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THE SPECIAL AIMS OF THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR AND THE BOXER *INDEMNITY FUNDS.”
THE VICE-CHANCELLOR AND THE IMPORTANT
SUBJECT OF FINANCE.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
FACULTY.
CHINESE
The eighteenth congregation of the University of Hong Kong for the conferring of degress was held yesterday after.. noon in the University Hall, The Hall was packed, there being a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen of the European community and many Chinese ladies and gentlemen. Graduates were seated on one side of the front of the Hall ‘e immediately to front of the platform. The balcony was reserved. for students.
This year there were no Honorary degrees conferred, but HE. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.0.M.G.), the Chan- cellor of the University, and the Vice-Chancellor of the Univer "sity (Mr. W. W. Hornell, GLE.) both delivered addresses in which they dealt with interesting and important matters relative to the life of the University,
*
Among the topics mentioned ware the special claims of the University, the Boxer Indemnity Fund, finances and the proposed programme of development, and the establishment.of a Chinese faculty,
Graduates from the Faculties of Medicine, Science and Arts were presented and their degrees conferred on them, the graduates including one lady, Miss Eva Ho Tung (Medicine) and also Miss Eleanor Thoni (Arts) whose degrees was'coA- ferred in aberatia.
́AN" "IMPRESSIVE SCENE.
Prior to the Congregation, tea was served on the University tennis courts, during which the band of the 2nd Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, under the baton of Conducto: W. H. Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M., played selections, by the kind permission of Lieut.-Colonel . J. Comyn, C.M.G, D.S.O., and officers of the Battalion,
The Frocession,
At 5 p.m. a procession, including the members of the Court, Council, Senate and Staff of the University assembled, and entered the Great Hall, after robing in the Vice Chancellor's room, While the pro cession was entering the Great Enl the Band of the Borderers' played Godfrey's Processional March.
It was an impressive sight as the robed members of the processions filed slowly up the centre of the Great Hall and took their place on the platform. E. the Governor in the black and gold robes of Chan- sellor took the centre chair at the back of the platform on a raised dais, and on his left hand was the Treasurer, and on his right the Vice-Chancellor, with the Deans of the Faculties and other prominent officials grouped around.
The procession was formed as
follows:-
surer.
Mr. W. L Pattenden and Mr. K E
Greig,
Mr. Chau Tue Ting and Mr. Lá Yau
Taun
Mr. Li Yick Mui and Mr. Lo Chung
Kuc.
Mr. Wong Kwong Tin and Mr. Wong
Kam Fuk
this University was to be the pivot, 10 far as higher education” -waa concerned, of the educational sys- tem which, it was hoped that, the So Indemnity would subsidise. we worked out our needs in full and £1,100,000 represents the ad ditional capital which we require to carry out in full our programme of development. Don't gap, gentle listener, or think that we ate in- sano, Cairersities are expensive things, but modern warfare is far moro expensive, so also are internal strikes, domestic strikes and inter- national toreotis. If all the Uni- versities of the world could so train the rising generation that these unfortunate becurrences would either
at recur at all or any rate not so frequently, then surely to sink money in. Univer sities would be the most profitable of commercial investiments. (Ap- plause.) ate the Universities of the British Empire ever been given a real chance? This University, started with an income of about £3,000 a year.
not
!! Qur, Elia of Development."
, 1 will not weary my audience by recapitulating our plan of develop- Dent We want more scholarships, both scholarships tenable here and scholarships tonable by graduates from the University in the Univer sities of Great Britain. We need most urgently a Department of Biology. We have G. promising School of Medicine which the Rockefeller Institute has endowed with three Chaira.
There are terrible gaps in our University Library. There are practically no English classics or standard books and I do not believe. that there is a single Latin or Greek book. Our scientific periodicals and works of research are shocking. ly insufficient and this makes research work very dificult and indeed sometimes impossible. Our Professors have too much routine. teaching work and when a professor goes home on leave it is almost in- possible to make effective arrange-
ments for his work. This is unfair on the students and it is by the criginal work done by its members that a University is judged by the other Universities of the world.
Details were there given of several Dr. Lai Chi Hai and Dr. Au Taiuseful publications by members of
Tin.
the University staff.
Mr. G. W. Keeton and Mr. E G.
Hughes
Mr. A. H. Fenwick and Mr. D. W
Morley.
a)
When the University was founded
it devoted the greater part of its Mr. F. HJ. Trayes and Mr. A. Lender resources to medicine and
B. Hay
Mrs. Ring and Miss J. L. Vincent. Dr. D. J. Valentine and Dr. E.
Mirett
P.
Dr. C. W. McKenny and "Dr. J.
Morrisca
engineering but it was always in the minds both of Sir Frederick Lugard and Sir Charles Eliot, that this University should take up' the comparative study of Chinese and western culture. The war and fin
Dr. J. R. Craig and Mr. A. McClay.ancial difficulties intervened and Dr. R. J. Wong and Mr. A. Morris. Rev. H. A. Wittenback and Dr. F.
