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HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
LL.D. DEGREE CONFERRED ON SIR PAUL CHATER
VICE-CHANCELLOR ON BRITISH EDUCATION AND CHINESE STUDENTS:
The
THE "UNIVERSITY'S 'ACTIVITIES,
HONGKONG. DAILY FRESE♫ THUESDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1999.
Let me
medicine to All which Lisat. Cod. Ander.I may perhaps be permitted to say some son, a distinguished" gradgate of Glasthing in our defence, and for this par gow, has been selected. I understand pose I would take as my text the recont that, while serving in a military capacity suggestion; somewhat stressed by a local during the war he did valuable work ia journal, that English political institu- connection with Tropical Medicine, and tions and English law especially, can only he has since been on the staff of the be studied to advantago in England, School of Tropical Medicine in London. Speaking as an educationalist, I should As he is desirous of studying the most myself have selected precisely, those sub recent developments in medical educa jects as subjets which should first bo tign he will not be with us until the end studied by a foreigner away from. Eng. An interesting ceremony took place at
I refer in detail to these landk For, if there is one thing clear the Hongkong University yesterday after." To turn to the activities of the Univer of the summer, Foon when the degree of Doctor ofsity during the past year is again, in a Chairs, but perhaps the principal bene about education, it is that the educational have received from Rockefeller atmosphere should have some relation to Lawa" (Honorsi Gunst) was conferred ease, to speak of the life of the Colony at we
the Hon. Sir Paul Chawer, C.M.G. We participated in the risit of His Royal benefaction is that we have received from the life of the young studera.
the Colonial Government assurance agree, at once, that British political in- | The congregation was held in the Great Highness the Prince of Wales, upon whom Jiall of the University, but a tea was held we were privileged to confer an honorary guaranteeing that the facilities of the stitutions and Britsh law are excellently first of all, a large number of guests degree. The decorum which marks the Government Civil Hospital shall be fully well adapted to the idiosyncracies of the
conferment of such degrees has not, as I being in attendance. During the tea anderetand, been entirely preserved in available for the development of our medi. British temperament and deserving of dlelightful programme of music was the later proceedings in certain case of cal school.-(Applause.)-In this connec. the most careful study by mature students of any race. But, in their practical coursed by the 2nd Battalion of
recent years, a fact which one may per tion would like to say how much we King's Regiment.
hape attribute to the winning person are indebted to the Principal Civil Medi. application they are surrounded by a At five o'clock a most impressive prality of some of the recipients. In the cad Officer in connection with the Rock thousand conventions and implications, ession marched down the centre of the case of His Royal Highness anything of feller scheme. I understand that he is which the British boy comes to understand Great Hall The professors were
the kind was unthinkable, but I should leaving the Colony very shortly, but I instinctively as part of his daily life. I gowned, and the many colours created like to place on record the request of feel sure that his successor will prove am not prepared to say the same might picturesque "scene.
loyal British subjects from the Straits less sympathetic,
not be the case of what I may call the that they might be permitted when the
THE ENGINEERING FACULTY.
"super boy" of an alien race, but I have ceremony was over to carry His Royal
In the Faculty of Engineering the go doubt that by the average student who Highness' chair.
whole of the $100,000 so generously pro is just beginning his studies and who has Then, too, with the rest of the Colonymised by Sir Robert Ho Tung for a Work not been soaked in an English atmos we came through the house boys' strike. It was a lamentable interference with
phere, the majority of these implications would be missed and only a partial and the course of our studies, but I think we learnt something of what might be done
misleading picture would result. by cheerful co-operation, and came out
in no way concerned to maintain that by: of it even more friendly than before.
taking your boy young enough you an. pot obtain a fairly accurate reproduction" (Applause.).
English boy; but then he is in China. To me it is clear that the good governance of this Colony is a more strik- ing and more useful object lesson to Chinese youth in the earlier stages of his education than would be the more com-
follows:
The order wa
His Excellency the Chancellor.
The Mace Bearer.
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Hoa: Sir C. Paul Chater, Kt. C.M.G. The Vice-Chancellor.,
Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Dean,
Faculty of Engineering. Dean, Faculty of Arts and Registrar. Hon. Dr. Cland Severn and H.E. Sir
John Fowler.
