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official posts will materially improve matters; and it

appears that the Arts degree is now considered to be little

more than the crowning of Hong Kong's secondary education

for those whose parents can afford it, together with a

certain number from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies.

55. So long as this is frankly recognized, we

consider that there is much to be said for such an ideal.

We would go further and say that an engineer will be a

better engineer and a doctor will be a better doctor by social intercourse during his training with students in a

non-technical Faculty. A virile School of English and a

virile School of Chinese are obvious necessities in a

University such as this. And it is worth recording here

that the Arts Faculty shares with one or both of the

other Faculties the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Biology.

56.

Bearing in mind this aspect of the Arts Faculty

being a continuation of the general education provided in

the Colony's secondary schools, we feel strongly that a

closer liaison with the Education Department of the

Government is desirable.

57. The Director of Education is ex officio a member

of the Senate, but, apart from Matriculation standards, it is difficult to see how the Medical and Engineering

Faculties can be his concern. On the other hand if there

is to be a unified general education in the Colony it would seem desirable that he should have a place in the Arts Faculty. The Government Medical Department has, we understand, a representative in the University's Medical

Faculty, so that the principle is not a new one; in the Arts Faculty the justification seems to us even stronger.

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