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the esteem and gratitude which is School of Medicine which the this University'a due to his father. Rockefeller Institute, has endowed Wo can wish Mr. Ho Kwong no-with three Chairs (the United thing better than that in loyalty to Staton again!)., Biology is the this University as in all else he backbong of Medical Science and should be like unto his father
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all we have is a part time teacher who had no laboratory in which ha Mr. P. HAHolyoak
cean work Caft. McClay, who Mr. Holyoak was for years an of the part time teacher is doing a ficial member of the Court. His that is humanly possibly to Alt Yesterday's Congregation of the enthusinam for Hongkong was the the gap but he l working under mainstay of his being and all overwhelming difculties, K University of Hongkong, for the though a candid critic of this Thoro are terrible" gaps in" our conferring of degrees, was note- University's shortcomings, he ex-University Library. There worthy for a scholarly dissertation tended to it the enthusiastic sup-practically no English classica or by His Excellency the Chancellor port of his whole-hearted sym-standard books and I do not be- (Sir Cech Clement, K.C.M.G.) on pathy. Sick and barassed as he lieve that there is a single Latin or the true aims of University educa was during the fast years of his Greek book. Our scientific pario` tion, and a brilliant speech by the life, he would come, often unindicals and works of research are Vice Chancellor (Mr. W. w.vited, to any meeting or ceremony shockingly incomplete and this: Horneil, CIE) on the needs of at this. University, which his pre-makes research work very difficult: Eenco could help. Those of us and indeed sometimes impossible? the local University. The names who had the privilege of his Our Professors have too much rou of the recipients of degrees were friendship will not easily forget line teaching work and when a pro published in our issue of yester the many small acts of gracious fessor goes home on leave it is al- day.
courtesy and consideration which most impossible to make effective came so easily from the kindly arrangements for his work This on the students. personality of Percy Hobson Holy-sunfair
I am not mentioning ther oak.
defects in the hope" of an eatly remedy or to excite The year 1926 saw also the consympathy: As I said last year, we His Excellency the Chancellorg to China of the Chinese Indom-realise the Anancial, difficulties of having declared the Congregation nity Delegation-a courtly band on the moment and we can carry on, open, the Band played the Uni- which two nations and both sexes but it is a little hard to expect re- were strikingly represented. I'm arch work under these condi versity Anthem.
not going to explain to you why the ions and yet it is by the original The Late Sir. Paul Chater.
work produced by its members' delegation did not visit Hngkong. The Vice-Chancellor then ad- This University never discusses that a Universty le judged by the drossed the gathering as follows:
polities, and those who are suffiothor Universities of the world. Your Excellencies, Ladies and clently interested can read the de- or Research Work,||** Gentlemen, Since this Congrega: legates explanation of their omis tion was last held the University sion. In this matter in the Dele-
I am happy to be able to roport, has lost its Arst Honorary Trea- gation's now published report. that we have something to show to Burer. It would be superfluous There can also be read the eulogy our credit even in the matter of re- for me to rehearse once more the of the University's work which the search work. Our Professon. of incidents of Sir Paul Chater's report contains, a eulogy which is Surgery has had an important amazing career. He was a gen- all the more gratifying as being paper published in an American erous benefactor of the University, the record of a body, the majorit Journal of Surgery, and our Read- and as such, his portrait adorns of whose members had never beener In Law and Politica has publishe those walls. But Sir Paul was inside the University gates. Ied papers in the Law Quarterly nuch more to the University than merely mention all this in passing Review and other Law periodicals amere contributor to its endow-and la, prder to explain that on the vexed question of Extrater ment, he was the University's against the coming of the Dolega- ritoriality in China, Only yester faithful and ever watchful friend. tion the University took stock of day there reached me last, November 2 That the University has been able its needs. The result was the pre-ber's issue of the Journal of Com to do as much as it has done with sentation to the Delegation of a parative Legislation and Law its utterly inadequate resources la bill which amounted to a little which contains an article by this dae largely to Sir Paul Chater's over £1,400,000. We had been given same Reader on the "New Chiness financial acumen. The rare art of to understand when the question Cadea." But with all the good successful investment was one of the Boxer Indemnity had been in the world, it is a little hard of Sir Paul Chater's special gifts previously discussed that this to have to work in a University. and he used this gift ungrudgingly University was to be the pivot, so which is without backs, Person- in the service of the University far at least as higher educationally, I agree with Milton when he When Sir Paul died, the University was concerned, of the educational aid, "Who kills a man kills a rea lost a generous patron and a consystem which, it was hoped that, sonable creature, God's image, but
