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Arts Faculty.

students who wish to become Electrical and Mechanical

Engineers, though the University should recognise that

specialised courses in these two branches may be

justified at a time when Chinese industry is more

developed.

The Governor's despatch states that it had been

found impossible to organise adequate apprenticeship in

industrial engineering in Hong Kong and that the Council

and Court accepted the view that an adequate supply of

industrial engineers could be maintained if the University

of Hong Kong were able to give scholarships to assist

students who had shown definite merit in the intermediate

examination in Engineering, to be held in Hong Kong by

the University of London. The purpose of such scholar-

ships would be to enable the holders to complete their

education in industrial engineering in England.

The Report stated that "the Arts Degree is now

considered to be little more than the crowning of Hong

Kong's Secondary Education". They proposed that there

should be rigorous pruning in this faculty and that its

curriculum should cease to be moulded so closely on the

lines of an English University. Further the report

considered that there were far too many full Professors

in the Faculty. The Senate opposed these recommendations

but the Council resolved that unless there was a

development of advance work in these departments the

Professorships of Chemistry, Physics and of Mathematics

should, when they fall vacant be suspended and that

Lectureships or Readerships should be substituted for them.

Further the Council resolved that the development of good

schools of English and Chinese in the University was an

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