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Science teaching, except in Geography and Geology, in the University. We recognize the remarkable advances made in research and teaching in the Chinese Universities in the pure and applied sciences and are concerned chiefly to continue to We would like, finally, to profit thereby. emphasize our conviction that this University can do a great service by stressing the importance of sound teaching in the sciences preliminary to professional studies in Engineering and Medicine.
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Arts Faculty.
50. (i) Since its establishment the Faculty has grown only by the addition of a School of Chinese Studies. A new Faculty of Science is about to be instituted and Education is to become the sub- ject of a one year post-graduate course. Com- mercial studies have not gained the approval of either the European or the Chinese business com- munity and it is felt that much in the curriculum of the degree in commercial subjects' could be better taught elsewhere than in the University. We accept the criticism that the courses are of little value as education or as training for business, and therefore recommend that they be suspended.
(ii) The position in respect of other subjects is not satisfactory. There are courses in English Literature but a great deal of the English teaching in the University is utilitarian. Studies in Chi- nese Literature and History are developing, but for the rest, little is offered by the Faculty. History teaching is meagre, teaching of Economics even more meagre. Logic, Ethics and Geography are taught in a dispersed fashion by such part- time teachers as may be available. We therefore are of opinion that if the University is to establish its claim to be a home of liberal studies, extension of departments in the Faculty of Arts is necessary.
51. (i) We accept the assurance that there is a sufficient number of students capable of advanced studies in English Literature and Linguistics to justify the institution of honours courses in Eng- lish. For this work to be well done, the appoint- ment of a new junior lecturer, preferably a Chinese graduate of this University who has had training by post-graduate study in Great Britain, would be needed. The cost would be about $5,500 a year. An additional charge would be for the more adequate provision of books in the English Library. This matter is taken up later. The Committee resolved that this expenditure on staff would be justified.
(ii) A further development, experimental to some degree, that we should recommend is the establishment of honours courses in Comparative