that follows. Then there is an the idea sown by Sir PATRICK Adagio movement with slow open- MANSON had taken root and come to ing discordant chords for the piano, fruition under Lord LUGAED's care strings, which loads on to the surge and a perfect harmony for the there were those whose fears of of the final Allegro. In this werk, failure cannot be wholly nequitted especially in the slow movement (one realised how perfectly the note of relationship to the wish.
had been struck by the Couperin The world has changed. A Univer-choral), the musicians proved their sity movement is sweeping East and mastery of their instruments and West. A century ago England and
were loudly applauded:
Wales were content with the two universities of Oxford and Cam bridgo. At the present time there are cleven, We all know what America thinks of education, and of University education in particular. The students of China, whatever their faults may be, are the most vital force in the country to-day. It is a curious fact that Universities seem to flourish in times of turbul- once. Under the pax Romanum of the ancient world, and, again in the lethargic days of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, centres of magnate of the Five Towns poros learning entered upon a period of
HONG KONG, MARCH 15, 1833.
UNIVERSITIES IN THE
· MODERN WORLD
SOME years ago a certain self-made
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The Arensky Trio..
or as well. It begins by asking the The Black Shirts have their pray Almighty to renew daily the militia man's passion for Italy, and to nourish his book with godly wis dom, and his musket with His forti- tude.
!
He was never so happy as when entertaining a party of children and romping with them.
Such was the man whom the Der vishes revered as a saint.
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After a short interval the Arensky was played. To many in the nudi ence this trio is familiar na it was played here by these talented The Management of the Repulss | In celebration of the $1st anniver- artists on their last visit. It is Bay Hotel advise that there will sary of the Hong Kong University most impressive and contains a be no dinner danca. at that estab-to-day, a special congregation. will find it too sentimental however. wealth of sincere feeling. Ilishment to-night.
be held at 5 p.m. A fireworks dis- play will be given at 6.30 p.m. after There is too much of the soulful- The annual meeting of the Hong which there will be a fancy drens Russian-sighing-out-his-sorrow-by-Kong Electric Co., Ltd., will take ball. better received than the Brahms as & O. Building, at 11 am, to-day. the-lonely-lake. It was howover place at the Company's offices, P.; it is dortainly heier to grasp, Bril- liantly clover though it is, it suffers by the breadth of the foregoing work.
It is needless to record the ex-
Long Kong, for a term of 75 years, with lain industry used to declare, at]smaolence. It was in the Middle Schneider, Their fame is world wide order that further enquiries might the various afidavits being read,
as option of renewal at a Crows Rent to
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Waschitz and Prof. Wolfgang They are now continuing on their which he adorned, that he didn't known, that hunger for knowledge tour, but I hear that we may have believe in "edd'cashun." Ha brought men of all classes and the opportunity of hearing them had started work when he was races to the towns where the teach-again in April.
Monday night's concert was eer- nino years old, and he had goting of great scholars could be
tainly one of the meat successful where he was by hard work and heard.
over held in Hong Kong, as also was the innovation of using the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel. The seating accommodation is larger, the acoustics excellent and there is no deep-rumbling Peak tram to drawn every soft passage!
U.Ü. Programme.
meetings of the many public bodies Ages, when little of peace
knowing how many beana made To-day the old common sense, the fivo. Modern circumstances, how judgment of eye and hand, that over, were too hard for him, and, have guided mankind since the Stone * after a bitter struggle his daugh- Age are in themselves inadequate.
tara as well as his sons had a Whether it be gunnery or bridge university education. Our worthy building, diagnosis of disease or potter was, however, only express surveying for minerals, mathe ing a national prejudice. · Did not matics" and scientific testing must the Duke of CAMBRIDGE with all be applied. There is so much to the wit of an old-timo pundit, say of be done to-day in relief of suffer- Army Officers who were studying ing, in the creation, of a new the science and theory of their pro- civilisation, based on accurate know- fossion: "I know those Staff edge still awaiting discovery, that, College Officers. They are dirty at the moment, pure scholarship, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. officers and ugly officers." How and knowledge for its own sake,
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E. Fincher and L. Goldman beat Comdr. Shaw and Comdr. Parker, in the Open Doubles of the H.K.- C. O. Tennis Tournament yester day.
Page 10. The programme for the Fanling. Hunt spring meeting to be held at Kwanti on Sunday, 26th March, appears on
Page 1. A review of last week's sport ap- pears on
Page 10 At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council 8000,000 is to be. Raked for, for Tytam Tuk catch- watera. A new scale of Tobacco duties will be introduced and the Attorney General is to move the first reading of three bills relating to local judicial procedure Page 2.
From the files.
A decree nisi was granted the petitioner in M. Supreme Court, Before Mr. Wynne-Jones at Cen- Shanghai, in the case of Watson tral Magistracy yesterday a Chin. Watson, before Judge Sir Peter ese was charged with the theft of Grain. Mr. F. C. Watson, the peti- 21 electric bulbs from street lamps; tioner, was represented by Mr. H. collence of these three musicians. Electric Co., Ltd. Inspector Fender neither present nor represented. the property of the Hong Kong D. Rodger, the respondent being Prof. Vietinghoff-Schcel, Remja
asked for a remand of 48 hours in Domicile in China being proved, and
Hia Honour granted a decree nisi. be made. This was granted.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha con- The Management of the Penin templates building, two 10,000 tons sula Hotel advise that owing to cargo vessels, and it is reported the reservation of the Sixth floor LOOKING BACK 75 YEARS that the order has been placed with on Friday March 17 for the St. One of the Ministry, Mr. Me the Uraga Dockyard and the Mitsu Patrick's Ball, the usual dinner Culloch, Chief Commissioner of bishi Nagasaki Dockyard. These dance will not take place in the Customs is said to have tendered vessels, together with the lour 7,500 Rose Room that night. For the his resignation. He is a partner in tons boats recently ordered, will convenience of those attending the the house of Dennistoun & Co. probably be placed on the New Ball.a special dinner will be served which, although not affected by the York service.
