CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938 — Page 130

86645

145

Engineering.

the University had in the past existed far too much from

hand to mouth. In particular they regarded the

investments of the University funds in Shanghai Mortgages

to be undesirable. They also considered that the

University should begin to accumulate a proper reserve.

The Senate and Council agreed generally with these

opinions and resolved that a budget provision as a

reserve against depreciation charges was necessary and

should be the first charge on any surplus income over

expenditure.

They

The Report advised that the scope of the

Engineering Faculties should be confined to a sound

teaching in the principles of engineering and should not

endeavour to undertake original work and research.

proposed that there should be a single Professor of

Engineering in place of the three Professors of Civil,

Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and that generally

there should be increased facilities for post graduate

training in the P.W.D. and improved contact with the

English Engineering firms. The Senate opposed the

reduction of the Senior posts but the Council resolved.

that when the posts of Professors of Electrical and

Mechanical Engineering fell vacant they should be held in

abeyance and that in engineering the University should

for the present confine itself to teaching and examining

for a degree in Civil Engineering. Further, they

proposed that arrangements should be made with the

University of London for the holding in Hong Kong of an inter

-mediate examination. in Engineering to be taken by

students

Page 130Page 131