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GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS.
HE site of the University was given by the Government of Hong Kong.
As subsequently enlarged by minor grants and by purchase, the Univer sity estate covers an area of some 36 acres between the levels of 160 and 460 ft. above sea level. The view from the grounds over the har- bour is magnificent and the grounds themselves are beautiful.
In the main buildings are housed the chemical and physical laboratories the University library and portions of the engineering laboratories. They include also the Great Hall, a senate room and the lecture and class rooms used by the faculties of engineering and arts and for general purposes.
Special medical buildings include schools of anatomy, physiology, patho- logy and tropical medicine, erected out of donations made by Chinese gentlemen resident in the Colony. Clinical instruction is given at the Government Civil Hospital.
Special engineering buildings include:-(a) a power station, (b) a prime movers (steam) and hydraulics laboratory, and (c) a workshop for practical in- struction of students. Electrical technology, the testing of materials and experi- mental mechanics are dealt with in the main building. A great part of the en- gineering equipment was given by various British engineering firms.
Other buildings upon the estate include:-(i) The Vice-Chancellor's Lodge. (ii) Staff quarters. (ii) University Halls of Residence. (iv) The University Union building. (v) The Tang Chi Ngong School for Chinese studies and (vi) the Fung Ping Shan Library. In 1925 Mr. William Hall an engineering graduate of this University presented a garage, with accommodation for six cars, to the University.
When the University started, it stood more or less alone. Now it is sur- rounded with expensive buildings. The problem of the University's expansion is going to be a thorny one. Perhaps some future Vice-Chancellor, bolder than the compiler of this souvenir, will work out a scheme for transferring the Univer- aity to the New Territories-and will get the scheme accepted and carried out.
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