Sir Wm. Rees Davies and The Bishop
of Victoria.
Hon. Mr. H. 2. Pollock and Hon. Mr.
J. H. Kemp. Hon Mr C. McL. Messers and Hon.
Mr. ER: Halifax. Hon Mr. A. G. Stephen and Hon. Mr.
T. L. Perkins. Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak and Hon. Mr
E. A. Irving. Hon Mr. E. V. D. Parr and Hon. Mr.
Chow Shou Son. Hon. Mr. Ng Hon Taz and Sir Robert
Ho Tung
Mr. C. Montague Ede and Mr. G. T.
Edkins
Mr. Ho Koni Tong and Mr. Ho Fook. Dr... T. C. Juhnson and Mr. Chau
Siu Ki
Dr. R. M. Gibson and Rev. T. W.
Pearce,
Too. Mr. Ho Kwong and Mr. S. W. Mr. H. B. L Dowbiggin and Mr. R
H. Kotewall.
Mr. M P.. Talati and Mr. Mok Kon
Sang Mr. D. G. M. Bernard and Mr. J, R.
Wood: Professor W. Brown and Profesor F.
A. Redmond. Professor G. T. Byrne and Professor
D. C. H. Florance. Profesor C Y. Wang and Professor
R. K. M. Simpson,
Professor M. H. Roffey and Professor
J. L. Shellshear.
Professor L. G. Forster and Dr. G. M.
Barston,
Dr. C Foraythy and Dr. O. Marriott." Dr. C. W. MeKenny and Dr. W. V. M.
"Koch.
Dr. G. E. Aubrey and Dr. H. Balean. Mr. J. Ring and Reg. C. B. Shann, Mr. R. W. Barnes, and Mr." M.
Danaher. 4
Mr. B. Robertson and Rev. J. Romanis
L40.
Mr. D. W. Morley and Dr. G.
Thomsa.
Educationally, o, as I'said last year, we reflect the success or failure of the educational systeth of the Colony. I com mented last year on the exceptions): entry for the Junior Local Examinations
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plex and confusing conditions of English life-(Applause)
shop is now available, and I qught to mention in this connection that Sir Robert has taken the occasion to pay with the last Workshop instalment the out standing, instalmente of the 200,000 pro mised us eight years ago for our General Endowment Fund. (Applause.) The total benefactions of Sir Robert En Tuin to the University now amounts, I believe, to no less a sam than $260,000, It is thing to do with the Faculty of I think I ought,
But, whatever the part we are to play, and observed that its results would be Engineering, but Apparent in this year's Matriculation perhaps to mention, that it contribution
it may be felt that the availability c entry. Our Matriculation entry was, in of $100,000 by Mr. H. X. H. Nemaze Boxer money relaxes the need for focal fact, more than doubled, while last year's has also been paid in full, and Mr. effort.
My own strong conviction is in If this University exceptional entry for the Junior Ex-
a member of our the contrary acuse. aminations was more than maintained. Neazee has become
regards thes to play the part for which I believe "The porcentage of successful candidates Court.-(Applause.As in the Matriculation Examination was Workshop I forget whether I stated on a it to be destined, it must play it as an not fully maintained, which 1 attribute previous occasion that we desired to make autonomous institution, supported by more general scheme of local public opinion, and not as the in to the fact, perhaps insufficiently recognit part of a ized by our schoolmasters, that the differ. Engineering buildings. In any case I strument of a Committee sitting in Lon- ence between a bare pass in the two ex- am glad to say that we appear to have don or elsewhere.-(Applause)-And if aminations represent more than a year's found a very suitable site for the pur- we are to persuade London to believe in work. I am myself convinced that the pose plans for the entire block of build. us, the first thing is to show London that
we believe in ourselves.-(Applause.). weaker of the successful candidates in the ings have been"prépared: and our archi
One remark I should desire to add. If Junior Examination would be well ad-tects, Mesar. Les and Orange, are at pre
а far-reaching are committed to the cost we vised to take that examination a second sent very kindly, working out
Of the entries from the Out-ports, both of the Workshop and of the build-scheme of British education for Chiness time.
