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TUESD
FEBRUARY 19, 1924.
a decision which was otune to HONGKONG SPORTS & PASTIMES (Sixth Series)
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An Outstanding Feature. The scene of Sir William Brungate's brilliant University career was Trinity College, Can- brige. He took a double first in DEGREES FOR FORMER HEADS. Mathematics and the Smith's Prize.
He was President of the Union and Yesterday's Congregation of the University of Hongkong was subsequently a Fellow of his College, noteworthy for the fact that the Fer twenty years he worked in two past Vice-Chancellors and Egypt where he was successively the new bead of the Vaiversity Legal Judicial and Financial Ad were present. Mr. W. W. Hornell, viser. During the great war he was CLE, the new Vice-Chancellor, twice
mentioned in despatches. was installed, whilst the degree
Sir William Brunyate
(Applausel
of Doctor of Laws was Co- was appointed, Vice-Chancellor of ferred both on Sir Charles Eliot, G.C. M. G., and on Sir this University in 1921 after an in- The tank William Brunyate. K. C. M. G. terregnum of 2 years. The occasion was also marked before, the new Vice-Chancellor was by the announcement that the net an easy one. On the 31st August Rockefeller Foundation had made 1933 the financial position of the a further gift of $250,000 for the University, as stated by the Com andowment of a University mission whicb Government had Chair in Surgery and a Chair in found it necessary to appoint, was Medicine, At the close of the that there was a deficit for the year proceedings, Sir Charles Eliot
and Sir William Brunyate were on working account of $143,000, an chaired by students and drag- accrued over-draft at the Bank of ged in a motor through the town. about $300,000 and an accrued deßeit There Was the customary of $70,000 on an endowment sinking procession at the opening of the fund. Government had come to the Congregation, and after the rescue with generous grants, but the Chancellor (H.E. Sir Edward recovery of the University's financial Stubbs had declared the con- position is possibly the outstanding gregation open, the Registrar
feature of Sir William Brunyate's Mr. Teesdale Mackintosh) read
(Cheers) We, the resolution appointing Mr. tenure of office. Hornell Vice-Chancellor. The sojourners in the East to hence latter then took his seat.
and are soon forgotten. I do not think that Sir William and Lady Bruayate will be easily forgotten in this University. At any rate I, at least, so long as I hold my present office and possibly for a great deal longer, shall bless him daily for the
New Vice Chancellor's Speech.
The new Vice-Chancellor was
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Rockefeller Foundation's Princely Gift.
priation of 225000 for the promised thair. Cheers The University won the Hertford Boden Ireland have this very inorning been inform Craven'and Derby Scholarship the wd by the Honkong and Shanghai Universay Prize for Syriac and a Banking Corporation that the Rocke #1 Trinity College, feller Foundations have lodged with Oxford He served in His Imperial them the sum of Sparco to be paid
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best years of my life have been spent in India and I have an aching love for that wonderful, though heart
ceived, with cheeps on rising to de- liver his inaugural address. He said: Your Excellency, Ladies and gentle It is Atting and wholesome that my first act as Vice-Chanceller of the University of Hongkong should be to present for honorary degrees my two eminent predeces sors (3pplause) It is fitting be
The University is now full and cause the recognition of those who we have no more hostel accommnuda WE RECOMMED have gone before i«
tion available. In July 1922 the great traditions of English Colleges Rockefeller Foundation gave $300,000 and Schools Let us praise famous for the endowment of a University breaking land The India to which I came in 1902 as a boy straight men and our fathers that begat us." Chair in Surgery and a Chair in It is wholesome-an act of salutary Medicine.
from Oxlord was a very different; The Foundation also discipline.because, merely to
promised a further gift of 250.000 place from the India which I left! hearse what Sir Charles Eliot and for the endowment of a University last month. During those twenty Sir William Brunrate are and have Chair in Obstetries, the condition years has spread throughout almost done is to fill myself with profound of the gift being that the University very stram of India's population
millions of over 400 humility. Such were they, this a should be in a position to guarantee
an intense teeling of national enosciousness. 1. There were giants on earth in efficiency. I have in my hand 24 those days.
The feeling is as complex as the cable which announces the appro Sir Charles Elist was a
scholar
aspirations which it engenders are manifold and ragut. Ask the of Balliol College, Oxford. He
educated Indias what he wants, he cannot tell you. But he is acutely sensitive of his prestige as Irdian and morbidly anxious that fadia should-play a dignified part on the stage of the civilized world. Bat national character is an abid- Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Bulgaria, are legal formalities have been coming product of a nation's past, and Serbia, the United States of America pled with (Applause)
national progress is a process of and East Africa In 15 he was The realisation of this prinerly evelation, not of sudden transformna appointed Vies Chancellor to the git cessitated delicate negotiation. To many a Britisher who University of Sheffield. In 1912 he pops not only with the Rockefeller "bas given his life to serve India the last twenty years has brought rame to this University as its first Foundation but with the, Guvern
disillusion. One lesson at least I Vice Chancellor, angi bere he remain- ment Medical Department These ed until 1914, when he was called negotiations were carried through have learnt, and that is that an imported educational system can- away to be His Majesty's High by Sir William Erunya e pernally not bear fruit, unless it be grafted Commissioner iti Siberia. Sir Sir William as succeeded in on to the national traditions of the Charles Eliot is not merely a great Astablishing a superannuation fast country to which it la brought. velobar and a great linguist. He is for the staff. He has also secured (Applause). als. Pruisent in the mysterious "improved salary wra'e- for the stall. The last 20 years have seen even- field of Marine Biology. His ver this mesential reform having been a greater upheaval in China, but the In satility iyas astonishing as the range rendered possible by the hunty of Chinese character survives. and depth of his knowledge is Sir Paul Chater. Applause). The spite of the tremendous traditiona prodiging Sir Charles Elit mere social side of the University is. I of India, the Chinese mind seem Receptance nt the Srat Vire am tot flourishing, and I can see to hold more securely than does the Chancellorship of this University that Lady Brungate has contributed Indian to what is abiding in its was a guarantee to the world that in ne sutal degree to that resalt the Government of Hongkong were Sir William, has visited many places in earnest. The eyes of the learned in China as the University's repre
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a wonderful heritage and thus to be more capable of assimilating shall be surprised, for example, if what it must learn from the West. I
I find that the education of Chi- rese, giria development which
the history of the University. When record of service and devotion How begun and which is a
it comes to be written. the debt great, no one is in a belter position whizia the University "owes, to Sir to appreciate than is he who has Charles Eliot will stand out for all been called upon to follow in his to sen, That the University of footsteps. Hongkong recognize this debt ง
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