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FINAL EXAMINATION, PART 1.-18 candidates, 10 passed, 7 failed and one was absent. Percentage of passes 55.5.
FINAL EXAMINATION, PART 2.-21 candidates, 16 passed, 2 failed, and I was absent. Percentage of passes 76.2.
The number of graduates in Arts in 1928 was 16.
M.A. EXAMINATION.
Two of our graduates, one in Japan and one in the Federated Malay States, are at present, with the approval of the Faculty, preparing work which they mean to submit for our degree of M.A.
DEVELOPMENT.
It is gratifying to report that during 1928 the University authorities found means to make good some of the deficiencies in staff indicated in the report for 1927. A Reader in Biology, a Lecturer in Chemistry, and a Lecturer in Physics were appoint- ed during the year. These appointments, however, concern the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering, quite as much as Arts. The other deficiencies indicated on the report of 1927 are special needs of the Faculty of Arts. It is hoped that they will be the next to be made good. The most urgent, are a Chair of Philosophy and a Readership in Geography.
To what has already been said about the necessity for a Professor of Philosophy some interesting and important observa- tions are this year added by the Professor of Education in the report on his department. It is, for example, most desirable that subjects like Logic and Ethics should be taught by a full-time member of the staff instead of being left, as they are at present, to a part-time lecturer. To a Faculty of Arts situated as we are a Chair of Philosophy is an essential. Whoever provides this chair will deserve the credit of putting the keystone in the bridge between Western culture and Chinese culture. During the session 1928 His Excellency the Chancellor made a gracious movement in this direction by delivering at the University a course of public lectures in Philosophy.
Believing that the aim of studies in a Faculty of Arts is to know ourselves and the world," the Faculty is convinced that the needs in Geography are almost as urgent as the needs in Philosophy. This is particularly so in a Faculty of Arts which includes a Department of Commerce. But the position
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as regards Geography has not improved during the year. the beginning of 1928 Geography was taught by a member of the English Department who had special qualifications in Geography. By the end of the year this arrangement had to be discontinued, and the instruction in Geography was left to the voluntary efforts of the Professor of Political Economy, the Professor of Physiology and the Reader in History.
By the end of 1928 the Faculty of Arts was ready to re- ceive students into the Chinese School from which it is hoped that a Faculty of Chinese will eventually develop. At present this Chinese School is controlled by the Chinese School Com- mittee, which is a Sub-Committee of the Faculty of Arts. The aims and courses of the Chinese School are outlined in the Report on the Work of the Chinese Section of the Faculty of Arts.
ROBERT K. M. SIMPSON,
March 9, 1929.
REPORT
Dean, Faculty of Arts.
ON THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR THE YEAR 1928.
The Library received a grant of $4,500 for the purchase of books and periodicals and a Maintenance grant of $800 for book binding, book-cases and other equipment, repairs, etc.
The number of volumes, government publications, pamph- lets, etc. received into the Library up to December 31st, 1928 was 25,061. This figure does not include the Morrison Collection of over 2,000 volumes. The total accessions of volumes, govern- ment publications, etc. for 1928 have been 1,350. Of these 716 volumes, government publications, pamphlets, etc. have been received as gifts and 454 volumes have been purchased. volumes made by binding periodicals are included in these figures.
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The Library has subscribed to 148 literary, medical and scientific periodicals and others have been kindly donated.
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