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for the maintenance of good relations between Great Britian

and China.

EARLY GROWTH: The Ordinance became operative; the first

buildings were erected at the cost of a

local banker Sir H. Mody. Sir Charles Eliot became

Vice Chancellor and classes were opened. In the early days

developments in medical teaching came first and in 1919 more .

adequate accommodation for the teachingof Physiology, Pathology

and Tropical Medicine was built, and some years later

laboratories for Operative Surgery.

Hospital provision for

clinical teaching was defective but the remedy came when the

Government built a fine hospital, the Queen Mary Hospital, in

which adequate beds were assigned to University teachers.

The supervision of medical education exercised at preiodic

visits of one of its officers by the General Medical Council

was a source of strength to the Medical Faculty in their de-

mands on the hopelessly inadequate resources of the infant

University.

An Engineering Faculty gained a good deal of initial help in

merchants

and British Manufac-

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funds and equipment from local

turers. An attempt was made, it would now appear, mistakenly,

to carry out training for degress in Mechanical Electrical

and Civil Engineering. The resources of the University were

too

widely spread with the result that the only record

that the University can regard with satisfaction is that in

Civil Engineering. The Government did not employ graduatės in

their Engineering services even as assistant Engineers or

Supervisors.

There was a joing Faculty of Arts and Science.

Science teaching

rarely got beyond the elementary work preliminary to Engineering

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