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TUESDAY
EMBER 17, 1928
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
15
"The big 'must”
to know
how to hit the ball plainly and to do so.
and also the manner in which the students, went out of their way to sink differences and make every- ona welcome and comfortable, that the students of the Hong
"Rebirds" and golf increase. Motor-boats motor- kong University met for the first A BAD EGG. balls, a remarkable cycles, and aeroplanes, will, it is time their new Chancellor. By
casualty was also estimated, increase from their presence in an institution chronicled some years ago in a about 486,000 (at present) to which is essentially British, ran paper. A player wrote to about 1,820,000 in 1950, so that although it sets itself out as far say that in the course of a game there will be little chance of
"a hawk suddenly swooped down escape. as possible to meet the national on my ball and carried it off in its aspirations of the youth of China claws. Some weeks afterwards. I who choose to use it as a channel went for a walk before breakfast, APHORISMS OF is"
SUZANNE.. and climbing a rocky eminence, I for acquiring education along came across a hawk's nest, and by Western Hines, the students of the it a dead hawk, and in the nest
"Bad players run about tremen- Hongkong University Union have my golf ball: both the hawk and
the ball were quite warm. I sent dously and are continually scoop- signided their recognition that the hawk to the curator of the ing at the ball and often missing there la in such education some-museum, and asked for a post-it." thing which the culture of China mortem; his verdict was 'a broken "Lots of girls would become cannot give them. Each has heart. The poor bird had expir- splendid cooks if it were not for something which the other would its find!!
ed in ita vain efforts to hatch out | peeling onions.
be the better for assimilating, and it is a hopeful sign for the finding
Three very old}
"Never be content with less in one another again of the better OTHER TIMES.... customs have than the best in yourself, for mind of the two countries that the
Just died out yourself, and out of yourself,!" Ever since the fifteenth century
"It took me six months to learn good sense of the Chinese stud- Lord Mostyn's ancestors have laid to make a backhand stroke and ents is asserting itself here as a vacant place at their table at two years to be able to produce elsewhere,
By ranging them their Welsh home because the really good ons.
"In lawn tennis your strokes selves alongside the forces which father of Henry VII. was enabled
to escape from his pursuers by aare your clothes; they must be are working for the uniting of the subterfuge, based on the state made to fit you. That which two countries, the students are ment that the seat he had vacated suits you in that in which you look strengthening their hands and at the table was laid for any your best. Alm, therefore, un-
chance guest.
ceasingly, for fitness and style." enabling to be given fairer trial. The extinction of the Houth
"Games are no good unless they the "great" experiment" begun peerage has killed the custom of are educational”, some fourteen years ago..
keeping the gates of Houth Castle open to any. stranger. This originated because, according to legend, the Queen of the Fairies made the family promise to do so she returned the son of the atolen. house whom the fairies had
ABOLISH SUBMARINES ?
It is
Buti
"The lack of a backhand is usually the result of Isziness."
The tendency THE PERSONAL towards more of
#TOUCH.
the personal touchin the affairs of large corporations is shown in an announcement made by the Pennsylvania Railroad System that the name of the waiter attending each table in a
one night, As they motored together
He remarked, in a manner polite:
"Won't you have a cigar?" "But she cried: "Stop the car, And help me at orice to alight?'
TREASURES CROSSING ATLANTIC.
To be prepared for war is to prevent it. God is on the side of The Lorda Fitzwilliam. at.. the big battalions. These and Wentworth, have for many years. other "good words are associated kept open house twice a month for dining car will in future be put on
the whole countryside.
the menu. In the United States with the idea of war: The former even old customs die.
widespread use of this idea has already been made. Post offices. has meant the piling up of arms-
have the name of the clerk "pro- ments of all descriptions: huge
Father,minently displayed, usually with a navies, huge armies and the THE SATURATION alarming to notice stating that "Miss Smith Is
POINT.. arms, and implements which go
learn that re- now on duty, and will be glad to sponsible auth- give any information." This also with them. It is a fact that theorities in the United States have applies to telegraph companies, major portion of taxation has Axed the "saturation point" for railroad ticket offices, and banks. ordinarily gone to the upkeep of automobiles at one per family (ar The elevator operators, parti- something which was to prevent riving at the number of families cularly in the departmental stores, by dividing the population by have their names exhibited, and war, but has never done so. It is four). I see that an expert. Cam- the managers and assistants In. University - body to work in 201',
not so long ago that Europe and mittee of the American Petroleum the branches of multiple shop operation with the authorities.
America becarne alarmed at Institute estimates that by 1988 concerns usually have their names The Boxer indemnity has aroused
the number of passenger-car re- and rank on exhibition. Those France's aeroplane policy. The gistrations will equal the number who like to feel that they know considerable interest amongst the
alarm, seems to have died down, of, families in the U.S.A. undergraduates, as well as among
The with whom they are dealing will the principais, and in this as in but at the time it was very real common figure is roughly 84,000, undoubtedly appreciate the exten- 000. It seems to me that the alon of the idea. Others, unable other matters affecting the well so much so that the class of person Committee has not allowed suf- to rid themselves of what we have being of this unique institution,eight and won't wait in respect There must be a point at which can principle of "hustle" will who was want to cry, "We want ficiently for the mortality factor. hitherto believed to be the Ameri the students have come out on the of naval requirements, urged that the increasing number of auto probably resent having to look at side of those who have the inter-steps be taken by Britain to keep mobiles begins to have an adverse "the nearest lamp-post for the co ests of the University at heart.up with France's aeroplane pro-effect upon the increase in the stable's name before asking him. Their loyal attitude during the gramme. The glamour in the number of families. I am not the way.