I should venture to youths, we must be prepared for all the those from Shanghai, were of the greatest-inga as a whole.
Not only was the number of hope that before next year a start, may consequences of such a scheme. Competi interest. entries more than doubled, but I think have been made, because the Workshop tion there must always be in professional we may say that our Examinations have will provide a beginning of that kind of and commercial life, but the competition been definitely adopted by the whole of practical training which the theoretical must be a friendly one, and British the Municipal Boys' Schools with the engineer is in daager sometimes of lack qualifications must carry their full weight by whomsoever possessed. No more dis exception of thom for European boys.ing.
astrous policy could be imagined than (Applause.)
to attempt to inculcate a foreign "raco with cue's own ideals and thereafter to
Of this year's entry of new students it
is still somewhat early to speak, as they
represented the
accumulations
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VICE-CHANCELLOR PRESENTE BİR PAUL CHATER.
In the Faculty of Arts our numbers continue to arrive until the Chinese New Dontinue to increase, but the Board of that Year. Last year's figures, which really Faculty is suggesting to us that in some of 18 respects we have been asking too much of
1 think that exceedingly the Far East for many years to come, months owing to the change in our acde our students. mic year, and of two Matriculation Ex probable for, really, your degrees ap but no such leadership can be claimed as very closely to Humours a right-it must be won, if at all, on the Haminations are scarcely likely to be reach-proximato
ed, but there will be an increase on last degrees and I hope that before long the merits.
The syllabus will be subject to some systematic year's total number of students.
When one has a number of new women students are six in number, revision. and I anticipate that the next two or competing subjects you are apt to find three years will show a large increase that each man presses that increasing in. when the courses of study in the girl portance be given to his own subject, schools have been appropriately modified, until a point arrives at which the student Should they fulfil the promise of ability is definitely overloaded. May I add shown by these who came to us"last year, that even the proposals of the Board they are destined to form a very impor of Faculty itself while seeking to lighten the syllabus in certain directions are not tant element in the University.
wholly free, in other directions, from this reproach.
Mr. Lai Hai Chi and Mr. Au Tai Tin Dr. J. Fenton and Mr. B. G. Birch. The Chancellor (H.E. Sir R. E. Stubbe, K.C.M.G.) declared the Congregation open, and the band commenced to play the University Anthem.
Before presenting Sir Paul with the graduate, the Vice-Chancellor made a long speech.
ADDRESS BY THE VICE- CHANCELLOR:
THE UNIVERSITY'S LOSSES.
THE GRADUATES
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THE UNIVERSITYT AFFEAL.
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It remains, Mr. Chancellor, for me to present to you, as worthy of an honorary degree, my colleague the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, Treasurer of this University, (Cheers and applause.)
Standing in this hall, one thinks first of Sir Paul Chater as a former partner of the late Sir Hormusjeo Mody, to whose generosity we owe these buildings... Not only is Sir Baul our Treasurer but he has been so, since the institution of the Nor is irrelevant in this University, connection that when the Mascus of this Colcay were minded to found a scholar- ship in the University for the sons of and South China it was the name of Sir members of Masonic bodies in Hongkong to that Paul Chater they attached
I was not prepared a year ago to guar antee that the number of graduates this year should be as great as" last. The Looking at the University as a whole, actual number is 35 as compared with 99 the most important event of the year ep The VICE-CHANCELLOR (Sir WILLIAM a year ago. Only a small number are pears to me to have been the issue of our BRUNYNTEK.C.M.G.), said: Mr. Chan here today, because, with Your Excel recent Appeal under the title, "The In saying this, I am not un cellor, Latios and Gentlemen,-To speak ney's approval, we held a Congregation University of Hongkong, 1ts Aims and
in June when degrees were conferred upon Needa.!! first of our losses during the year on these who had passed their Degree Ex-miedful of the fact that to that Appeal the Court "and amongst our Honorary aminations in May, so enabling them to there has been as yet no financial Scholarship.