at 7.45 p.m. in the First Floor failure of the firm of Dennistoun' Lounge and it is desirable for in- Brothers in England, is still con Mr. Schofield at Central Magis tending diners to effect early book-nected with it, and Mr. McCulloch tracy yesterday bound over alings of tables,
has therefore considered it right to Chinese painter for the theft of at
offer to resign. It is thought that' diamond belonging to Mrs. Edith Mr. T. E. Taylor, chief engineer he will be prevailed on to recon, 1-Suite by old Composers- Hill of 29, The Peak. It was stat in the service of the Chinese Mari- sider his detemination Hongkong
(a) Choral
ed that the defendant committed the time Customs, left Shanghai for Daily Press, March 15, 1858, La Couperin! (1026-1661). - 'crime when he was engaged u Australia on retirement last week, m (b) Menuet
painting the complainant's pre- accompanied by his wife and two LOOKING BACK 50.
YEARS J. Ramenir (1689-1764). mises last November. Two reliable children. Mr. Taylor has been in Says the Shanghai Morcury-La :(c) Largo
sureties of $100 each were demand valided after 20 years' service, his Hung Chang engaged Mr. Ng Al J. Lally
(1039-1687), ed.
last post being in the revenue Choy, not long ago to take care we (d) Musette
cruiser Chentino, Last Monday he foreigners did not overstep the J. Leclair (1807-1764). For the theft of a $500 note of was the recipient of a silver clock, hounds of our Treaties. This is no (e) Fuguette
the Chartered Bank from the man- presented by his colleagues, at a doubt the cause of the Toatai G.. Haendel (1088-1789). ager of the San Chuan On Board pleasant little ceremony in the worrying about Pootung. The late Harpsichord, Violin, Violoncello. ing House, a Chinese was sentenced Coast Inspector's office at the member of the Hongkong Legisla Violoncello and Harpsichord.
tive Council (who apparently pass 3. (a) Fuga g minor
Wynne-Jones yesterday. It was
od under an assumed name since stated that the complainant.”) wise
his real name cannot be Ng Choy) G. Frescobaldi (1853-1013). changing some American money at
has not discovered Pootung in the (b) La Poule
a money changer'e shop at 11,
Treaties. We believe that Li Hung J. Bamezu (1083-1764). Bonham Strand East when the do
Chang's diplomacy has already got Harpsichord Solo."
fondant entered and snatched the
him into the bad books of the Im- 3500 bank note from the counter.
perial Court; the Court ind, we boligre, that he is exceeding uskiss authority and trying to embroil
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN many admirale kávé declared that without practical application.to 2.-Air...P. Purcell (1808-1898); ; to six weeks' hard labour by Mr. Customa House,..
that the Forty-Eighth Annual they had no ten for K-chasers," life, are at a discount. The three dinary General Meeting of the and did not a great professor refaculties of the Hong Kong Univer. mpany (since its registration) will
man learns to be asity are Medicine, Engineering and held at the Hong Kong Hotel, mark:-If a ong Kong, on Tuesday, the 31st gentleman he knows enough. If he Arts Lest there should be any oh, 1933, at 11.30 AM. for the doesn't, anything we can touch will doubt as to the place of the last at pose of receiving the Report of the. heral Managers, together with a do hiar more harm than good.
Red'alst October, 1932,
such a timo na this, let us quote Bir
4-Trio Op. 8. 18 Major
Allegio con brio.
Tapout of Accounts for the year medium to stress as The Register of Shares of the different attitude of China, the "The old, time-honoured methods of Boherzo (Allegro Molto)
Chinese education have been sle
-Adagio will. betolosed from tupany
land traditionally governed by troyed with startling suddennes
Allegro ursday, the 10th day of March to scholars and philosophers. Could and no other well thought-out
Prano, Violin, Violoncello. ednesday, the 22nd day of March,
day inclusive, during which anything express more happily the system has yet taken their place.
Intern transfer of shares can be gulf between Victorian provincialism, less than the invention of a new
_____________The__problem-in-nothing-Trio D minor
Allegro moderato and the Chinese outlook towards medium of education for several
Scherzo JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON learning than the graceful tribute million human beings and its im
Elegia General Managers:
to Hong Kong University. penned portance for the future of mankind
Allegro non troppo kong, 9th March, 1000, [578 by Sir Honest Ho Tung, and "puba" cannot be exaggerated.”
Piano Violin, Violoncel
Brahma
matter of grave importance. He learns that the Kaiser has written letter to Lord Tweedmouth on the subject of British and German naval policy amounting to an at tempt to influence in the intereste Another 36 cases of all pox, 18 of Uermany the Minister respon from Victoria and 05 from Kowloonsible for the Navy Estimates. The than for no adequate object. We Wors notlied last week. There were correspondent of the Tithes urgeh fail to see the point of our con- 18 deaths. On Monday another nine that the letter and the reply to it bemporary's reference to sa casca of anall-nox, 8 from Kowlcon be immediately laid before Parlia assumed name." Hongkong Daily and one from Victoria were reportment, The Times commenting on Press, March 15,-1 tech. Other cases of notifiable dia- the matter, protests: agagnst the sise during the week were --Diph secrecy of the letter, as the regular theria 47-(2 deaths); enterio 4, (1 official channels were open; and “death); meningitis 13 (10 deaths) hopen that the Government will not There were: 38fdeaths from tuber-declare the letter private, Hong
kong Daily Press, March 15, 1908,
Cooking Back 25 Years.
The military cor The Times draws (Continued