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His Excelency the Chancellor
thus:-
of
Owes Her Robust Health To Baby's Own Tablets.
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the worth of its professorial staff. Oppenheim; Chan Kal-ming Scholar- The degrees it confers have recog- | ship, Mr. Pow Yue-lumi. fuition throughout the British Em- Scholarship winners in the Faculty: [pire. But the same economic law of Arts-Ho Fook Scholarship, Miss
dominates the development of a
Choy Wai-baan; Chan Kai-ming Scholarship, Mr. Mak Kai-hung. Ап It is obvious that without assist-business and a University.
business
Chancellor's Address ance from outside the University increasing
must in- cannot face this increased expendi-crease, correspondingly, its working then addressed the Congregation, ture.
capital, or its very виссева may Government Aid Needed land it in bankruptcy. The same
Members of the Congregation of the The University Court has asked rule holds good in the case of the
University of Hong Kong:- the Colonial Government to enlarge University. It the additional con-
It has been a great pleasure to me for from the this afternoon, by virtue its annual grant of $50,000 to oneftribution asked
the of $250,000 per annum. If the dol-Colonial Government is made, the authority vested in me as Chancellor, lar had remained at 1/8, this in- University can despite the serious to confer upun Sir Henry Gollan, Chiet erease would have enabled the loss due to the fall in exchange, Justice of Hong Kong and acting University to balance its Budget carry on its work within existing Vice-Chancellor of this University, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. comfortably and to make the long limits for a time more or less con-
In him we honour not only aa, eminent This Bonny Little Girl overdue and much needed additions siderable; but if its activities are to salaries. With the dollar at 1/6, to be extended, its sphere of useful-judge, who commands universal res
In Burma unless the resources of the Univer-ness enlarged, and its duty to the pect in this Colony, but also a firma friend of the University of Hong Kong, sity are still further increased by a Teaching and Administrative staffs
well-tried at need, and willing to serve the University at considerable sacri- grant out of the Boxer Indemnity fulfilled then further financial re- or from other sources. it will be sources must be provided. Other-ce to himself. When it became
Ma Chit, mother of the little impossible, until exchange improves,wise a condition of stagnation must
necessary for Mr. Hernell our Vice girl whose portrait appears above, to give full effect to the recom- inevitably be faced; and stagnation, Chancellor, to proceed on leave of ab teaches mendations of the
school in sence to England. partly for a well-Burma, where her late husband Salaries Com-whether in an institution or in an
Mandalay, individual, Is the pre-cursor ef deserved rest, and partly to plead our WAS
in the teaching pro- cause with His Majesty's Government for a grant to this University from
fession. Boxer Indemnity funds,
"My little daughter suffered Sir Henry Gollan, in spite of the heavy duties greatly from stomach troubles which his position as Chief Justice en- when four months old," states Ma tails, was not only willing to take upon Chit. himself the work of acting Vice-Chan- or food without force being used, "She would not take milk cellor, but made it a condition of doing and was very thin. Her father whatever and I decided to try Baby's Own should be paid to him on this account. Tablets for the child and I am He has thus saved the University from thankful that incurring considerable
we did, for since More than that, Sir Henry Gollan at then she has taken her food re- my request agreed to undertake the gularly, sleeps well, and is in the clifficult and unenviable task of presid- best of health," cently reported upon the conditions of good for infants and little chil- ing over the committee which has re-
Baby's Own Tablets are equally salary, and service of the academic dren
of every race and clime. staff of the University. In this work; Their specific purpose is the cor he had the assistance of two members rection of infantile stomach, bowel of the University Court, namely, Mr. and, teething troubles. They also Paul Lauder, our Honorary Treasurer, quickly reduce fever, case croup and the Honourable Dresserwan, and colds, expel worms. upon whom the University has already
