CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911 — Page 257

2. That the Senate of the longkong College of Medicine have on the 9th day of March 1911 and again on the 18th day of March 1911 protested against the inclusion of the Director of Education of the Colony in the Senate of the University, and your Petitioners concur in this view for the following reasons:--

(1.) That in all recently constituted Universities the Senate is composed solely of persons who are actually engaged in teaching within the University; (2.) That the Director of Education of the Colony is not engaged in teaching, either within the University or elsewhere, his duties consisting in the regulation and control of the curriculum in the Government and Grant Schools by conducting or supervising examinations at such schools, and by the inspection of school premises, school fittings, school registers, etc., with a view to the allotment of the authorized grants-in-aid;

(3.) That the Director of Education of the Colony is already a member of the Court and also of the Council of the University and that in those capacities he will be able to furnish the Government with any information they may need concerning the administration of the University;

(4.) That the powers of the Senate are subject to the control of the Council" of which body, as stated above, the Director of Education of the Colony is a member, and where therefore he will be able to enunciate his views as to the general regulation of education within the University;

(5.) That the argument which has been advanced to the effect that the Director of Education of the Colony will be in closer touch with the Chinese student class than the teaching staff of the University is not admitted by the mem- bers of the Senate of the College of Medicine who have been teaching Chinese students for many years past and who propose to continue such teaching, as Lecturers of the University, in accordance with the terms of the Agreement contained in the Third Schedule of the Ordinance.

3. Your Petitioners are supported in the view which they have taken by Professor Ernest Henry Starling, Fellow of the Royal Society, Jodrell Professor of Physiology and a Member of the Senate of the University of London, Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, who fortunately happens to be passing through Hongkong at the present time and who has kindly furnished the accompanying memorandum to be forwarded with this l'etition.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that you will be pleased to advise is Most Excellent Majesty the King to disallow the "University Ordinance 1911" of Hongkong, until such time as provision shall have been made for the amendment of Section 12 and of Statute 9 thereof, by the deletion of the words "The Director of Education" therefrom.

And

your

Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.

Dated this 7th day of April, 191).

(Here follow the signatures of the aforesaid Petitioners.)

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