"LARN THINGS
COTROVERSIALLY"
MR. SIW DENGUNCES UNIVERSITIES
THE AFFICIAL MIND AND EXAMINATION
CRAMMING
The eat Fall of the University was thronged with under- graduatend a number of visitors when Mr. Bernard Shaw⋅ WAS the guest a tea party given in his honour by the Univeralty anthorit
of bad indicated that he would not speak, but in responses to califom all part of the house, treated the gathering to a dia- tinctlybavian addrers on how to get the most out of a Univer- sity ation. A full report of the speech is given below.
Ang the distinguished gathering present were Sir William Horn Sir Henry Follock, Mr. Justica Wood, Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabar, Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor, Hon. Dr. A. B. Wellington, Honor. S. W. Teo, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr. M. E, Lo, Mr. O, Macnamara, Dr. Harn, Mr. H. K. Woo, Mr. L. Dunbar, Mr. H. Fenwick, Mr. N. L. Smith, Dr. Herklots, Mr. Kwok Słu Laur. W. B. Finnigan and the following from the staff of the Uairaity: Professors Forster, Simpson, Gerrard, Brown, Middle- topmith, Byrne, Robertson, Tottenham, Davis, Digby and Faid.
VERY LITTLE CIVILISATION TO-DAY”
Showwid:-Gentlemen,-You, munal life which is advantageous arrather rash (laughter), in ask- and I should recommend to a son ingre to spruk. Somebody asked of mine, if I had a son; I should men moment ago, would I say a send him to a University and say le words. The result of asking me to, him: "Be very careful about pay a few words in generally that letting them put an artificial mind enk for three hours, and before in you. As regards the books they if second hour is over they become want you to read, don't read them,
y sorry that they had asked me! (Laughter.) Laughter.)
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Professor Brown: They never do. (Gient laughter.)
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1933.
ORDER FOR SHIP'S OFFICER MOTOR TRAGEDY AT HOME GOLF NOTES
ARREST
Following his failure to appear in
NORTH POINT
...
CORONER'S INQUIRY
Court to answer four charges aris Indian Constable Killed ing out of an incident which occur red at 13, Des Voeux Road West, on Sunday morning, an..order for the arrest of Alfred Hall, chief officer of the 8.8. Angola, on the return of the ship to the Colony, was made by Mr. Wynne Jones t Central Magistracy yesterday,
The defendant was charged with assaulting a district watchman with intent to avoid arrest; assaulting a ricksha coolie; damage to property, to the extent of 2.20, and failure to pay a rickalia fare of 10 conta.
It was stated by Sergeant D. Reidy, who prosecuted, that at 1.15 a.m. on Sunday the defendant hired a ricksha to take him to 13, Des Veux Road West, an eating house: On his arrival there he paid the ricksha coolio five cents and when the coolie asked for the legal fare which was 10 cent*,
defendant struck him. Defendant then went into the shop and picked up two spittoons and three flower pots which ho threw at the coolio.
·District watchman who arrived on the scene endeavour to arrest the defendant but was assaulted.
His Worship estreated the bail of $100 and made the order as stated
above.
ADJOURNED
The inquiry into the death of Arjan Singh, Indian constable No. B430, who was knocked down and killed by a motor car near the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Quarry Bay, on the morning of December 17 was continued before Mr. W. Schofield and a jury at Central Magistracy yesterday.
The deccused, who lived at the Tant Tse Mini married quarters, wis stationed at the Shaukiwan Dig trict, and was going on duty at about 3 am, when he was knocked down by a private motor car No. 2376, driven by Mr. E. Mitford, of the Hong Kong Tramways; Ltd.
Mr. Mitford had Mr.. W. Creigh ton and Mr. D. Peoples with hun in the car at the time, and, accord. Aing to the evidence given by the lattar yesterday, they left the Craigongower Cricket Club on the morning in question, and were near Quarry Bay Terrace, when witness suddenly saw something in front of them, and almost at the same time he felt a jolt under the right front wheel. They turned back and found the deceased lying on the ground Decensed was about four or five feet from the kerb of the road. They took him to the Bay View Police Station where they reported the matter, and later went to the Government Civil Hospital,
tion in that way there are two things you have to learn: the up to-date truth and the historical as pect. Really, if you do that in- telligently, it will be rather useful to you. You have this advantage also that when you have really, for the purpose of posing an examina tion, stadied and imbibed the ideas of twenty years ago they will come in very useful twenty years hence, because these ideas come in circle again. ・・
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Mr. Shaw: Well, that's very en- couraging. (More Laughter.) A school text book is, by definition, Now, I was going to say that I an arendable book. The fact that am not going to detain you any I am an entirely uneducated man is longer, but really I think you must due to the fact that I never could not detain me any longer, (Laugh- rend school books of any kind. The ter.) I hope I have said enough tins 4 was supposed to dovute to to make Sir William Hornell re- reading school hooks, I was road-gret that he ever asked me to ing real books-books written by speak. I am glad of the opportu- people who could really write, which nity I have had of instilling this is never the case with the authors of text books.