Chemists conferred its honorary degrees of Doc everywhere sell them, or post free. for of Laws. I take this opportunity 60 cents per vial, from the Dr. of thanking the Committee very sin Williams Medicine Co., 60 Klangse cerely for the admirable manner in Road, Shanghai. My only regret, in this connection, is which its duties have been discharged. that Sir Henry Gollan intends shortly to retire on pension. and that, there-
Mr. Fung's Munificent Donation
And now I come to matter which has afforded the utmost antisfaction to the University au- thorities. During the period under roview the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping-shan for the provision of a building for a Chinese Library in the University. He has given $100,000 for the building and equipment and $20,000 as a con- tribution to the endowment fund meet the maintenance charges
m
In providing a operated between Star Ferry and sum for the recurring expenditure on the maintenance of the Library
mittee. Mr. Fung Ping-shan has set a most Chatham
Now the request even for an death. commendable precedent. It is not additional grant from Government
But I am an incurable optimist, often remembered that when dona-of $200,000 is a large demand to and confident that the fount of tions are made for a building for make; it requires justification. I private generosity which has proved a particular object, the University propose to justify it, mainly by the so bountiful in the past, will con- matter of course to the experience of the British Govern-jtinue to flow more and more freely financially responsible for ita ment with regard to its contribu-as the work of the University is maintenance; and in many cases tion for University purposes. I more clearly realised. this is an item of some magnitude. think I am entitled to say, categoric-|
Before concluding I should like to site on the. University estate has ally, that without these contribu- express our cordial appreciation of been selected for the proposed tions, supplemented by grants from the good ofices of Mr. Mason and Library and it is expected that its Local Authorities, no University in his choir in making it possible to erection will be
commenced the United Kingdom could keep its have the University Anthem sung shortly. I desire, on behalf of the doors open; so it becomes most per- this afternoon. The Anthem as voice its grateful tinent to ascertain what proportion many of you know was originally University, to acknowledgment
the muni- these contributions and grants bear composed as an inaugural one by ficence of Mr. Fung Ping-shan; to the total income of certain Sir Cecil Clementi and was sung at can imagine no more ap-typical Universities in the United the opening of the University in propriate record of it than the Kingdom. In the case of moat of 1912. His Excellency has now re- handsome building in contempla-them,
contributions and vised certain parts of the Anthem tion.
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I will finish my account of the cent. of their respective total In- occasions; and it is singularly ap building activities within the Unl-comes; while to cite some Individual propriate and fortunate that it has veraity by referring to the con-instances, Bristol University re- been practicable to have the revised version, during last year, of the ceives 70 per cent: from these Anthem sung for the first time at huliding at the western entrance sources; Exeter University College, this Congregation the last at of the University into a laboratory 78 per cent.; Leeds University, 69, which His Excellency will officiate for the Biological Department. per cent.; Nottingham, University na Chancellor of the accommodation for which
College, 67 per cent.; Sheffield University. urgently needed.
University, 61 per cent,; Aberyst- His Excellency the Chancellor with University College, 70 per cent. then conferred the Degree of Doc. So far as income from endow-tor of Laws (in Honoris Causa) on ments is concerned, the proportion His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir to total income in the
of Henry Gollan, Kt., K.C., C.B.E.
Afterward the Dean of the Faulty of Exeter University College, 2.3 of Medicine presented the follow per cent.; of Leeds University, 5.7 ing graduates on, whom degrees per cent.; of Sheffield University, were conferred as under:- 5.7 per cent.; and of Aberystwith. University College, 6.7 per cent.
It is natural that the academic
the
case
Bristol University is 7.3 per cent.;
Degree of doctar of medicine.- Dr. Mustapha Bin Osman, M.B.,
B.S.
(University of London).