game of war muat He in its uncer-familiar with the rate of Ameri recent disaffection of certain tainty. There is a fashion in the can motor accidents, but I can eloments among the students of thing as there is in dress, if not to imagine whole families being NEW foreign educational institutions the same extent. It is being ad-slaughtered when the number of has already been referred to by fare of the World War found the million mark, and I think that mitted now that the trench war-automobiles has reached the 30 Mr. Clementi, and re-iteration of late Earl Kitchener unprepared even at 25 millions the mortality laudatory comment would serve and represented something he rate should show an appreciable little useful purpose since, as Mr. could not quite grasp. Trench Tanner pointed out to the students warfare he had not bargained for of Queen's College who remained
and was consequently "at sen.” loyal to the authorities, such was less of a problem. That it In naval matters the submarine
loyalty was part of their duty and wrought havoc, introduced the not to be regarded as something camouflage of steamers, seriously Hongkong, Tuesday, November 17, 1925 worthy of special favour. As an interfered with the commerce and Indication of the sensibility of the free passage of the sea, and caus
ed serious inconvenience is well | HONGKONG'S UNIVERSITY.tudent body it is, however, note-known. There are also the ex- worthy, and the words of Mr. ploits of the submarine trading Chao-Hsin Chu, His Excellency vessels which successfully accom- In view of the interest the Hon. the Acting Minister in London for pilshed journeys to America from Mr. Cecil Clementi took in the China, rise to mind in this conGermany If one of the arts of Hongkong University while here nection. Speaking at the Hotel plish much loss and damage to successful warfare is to accom- in a former capacity, it was fit-Cecil last month on the occasion your opponent, then, so far as war ting that early among the cere of the annual dinner of the is concerned, the submarine must monies of welcome to the new Central Union of Chinese Stud-be considered as fulfilling a Governor that of the University ents in Great Britain and to be said of the urging of the My "useful" purpose. What then is should have been marked with Ireland to celebrate the fourteenth Chairman of Lloyd's? Mr. Percy such warmth of feeling. On the anniversary of the Republic of Mackinnon has issued an appeal excellence of the arrangements, China, Mr. Chu said that during marines "which are responsible to all nations to abolish sub-
One day, perhaps, there will the undergraduates responsible
the his tabure of office in London he for disasters in war and in time is natum. But as to our prestige an equivalent list of great are cordially to be congratulated. hdsociated himself with the of profound peace." Is this apie art patrons, which it is hinted in American art signatures that will more especially since the arrange students. In different functions peal but another manifestation some quarters is impaired by the make American pictures as keenly ments were carried out under and had enjoyed their co-opera-practice of war la becoming un- think any British blushes are called British pictures are to-day But that in enlightened circles the unprecedented event, we do not sought after by connoisseurs es exceptional difficulties, in view of tion in every way for one alm, fashionable, and preparations for for on that account says the ut praent; it must be confessed. the rear approach of the examina- namely, to work for the purpose it unwarranted and unbusiness-Star," referring to the sale of the that day shows little sign of tions. It may be that the serious of bettering the mutual under-like and against the dictates of Leverbalme works of art in downing ** mindedness of the students of the standing between Great Britain common sense? No one calls for
"In a mere money competitions University has hitherto not beer and the people in China. The cause there responsible for There is no secret about our with this country America is bound
the scrapping of aeroplanes be America. fully appreciated by the public, President of that Society on the disasters in war and in time of poverty as compared with America to win. We may not like this, but partly owing to the remoteness of sanie occasion remarked that he profound pe People, smash it is an honourable poverty, due to we need not cry about it locality, leading to but vague ideas would like to take that oppor- car accidents, but the output of main financial weight of the war, hardly any other form of competition
themselvän and others in- motor the fact that we are bearing the the Daily News. **
"There 28 of the work being carried on tunity of saying that they were motor cara i aut stayed. Even We are paying America her full in which defeat is a less serious there, if not sometimes to actual a very grateful for the hospit. If the use of submarines in war pound of Beah in the matter of our reflection on the vanquished. It is indifference, and even hostility ality of the British people and for ceased as a result of unanimous war indebtedness to her, and at the hypocrisy, of course, to say that m By their welcome to Mr. Clementi the privilege of attending their decision on the part of the nations same time we are receiving nothing poor nation is necessarily worthier and the sentiments that were ex- Universities, the merits of which might not be welcomed by island This is a situation which has it is not
of the world a decision which from our own creditors.
and more virtuous than a vichi ono : pressed on their behalf by the
were famous 6h over the world, nations and those with an exten involved us in the so-imposition of But, it is true that in any in- Chairman of the Union, the
The scene at a great auction of should be enabled by that very art treasures in New York is much piece of good fortune to denude her more of a social function than it principal Ally of such treasure as is here; the sales are arranged we had hoped we might retain with due regard to paychology te But the circumstance has begin after dinner, when buyers nothing to do with the compar are in a comfortable and perhaps five prestige of England and omulous frame of mind: they are America in the art world at dis better stage-managed; and, as the tinguished front. the art deading dealer element is small, purses are world. We can comfort ourselves all the more readily opened. In with the just reflection that it is the long run, as long as free better to be a fertile producer of international competition for works of art than a barren bayer of works of art continues, the richest them. The Leverhulme pictures nation will get the pictures!! will belong to America, but the ↑ signatures upon most of them are English-Reynolds, Burne-Jones, Morland, Orphen, Constable,
-THE TIMES.
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"The chagrin that is expressed
students have indicated plaint it had always been the earnest coast line the possibility heavy taxed in these cromtelligent scale of values riches rank
mentario gainst gil ideas of stances it is obvious that our vake very low!
difficult to different in ngh has been reveal citizens find
that they have both gratitude and affection for those who control the
desire of the Chiese
cordial
ndship with the
the cessation of submarine expéri-
udente fá
"Athena, with
the
sonali, matter
individual mBİ