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I am dressed for the part I am not And when we turn from the out-pharmacy and medicine was then going round this afternoon with the ward to the inward universe the in vogue and all manner of bizarre begging bowl.
case is no better. The very plat-oriental sorcerles were prevalent in form on which the University Cor-and around The Britisher And Education.
the Aegean Islands, The Britisher whose hard lot it porate is now altting is, I am assure where the Father, of Medicine.spent fs to be connected with education, ed, a whirling mass of millions of finde the attitude of his countrymen atoms and electrons dancing in a wandering life. He was himself towards this vital problem a little ordered harmony. But even the born of a family of priest-physic difficult to follow. He is told that University Corporate cannot cope fans and brought up among its there is far too much education and with this stupendous fact. If it traditions and prejudicies." dral and Archdeacon of Hong In the Great Hall of the Hong with varying degrees of truculence could, the majority of the Univer It was in such an environment' Kong, and the Rev. Mok Shau- Kong University yesterday the it is impressed upon him that the sly Corporation would probably that he founded a médical school taang, Incumbent of the Church of 19th Congregation took place deterioration and disintegration of leap from their sents declining any which taught that the physician Our Saviour, Canton, ag Arch-There were two addresses deliver the social organism (for the world longer to sit on such a divine, and must be a patient observer of fact, deacon of Canton, will take place ad before a very large assembly is always getting worse) are largely awe-inspiring platform. at Evensong on January 12, at 6.45 the Hall being packed. The Vice- due to his mistaken activities. The Then turn to the individual. What sceptical of what is marvellous and A reception to welcome the Rev. and work of the University while poor pedagogue in the humility of la he but a mass of system and unverifiable, but having faith in his spirit (for pedagogues are al-trafficking, ranging from reapira- Nature as the healer of diseases. A. and Mrs. Swann will be held in H.E. the Chancellor delivered an ways poor and generally humble) is tion and blood-circulation to this "Vis medicatrix naturae" is the the Cathedral Hall at 4.30 the same erudite and inspiring speech draw inclined at first to plead guilty to some ultimate dance of electrons phrase of later Latin writers and
ing parallels
ancient The Church Body extend a cor- philosophy and present-day duties. Conspiracy against the common and atoms? The divine in all around of the present day. The fine spirit can we not appre-of his medical school is best dis- weal, and laying aside his ferule to us, but not only dial invitation to all interested in
When members of the Court, anticipate by a few years his even-hend it, but we feel that such played in the so-called "Hippocratio the work of the Cathedral to be Council, Senate and staff had tual retreat into the workhouse. apprehension would slay us-so oath," which
remalna the watch-› present on this occasion..
assembled the procession formed He must go; does it matter when? dangerous is the thirst for God. and entered the Great Hall to the But as he surveys the world which The Great War And It's Heritage, word of the medical profession, and strains of the Processional March, eyes him with such persistent sus-
The Great War and the world which Professor Arthur Platt has "The King's Bodyguard," played picion, he is surprised to find that wide upheaval that went with it has translated thus: by the band of the K.O.S.B. schools and colleges are everywhere burned into the consciousness of "I swear by Apollo the Physician H.E. the Chancellor declared the full to overflowing and that his those who were boys and girls dur- and Asclepius and Hygiela and Congregation open amidst
acritics are besleging the doors of ing its process an instinctive sense Panaced, invoking all the gods and deafening outburst of crackers and those very pedagogues whom they of the splendour of life and its goddesses to be my witnesses, that the cheera of the students.
awful brevity. The young men and I will fulfil this Oath and this Why so unhesitatingly condemn. even I have been approached by the young women of to-day are de- written convenant to the best of more than one merchant prince and manding their full share in the asked to use my influence to secure heritage of humanity. They want my power and of my judgment.
actors in the stupendous Benefits For Patients, the admission of his son to a college to be
"I will look upon him who shall that mediaeval backwater-the drama of the universe, not merely University of Oxford. I never met bored spectators. To whom are have taught me this art even se on the late Henry Lester of Shanghat, they to turn but to those who are mine own parents; I will share with but I am assured by those who knew willing to teach them. The teacher him my substance and supply his him that he was by no means a soft has long since realised the inade necessities, If he be in need; I, will sentimentalist but rather a hard quacy of the printed page. headed business man, and yet Henry knows that the cultivation of the regard his offspring even as my Lester has left handsome sums of consciousness is the task of the thle art, if they desire to learn it, own brethren and will teach them imagination and the exension ΟΙ money to establish and endow two future and so he will show children without fee or convenant. I will more educational institutione in the stars through great telescopes impart it by precept, by lecture and ALMEIDA PINHEIRO,
Shanghai. H.E. Harbour Master.
and spectroscopes: it is he alone by all other manner of teaching, not America And Universities. who can by demonstrations in only to my own sons but also to the Macao, 20th December, 1927.
