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“呈盧督頌詢”
與香港大學的成立
當時香港的華人相信自己將是大學的主要受益人。這解釋了縱使他們對大英帝國的理想並不熟知，或者毫不關注，卻仍然熱烈支持籌辦大學的計劃。
大學的成立，標誌著一個可以超越所有狹隘限制的意念，也代表一個難以成真的理想終於成為事實。
香港大學能夠成立，盧押與一眾捐贈者功不可沒。盧督堅韌不撓，而各捐贈者即使種族、信仰或所持政見不一樣，卻一律慷慨捐贈，令盧督建校計劃成功。其中佼佼者是拜火教商人麼地(Hormusjee Navrojee Mody)。
他在大學奠基典禮上獲聯督封為爵士。所有支持成立大學的人士，包括盧押、麼地、何啟、吳理卿和其他華人，是一群前所未有的組合。當他們面對一個共同認為值得實現的目標時，便群策群力，結果是夢想成真。從某個角度來看，香港大學的成立，證明了崇高的理想和實事求是的態度必能克服一切困難。
上世紀初是一個風起雲湧的時代。“呈盧督頌詞”是這個時代留下來的一份實質遺產。
The Tribute and
the Founding of The University of Hong Kong
The Chinese believed that they would be the chief beneficiaries of the new University. That explains why they were ardent supporters of the University scheme, despite their lack of familiarity with or want of concern for British Imperial ideals.
The founding of the University was the expression of an idea that transcended parochial bounds. It also represented the fulfillment of an impossible dream.
The University owed its existence both to Lugard's tenacity of purpose and importantly to the munificence of those who wished to see his project succeed, irrespective of race, creed, or political belief. The most important of these was the prominent Parsee merchant Hormusjee Navrojee Mody, knighted by Lugard at the foundation stone laying ceremony. Lugard, Mody, Ho Kai, Ng Li-hing and other Chinese supporters of the scheme were strange bedfellows. Yet comradeship was nurtured through their concerted efforts to realize what they deemed to be a worthy cause. In this regard, the founding of the University of Hong Kong demonstrated the triumph of grand ideals and good, practical common sense.
The Tribute is a tangible legacy of that enterprising and exciting period at the beginning of the last century.