PPLICATIONS are invited for the appointment of a whole- time Secretary to the School of aspect of a University should
Candidates stand out most clearly in Oriental Studies. should possess Academic qualifica-public mind. But of equal, though tions or their equivalent. Experi- more prosaic. importance is the financial aspect. A University ence of administration required. Acquaintance with the East de- cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable sirable but not necessary. Salary without dire results. And the commencing at £500 per annum. Budget for 1930, which has passed Applications, accompanied by
the University Court, does not not more than three testi-
make exhilarating reading. For it monials, should reach the
shows expenditure at: $666,845 and Director, School of Oriental
revenue at $603,500; or a deficit of Studies, Finsbury Circus, E.C.2
a little over 360,000; and recent not later than March, 10, 1930,
currency movements may increase thin figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this prospective deficit is not due to extravagance or to any avoidable only bring the Government con-Lim Poh-thye, Teh Yok-chin, Teh LAMMERT BROS. cause; it is in the main the result tribution to about 33 per cent. of Hui-seng. Wong Boon-hin and Yang
of the fall in the exchange value of the total income of the University. Pao-chang. the dollar, which most of us 'outside Furthermore, as shewing the gen- Then the Dean of the Faculty of the University have equal reason to crous manner in which contribu-Engineering presented the follow- deplore. The salaries of the per- [tions have been made by members ing graduates who received de manent University teaching and ad- of the public. to the Endowment grees:-
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Degree of bachelor of medicine figures the University of Hong Kong and bachelor of surgery.-Au King, at present receives, for the general Chan Ping-in, Cheah Cheng-poh, purposes of the University, $50,000 Cheung Shui-fan, Antonio Paulo per annum from the Colonial Gov-Guterres, Ku Hsueh-chi, Kwok ernment which represents merely 9 Ying-kong, Loh Siow-hock, Pang per cent. of its total income; and Hock-koo, Shi Man-wei, Taan Tae- an increase in the amount of the ming and Yu Chiu-kwong.
In Absentia.-Lee Chuen-hing grant to $250,000 per annum would
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ministrative staffs are on a sterling Fund of the University, the income Degree of master of science in basis; and in translating sterling derived from this source amounts engineering. Sheikh salaries into dollars a loss of over to about $300,000 or about 50 per Ahmed, B.SC. $50,000 alone is entailed on Univer-cent. of its total income aut pepper Degree of bachelor of science.in
sity funds under existing currency the Chater Committee, 1908, catim-engineering.-Francisco Joaquim conditions.
and nearly Ave times the sum which | Maris Jorge, Sam Rustum
Ker ated as the probable total annual Kermani,
Hong-hee, Woo Chok-heng and Yuen Tat cho. expenditure of the University.
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts presented the following
Even If the Government grant
so that no remuneration
expenditure::
fore, this is the last occasion on which he will be present at a Congregation of this University. I, too, am un- likely to be present ever again at Con- gregation, for I am about to lay down my duties as Chancellor. I shall do so with the deepest regret, for my work here has been a labour of love and I heve felt most strongly that nowhere. enn better or more enduring service bo rondered to Hong Kong thun in the University. I can hat hope that at Singapore, which is not very far away, I may still have some opportunity of helping you.
