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3.

1. Professor 1. Lecturer

MODERN LANGUAGES:

2 Junior Lecturers

Tutors

2

The place of Modern Languages studies would

almost inevitably be slight in a University

already based on English and Chinese studies than in a Provincial British University of comprarble scope.

Nevertheless for

practical reasons provision for the teaching of French would have

to be made. Further, because of the importance of the Portuguese element of the local population and because of the part Portugal played at an earlier stage of European relations with the Far East

it was thought that studies in that language, history and literature

were to be regarded as a field for cultivation as the University

strengthens.

GEOGRAPHY: The study of Geography on modern methods has not

yet made great headway in China. It was thought that

an exporimental beginning should now be made and that a staff

should be appointed consisting of :

1 Reader of Geography

1

Lecturer

1 Lecturer in Geology and Physical Geography

1

Demonstrator in Geology and Physical Geography

IACULTY OF SCUTENOLS, Bozo, except for tus provision of good

honours courses in Chemistry and Fhysics,

and of provision for the training of research workers on a

modest scale. Scholarships to enable promising graduates to

work in British laboratories which are much more likely to be

able to provide the most modern equipment would probably be more

fruitful in results than an attempt to equip laboratories in

Hong Kong for research in a multitude of directions. It may be

that time will disclose fields of research in these sciences

wherein Hong Kong might take an essential part, but there is no

means of forecasting when and to what area these fields may be.

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