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PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE OF H.K. UNIVERSITY

IMPORTANT DECISIONS CONCERNING . UNIVERSITY POLICY AND THE FUTURE OF HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ARE DETAILED IN AN OFFICIAL DESPATCH SENT TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES BY HIS EXCEL LENCY THE GOVERNOR, AND LAID ON THE TABLE AS A SESSIONAL PAPER AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS AFTER- NOON.

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A lengthy document is em- pital expenditure and substantial re- bodies the results of considera-curring charges.

SENATE DISCUSSIONS tion given to the Report of the

Two related matters arising out H.K. University (1937) Commit- the report were considered and tee by the Governing Bodies of judgments of the Council and the Court are contained in resolutions XXIV and the University.

XXVI In the first it was resolved The principle proposals are that it was unnecessary to attempt a contained in resolutions of the definition of the powers of the Vice- University.

Chancellor, in the second, that it was Resolution XXIV shows that, with the Senate to discuss matters touching unnecessary to restrict the freedom of the acquiescence of the University |the interest of the University. Council, various proposals intended to simplify the conduct of University resolution XVIII. This arises in part Attention may perhaps be called to business by a closer co-ordination of from a belief accepted by the Council University authorities and by the es- and the Court that hitherto the Uni- tablishment of small executive bodies versity has tended excessively to stress functioning, in the one case, by the the practical and technological quality authority of the Court and, in the of its course and has failed sufficiently other, by the authority of the Senate. to emphasize the value of a University were referred through an amendment

· FINANCIAL ASPECTS

SENSE OF GRIEVANCE

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of the Council's original resolution, to as an instrument of civilization in

commercial community. The Vice- a committee, to be nominated by the Chancellor has on several occasions ad- Chancellor, for further consideration. dressed the members of the Court on

Resolution X approves the proposal this and on cognate matters. for the time being to eliminate special- ized training in mechanical and electri- cal engineering.

I invite particular attention to Resolution XIX gives approval of the Court's resolution No. III. This reso- Council's resolution that the Professor-lution was moved in the Council by the ships of Chemistry, Physics and Ma- Honourable Mr. M. K. Lo and was thematics should be reduced to lecture-passed unanimously. The resolution ships or readerships unless the finan- has had the effect of removing the cial condition of the University im-sense of grievance under which a num- proves or unless the work done in these ber of the members of the staff have departments of the University de-suffered. It is significant that, at the velops.

Court meeting, dissent from the resolu- tions of the Council was expressed by only a minority of the senior members Resolution V, when implemented, of the University staff. The same will mean that for the safeguarding of group dissented from the proposal to its capital endowment the University limit the area of engineering teaching hereafter must be content with a less and from the contingent proposal rate of interest than that which it ob- touching the future of the Depart- tained on mortgage loans in more fav-ments of Chemistry, Physics and Ma- oured days.

thematics. Among the rest, I gather, Resolution VII dissents. from the the resentments expressed against the University (1987) Committee's recom-report when it was first published are mendation that house allowances should no longer heard, and in general the be reduced.

senior members of the, staff with four Resolution VIII proposes new expen- exceptions have actively supported the diture on the building of staff residen- proposed changes. This disregarda ces, but this should produce an an- the opinion of two men absent on leave, nual saving on house allowances of one of whom would have supported, nearly $7,500 after all interest charges the other probably would have oppos have been met.

ed.

REDUCED SALARIES

INTERDEPENDENT REFORMS Resolution XXI proposes a reduced It may, I think, be safely claimed rate of salaries for professors, read- that the reforms advocated by the ers and lecturers but joins thereto a Court, which are derived almost en proposal for improved Provident Fund tirely from the able and penetrating provision for members of the Univer-report of Mr. N. L. Smith's Committee sity staff recruited in Great Britain. (1937), go far towards the right ad- In resolution XXIV (a) the Court justment of the University's aims and resolved that the administrative costs methods. Interdependent as many of of the University might be reduced by them are, I trust that they will suc- a modification of the present arrange- ceed in obtaining your complete con- ment, whereby administration is incurrence.

of

the hands of a fulltime Vice-Chancellor I should take this opportunity and a Registrar paid on the scale of paying a tribute to Mr. D. J. Sloss who pay approved for a professor of the from the moment of his arrival as University.

Vice-Chancellor at the very end of Oc- Resolution XII (II) advocates the tober, 1937, has worked whole-heart- establishment of an Institute of Pre-edly towards finding solutions for the ventive Medicine to remedy the moat many and difficult problems which the conspicuous weakness of the medical Report in question raised. That teaching of the University. So far no conclusion should have been reached on detailed estimate of the cost of the In-the various issues raised which is prac- stitute has been made, but manifestly tically unanimous is due very largely the project will involve substantial ca-to his energy, tact and personality.

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