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A defect arising in the main from the physical conformation of the island was the inadequate space for games and athletics. An expensive scheme of earth cutting and filling was the cure, but the University had not money to spend.
The University buildings, classrooms, laboratories, hostels and staff houses were ill-planned and ugly. The few later buildings,
the Chinese Library and the new laboratories, for example, emphasized the defects of the earlier buildings. of all was the wasteful use of the site given by the Hong Kong Government for the University.
Perhaps worst
The University has a fair general library, a growing Chinese library, a good Medical library especially in the provision of periodicals and a special library of European books on China, one of the best of its kind, purchased from the Hankow Club.
The University has achieved a certain reputation for its teaching in Medicine, where the chief difficulties have sprung from the lack of a specifically organized teaching hospital and
Its a too restricted specialist staff, and in Engineering. Science teaching up to 1939 was almost entirely restricted to
Arts courses were studies preliminary to Medicine and Engineering. much too narrowly restricted for lack of means; provision for the training of teachers was slowly developing but again was cramped by insufficient funds. In 1959 a Committee made very modest proposals
for developments and extensions of University work but these were held up by the War, in fact even these recommendations cannot properly be implemented till the views of the present Committee on the future policy of the University have been considered by the authorities in Great Britain.
15th January, 1946.