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6.

15

Preliminary Training in Hong Kong -

Final Training in Home University

(A)

4

-

2

Practical Training as Post-graduate

Apprentices in Great Britain.

Total:

6

*

(Period required for Pure Science Degree).

(B)

(c)

3

g

2

CJ

2

20

1

2

Years.

#

6

Years.

For Electrical

All these schemes have their advantages and disadvantages. Engineers the choice would seem to lie between (A) and (C) and for

lechanical between (B) and (C). The business of making the final decision in favour of (A) or (B) or (C) should, I think, be left in the hands of a small committe6. If one or more of our former London

Assessors would consent to serve on this committee so much the better. (Whatever scheme is adopted, however, it is essential that all engineering students during their first two years should attend classes in Drawing, Mechanics and Workshop practice).

ADDITIONAL POINTS.

Proposed School of Architecture. The suggestion that the University should found a School of Architecture was warmly received at the meeting on March 25th., where it was pointed out (1) that the cost of equipping and running such a school is comparatively low and (2) that if, as was the case a few years ago, there is no School of Architecture worthy of the name in China, this would be a means of attracting students to the University from China and the Far East generally.

As the courses for Civil Engineers and Architects have a great deal in common there is much to be said for a combined School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, housed in the proposed building on Pokfulam (An additional storey would probably meet the situation). Students

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in the Far East will undoubtedly appreciate the opportunity of obtaining a sound training in Architecture without having to go to Europe or America for it. And a school in which, presumably, the best features of Western and Eastern Architecture will be studied side by side has interesting possibilities.

Scholarships for Civil Engineers. Owing to the concentration of attention, in the past, on the problem of attracting students to the weaker departments of Mechanical and Electrical engineering, the interests of the