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The number of students who graduated during 1938 is shown below:
Men Women Total Medicine (M.B., B.S.) 11 1 Engineering (B. Sc.) 7 1 Arts (B.A.) 23 2 TotalThe total expenditure amounted to $1,078,155.49 and the total income to $1,050,841.45, leaving a deficit of $27,314.04 on the year's working. This deficit will be met from the credit balance of the Income and Expenditure Account of previous years, which stood at $110,474.57 at the beginning of 1938. Owing to the large increase in the number of students during 1938, the accommodation available in the six halls of residence for men was tested to its limits. The question of the provision of hostel accommodation for women forced itself on the immediate attention of the University authorities during 1938. A scheme for the construction of a hostel for women students in the vicinity of the University is likely to materialize in the near future, owing to an offer of the Mother Provincial of the French Convent, Hong Kong, to build, equip, and conduct a hall of residence for fifty women students, if a suitable site is provided for the purpose. In the meantime, the majority of the women students live with parents and guardians, residential facilities for about thirty being provided by the Church Missionary Society and the Italian Convent.
The General Library, which includes the Morrison Collection and the Medical Library, contains 45,450 volumes. The Fung Ping Shan Chinese Library includes 4,895 sets of books and 43,681 volumes and is open to the public without restriction. The Hankow Library, which was acquired in 1933, includes a unique collection of some 3,000 volumes written in English, French, and German, dealing with China and things Chinese. Three valuable private collections, comprising 7,551 sets and 62,767 volumes, are housed in the Fung Ping Shan Library for safe keeping. Special arrangements were made during 1938 for extending facilities to the Lingnan University for the use of the Library.
The University continues, through the activities of its various Societies and organizations, literary, technical, social, and sporting, to maintain and promote contact with the general and cultural interests of the Colony. During 1938, the Chinese Society organized two very successful exhibitions of Chinese Porcelain and Painting held in the Fung Ping Shan Library. The University Libraries, particularly the Hankow Section, were increasingly used by the public, and University buildings and rooms were made available for public lectures, for the use of musical societies, and for use as centres for examinations conducted by the Trinity College of Music, and by the Government Nurses Board. The University laboratories and departments continue to carry out important tests and investigations for hospitals in the Colony and for the X-Ray Department of Queen Mary Hospital. Mention may also be made of the work done by the Head of the Department of Physiology (Professor Ride) in connection with the nutritional survey of the Colony, and by the Economic Department (Miss Archer) on the cost of living. Mr. S. Y. Lin's report on Fisheries is mentioned in Chapter VI. There are several publications of professional and literary interest issued by the various University societies.
Students of the University have identified themselves with social and charitable work, as is shown by the Education Society's Free Night school for poor boys, the provision by the Athletic Association of the University Union of a playground for the use of the Pokfulum Boys' Club, and the participation by students in relief work among Chinese refugees at the camp at Shumchun during the Christmas vacation, 1938. During 1938, a sum of about $15,000 was distributed by the University Students Medical Relief Association. The members of the Alumni Association also...