Useful Suggestions
In his address to the Congregation Sir Henry Gallan has jest dwelt upon the financial difficulties which beset the University, and I wish now, as your Chancellor, to suggest the moans be overcome. There are in my opinion, whereby these financial dificulties may
apart from the donations by private
benefactors, which have been very gen
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Mr. the Honourable W. E. L. Shenton, speaking of the mea- sure of financial assistance given from the public purse to Universities in England, said: "A Royal Commission was appointed prasided over by the Right Honourable Mr. Asquith in the year 1919, as a result, of which very large Government grants were made, and to-day, roughly, the Government prevides, either direct or through local authorities, 50 per cent. of the revenue of Oxford University, 45 per cent. of the revenue of Cambridge Universty, in Sets, Blogle, Packets, Bags and
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Salaries Anxiety Furthermore, the subject of the adequacy or otherwise of theso salaries has provided grave cause is increased to $250,000 a year as then for anxiety; for, without adequate suggested, the University would not graduates for degrees:- recompense, teaching and adminia-be fully supplied, financially. It Degree of bachelor of arts. trative standarda cannot be main-could not, for the reasons I have Chan Fung-kee, Samuel Victor Git- tained. Besides, the labourer is mentioned, give, for the present, tina, Kwan Yim-cher, Kwong Sik Porcelain Vases, Bowls, Plates, worthy of his hire, and noue more any but a small increase to existing kwong, Lee Hua-tahal, Lee Pui- Figures, Flower Pots, Old Bronze than he who is engaged in the salaries, and would only be enabled tong, Adelina Maria dos Remedios Ware, Incense Burner, Blackwood bonourable, invaluable and exact-to carry on its present activities and Tan Gim-ann. Porcelain Panel Screens, Table ing work of education. His Excel-without running into debt. Further In Absentia. Leo Ho-tung, Mok
income of the Universities of Great Screens, Ivory, Crystals, Jade and lency, as Chancellor of the Univer-development will be contingent York-jun and Tan Tang-kau. Agate Ornaments, Old Embrol sity, appointed a Committee to go upon the acquisition of funds from The Scholarship
Britain about 50 per cent. is contri- deries, Iron Pictures, Chinese into the matter during last year; other sources.
buted by cither Government or local Hand Paintings, Lacquer Ware, and the Committee has reported in
authorities. The conclusion that fol- lows from an examination of these | Blackwood Ware, etc., etc.
no uncertain terms as to the utter also
Faculty of Medicine.-Ho Fook and
facts is that this Colony must accept the Hong Kong University ns an in- p.o. Box No, 620 inadequacy of these salaries. But
Kai-ming Scholarship, Dr. If effect is to be given to its recom-
tegral and essential part of its educa- mendations an additional annual how the generosity of members of Antonio Paulo Guterres, on the results
of the 5th M.B., B.S., examination; tion scheme and must give it that ade- expenditure of $140.000 will be re- the public may be made unavailable Blake Scholarship, Dr. Cheung Shui-quate support which would justify us in On View from Thursday, Janu-quired with the dollar at 1/8, and I am able to give a most striking fan. Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ring continuing to call it a University on of $176,000 with the dollar at 1/6. example. A donation of $60,000 Scholarship, Mr. Kuo Shao-chats, on the the British model. The minimum an- ary 16, 1930.
Add this amount to the existing was made by Mr. Tang Chi-ngong results of the 3rd M.D., B.S., examina- nual sum which the Government should to the University is budget defeit of $80,000 and you at year for the provision of a tion; Ng Li-hing Scholarship,, Mr. contribute
$200,000." I welcomed these remarks, will get an aggregate of $250,000 building for the School of Chinese Cheang Kung-leung.
Studles but it has not been utilised lin excess of revenue.
at the time when they were made, both na Chancellor of the University and (Continued on Page 8.)
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Winners in Medicine, Engineering and Arts were then presented by the Vice Chancellor as under:
As showing how, under existing conditions, the development of the. University may be hampered, and Chan
Scholarship winters in the Faculty
as yet owing to the uncertainty as of Engineering were as follow-Ho to whether the requisite funds for Fook Scholarship, Mr. Leonard Alfred maintaining the school as a perman-
ent institution will be forthcoming or not. A further sum of $200,00 was collected by the local-Chinese this school, but the Interest on this [community for the endowment of
sum only amounts to about $14,000 a year while the ultimate annual cost of the school is estimated to be $60,000. At present the balance is | being provided by Government from year to year as a provisional, and temporary measure. The Financo Committee of the University hold a very strong opinion that it would not be business-like to proceed with: the building scheme on this pre- carious basis; to say, nothing of the injustice that would be done if the school had to be closed before any ataderit had completed the prescrib ed four years of the Course.
Enlargement or Stagnation? Str. I stand here to offer no apology on behalf of the University, of Hong Kong. It has advanced beyond the stage of apology, and} deprecation; it can, and must, atand on Its own merits, The Academitc| successes of its graduates procialin
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