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University degrees in Great Britain, for the guaranteeing of which external examiners are associated with the internal examiners in all annual and final examinations. In the Faculty of Engineer. ing the standard is more specifically that of the University of London, and honours (which are granted in this Faculty alone) are assessed by special examiners chosen from amongst the external ex- aminers in the University of London. Of 77 Engineering graduates down to the end of 1921, five have been awarded first-class, and eighteen second- class honours.
General Aims.
The general aim of the University may be defined as the provision, in close proximity to China, of the facilities, and especially of the atmosphere, of a residential British University, with such modifications both in the curriculum and in the treatment of the subjects studied as the national and intellectual outlook of the Chinese student may call for. It is intendel as the contribution to the intellectual progress of China of a British Colony whose prosperity is drawn from international traile, and, like that trade, it is dependent for success on international co-operation and can only prosper in an atmosphere of matual understanding.
To the measure of co-operation, independent of race, of nationality and of creed, represented by the existing endowments of the University, allusion was made by the Vice-Chancellor in presenting lis
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