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Report.

Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.

Resolutions of Council.

amount standing to his credit, under the separate heads of self, wife and children in the Passage Account. No transfer as between these separate heads can be admitted.

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91. We recommend that in future no bene- faction in the form of a new building should be accepted unless it is accompanied by an adequate endowment for its maintenance and upkeep.

92. In our recommendations on the subject of the various Faculties we have tried to em- phasize our opinion that the true vocation of the University is, its founders realised, the training of students from China.

We have an ultimate vision of an annual influx of say 25 of such students, which would require an annual outgoing on scholarships of about $100,000, which should, if our recommen- dations are loyally accepted by the University, be available in course of time. We are not so pessimistic as to think that such a vision is unattainable.

(Report para. qr). The Senate is of the opinion that ordinarily no benefaction in the form of a new building should be accepted unless adequate provision for its maintenance is made.

(Report para. 92). The Senate is strongly desirous of seeing an extended system of scholar- ships established.

Resolved that ordinarily no benefaction in the form of a new building should be accepted unless adequate provision for maintenance is

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Endorsed the recommendation that an extend- ed system of scholarships should be adopted on the lines indicated in paragraph 92 of the Report of the University (1937) Report.

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MEMORANDUM A.

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Memorandum of the Faculty of Arts endorsed by the Senate at

its meeting on March 10th, 1938, on University (1937) Report, Paragraph 53.

(a) WHEREAS the Committee has placed it on record that the Faculty of Arts 'seems to have attached itself like some half unwanted Stepbrother" to two scientific Faculties, the Senate would like to point out that the Arts Faculty from the beginning was an essential element without which the creation of a University was never envisaged, and that the public demand was then, and is now, fully as strong, for a Faculty of Arts as for either of the two other Faculties as shown by the following facts :-

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(1) The recital of the Ordinance of the University, March 30, 1911, begins "Whereas it is desirable to establish a University within the Colony of Hong Kong for the promotion of Arts, Science and Learning...

(2) In a dispatch, quoted in the University Blue Book of 1912. the Viceroy of Canton made specific reference to the Arts Course in the proposed University of Hong Kong, in addressing the chief officials of his jurisdiction, whom he expected to support the proposal.

(3) At the third meeting of the University Council, on September 7, 1911, before any classes in any Faculty had commenced, the Council promised, in reply to a telegram of specific inquiry from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that a Faculty of Arts should be started "at once if possible".

(4) As evidence that there was a strong public demand for the initiation of a Faculty of Arts, the minutes of the seventeenth meeting of the University Council, September 6, 1912, contain reference to a fund of ten thousand dollars per annum guaranteed by a number of prominent Chinese gentlemen, for the purpose of securing the permanent establish- ment of a Faculty of Arts.

(5) That this demand for the type of education offered in the Faculty of Arts has been well maintained, is shown by the fact that the numbers of ordinary graduates from the three Faculties to date are:-

Arts B.A.

299

Medicine. M.B., B.S. 269

Engineering

B.Sc.

267

While the enrolment for September, 1937, when full courses were in operation in all Faculties were :-

Arts

(4 Yr. Course)

150

Medicine

(6 Yr. Course)

160

Engineering (4 Yr. Course)

131

(b) The Senate would further point out that misunderstanding may arise from the statement "Later on the Chamber of Commerce was induced to con- tribute towards the support of a department where Economics and some- thing like Accountancy could be taught (this contribution has ceased, but the department goes on)", as this statement leaves the impression that Economics and Accountancy were courses which originated in, and were contingent upon, funds from the Chamber of Commerce, whereas the facts

are:-

(1) Political Economy was among the courses mentioned as the objects of

the guarantee fund of 1912, referred to in 53 (a) 4.

(2) In May, 1913, the late Mr. Cheung Pat Sze, and his partners, made an offer, which was accepted. to give $12,000 a year for five years to establish among other final courses, Economics, Business Organization, and Accounting.

(3) There has been a chair of Economics in the University since 1913. (4) The Chamber of Commerce contribution was not made until after 1920, when the courses had been for several years an established element in the Faculty of Arts.

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