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In any case, the numbers choosing Electrical or Mechanical

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Engineering are already regarded, not as inconveniently

large, but as regrettably small. (G.R. Para. 15).

This

We see no objection however to a properly qualified

mechanical engineer being invited to visit the University

workshops at any time and to record his impressions.

might prove a valuable advertisement for the University.

We take the opportunity of pointing out that not

every university provides workshop courses, nor when

provided makes them obligatory. In this respect the

Engineering courses of Hong Kong University are more than

usually "practical", and we suggest that publicity might

with advantage be given to this creditable fact.

If and when the Education Department makes manual

training an integral part of the general education of the

Colony, as recommended in G.R. Para. 115(6), the Univer-

sity may hope to find an ever increasing proportion of

its engineering freshmen predisposed to tackle workshop

exercises, and to profit materially by them.

A(ii) Differentiation of our Engineering Undergraduates into Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers.

G.R. Para.. 57 makes the suggestion that our students

should specialise, sooner than they do at present, in one

or other of the recognised branches of engineering, and

goes on to say that "under existing conditions the usual

practice is for a student to postpone until after he has

completed successfully three years of the engineering

curriculum making up his mind whether he will take the

civil, mechanical, or electrical course

We feel

that a serious student of engineering should know his mind

from the start and that this habit of drifting should be

discouraged." This is inconsistent with G.R. Para. 15,

and is in fact inaccurate.

P.T.Q.