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The return o the status of 1940 should mean that

development then in progress will be taken up at the point then

reached. This means that Honours courses in various subjects

within the Faculties of Arts and Science will again be offered

from Sepuember, 1948, tha an increased number of medical

suudents will be aumitted and that provision for post-graduate

studies in medicine will be made. Provision may have to be made

for pre-clinical studies in Dentistry. Training of teachers of

English for China can easily be combined with the training of

teachers for the schools of the Colony. In place of the degree

courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, which the

University in 1939 hau decided to relinquish, provision may

possibly be made for the training of architects.

The purposes for which the University was founded are

not forgotten, and as already indicated the question of

developing it to the standard recommended by the Committee will

be further considered as soon as practicable.

İn meantime

the re-establishment of the University on its 1940 scale will

in itself provide an opportunity for growth, not necessarily

in numbers but in maturity and in diversity of activities.

The incentive towards growth will come from within

the University and from the desire of the people of Hong Kong

that the University should reflect in realms of science and

intelligence, the success of the Colony in the realms of trade

and industry. The interest of the Colony is shown in the

generous measure of immediave help given by the Hong Kong

Government.