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for the maintenance of good relations between Great Britian
and China.
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BARLY CROWPL- The Ordinance became operativeß the first
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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 iodic
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
funds and equipment from local
merchants
and British Manufac-
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turersand an attempt was made, it would now appear, mistakenly,
to carry out training for degress in Mechanical Electrical,
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and Civil Engineering. The resources of the University were however
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 graduates in
their Engineering services even as assistant Engineers or
Supervisors.
There was a joint Faculty of Arts and Science. Science teaching
rarely got beyond the elementary work preliminary to Engineering