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Our brains are limited and the universe appears to be largely a whirl. When our heads get into the necessary whirl, what little consciousness we have departs from us. A hewspaper article
NOTABLE SPEECHES BY CHANCELLOR recently suggested that to grasp
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ADVICE TO GRADUATES.
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an Einstein universe the most ap propriate training would be to get apprenticed to one of the sects of Whirling Dervishes of Asia Minor. These men have always claimed that they can reach bantific states where they feel themselves in tune with the motions of the universe. And it is certain that they do reach conditions of consciousness quite
Over thirty graduates from the went, and laying aside his forule Faculties of Medicine, Engineer to anticipate by a few years his ing and Arts were presented at eventual retreat into the work-alien to ours and cut themselves the Degree Congregation held at house. He must go, does it mat- the University yesterday evening. ter when? The graduates Included one lady, Miss Eai Po Chuen who received
with knives without pain. But the ordinary man must have stabi- But as he surveys the world Hity even though he knows that
which eyes him with such persist-stability is a sheer illusion, seeing the degree of Bachelor of Medicine ent suspicion, he is surprised to that everything is relative. and Bachelor of Surgery. "
Tea was served before the Con- gregation, music being played by that his critics are besieging the
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find that schools and colleges are everywhere full to overflowing and
Universal. Demand,
suma of
Millions of Atoms.
And when we turn from the out-
Reaction of Plants,
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928.
The "Deans of the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering and Arts then presented the graduates who were invested with their degrees by H. E. the Chancellor.
Tho graduates were→→ Doctor of Medicing, Mr. D. K.|" Pillai,
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The band of the King's Own Scot doors of those very pédagogues ward to the inward universe the tish Borderers under the conduc-whom they so unhesitatingly con-ense is no better. The very plat- torship of Mr. W. H. Fitzearlo, demn. Why even I have been ap- form on which the University Cor
Degree of Master of Arts.-Won The order of the procession for proached by more than one mer-porate is now sitting is, I am as Yo Harry Hong Sling.
Degree of Bachelor of Arts, the Congregation was as follows.chant prince and asked to use my sured, a whirling mass of millions His Excellency the Chanceller, The influence to secure the admission of atoms and electrons dancing in Chan Yik King, Lim Peng Tiong, Mace Bearer. The Vice-Chancel of his son into a college in that ordered harmony. But even the Ching Hing Chow, Mak Kam lor, and The Hon. Treasurer, The mediacval backwater-the Univer-University Corporate cannot cope Chuen, Chung Kui Suen, Pun Yuk Dean, Faculty of Medicine and The sity of Oxford.
with this stupendous fact. If it Wa, Ja! Pestonjce Cooper, William Dean, Faculty of Engineering,
could, the majority of the Univer. Hong Sling, Kam Wa Kul, Tseng The Dean, Faculty of Arts, and I never met the late Henry Les-sity Corporation would probably Wah Shin, Lim Chuan Hoe, and the Father of Medleine spent aborter period in Local Currency and Sterling The Registrar, IE Major General C. C. Luard, and H. H. Sir Henryter of Shanghai, but I am assured leap from their seats declining Yau Fung Hon. Gollan, Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta, by those who knew him that he any longer to sit on such a divine and Rt. Rev. Bishop C. R. