CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938 — Page 24

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clusively at the disposal of the University shall not, during the tenure of their appointments, engage in

professional practice except in a consultative

capacity and with the approval of the University

Council."

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ARTS.

It was

53. The Arts Faculty seems to us to have attached itself like some half-unwanted stepbrother to those

two scientific Faculties which, to the founders at

least, gave such promise of a sturdy manhood.

felt no doubt that the materialism of Medicine and

Engineering should be offset by a course which should include Ethics and Philosophy and the humanities

generally. Later on the Chamber of Commerce was

induced to contribute towards the support of a

department where Economics and something like Accountancy could be taught (this contribution has ceased, but the department goes on). And finally a

Chinese School was founded to carry on the tradition

of China's antique culture. Meanwhile the Government

Education Department seized the opportunity of the existence of a University and was provided with a

course of training for the most promising material from

its secondary schools to become teachers in Government

and Aided schools.

54.

There had probably been a vague idea that some of the Arts graduates would in time emerge as political leaders in China. That dream, we understand,

has almost entirely failed to come true up to the present, and we doubt if Nanking's recent decision to admit Hong Kong graduates to her examinations for

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