CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938 — Page 12

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field for development of railways and roads, waterworks,

power plants and factories. What could be more fitting

than that Great Britain, always in the forefront of

engineering matters, should provide in its outpost in China the means by which the engineers required for

this awakening could be trained? There would be

prestige; there would be something like benevolence; and there might be the indirect advantage of making China's pioneers think in terms of British standards and material when it came to purchase of plant.

21. How far has that dream of the founders been

fulfilled? It is only 20 years since the first

Engineering graduates of the University went out into the world, and it is in view of their present ages

perhaps too early to judge fully of those indirect

effects.

But we have examined carefully the statistics of those 227 men who have graduated since 1916.

22.

Bearing in mind the objects of the founders

we must, we consider, eliminate the 35 graduates of

non-Chinese race. Of the remaining 192 only 82 have obtained engineering posts in China proper and of these

we observe that the majority are filling posts which

are not at all commensurate with the cost of their

education.

23.

The cost of the Faculty for the month of

January, 1937, was $13,500. This figure covers salaries only, with no allowance for the capital cost of buildings and of workshop plant, and with no allowance for administrative overheads, though the

appropriate proportions have been taken of certain courses (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) shared with

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