RAshton Dr. S. Y Wong and Dr. S. W
Phoen
Dr. D. Pillai and Mr. W.
Gitting
Mr. Un Fo and Mr. Yue Shin Chiu.
Congregation Opened. HE. "the Chancellor then declared the Congregation opened in the following terms:-"I declare this Congregation open for conferring degrees."
The Band then played the Univer- sity Anthem.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS,
the study of Chinese had to be relegated to a position of being a sabject which might be taken ap as an alternative in one of the courses of the Arts Faculty, and that up to the intermediate stage only, Accordingly, in the forefront of the programme which we laid before the Indemnity De legation we placed a scheme for Chinese Faculty."
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fe, all this hatred and strife, all correct our outlook on life and this vaunting and recrimination, enable us to grasp, as it were, the all this misery and pain seem to be mighty scheme of things entire and a dream-the earth spirit moving thereafter perhaps remould some" restlessly in his sleep. It all seems tiny fragment of it a little nearer so futile, so unreal Where. then to the heart's desire. This is the Faculty we have a three-fold air in mind formulates once again that tinct from (say) a School of In seeking to establish a Chinese is reality to be found? As my true object of a University, as dis view. We must teach the Chinese eternal riddle,Hong Kong and Tropical Diseases or a Echool of parative study, of Chinese and in India. But in this picture there highly specialized educational estab classics; then we dream of a com- China fade, and I am back again Oriental Studies or any other western law, history, philosophy is no Bengalee. Minister. I see lishment and upon this theme I literature and someday perhaps river gliding softly through a wide with to address you to-day. art. Lastly we want to establish a plain and on its banke an aged and school of the Chinese language to emaciated man with the sacred
The Liberal Education Ideal. The Vice-Chancellor (Mr. W. W. Chinese by race and to investigate his right shoulder. The dawn is educated was should know
teach Chiness to those who are not thread of the twice born looped over Hornell, C.-E.) then addressed the
It has been said that a well, Congregation. He said: Your Ex- that most pressing problem, namely breaking and as he sits cross-legged thing of everything and everything cellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, taught to foreigners. Situated as bands in adoration of the rising entirely dissent. The matterer. Low Chinese can be most effectively and all alone he raises his clasped of something. From this doctrine Since this Congregation was last held the University has lost its first Hong Kong is at the very gate of sun; his lips are moving, he is is a danger to society, and the HIS EXCELLENCY THE CHANCELLOK. Honorary Treasurer. Sir
the Pacific, we want to see this whispering to himself the ancient pedant with his mental vision blind Paul THE MACE BEARER.
Chater was a generous benefactor school of the Hong Kong University Banskrit prayer. Lead me from to all subjects of knowledge but one The Vice-Chancellor and The Trea of the University, and as such, his standing as a monument us British the unreal to the real; lead me from is hardly less dangerous but one
portrait, adorns these walls. Bir
statesmanship. In August last 7 darkness to light; lead me from by these methods that we shall 53d The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and Paul was the University's faithful from Mr. Chang Wing and Mr. prolonged applause.
gitu amounting to $40,000 death to immortality" (Loud and common ground upon which all The Dean, Faculty of Engineer the University has been able to do Lumpur, and from the Executors
ly and ever watchful, friend: "That
mon, however different their work Liew Weng Chee, both of Kuala
DEGREES CONFERRED. “ in life and their intellectual in The Dean, Faculty of Arts, and The as much as it has done with its of the Estate of the late Tye Koo
terests, can meet: aar is the ideal utterly inadequate resources is due Toon of Penang (Applause.) On Medicine, Engineering and Arts achieved.
The Deans of the Faculties of of a liberal education thus to be General C. C. Laard largely to Sir Paul Chater's in the strength of this money, we have then presented graduates for the A more hopeful line of inquiry and The Rt. Rev. Bishop Hal acumen. When Sir Paul died made Dr. Lai and Dr. An full time conferment of their degrees at the
the University lost a generous The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern and patron and a constant friend and Chinese Readers, we have, engaged hands of HE. the Chancellor, and is, first of all, to realise that a
The Hon. Sir J. H. Kemp.
frankly confess that for a time very efficient young Chinese, an the ceremory was duly carried out. special science does not attempt, The Hon. Mr. C. Mel Messer and bis successor could be found. But tor: We are spending $10,000 on a found at the end of this report:
I was utterly at a loss as to where graduate of ours, as a transla-The names of the graduates will be so far as it is that special science, to demonstrate its own first The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy and Mr. Paul Louder (applause) be prepared to teach certsia "courses grees, the Vice-Chancellor presented what may be called the physical Chinese Library and we are now After the conferment of the deling point of empirical science is principles. For example, the start- lieves in the University, and he The Hon Mr. A. O. Land and The Spares neither time, nor labour of Chinese classics up to the degree the scholarship winners to H.E the fact, the fact of nature.