It is quite impossible for me to hake a speech to you this evening. will tell you why. Almost every body in Asia to far has asked me to speak; I have been invited to innumerable lunches, and any uni- versities there are have invited me, but I have always replied that the tour that I am making is entirely a private tour and I am not taking public engagements of any kind. If I make a speech to you I shall get into trouble with all the rest, and they will ask,What is this ro voluntionary element in the Univer sity" And there is another rea Be careful, as I say to read the Bon which makes it impossible for real books and just do enough of me to make a speech here. I am your text books to prevent your be here as a guest of the University.ng ignominously kicked out of the I have a very strong opinion that University. Read the good books, every University on the face of, the the real books, and steep yourselves earth ought to be levelled to the in all the revolutionary books. Go ground and its foundations sowed up to your neck in communism and with salt. (Laughter.)
everything of the kind. If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the
poison into you (laughter) and I hope it will keep you amused but that you will forget it in a week.
The Rower to Forget,
In reply to the Coroner, witness said that Mr. Mitford was quite normal when he took the wheel, and was driving at a medium speed
After evidence had been given by Chinese constable who was on duty at the Bay View Police Station when the accident was reported, the enquiry was again adjourned.
FILIPINOS AND INDEPENDENCE
Movement for Dominion
Status
QUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE IMPOSSIBLE.
OXFORD DO WELL AT WEST
HILL
(Special Air-Mail Service);
London, January 20. West Hill boat Oxford on Satur day by nine matches to seven. Their success was due to the lead of three matches they gained in the
Foursomes morning
when the ground was frozen and there was ice on the putting greens which night reasonably be expected to give the local players, an advan tage In the afternoon conditions improved and so did the Oxford team, for after losing the first three matches they won the next five, and had the better of the serios by single match.
I West Hill wero
not so alarming a galaxy of talent as in times phat, they were never theless a strong combination with a large proportion of scratch or better men in the team and Oxford have no cause to despond.
Oxford's Top Pair. Oxford's top pair made a poor start and wore thres down with six to go against W. A. Murray and J. B. Beck, but they won the short 13th in 3 and the 14th in a fine 4. However, what looked a good tea shot by Moss at the one-shot 15th- pulled up 20 yards short of the pia and West Hill won that hole in 3. Moss played a fine iron shot to the 16th, but the ball just went over the green and the Oxford captain pitched back to within ft of the missed the putt after Pennink bad hole. West Hill won this hole and with it the match, Middleton and Micklem made a grand stare with a 3 and continued to hold, the lead against Mirfeld and Neilson until the 13th, which the club pair won in 3. From that point West Hill nover looked back, and having been presented with a gift hole went on their way rejoicing, winning in the end by two and one.
Singles.
"
In the Singles P. W. Morse plny- ed well is beating RS. Stroyan by six and four. V. f. Smith, a strong and promising young player from Deal, in, his first match distinguish- ed himself by benting A. W. S. Aldridgs by six and five-the casiest win of the day. He went on to hole the course in 75, a res pectable score in the circumstances, and his performance on the day should. get him an extended trial.
that only very recently civilisation age of twenty then at fifty you will I went into a picture gallery, say that the Philippines will never ac in 74. J. 9. O. Hazlewood, who
I am never tired of pointing out was almost destroyed by a tremen- dous war. We do not as yet know whether civilisation has not been entirely destroyed by that war, but
be a most impossible old fossil (Laughter.) If you are a red re- valutionary at the age of twenty you have some chance of being up it does not matter, because one of to date when you are forty!..... the things that the war proved was I can only say to all of you" Ge that there was very little civilisa-ahead in the direction I have in tion at all. (Laughter.)
licated. Always argue with your teacher. If possible, if you have a Professor of History, who gives you his view on history, what you have got to say is “Now, look here, wo have heard your views but what we are going to do is to find an- other professor of history who dis. agrees with yay. (You will find
Two Dangerous. Classes, That war was made by people with university, educations," (Laugh ted.) There are really two dan. gerous classes in the world, Thero aro the half-educated who have de stroyed one half of civilisation and
have nearly completely destroyed
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That is what you have to do. When your tutors and professors put some facts before you all occa sionally, you have got to say "No- thing doing that is not worth re mombering." Like a rag picker going over the dust heaps of his
!
