Among other expensive and un! pieces of apparatus in the materials laboratory is one of the three Aft ton Avery testing machines at present in use outside England. One is in Africa, the other in Shanghai, where third Is Likely to be within a few weeks. since It has been ordered by the National Research Laboratory. 'There, to, is a machine designed specifically' to test "weathering compounds which are made to protect Building materials from rain and other weathering processes.
Only the barest sketch of the marvellous. equipment at present] installed can be given in the space available. It is sufficient to note that, fu addition to. bringing to Shanghai the latest models in machinery, of the type necessary to instruct in the selenees outlined, the School and Institute both boast a faculty of exceptionally high calibre. Tuition '$100 per year and $50 per term at} the Institute, while the per capita cost of education roughly is estimated of Ino less than $1,500 from the estimated Funning costs "of the Institute, vanced experiments in physics. will be carried of in a first-rate labora tory, where both a.c. and de. current, thigh and -low voltages, and various gasses. are available from a central) pedestal which eliminates the necessity for fixed benches—always a disadvantage in an advanced laboratory. Nominal charges are made for tuition in the day school, while fees for evening classes are only $12. per annum. Enough to stimulate into: est, it was explained, without imposing on unbearable financial burden.
According to the terms of the will, all students are treated equally, and special privileges for foreign sttdents are available. Chinese tiffins are] Served ata cost. of $$ per months, and it is hoped that a hostel soon!
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