The United States of America are botany and physiology train their sons of him according to the law of Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta and not the British Isles nor are the imaginative faculties to a truer the physicians, but to none other.
Rt. Rev. Bishop C. R. Duppuy. Americans the British, but only last conception of the Universe. And Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax and Sir week a man who had just come from a truer conception of the Universe for the benefit of the patients to "The regimen I adopt shall bo Henry Pollock.
a study of the University of Cali-will also be a truer conception of Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. Messer and Hon.fornia (and he was British sub-the divine..
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe,
the beat of my power and judgment, ject not an American) told me that, including those students who are once more before you to plead the wrongful purpose. I will not give Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand not for their injury or for any
"Extension lectures," there are at what it is but for what it might be asked of me, nor will I lead the attending what we call in England cause of this University, not for a deadly drug to any one, though it this moment in the state of Cali- become. fornia alone not less than 200,000 persons who are taking some form of university course. The demand! for education in the world of to-day is in fact universal and irresistible;; it is a flood which no individual or collection of individuals,
no poli-Gentlemen. tical party, no religious organisa- The conditions prevailing to-day tion, no Government, can stem. In this University and in China voluntary wrongdoing and corrup But are all these enthusiastic prompt me to speak to you for a female, bond or free. Whatsoever tion, especially aeduction of male or Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Dr. Tso students being merely lured by a few minutes this afternoon on the things I see or hear concerning the Will-o-the-Wap further and further subject of "making bricks without ife of men, in my attendance on Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Ho into the desert of unreality and straw". Such
Kwong,
disenchantment? Of course, edu-
occupation le Mr. Mok Kon-aang and Mr. Fung cation 4.8 an art suffers acutely usually held to be not only unprofit the sick or even apart from my at-
Ping-shan.
aedia able but even ridiculous, yet I ven blabbed abroad, I will keep silence tendance, which ought not to be from the limitations of its Prof. K. H. Digby and Prof. W. J. and every school and every college ture to think that, rightly con- on them, counting such things to has its fallures. In all the world sidered, men so engaged are not a there is no one more helpless or laughing-stock and may perhaps be be as religious secrets, more hopeless than the half educat-heroes. You will at once see what found it not, be it mine to enjoy J. ed man or woman whose head is I mean, if I change the metaphor life and art alike, with good repute
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way in such counsel; and likewise
I will not give a woman a pessary to procure abortion. But I will Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Members of keep my life and my art in purity and holiness. Whatsoever house I Congregation, Ladies and
enter, I will enter, for the benefit of the sick,, refraining from all
...
dreami.
There spread
an
:
I
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"If I full this oath and con-
accom
undigested conceits. Bill Sykes recite to you a few lines of poetry among all men for all time to come went to work with a dog and a bludgeon; the modern crackaman which are little known, but which I but may the contrary befall me if cuts into safes and through burglar can never read without a thrill, transgress and violate my oath." proof doors with a nicely adjusted The lines are as follows:-
Served Great Cause, scientific apparatus.
Hippocrates died at Larissa in Education This I beheld or dreamed it.in a extreme old age about the year: scattered broadcast without ade- quate safeguards and proper stand- ards may disintegrate society and produce that most dangerous of social parasites a literary pro- letariat, And education is costly. It is economic madness to pour the wealth of the community into edu- cational facilities which can never be productive. The taxpayer has a right, nay a duty, to insist that money spent on education should bej productive, but if he is to be a worthy citizen of no mean city hal
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tin.
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"
THE VICE-CHANCELLOR,
Pleads Cause of The University.
risk; his children at any rate must be equipped to face life in the world of to-day with all its marvellous opportunities and its tremendous problems.
