph 90.
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fessional services of the Government for itself and in part as testimony to outside authorities of the professional value of graduates of this University.
Resolved (nem. con)
(a) that the Court is willing collectively and through its individual members to foster Alumni Associations.
(b) that the Court is of opinion that the election of three of their members to the Court by the registered graduates of the University is a practic- able means towards retaining interest of graduates in the welfare of the University.
Resolved (nem. con)
(a) that the Court is of opinion that societies which maintain University Halls should be asked to appoint as Wardens of those Halls persons fitted to undertake duties as lecturers or professors in the University.
Bishop Hall spoke on this motion, and the Vice- Chancellor replied.
(b) that the Court while recognizing the dif- ficulties in such interchange, favours the interchange of teachers with Universities in China.
(c) that the Court would welcome visits from special lecturers sent to China by the Universities China Committee.
Resolved (nem, con) that for future recruits to the service of the University free passages, in addition to single passage on first appointment and a single passage on retirement, be given in accordance with the following calculation (the normal retiring age being taken as 55):
(i) For a professor, a reader or a lecturer, and his wife; passages at any time amounting in all to one return passage for each such person for every 54 completed years of service (including periods of leave).
(ii) For each child: passages to a maximum cost of two return half-fare passages.
NOTE:
Passage expenditure will be calculated at the P. & 0. rates for the appropriate class but an account will be maintained to enable a man to gain the advantage of travel by cheaper rates in the form of additional passages to the total amount standing to his credit, under the separate heads of self, wife and children in the Passage Account. No transfer as between these separate heads can be admitted.
XXXIII. Paragraph 91.
XXXIV. Paragraph 92.
I.
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Resolved (nem. con) that ordinarily no benefaction in the form of a new building should be accepted unless adequate provision for maintenance is avail- able.
Endorsed the recommendation that an extended system of scholarships should be adopted on the lines indicated in paragraph 92 of the Report of the University (1937) Committee.
Enclosure No. 2.
The following Resolutions were passed by the Council on the matter of Resolutions 1-6.
Resolution 1.
Decided that the reprinting of the University Blue Book of 1912 was not necessary as there was already a copy in the Library.
Resolutions 2-6.
No immediate action considered necessary but the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo gave notice that he might later wish to move a Resolution of the Council with regard to the terms of Resolution No. 3.
Resolution 3.
Resolved that, whilst desiring generally to abstain from expressing any views on the Report of the Committee published in March, 1937, and the Resolutions of the Senate thereon which do not call for definite action on the part of the University,
(a) This Council wishes to dissociate itself from the expressions of regret as set out in the Senate's Resolution No. 3, with regard to the procedure as to the publication of the Committee's findings; and
(b) With reference to paragraph 73 of the Committee's Report and the Senate's Resolution thereon, whilst this Council agrees that the wording of the second part of the paragraph, taken by itself and not in conjunction with the preceding two paragraphs of the Report, might convey an impression derogatory to the professional status of the Professors of the University, this Council is satisfied that such an impression was utterly unintended by the Committee.
RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE SENATE AT ITS MEETINGS ON MARCH 3rd, MARCH 10th AND MARCH 17th, 1938. ON THE UNIVERSITY (1937) REPORT GENERALLY RATHER THAN ON PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REPORT.
1. Resolved that the Senate is of the opinion, in view of the importance
of the material contained in the University Blue Book of 1912 and the relevance of
such material to the present discussions, that Government should be asked to reprint the Blue Book with the omission of plans and photographs.
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