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Literature, English and Chinese. For this course rigid selection of students would obviously be
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52. (i) For the teaching of Logic, Ethics, and the History of Philosophy, which the University has long offered in its prospectus but has, in fact, never been in a position satisfactorily to do, a Reader in Philosophy trained in western thought should be appointed. It would be essential for the life of philosophy teaching that the new lecturer should co-operate with the Chinese Department of the University in comparative studies in Western and Chinese Thought. We are assured of the good offices of the Sino-British Cultural Relations Asso- ciation in the selection of a lecturer in Chinese Philosophy.
(ii) We recommend the following expenditure to establish a sound Department of Philosophy:
(a) a Reader at a salary, on an average, of
£880 a year;
(b) a lecturer in Chinese Philosophy in the Chinese Department at a a salary on an average of $5,500 a year;
(c) a tutor, the cost of the tutor and of the annual additional provision for books being off-set by payments now made to part-time lecturers.
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53. At present the one History teacher, a Reader, gives a two years' course in Outlines of Universal History to intermediate students, and a one year's course in the History of Anglo-Chinese Relations to post-intermediate students. Chinese History is taught in the Chinese Department. There is therefore no obvious reason why any student seriously interested in historical studies should come to the University of Hong Kong. order that the University should be able to offer a sufficient range of courses in Modern European and Asiatic History, British History, and American History, the staff of the Department would have to be increased by the appointment of one additional lecturer and two tutors; the tutors being graduates in history of our own University as soon as such men are available. The cost of this wound be, for a lecturer £775 a year, and for tutors $6,400 a year.
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We recommend the development of historical studies at this cost.
54. (1) Geography is now taught as an inter- mediate course covering two years. No provision whatever is made for practical work in the subject. Geology. Geology is not taught even to engineering students.
(ii) We recommend that Geography courses should be developed to cover the four years of normal academic life and that Geology teaching in the first instance should be subsidiary to the teaching of Geography and Engineering.
(iii) The following additions of staff would be needed for the two subjects:
(a) a Reader, at an average cost of £880; (b) a lecturer, at an average cost of £775; (e) laboratory staff and maintenance, $5,000.
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(iv) The present expenditure on elementary/ Geography teaching is about $3,500 a year. full University Department of Geography and Geology would, therefore, involve the University in an additional annual expenditure of about £1,655, and $1,500 in addition to the cost of initial equipment.
(v) Having regard to this high total of ex- penditure, we recommend that if a new Depart- ment of Geography is developed in the Academia Sinica provision should be made in Hong Kong on a more modest scale than is suggested above. Economics 55. (i) Having agreed that the present courses and Com- in Commerce should be suspended we considered a proposal for more extended courses in Economics, Economic History, and Politics. We recommend that courses in these subjects should be offered, the courses in Politics being, in the main, based on a study of actual constitutions and historical experi- ence without, however, ignoring political theory, and that emphasis in Economics should be on the study of Chinese economic problems.
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(ii) For economic studies to have this bias, the appointment to the Department of a Chinese economist who has had experience of economic in- The vestigations in China would be necessary. average cost would be $5,500 a year. The appoint- ment of this lecturer would make it possible to
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