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asked to furnish a suitable site for the erection of a permanent survey camp-shed in the New Terri- tories.
43. We are of opinion that the provision of post-graduate scholarships in engineering to be held at the Imperial College of Science and Technology and institutions of the like kind is a worthy object of private beneficence, and that the University should make a special appeal on this head.
44. We think that the appointment by the Government of men trained here to a cadre of assistant engineers would so improve the status of the engineering degree of the University in the eyes of Chinese officials, that employment in China would almost certainly be more easily obtained, provided that our students, on their part, have taken pains to learn standard Chinese.
Physics.
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45. We recognize that the teaching of pure science in the University hitherto has been limited: (i) by the subordination of science teaching to the interests of Engineering and Medical studies;
(ii) by the completely unsatisfactory laboratories
that exist
and welcome the action already taken by the University to inaugurate a separate Faculty of Science, and to provide for the building and equip- ment of new laboratories at a cost of about $300,000.
46. (i) We are satisfied, after inquiry, that the University is, in China, unique in its ability to provide for the study of the scientific aspects of radio-therapeutics. The new equipment at the Queen Mary Hospital, said to be the finest of its kind in the East, is in the care of the Physics Department of the University. No limits to the development of purely scientific experimental work in this region can yet be set.
(ii) We therefore recommend that provision for post-graduate teaching in the physics of radiation-therapy should be made. This can be done without any considerable cost to the Univer- sity for staff or equipment.
(iii) For the provision of honours teaching and for the useful organization of research, an additional lecturer, at an annual average cost of £775, and an increase of the departmental allot- ment by £150 a year, would be required.
(iv) We are of opinion that attempts to develop courses leading to specialised work in in- dustrial physics are premature. The development of the department in this direction must wait on the progress of industry.
(v) For research and any considerable amount of the post-graduate teaching in radio-therapy that is recommended in paragraph (ii) above, it will be necessary to have, for experimental work,
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