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IN the Engineer of July 28, Prof. C. A. M. Smith, Taikoo professor of engineering in the University of Hong-Kong, refers to the coming of age of the University, its growth and development, and in the interest of both England and China pleads for a closer co-operation between the University and British industry. The University was opened in March 1912 by the Governor of Hong-Kong, now Lord Lugard, Prof. Smith being the only professor on the staff. To-day there are 15 full-time professors 3 for engineering, 6 in the medical departments and others for mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, education and English. In 1912 the annual revenue was less than 90,000 (Hong-Kong) dollars, it now exceeds 1,000,000 dollars. The residential system is compulsory, there being seven halls of residence, and students have come from all the 18 provinces of China. The British staff, now numbering 28, takes a keen interest in all the social activities of the University and the Chinese undergraduates have a good record of athletic contests with Europeans and Chinese in the colony. All the engineering equipment in the Universitymuch of it presentedis British, all instruction is in English and British textbooks are used. A thorough training in engineering is given, but it is often desirable for students to proceed to works in England on completing their course. The University, says Prof. Smith, is not merely a local affair, but an Imperial asset. βIt is, in a sense, the contribution which Hong-Kong makes to the whole Empire, as well as to China.β
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Hong-Kong University. Nature 132, 308 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132308b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132308b0