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for the maintenance of good relations between Great Britian
and China.
EARLY GROWTH: The Ordinance became operative; the first
buildings were erected at the cost of a
local banker Sir H. Mody. Sir Charles Eliot became
Vice Chancellor and classes were opened. In the early days
developments in medical teaching came first and in 1919 more .
adequate accommodation for the teachingof Physiology, Pathology
and Tropical Medicine was built, and some years later
laboratories for Operative Surgery.
Hospital provision for
clinical teaching was defective but the remedy came when the
Government built a fine hospital, the Queen Mary Hospital, in
which adequate beds were assigned to University teachers.
The supervision of medical education exercised at preiodic
visits of one of its officers by the General Medical Council
was a source of strength to the Medical Faculty in their de-
mands on the hopelessly inadequate resources of the infant
University.
An Engineering Faculty gained a good deal of initial help in
merchants
and British Manufac-
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funds and equipment from local
turers. An attempt was made, it would now appear, mistakenly,
to carry out training for degress in Mechanical Electrical
and Civil Engineering. The resources of the University were
too
widely spread with the result that the only record
that the University can regard with satisfaction is that in
Civil Engineering. The Government did not employ graduatės in
their Engineering services even as assistant Engineers or
Supervisors.
There was a joing Faculty of Arts and Science.
Science teaching
rarely got beyond the elementary work preliminary to Engineering
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