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are thoroughly well trained, and the University owes a great debt of gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation for its generous endowment in 1921 of three chairs in Surgery, Medicine and Obstetrics.
One of its greatest outstanding needs is a Department of Public Health, with a Professor and adequate staff, and facilities for research work in Bacteriology and Parasitology. It is essential, particularly in the Chinese ports, that Medical Officers should have special training in preventive medicine and hygiene.
It would be a fitting tribute to the great work of Sir Patrick Manson if funds were forthcoming to establish in Hong Kong a Manson Professorship of Freventive Medicine and Hygiene.
The male students studying for an Arts degree consist largely at present of men training for educational posts. It has however been recommended that a School of Economics and Politics, based upon the teaching of history and the study of the working of political institutions of the West and East, be established.
Leading Chinese contributed a sum of $200,000 towards the establishment of a Chinese School and in 1935 a highly competent Professor of Chinese was obtained from China. A reorganisation of the Department took place, and, as a result of the introduction of modern methods of teaching Chinese, great interest was aroused among the students. The number attending the courses has steadily increased.
A great evolution has taken place in China in recent years and many thoughtful Chinese support a movement of frank and searching enquiry into the philosophy and faith that lie at the base of the science, education and politics of the Western democracies. In that direction the University of Hon Kong, as a trainer of youth, can give a helping hand, if the aims and ideals which led to its foundation are maintained.
That the University has done much in the past cannot be gainsa but more is called for and increased funds are necessary to make it worthy of its founders and of all those who have shown such great devotion to it in the past.