its service
stage in the Faculty of Arts (Applause.) His Excellency is send
mineralogy assumes the existence of" His Honour Mr. Justice J. B. Wood Mr. Ho Fock was also a generous ing the new cadets to We are
CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS.... metals; "geology assumes the exist The Hon. Mr. ED. O benefactor of this. University and engaging a Chinese teacher who has Wolfe.
these walls bear testimony to this had experience in teaching the Clementi, K.C.M.G.Jithen address assumes the existence of the sun, H.E. the Chancellor (Sir Cecilence of the earth and astronomy Mr. H. W. Bird and The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall. platform and to him we offer this beginners, and the Rev. Wells The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard small testimony of the esteem and of the London Mission has pro very appropriately ine status Outside Lincoln Cathedral stands
empirical and mathematical sciences attempted to and Mr. A. E. Wood.
gratitude which is this University's mised to give us gratuitously of Tennyson holding in his band Prove the existence of their first Dr." W. B. A. Moore and Mr. G. M. due to his father.
throughout the year all the times tiny flower and underneath are principles, they would inevitably Young.
Mr Holyoak was for years an that fie can spare from the duties
into metaphysical disquisitiou. although a candid critis of this Applause) We do not want mere University's short comings, he ex-y to teach cadets; we want young
others must eventually converge, is the ultimate aciones in which all
tended to it the enthusiastic sup-men who have just come out to com-
have no desire to contend that meta- port of hiswhole hearted sympathy, Bercial houses in Hong Kong to
physis should be an essential part of the curriculum in Tribate of the China Indemnity... come to us out of office hours, to
Faculty every of a University.
ing.
Registrar.
Valtorte
The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax.
The Hon. Sir H. E. Follock.
• Hoa. Sir Shou Son Chow.
Chancellor.
Thur
fact. His son is sitting on this Chinese language to non-Chinese ed the Congregation as follows heaven. If the
moon, stars and all the host of
الا
HOSE Barlow and Dr. B. M. official member of the Court and imposed on in. by his mission. Flower is the cranaird, wat, And, although the study of thought
W
BRAND
LADDERPROOF RE-INFORCED HIGH SPLICED HEEL
-Gibson
Dr. Iso Seen Wan and Sir Robert
Ho Tusg. Dr. R. Ponsonby Fane and Mr. Ho
Kom Tong
Mr. Ho Kwong and Mr. B. B. L.
Dowbiggin
Mr. M. P. Talati and Mr. Mok Kon
Sang, at
Mr. Fang Ping San and Prof. C.
Middleton Smith.
A.
Delegatione
join this University s external students, to become members of our The year 1928 saw also the coming Students Union, to learn to know
to China of the Chinese Indemnity car students to play games with us Delegation-n courtly band on and to be friends with us generally. which two nations and both sexes Future Hopes,
in
I pluck you out of the crannica I hold you bere-root and all
in my hand, 9/ Little Bower 1 But, if I could
understand
What you are, root and all and
All in all,
I should know what God and
DAM 18.
A Flower Analogy. The fover plucked from the crannies is primarily a matter for
Translated into prose this means study by the botanist, and doubt
Prol W. Brown, and Prof. K. Hwere strikingly represented. I Am I am proud and glad to be here. that simost any subject may be eness a learned man would give it
Digby and Prof. ILG. Earle and Prof. C.
Wang,
not going to explain to you why
Y.
Prof. RK M. Simpson and Prof.
LForster.
Prof MH. Roffey and Prof. W.
Faid.
Prof. H. E. Tottenham and Mr. A
the Delegation did not visit Hong (Applause.) The darker the storm studied that, however humble and clumsy name. But consider fur Kong University never disclouds that lour on this Colony and commonplace the original starting er how all the mystery of life cusses politics and those who are on the fortunes of the British in Joint, a full comprehension of it and death is involved in the study sufficiently interested can read the Chinn generally, the more do I will embrace the highat spiritual of a flower. A dramatic scene was delegates explanation Report. There cling to the conviction that this earnings of the human mind. It recently enacted before the British Amociation at Oxford, when Sit can also be read i eulogy of University can and should con-mens also, as I recently had oc the University's work which the tribute something to a better and ension to remind the Arts Asso: Jagadis Chandra Bose, the Indian Report contains. The result was happier China. I believe that much siation of this University, that no physiologist, caused a great sensa Mr. R. M. Dyer and Mr. W. E. Lthe presentation to the Delegation of what is good in British edico matter how diverse and specialized ion by making visible through tho
Shenton,
of a bill whish amounted to ation and tradition can be streng may be the objects of cur study use of instruments, of delicate sen- Mr. WH Bell and Mr. F. A little over £1,400,000. We had been thered and built into the fabric there, should always be present in sibility the reaction of a plant to given to understand when the of Chinese National-Life As one our minds the ambition to strive pain and by showing the beating question of the Boxer Indemnity watches a child grow up and thinks after a reintegration of all know of its heart and its death-taroer had been previously discussed that of the infinite possibilities of human ledge in a higher unity, which will
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