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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933,

BLACKMORE &

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Engineers, Contractors and Agents

Specialize in Reinforced Concrete

Technical Agents for:

The Vibro Piling Co., Ltd. Hong Kong Cast in situ concrete-piles

R. A. Skelton & Co. London

Steel and Engineering Co., Ltd (Broad Flange Beams, etc.)

Agents for:

British Steel Piling Co., Ltd. London.

(Piling plant, sheet steel piling)

Cargo Fleet Iron Co., Ltd. (Steel girders, rails, etc.)

Cellactite & British Uralite Co.

(Patent roofing, etc.)

(STREET'S WHITE ANT CURE)

Toch Bros. London, New York

Standard Varnish" Works.

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West Disinfecting Co. (Deodourisers, Liquid Soaps, paper towels, etc.)

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Ghilardi.

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Firm Foundations

Stock Exchange Building Hong Kong

A Vibro pile selected by the Architects was tested last week.

Designed Working Load Test Load

53 tons

106 tons

Which was maintained for 4 days. After 24 hours of removing load the total movement of 0.01 ft. was registered due to compression of the concrete. There was no movement

at 55 tons.

out

Among other contracts carried

Green Island Cement Co., Ltd., Silos

No. 2 Police Station

Kai Tack Aerodrome

Taiping Theatre

etc., etc., etc.

The Vibro Piling Co., Ltd. Licensees of the

British Steel Piling Co., Ltd.

Technical Office Alexandra Bldgs.

2nd floor.

LONDON

Secretarial Office

York Bldg.

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THE FACULTY OF ARTS

(Continued from page 6.)

partment for the Training of Tea chers provides two courses-one is a science degree course with some normal training specially directed towards the teaching of natural science; the other is intended for teachers who are going to teach general subjects. A new coursa was designed for the Department of Commerce.

SOME ACHIEVEMENTS The above arrangement survives with a few minor modifications, The number of students has risen steadily and for the year 1831 totall ed. 118. All the first three gradu ates of the Faculty of Arts did well; one is now Sub-Manager of the Bank of East Asin, Hong Kong: the other. two are inspector

HONG KONG UNIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT.

WORK FOR THE FACULTY OF ARTS

Education System For Millions

and its members included, in nadi tion to the Vice Chancellor, the Deans of the three Faculties, the Professor of English and the Uni versity's Chinese Translator, the Hon. Bir Shou Son Chow, the Hon.

Now, inasmuch as no true eduen- Mr. R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. tional advanco in China can be 8. W. Tao, Mr.. A. E. Wood, Mrado without an assimilation of G. P. de Martin and Mr. N. western knowledge, it follows either Thomas Tam.

that the Chineso spoken and writ- On the advice of this Committee teà langtags must be modified by the Chinese School of Studies which the addition to it of an alphabet was opened in 1929 was closed and in ranner similar to that in the University has decided to con-which the Japanese taas supple fine its teaching of Chinese to those ments the Japanese ideogramas, or students who had passed the Matri- else that the Chinese people must culation Examination, the basis of become bilingual and teach their such teaching being the provision children some alphabetic foreign of suitable courses of Chiasse which Langurge in additin to their would form part of the Arts mother tonguage. A decision be- Faculty's groups of studies lead-tween these alternatives will have king to the Bachelor of Arts do

THE GREAT ·HALL

very far-reaching effects upon the future of China:" and I suggest that this problem also may with advan- tage be studied by the Faculty of Arts in this University. It is a problem which must certainly be ficed by the Government of Hong Kong in connection with the veri nacular schools for which we are Iesponsible both in the Colony and, in the New Territories; and upon ita solution will depend the future of our system of vernacular educn- tion. The old, time-honoured methods of Chinese education have bren destroyed with a startling

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thought-out system has yet taken their place, Chinese children no longer begin their schools days by committing to memory the Sam Tsz King and the Talin Tez Man and therealter the Four Books and the Five Classics. The old respect for the "aight-legged essay" has vanished and the ancient scheme of examinations for provincial and national degrees has been abolish- ed. But no standard text-books or authoritative currimlum have so far replaced the methods of bygone days and here again I think that the Faculty of Arta in this Univer- gree. Two new groups of studies sity has before it a wide field for in which Chinese bulks largely have most useful work. The problem is been added to the currimilum of nothing less than the invention of the Faculty of Arts and a Reader a new medium of education for ship of Chinese has been created. several nundred million human be The staff of the department willings, and its importance for the consist of a Reader and two lec-future of mankind cannot be ex- turers and a translator.

aggerated Cecil Clementi, the Chancellor, at the 1926 Congrega- tion.

The Great Hall of the University, the scene of the Congregation

Ueremonial to-day. (Photo by 4h Foug)

schools, one in the F.M.S. and th: other in Hong Kong. The list of graduates from this Faculty com prises another inspector of schools and another banker, a professor of political science in a Peiping Uni- versity, a financier who is & poli- tican; and private secretary to Sir Robert Ho Tung. Of the two Japanese graduates in the list, one is teaching in Tokyo University, and the other is with the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. The first woman graduate of the University, became an inspector of factories in Eng land, One of the Chinese gradu- ates ія now D barrister-at-law, several students hold posts abroad. There are a large number of school masters on the list and they are to be found in Tientsin, the Kiang au, Anhwei and Chili Provinces, Shanghai, Singapore, Penang, the Federated Malay States, Canton and Hong Kong.

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

In addition to providing instruc- tion for undergraduates and for ex- ternal students of the Faculty of Arts, the Department of English provides classes and tutorials for students in the School of Chinese. Studies, who have passed their first year examination, and special classes for students in the first year External students who are not read of the Faculty of Engineering. ing for a degree, or who have not passed the University Matricula tion Examination, are admitted to the ordinary degree courses, but are required to make private ar- rangement for tutorials. This ad- mission of external students 15 u to the future arrangements meant to afford facilities for study which should be made in this directo people who, although not intend tion. The Committee was presiding to read for degrees, wish to ed over by the Colonial Secretary attend University classes without to the Government of Hong Kong becoming members of the Univer-

In 1931 the Council of the Uni- versity appointed a special com- mittee to review the University's teaching of Chinese and to advise

sity. Students who mean to read for a degree ought to remain at school until they have passed all the subjects necessary for Matri- culation.

lish Department in a University The general objects of an Eng-

are to develop undergraduates in the practice of English compisition them with a first-hand knowledg in its varied forms and to provide of the masterpieces of English Literature. But the opportunity to do this with students successfully, when their native language is not English, depends on the amount of general knowledge which the student possesses and upon the student's readiness to handle the language as a living thing to be spoken, as well as read and writ- ten.

·(Continued on page 11.)

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