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this Committee would if necessary have powers to terminate

appointments and to make new ones.

The Committee agreed that in view of this arrangement

there was no immediate need to reconstitute the administrative

bodies of the University in Hong Kong.

6. The Committee returned to a detailed consideration of the

staff required for the satisfactory working of Departments in the University suggested in the Minutes of the previous meeting.

. A. Faculty of Arts.

(i)

There was general agreement that the Department of English was of major importance and that additional staff was required.

It was decided that the reconstituted Department would need:

1 Professor

1 Lecturer (English)

1 Lecturer (Chinese)

3 Junior Lecturers and

Tutors (the number to be determined according to the size of classes).

The additional Chinese Lecturer of wide competence in English was thought necessary for the developing of comparative studies

in English and Chinese Literatures.

(ii) Mathematics. A staff of:

1 Professor

1 Reader

2 Lecturers

Tutors

was thought necessary for Honours Courses in Mathematics.

in Pure and Applied Mathematics would be divided as between

Professor and Reader.

Teaching

•

If Engineering teaching were to continue,

additional staff might be necessary.

(iii) History. A staff of:

1 Professor

1 Reader

was recommended.

2 Lecturers

Tutors

The Professor would be concerned with Western Hatory and the Reader with Chinese and Far-Eastern History.

← (iv)

Social Studies. After considerable discussion it. was

agreed that a small subcommittee consisting of Mr. W. Adams, Professor Hinton and Mr. Sloss should draft proposals after consultation with Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders or another authority.

(v) سے

Chinese.Studies.

It was agreed that the existing

establishment of:

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