In public life Sir Paul is the senior leave us as full graduates instead of as pense. But the great value of the Appeal Graduates, our list is in some sense the students who have passed the degree exlies to my mind in the two facts that it Justice of the Peace by nine years: he our position and became a member of the Legislative Coun. death roll of the Colony. FRANCIS HENRY amination. Those who are presented to- definitely defines
that it aims, and
bears the cil as long ago as 1837: he has sat upon May, formerly Chancellor, a. Life Mem- day are all medical students, but those our ber of the Court and an honorary in June are perhaps of "special. interest signature of stims of the leading busi Your Excellency's Executive Council graduate, whose name is commemorated because for the first time they incudedness man who are associated with the since 1896; and he was first honoured by
scholars, six in nuraber, from acugat University. It is the natural development his Sovereign in 1897. of our University Hostels. those sent by one
usby the Central Peking of the University on which success really It is, however, in commercial life that (Applause), as I am told, he pressed Government four or five years earlier depends, and I regard those signatures Sir Paul Chater has won nost distinc ás Colonial Secretary that, were, a The Engineering results, too, were in- as a guarantee that, as the British com- tion, and, there, the question may be University to be founded, it should be teresting, in that no less than 4 students munity realizes our needs, help will be asked what is the connection between founded with what then appeared to be obtained first-class honours, as against forthcoming. I am especially glad that commercial success and academic distine! a total of 5 in all previous years the Appeal should have been issued betion From those who regard the role fore it was announced that the Boxer of the financier as a purely acquisitive adequats endowments, we have special (Applause)
PATRICK
Indemnity will be available, in whole or one such a question is not unnatural, reason to be grateful to him.
THE MEDICAL FACULTY. MANSON, one of the founders of the To turn to the several Faculties, the part, for educational, purpose be but reflection leads me to believe that Hongkong College
of Medicine and an Eaculty in which most striking advance cause it defends us from the charge that men work in different media and that the Appeal was framed with a view to idealism is to be found in every class. No honorary graduate, who showed that the has been minds is, of coure, that of Mediobtaining & share of the money so Ten more stirring story is to be found in the of scientific learning is no cine (applause) where we have profited dered available. Of the Boxer Indemnity East than that of the transformation of Hongkong from a Barron rock, to the from the generous benefaction from the inconsistent with residence in the Facefeller Foundation, which I was prit and its possibilities I should like to tack: fome of a prosperous, as, orderly, and, a
well-governed community (applause) could not be adequately dealt with in such FILIS KADODRIE, a man who revileged to hansunde when presenting His at length, but that is a matter which cognized the responsibilities incident to Royal Highnes the Prince of Wales for oude the present. It is for others the work has called for imagination, for
That benefaction
mn such as Sir Paul Chzter that those
• great! wealth' and was at one time a not this honorary degree, ungquiero contributor to the funds of bote interest as from the 1st July and to decide what part we are to play insight and for courage, and it is from yo feceived, and invested during the any educational scheme. I am myself qualities had not least been required. convinced that that part is destined to it we wish that story to be fully reflected this University. LA CHU, PAR¡ upon month, of August. It bas enabled us to faporibe and, morally, à prepon in the roll of our honorary" graduates, then the name of Sir Paul Chater must whose unfailing courtesy and profound separate the Chairs of Surgery and
be added to the list. knowledge of things! Chinese his colle Hapatomy, and we have been very fortun derant on
Your Excellency, I regret that Bir atein obtaining for the Chair of EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH OF CHINA,
Let me my in this connection that those Paul Chater has been in his doctor's nguen spon the University Council had Anatomy Lient Col JL Shellshear, karnt to rety, And then there is ERNST D., who I am convinced will be able who have suggested that the proper at hands for the last few days, and requests HAMILTON SHARP To me, at least, his brave in, no long time that China offers mosphere for the education of the youth your Excellency's permission that the Eopportunities for anatomical research of China rught to be, a preponderantly speech he has proposed to make to us lour is the greatest, because I'rdied upon
which more than make up for the absence Chinese atposphere appear to have incur later, may be read to us on his behalf. what appeared, to me his broad-minded of some of the elaborate equipment to red considerable adverse criticism As, May 1 add that we all join in wiching atatesmanship for help in the guidance which he has been accustomed. It has also in this matter I am proud to And myself Sir Paul a speedy recovery ---(Applause,
(Continued on page 5.) of the University in the future. enabled me to found a full-time chair, of on the same side as Sir Frederick Legard,
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