蟲 destroyed. stant friend and I frankly confe is the Indemnity would subsidise. who
good that for a time I was utterly at a So we worked out our needs in full book'killa Reason, kills the image loss as to where his successor and the sum of £1,400,000 which of God, as it were; in the eye. could be found. Those of us who have just mentioned represents the Many a man lives, a burden to thr are old-fashioned enough to have additional capital which we re-earth, but a good book is the pr read the "Aeneid" will remember quire to carry out in full our precious life blood of a Master Spiri that the Sybil told Aeneas that
gramme, of development, Don't mbalmed and treasured up on while it was easy to get into Hell gasp, gentle listeners or think Purpose to a life beyond life." It was exceedingly difficult to get that we are insane Universities Wh- the Univeraity who first out of it. If he wanted to get out are expensive things, but modern founded it devoted its alender. re- he must provide himself with a warfare is far more expensive, s sourcea to medicine and engineer- certain golden bough, and the pe- also are domestic strikes and in-ing. There was from the begin- culiarity of the tree on which this ternational boycotts. If the Uni-ing a Faculty of Arts, but it was golden bough grew was that just versities of the world could ac supported for the first years of ata as soon as the first bough was torn train the rising generation that difficult existence by the special Away from the tree's trunk, an- these unfortunate
contribution and guarantee of a other would appear equally golden would either not recur at all or at generous and public spirited Chin- Having no head for figures and any rate not so frequently, then ese gentleman. But it was always being totally unacquainted with surely to sink money in Universi.in the mind of Sir Frederick Lu- the, depth of Mr. Lauder's pocket, ties would be the most profitable gard, as it was in the mind of Sir I am unable to say whether, in the of commercial investments (Ap-Charles Eliot, that this University glorious company of Hongkongplause). But could the Universi should, as soon as possible, take up taipans, his affluence is such as tties of the world so train up the the comparative study of Chinesa merit the application to him if world's youth? I will reply to and western culture. Unforeseen Great intervened. The the epithet "golden." But Mr. that question by putting another.vents Lauder has a heart of gold. (Ap-Have the Universities of the Bri-War came and Sir Charles Eliot. plause). He believes in the Uni-ish Empire ever been given a real went away. The University got versity, and strong in that faith, chance? This University, for ex into financial difficultice and an a he spares neither time nor labour ample, started on ita precarious result the study of Chinese had to in its service. What this enthusi-existence with an income of about be relegated to a position of being astic devotion means to those £6,000 a year. I have heard mote
a subject which might be takon as of the whose task it is to keep the Uni than one British merchant in the an alternative in one. versity's head above the waters of East say that he could not con that up to the intermediate stage courses of the Arts Faculty, and indebtedness, no one is better able template retiring to live comfort-
occurrences
to say than I am. I can only as ably and quietly, in England aronly. We have never had on our aure all those who are interested Scotland on an annual income of staff a full time teacher of Chin- In this University that the debess than £8,000, and I have known cec. All this was of course hope- which we already owe to Mr. Lau- more than one who put the incontlessly wrong. Acordingly, in the der is a heavy one and that I am at '£10,000 a year, daily adding to it.
Mr. Ho Fook.
Needs of the University,
forefront of the programme which
we laid before the Indemnity De-i legation we placed a scheme for a Chinese Faculty,
A Chinese Faculty.
I will not weary my audience by Mr. Ho Fook was also a gener- récapitulating our plan of deve ous benefactor of this University lopment. We want more scholar- In seeking, to establish a Chine and these walls bear testimony to ships, both scholarships tenable eae Faculty we have a three-fold this fact. Mr. Ho Fook was a manere and scholarships tonable by alm in view. We must of course who had the respect of all the com gradantes from the University in teach the Chinese classics but wei munities of thia Colony. A strong the Universities of Great Britain.do not propose to confine our ef ind somewhat silent man he went We have some travelling fellow-forts to the production of old- on his own way, heeding but little ships for our medical graduates fashioned Chinese scholaráz We the cries of the market place. We and these are of the greatest value. reverence the old Chinese scholar are proud to count Mr. Ho Fook We owe them to the generosity of but we realise that while the Chine amongst our benefactors. His son the United States of America. We of to-day and to-morrow cannot af- is sitting on this platform and to need most urgently Department him we tender this testimony of of Biology. We have a promising |
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