PART III.
Proposed Univer's Develofmed of the
The proposals that follow are intended merely as outlining the beginning of a new University which would have within it- self a principle of growth. The scheme has been framed with an eye to the least that should at once be spent on staff and equipment.
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The Comittoc believes that the basis of a good University must lie in sound Departments in the Faculty of Arts, of English and Chinose: that provision must be made for compara- tive studies in Western and Eastern art, though and history and that a gift of signal value to China at this moment would be a Department for the study of social conceptions, institu- tions and organizations, staffed by men competunt to present the best ideas of the west in their historial and philosophic setting and to bring them into relation with the traditions and speculations of Chinese thinkers, and to present intelligently to Chinese the lessons of Western experience in political and social organization. This implies a Ficult with sound, if smill, Departments of English, Chinese, History, hilosophy, Economics - Social Science and Bathematic. The minimum additional staff that the Committee believes to be necessary is shown in a table below.
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The training of teachers, especially of teachers of English for the Colonial schools, and perhaps a still more useful task, for schools in China,is a function that such a University ought to perform. The Chinese Ministry of Education which now exphasises the importance of English in Chinose education surely would welcome a generous expansion of this post-graduate Department.//A University so far from the academic centre is handicapped in the .atter of oriinal work in Science but it cannot be healthy unless it is training men competent to undertake independent original work. For this reason the Committee believes that we honours schools should be developed in kathematics, hysics and Chemistry, and that provision should be made for the training of research workers even if Last of the finally have to roceed overseas to work in the more adequately provided laboratories in England. There is no indication that the develoment of local industry is likely to make early demands, other than for routine testing, on the University, but the University of Hong Kong should be able to send into China well trained workers of which that country has great need.
In Marine Biology the Colony should be a field for new work of quality. This has already been recognized by the establishment out of Imperial funds of a Research Institute conducted jointly by the Colonial Govern.ent and the Univ.r- sity. The war interrupted the building but a research taff was at work. When the University resumes work it hopes to share in the organizing of courses for workers from China and in making its contibution to the establishment of an important industry of deep-sca trawling higherto a preserve of the Ja, anose,
In the past Biochemistry has been a subsidiary concern in the Department of thysiology. The Committee is of opinion that the importance of the subject, not rely as a subject of the medical curriculum, demands that it should be organized as a separate De art.nt in the Faculty of science,
In Medicine two matters of major importance energed in the Committee's discussions.Greater scope ust be allowed for the teaching of preventive médicine and public health. The present arrangement whereby the Deputy Director of Medical Services (Public Health) in the Government Medical Depart ent is also the Professor in the University shouli be superceded by the establish ent of a strong University Department of Social Medicine ani ¡ublic Health under its om head, a Profcesor in the University.