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responsibility and the volume of work to be done by the
University Department of Education.
19.
I invite particular attention to the Court's
resolution No.III. This resolution was moved in the
Council by the Honourable Mr. M.K. Lo and was passed
unanimously. The Council and the Court deliberately
abstained from expressing opinions on any resolution of
the Senate which did not call for specific action by the
Council or the Court. In effect, this meant that the
Council gave its attention in the main to the Senate's
resolutions calling for action and these resolutions were
taken in conjunction with motions proposed by the Vice-
Chancellor which in almost every case dealt with the same
issues. The chief exception to this is in the resolution
now under consideration in which the Council (a) repudiated
criticism of committee's procedure made by the Senate and
(b) asserted its view that comments interpreted as
"derogatory of the professional status" of members of the
University staff had been read in a sense not intended by
the committee. The members of the committee, who were
all present at the Council meeting, supported this motion
which was accepted on behalf of his colleagues by Professor Ride, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. The
resolution has had the effect of removing the sense of
grievance under which a number of the members of the staff
have suffered. It is significant that, at the Court
meeting, dissent from the resolutions of the Council was
expressed by only a minority of the senior members of the University staff. The same group dissented from the
proposal to limit the area of engineering teaching and
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