Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941
·COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The cost of the building last mentioned (some $62,000) was met in approximately equal shares from University moneys and from public subscriptions, the entire cost of furnishing being met out of further subscriptions.
Unless exempted from residence (such exemption being ordinarily granted on the ground that the student's "manner of life is not such as is catered for in the hostels"), every matriculated student is required to reside either in a University, or in a recognised hostel.
The University hostels are three in number—Lugard Hall, Eliot Hall, and May Hall.
Recognised hostels are at present two in number—Morrison Hall, situate immediately above the University grounds and conducted by the London Missionary Society, and St. John's Hall, immediately opposite the front of the University, conducted by the Church Missionary Society.
Each student occupies a separate room or cubicle, and there are the usual common rooms. Each University hostel is in charge of a member of the staff, as resident Warden.
No University hostel at present exists for women students—whose right to admission to the University was first recognised in 1921; but by the courtesy of the school authorities, arrangements have been made for their lodging in connection with St. Stephen's Girls' College.
University fees for tuition and board amount to $550 per annum, enabling a student who lives carefully to meet the whole of his expenses with a sum of $1,000 per annum, as compared with a minimum sum of $2,500 per annum, besides travelling expenses, in the case of a Chinese student going abroad for his education.
The number of students attending lectures at the beginning of 1922 was 251, made up of 86 in the Medical Faculty, 48 in the Faculty of Engineering and 117 in the Faculty of Arts.
Numerous scholarships are available, including the King Edward VII Scholarships founded by His Majesty's Government, the President's Scholarships founded by His Excellency the President of China, together with Scholarships (some of which are in the nature of bursaries) given by the Hongkong Government, the Chinese Government, the Metropolitan District of Peking, the Provincial Governments of Canton, Chihli, Yunnan and Hupeh, the Governments of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, the Government of Kedah and the Siamese Government. Students are also drawn from the Philippines, French Indo-China and Australasia.
Noteworthy events in 1921 were the appointment of Sir William Brunyate, K.C.M.G., as Vice-Chancellor in succession to Sir Charles Eliot, K.C.M.G., C.B., who resigned upon appointment as His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokio; the creation of a four-year course in Commerce, for which purpose a sum of $12,000 for five years was promised by the General Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong; the increase of the Government subsidy from $20,000 to $50,000 a year, and the completion of a grant from the Colonial Government of $1,000,000 as additional endowment together with a further sum of $700,000 to pay off an accumulated deficit and to make good a portion of the sum spent on buildings and equipment; a gift of $100,000 from Messrs. John Swire and Sons, Ltd., for the purposes of the Engineering Faculty.