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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
Staff: L. Forster, M.A. (Professor of Education).
D. J. Finn,M.A. (Acting Professor of Education).
G. W. Reeve, B.A. (Part-time Lecturer in Logic and
Ethics).
A Morris, Headmaster, King's College (Master of
Method).
The work of the Education Department of the University was controlled during the first Term by Professor D. J. Finn, M.A. and in the Second term by Professor L. Forster M.A. who returned from study leave in September. Twelve students took the final Examination of whom nine Graduated.
In the Third Year eight students took Final Part I. and three passed.
In the Second Year five students took Intermediate Part II. and four passed.
In the First Year nine students took Intermediate Part I, and eight pased.
The Education students are divided between Groups 4a.
and 4b. The object of the former Group is to provide science teachers, while that of the latter Group is to provide a more general literary and philosophical course for teachers in general subjects. The numbers in Group 43. were nineteen, and in Group 4b. sixteen. There is a growing tendency for students to take the science side rather than the general course. This is probably in accor- dance with the general trend in China towards scientific method but it is probably due, to a certain extent, to the better provision in staff and equipment made for the science side by the University.
On the Pure Arts side Logic, and Ethics are taught on the part-time basis. There is no lecturer or professor in pure philosophy, while the Professor of Education has to cover philosophy of Education as well as the History of Education, and at the same time lecture in Psychology.
The science side has been further strengthened by the recruit- ment of a Reader in Biology. This subject is growing in importance and in anticipation of a demand for Biology teachers,
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a new Group of studies in which Biology holds the prominent place, has been added for teachers in training.
It will be regrettable if the vast majority of teachers are trained as science teachers, but, at the same time, it is not desirable to coerce a student into taking courses which he feels are not so liberally cartered for, as the other branches of studies in the University.
The Education Society had a successful year, in the course of which a series of lectures on Educational subjects were de- livered. Debates were also conducted, two in Chinese, with the object of encouraging the expression of opinion on Educational questions.
The Education Journal which was published in December drew a very cordial note of appreciation from Sir Michael Sadler to whom a copy was sent.
The usual social functions in connection with the Society were carried out in the course of the year.
L. FORSTER, Professor of Education.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Staff:--W. J. Hinton, M.A. (Professor of Political Economy). R. Robertson, M.A. (Reader in Law & Politics).
T. A. Martin, A.S.A.A. (Part-time Lecturer in Account-
ing & Business Finance).
W. Y. Harry Hong Sling, PH.B., M.A. (Part-time Lec-
turer in Shipping & International Trade).
The Department has not altered in essentials since the last report, but certain changes in Staff have occurred. Mr. R. Robertson has returned to the University in the place of Mr. G. W. Keeton as Reader in Law and Politics. The classes in Materials of Commerce have been discontinued, and a new Lecturer has been appointed, Mr. Harry Hong Sling, ph.B. (Yale), M.A. (Hong Kong), to lecture on Shipping and International Trade,
The development of Statistical Studies which would be valuable on account of their practical bearing, continues to be
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