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engineering. In Arts (where the course is also a four-year one', one of the original purposes of the Faculty was to train men for the higher grades of the Chinese Civil Service-a purpose which has so far been defeated by the unsettled conditions in China. In this connection 2 courses are still provided in pure Arts and in the social sciences, which will be capable of wider usefulness whenever conditions become favourable. In the meantime, the Faculty has tended to develope in the direction of the training of teachers and in the Commercial depart- ment. In the department of education fifty-nine scholars are maintained by the longkong Govern- ment, the Peking Central Government and the Governinents of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, and the demand for teachers exceeds the present supply. The department of commerce, which was converted into a four-year course in 1921 with the financial assistance of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, aims at providing an adequate, though specialized, training for men who aspire ultimately to take a leading place in the Commercial world.
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Standard of Degrees.
The standard aimed at throughout and definitely promised to the Canton Government wheu that Governinent contributed to the original endowment fund of the University is that of
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• Hitherto the demand for teachers of science has been met, to a considerable extent, from the graduates of the engineering school.
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