"Scientific Credulity." And the great problem of man- kind is now, as it alwaps has been;} the problem of human understand- Ing. Just as in the Industrial] sphere man is in danger of being mastered by his own machine, ́so
A furious battle; and men yeiled;
and swords
cloud of dust 877 B.C. His life's work, along a plain;
plished with no other appliances than observation And underneath the cloud, or in
and Induction," was to destroy the view that dia- it, raged
eases are due either to the attacks of demons or to their actual entry into the body—a view which even Shock'd upon swords and shields.
A prince's banner
to-day is common enough-and to Waver'd, then stagger'd back-lay the foundations of the scientific
ward, hema'd by foes.
study of medicine. He served a (Continued on Page 11.)
A craven hung along the battle-
fringe
And thought: "Had I a sword
a keener edge
That blue blade that the King's
son bears! But this Blunt thing!" He snapp'd and
fung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and
left the field.
Then came. the
King's son, wounded, sore, beset And weaponless, and saw the
broken sword, Hilt-buried in the dry and tred-
den sand,
And ran and snatch'd it and with
battle-cry
Lifted afresh he hew'd his enemy
down
And saved a great cause that
beroic day.
Man's Tools.
in the sphere of knowledge he is at The same idea is put negatively FULL OF VIGOUR AND FUN The Vice-Chancellor (Mr. W. W. the moment hopelessly outrun by in the adage. It is a poor work- Hornell, C.I.E.), spoke as follows: his own instruments. We are ac-man who blames his tools." But Is the child whose bodily functions Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gen- cumulating staggering facts but we submit that we do better to present day long he plays around, happy are working in perfect order. All tlemen,Yet another troubled: year are making no corresponding this thought positively and to real-and tireless until bed-time comes, has gone and the University still imaginative development. We have ise the plain fact that primitive and then he quickly settles down holds on its way. I take this oppor-acquired a sort of scientific credul-man had at first no tools what to a long night's dreamless rest. tunity of acknowledging once again] Ity and now-a-days. 1.8 Mr.
the loyalty of the students of the Bernard Shaw has pointed out, we soever, and that we men of the If your little one mopes, lacks University. We are still hedged in will accept anything from the high twentieth century have reached our spirit, is fretful, has a fitful ap- with difficulties, and our future, as priests of science, just as readily present level of civilisation because petite, does not sleep soundly at is to-day the future of many places as the tales of witch doctora and in by-gone centuries men did make night, the fault most likely lies in and institutions in China, is cloud- the stories of those who claimed to bricks without straw, his stomach and bowels, and all he ed with a doubt. I am not going to be divinely inspired were swallowed Now this University has at pre-needs, is a fow days' treatment weary you again with a survey of in Europe in the middle ages. And sent three faculties medicine; arts with Baby's Own Tablets. So our activities and operations; those wisdom lingers long after know- and engineering-and I sball en wrought by
marked in the improvement.quickly who are sufficiently interested will ledge has come. Our brains are deavour to illustrate what I have have an opportunity of reading limited and the universe appears to
Baby's Own
Tablets
them in the University report for be largely a whirl. When our said by an example under each 1927. My distinguished predeces-heads get into the necessary whirl, head. I shall not, however, go back Bor, Sir Charles Eliot, is generally what little consciousness we have to prehistoric timea, but content credited with having designed these departs from us. A newspaper myself with Illustrations faken from amazing garments in which I am article recently, suggested that to ancient Greece, remembering that, compelled annually to appear be appropriate training would be to as Lord, Macaulay wrote with char that mothers who have once tried fore you on the lines of the vest grasp an Einstein universe, the most actaristic overstatement of a good them are never again content to be ments of some high, Buddhist appropriate training would be to Ecclesiastic, It is one of the pri- get apprenticed to one of the sects caseThere is not one art, not without a vialready for future vileges and duties of a Buddhist of Whirling Dert shes of Asia one science, about which we may needs, in the house. Ecclesiastic to beg, but even though Minor. These men have always not use the same expression which Especially devised for the use of claimed that they can reach beatific Lucretius has employed about the infants and little children Baby's states where they feel themselves victory over superstition-Primum Own Tablets are guaranteed an in tune with the motions of the Gralus homo,
ADAM absolutely safe and charmlear universe. And it is certain that trigg Superstition. remedy for Infantile Indigestion, they do reach conditions of con- There was superstition enough in constipation, colic, wind" They sciousness quite allen, to ours and the Mediterranean world when, the allay teething pains almost as it by cut themselves with knives without]
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