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In 1937 a Supervisor of Physical Education was appointed and physical training is proceeding along organized lines. The regulations require that every boy and girl in Government and Grant Schools shall receive a minimum of one hour's training each week in addition to organized games.
As only a few schools in the Colony are fortunate enough to possess adequate playing fields it has become necessary to rely on the generosity of the numerous sports' clubs for the use of grounds for football, cricket, and hockey. These clubs, established for all nationalities, willingly place their grounds and equipment at the disposal of schools when required.
The University.
The University of Hong Kong, which was incorporated in 1911 and formally opened in 1912, reached the twenty-sixth year of its existence in the year under review. The buildings, including class-room accommodation for about 500 students, six hostels, laboratories, residences for the staff, the students' Union, a gymnasium, workshops and playing fields, occupy an area of thirty-six acres.
The Court, the supreme governing body, is composed of life members, ex officio members, and nominated members, with the Governor as Chairman. The Council, which is the executive body, is composed of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Treasurer, certain Government officials, the Chinese members of the Legislative Council, the Deans of Faculty, two representatives of the commercial community, and two additional members appointed by the Governor. The Senate consists of the Vice-Chancellor, the Director of Education, the Professors and Readers. There are three Faculties: Medicine, Engineering and Arts. The Arts Faculty includes a Department of Chinese Studies. The Degrees granted are M.B., B.S., M.D., M.S., B.A., M.A., B.Sc. (Engineering), M.Sc. The standard aimed at is that of the University of London.
All male students are required, as a condition of admission, to reside in halls of residence provided by the University or in hostels founded by religious bodies and conducted under regulations approved by the Council. The tuition fee is $400 a year and the hostel fee, which includes board and lodging, $300 a year. It is estimated that it costs a student $1,500 a year at the University. This sum includes registration and laboratory fees, Union and club fees, books, instruments, clothes and vacations.
538 students were on the rolls during 1938. This was the highest enrolment recorded in the history of the University. The large majority of these students were of Chinese nationality, and 40% of them were obliged to relinquish their studies in Chinese universities on account of the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Since September, 1938, facilities have been afforded to 500 refugee students of Lingnan University, Canton, to continue their studies under their own professors and lecturers at Hong Kong University.
Of the 536 regular students in 1938, 418 were men and 118 women students distributed as follows:-
Men Women Medicine 187 24 Engineering 129 3 Arts 88 85 External students 14 6 Total 418 11838
In 1937 a Supervisor of Physical Education was appointed and physical train- ing is proceeding along organized lines. The regulations require that every boy and girl in Government and Grant Schools shall receive a minimum of one hour's、 training each week in addition to organized games.
As only a few schools in the Colony are fortunate enough to possess adequate playing fields it has become necessary to rely on the generosity of the numerous sports' clubs for the use of grounds for football, cricket, and hockey. These clubs, established for all nationalities, willingly place their grounds and equipment at the disposal of schools when required.
The University.
The University of Hong Kong, which was incorporated in 1911 and formally opened in 1912, reached the twenty-sixth year of its existence in the year under review. The buildings, including class-roon accommodation for about 500 students, six hostels, laboratories, residences for the staff, the students' Union, a gymnasium, workshops and playing fields, occupy an area of thirty-six acres.
The Court, the supreme governing body, is composed of life members, ex officio members, and nominated members, with the Governor as Chairman. The Council, which is the executive body, is composed of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Treasurer, certain Government officials, the Chinese members of the Legislative Council, the Deans of Faculty, two representatives of the commercial community, and two additional members appointed by the Governor. The Senate consists of the Vice-Chancellor, the Director of Education, the Professors and Readers. There are three Faculties Medicine, Engineering and Arts. The Arts Faculty includes a Department of Chinese Studies. The Degrees granted are M.B., B.S., M.D., M.S., B.A., M.A., B.Sc. (Engineering), M.Sc. The standard aimed at is that of the University of London.
All male students are required, as a condition of admission, to reside in halls of residence provided by the University or in hostels founded by religious bodies and conducted under regulations approved by the Council. The tuition fee is $400 a year and the hostel fee, which includes board and lodging, $300 a year. It is estimated that it costs a student $1,500 a year at the University. This sum includes registration and laboratory fees, Union and club fees, books, instruments, clothes and vacations.
538 students were on the rolls during 1938. This was the highest enrolment recorded in the history of the University. The large majority of these students were of Chinese nationality, and 40% of them were obliged to relinquish their studies in Chinese universities on account of the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Since September, 1938, facilities have been afforded to 500 refugee students of Lingnan University, Canton, to continue their studies under their own professors and lecturers at Hong Kong University.
Of the 536 regular students in 1938, 418 were men and 118 women students distributed as follows:-
Men
Women
Medicine
187
24
Engineering
129
3
Arts
88
$5
External students
14
6
Total
418
118
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