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of Section 4 of the University Ordinance

(a) at the request of the Education

Department the University should arrange for

co-operation with Officers of the Education

Department in the inspection of the schools

of the Colony from which alone candidates

would be admitted to the University

Matriculation Examination.

(b) at the request of the Education

Department the University should give

facilities to its Professors and Lecturers to

inspect and report on the teaching of

particular subjects in the schools of the

Colony.

XVIII. Paragraph 61. Resolved (nem. con)

(1) that the Court is of opinion that the

degree courses in Science or Arts subjects

based on a conception of general education

as well as courses leading to professions

are an essential need in this University.

(2) that the development of good schools

of English and Chinese in this University

is an essential need.

(3) that a school of Economics and Politics

based upon the teaching of History and the

study of working Political Institutions of

the West and East is an essential need, and

that, if necessary, provision for such

teaching should be made at the expense of the

present courses in Commercial Law and

Jurisprudence at any rate until such time as

there is a demand for courses in Law leading

to a Law Degree.