The power to forget is valuable. You have a mass of things to learn and assimilate, and you have to use In my
H. B. Dufmore probably "played. your powers of valuation.
the best golf for Oxford in tho young days I was a critic. I used
Singles, for after taking a six ut to criticise the pictures and the
Washington, February 8.-Baliof theatres for a weekly paper. When
the first hole ho beat W. H. Ber- was growing in Washington to-day mingham by 3 and 2 and was round into an exhibition at the Royal Academy, I realised that I could copt the Independence Bill as pass-beat E. H. Moas in the Trials, stood only write one article about it. Ated by Congress over the veto of little chance against J. F. Jackson, President Herbert Hoover but that whose good approaching and put- most I could only write to us they will themselves ask for a per- ting enabled him to win by 2 and there were about two to three thou-manent dominion status with prac 1. Moss, C. Middleton, and Dun- sand pictures. What I had to do was to go rapidly through them and tically the same self-government nett were also beaten. Moss was the victim of J. B. Beck, who turn- to select the twelve or fifteen pic rights that the Bill gives them.
Filipino leaders, it was under-ed four up. Moss won the 11th in tures which were above the "un-
stood, have asked whether the In- 4, but Beck settled the match at mentionable" line.
sular legislature might accept the the 15th, where his too shot finished Independence Bill with reservations a foot from the pin Beck had a and still retain, its constitionality score of 1 under 4's for the 15 holes This suggestion, according to played. W. A Murray also finished Bore Congressmen, was the begin- strongly against Middleton, who ning of a movement for dominion frequently outdrove his opponent status. One member said that, if by 30 yards, hut "too often took both sides "kept their heads," the three putts. Middleton squared the there are the wholly-educated who that very easily). Now let us hear tory you have to evaluate what you Islands would probably solve the match when he was allowed to win you two argue it out and if you find, keep the sound things and problem to the satisfactory of every- the 12th in 4, but fell behind again. can join to the debate a working You ought very carefully to study in agitater, if you can find such forget the rest as completely as bod
Proponents in the House and like an educated man, you will go the works of Professor Flinders a man in Hong Kong, so much the possible. Then you will go about belber. Always learn things con Petrie When I was young, which ago, nobody knew anything about a continual plot to teach you ouemembering. The man who keeps aider no amendments and, if the qualities by taking F. C. Mirfeld to was an incalculable number of years troversially. You will find there is about with a few things worth re-enate, however, were firm in the assertion that Congress will con- everything not worth remembering old civilisations. We knew a little side of a thing dogmatically often attains the highest Univer: Bill is rejected, it will be taken as
great many young men come to the Rome somehow had collapsed into the University who are entirely incapsity degree, (Laughter.) The only proof that the Filipinos do not de- Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, dark ages but until Professor able of profiting and yet you have thing you can do with such a man
is to bury him. (Loud laughter.)
one of the first champions of in- Flinders Petrie began to dig up old to give them degrees consequently
The Human Encyclopaedia., dependence, said to-day that there civilisations, we had no idea of you teach them something by which
is no way the Philippines: Legisla how many civilisations exactly like they can answer questions. If you
But such a man. is worth some ture can give a qualified acceptance our own had collapsed. They taught them that there are two almost all collapsed through educa sides to a question they would be thing. He is an encyclopedia. 1
of the Independence Bill, which was tion. As long as they remained un hopelessly confused. (Laughter.) you want a date, go to hun. Never adopted in view of intregal accept
ance or rejection educated they got on in some way. To pass an examination never ascer mind the opinion of the man who
The statute as passed is not but shortly after the spread of edutain the truth of any question that remembers everything, be never has ention they became corrupt and What is the answer. I am ex- ation of things worth remem-While it requires some sort of
is asked. Go to your teacher and any. (Laughter.) Remember yala comparable to a treats, he added posted to make to that question? bering and forget the rest or agreement between the United I think the reason of that was Your teacher will be guided by the you will go mad. Stick to your States and the Philippines before that in order to keep oivilisation age of the examiner. He will estivaluation. You may be wrong, but complete independence is establish together you really require people mate the sort of answer the ex-in this world, if you are going to ed, the statute itself permits of no of more or less original minds Now | aminer expecte. the University turns out people with artificial minds, You come
the world. (Loud laughter.)
about Greece and Rome.
bankrupt.
