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the University had in the past existed far too much from
hand to mouth. In particular they regarded the
investments of the University funds in Shanghai Mortgages
to be undesirable. They also considered that the
University should begin to accumulate a proper reserve.
The Senate and Council agreed generally with these
opinions and resolved that a budget provision as a
reserve against depreciation charges was necessary and
should be the first charge on any surplus income over
expenditure.
They
The Report advised that the scope of the
Engineering Faculties should be confined to a sound
teaching in the principles of engineering and should not
endeavour to undertake original work and research.
proposed that there should be a single Professor of
Engineering in place of the three Professors of Civil,
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and that generally
there should be increased facilities for post graduate
training in the P.W.D. and improved contact with the
English Engineering firms. The Senate opposed the
reduction of the Senior posts but the Council resolved.
that when the posts of Professors of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering fell vacant they should be held in
abeyance and that in engineering the University should
for the present confine itself to teaching and examining
for a degree in Civil Engineering. Further, they
proposed that arrangements should be made with the
University of London for the holding in Hong Kong of an inter
-mediate examination. in Engineering to be taken by
students
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