University of Hong Kong: An Informal History (2 vols)

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Select Bibliography HAT ANY primary sources of the University's prewar history survived three-and-a-halfyears of enemy occupation is remarkable: but, through the devoted attentions of a few resident clerks, a RECORDS Hong Kong College of Medicine Court, 1887-1914. Senate, 1887-19°8. University of Hong Kong Court, 1911-1941 (card-indexed). Council, 191 1- 1941 (card-indexed) . Senate, 1913-1941 (card-indexed). Finance Committee, 1920-1941. Matriculation Board, 1913-1941. Board of the Faculty of Arts, 1913-194I. Board of the Faculty of Medicine, 1912-1920. Halls Committee, 193°-1941. To these Stanley Boxer, the Registrar, added the proceedings of meetings held in internment camp (1942-1945), and related papers which he brought out with him after his release, and minutes of meetings of the 'interim' period (1946-1948). Before his retirement early in 1948 and with the help of the Vice-Chancellor's secretary, Miss May Witchell (now Lady Ride), he contrived to calendar and index most of these and also some 175 memoranda (1928-1939) and 171 files of correspondence and related documents (1912-1941), being the residual 20% of a forty-foot pile of papers they found in great disorder. His Bernard Mellor: The University ofHong Kong 'Guide to Indexes', a guide to eight central indexes covering the thirty years before the occupation was, he said, his 'last effort to bring order and accessibility out of the chaos ofJapanese occupation'. Since then, other early documents, mainly printed, have come to light in scattered corners of the University or have been donated by its members. In 1952 a file of splendid Government House papers was handed over to the Registrar as 'of interest'. It contained sixty invaluable documents intimately detailing the process of preparing for the establishment of the University, addressed to and from Lugard during the period from 1908 to 1912, which were calendared by Prudence Rowe-Evans immediately they were received. The years from 1948 are closely documented with voluminous and indexed files of correspondence and minutes, all supported by Calendars (extant for 1914-1938, 1940-1942, and from 1951; with Students' Handbooks issued for the years 1938-1942 and 1948-1950); Annual or Quinquennial or Departmental or Vice-Chancellor's Reports (from their beginning in 1926); the Gazette (from 1954); a Graduates' Register and programmes of Congregations (from 1916), some with speeches; and budget estimates (for 1912-1937, 1939-1942, and from 1946), and accounts (for 1912-1916, 1917-1918, 1919-1923, 1925-1936, 1939-1940, and from 1942), some of them annotated. In the Library's Hong Kong Collection is a sparse gathering ofback numbers ofstudent journals and magazines, to which graduates generously add from time to time. Apart from all these items are the formal reports ofmajor significance listed below, and some other related material. REPORTS 191 I List ofSubscriptions to the Endowment Fund. 1929 University Committee (Gollan), November. The Teaching ofChinese, February. 1935 Donor Scholarships. 1937 The University (Smith). 1939 University Development (Sloss), April. Sites (Morse), August. 1946 The University's Future (Cox), not published. 1950 Recommendations (Adams and Mouat-Jones). 1952 Higher Education in Hong Kong (Keswick). 1953 Report (Carr-Saunders and James), withheld. On the University (Jennings and Logan), September. Select Bibliography 179 1954 Engineering Education (Senate) Architectural Education (Senate). 1955 Pharmacy (Senate). Observations on the Constitution (Lo). 1958 Seven-year Plan/or 1959-66 (Senate). 1964 Chinese and Oriental Studies: a survey/or theyears 1952-64 (Drake). Law Studies (Mellor). 1965 The Financing of Universities in Hong Kong (Hale). Legal Studies (Cowen and Guest). 1966 Computing Facilities and Usage (Simmons). 1967 Legal Training in Hong Kong (Gower and Cowen). The Social Sciences (Tress). The Proposed Language Centre (Robinson) . 1968 Area Studies (McFarlane). 1969 University Reforms (Students' Vnion Petition). 1970 The Establishment ofa Central Examinations Organization (Hartwell). Management Studies (Lupton). 1972 Audio-Visual Services (Holroyde). 1973 The Establishment ofa Course in Building Technology (Harper). 1974 Academic Governance (Logan and Rowe-Evans). 1975 University Buildings (Cusdin). 1976 The Establishment ofa School ofDentistry. Special Report: University and Polytechnic Grants, October 1965-June 1979 (V.P.G.C.) 1978 Report: University and Polytechnic Grants, July 1976-June 1978 (V.P.G.C.) RELATED MATERIAL Brunyate, Sir William, The University of Hong Kong: its aims and needs (appeal pamphlet dated 22 May 1922). Cantlie, Sir James, Sun rat Sen and the awakening ofChina, 1912. Cantlie, Sir Neil, Cantlie: a romance in medicine, 1939. Cecil, Lord William Gascoyne-, Changing...