Cramming1
the no opinion at all.
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sire independence,
three holes inter when Murray holed thred yards' puth for a 2. Murray won the 16th in 4 and.p half at the next hole settled the match. Dun nett again showed his fighting
the last green, after turning s down,
GOLFER IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE
I wanted to start work with a minimum of delay, and to have on active occupation which would give scope to adventure."
That was the explanation given to-day by J. W. P. Blenkin, the Blue, when discussing the care the former Cambridge University golf stances which caused him to join the Metropolitan Police Furce.
"P.G.. Blenkin" is the simple title of this fall lim vian who played golf, for Cambridge against Marlborough and Trinity College, and now plays golf for the Metro politan Police Association
Recently Blenkin passed from Peel House, the police training. more than average ability. He is college, earmarked as a graduato of attached to How Street Station.
do anything, you must make up bartering." Oxford last year, was educated at your mind. Being a fallible human Benator Pittaina intimated that being one may act disastrously but there was no chance of the Bill's herd and they turn out your mind, In England, for instance, in the it is still more disastrous to have being reconsidered after all the and substitute an artificial miod. medical profession--also:" "in
years that wore required to obtain (Laughter.) I can see that already Navy-you have to pass an eximing- Now, I hope you are thoroughly adoption of the independence me (Loud, ughter) and accordingly I tion. It is often necessary to take edified and will not regret making sure.
Reporta now reaching Washington foresee the complete collapse of our the students in the medical school me break my promise to Mrs. Shaw civilisation and we in turn will go and to teach them the most ad and to the others by addressing indicate that the Filipines are not back to what will be called the dark venced practice and then they have"
yon. (Laughter.)
enthusilistic over the prospect of ages probably because they are to get them through their examina
independence without free trade
Not Interested. more enlightened than our own. tions and that macans that for two Mr. Shaw was given a tremend and without American protection.
When I left Cambridge," said Well, now you will say that hold months before the examinations ous ovation at the conclusion of his While they have declared that ing thesd opinions it is unbecoming they have to teach them, all the talk, the undergraduates giving hum China could purchase most of their Blenkin, I had the choice of many of me, as the guest of Sir William obsolete practice, all the wrong an- three cheers and a tiger and agricultural products, they are said career, but the law and medicine
awers (loud laughter) in order that "tigress" to Mrs. Shaw.
to be convinced now that finding n did not interest me. I had no wish Hornell, to come and express them, when they go before the old gentle-
market for so much sugne would be (Continued on Page 115) While the gathering was dispers-extremely difficult t I must not say these things. I enn man they can get through. (Laughi ing an undergraduate sidled up to caly beg you not to listen any furter.) The same thing in the Navy. Mr. Shaw with an autograph album. ·Senator Quezon's Vlaws.","
Word has resobed one, group: 91
ptable to the Insular politican ther. Of course, what you are going You don't want all the modern Mr. Shaw immediately called the Senators that Mr. Manuel Quezon leaders at the to do, I don't know. You may say favigation, strategy, etc. You will audience back to him and said: had stated that dominion status
Reports that the Filipinos, o "Shall I leave the University have to satisfy an admiral of a staff On behalf of Mrs. Shaw and my would be preferable to the Bill a vebially many of the legislators be
Shall I co the collage whose idchu those of self Iker tont
it stands and thut before its final dieve that the Independence Bill was sigethe working on a forenguerred by the Cuban sugar in Horatio Nelson's and unless you very hourty and
cheers mila to bring this status about.terests brought little reaction here, The Artificial Mind,
know them you will not get through. | which:
His attitude was reported to be The agricultural organisations. that if the Filipinos, in a rotoren fought for the measure for yeari Woll, I don't know. There is I am telling you this unreserved- is ons
dur, would decide upon a dominion and the hand of Cuban auger in status, with free trade, it would be terests scarcely, appeared in the thing to he got from the Uni-ly because if you pass an examines fan hai autog
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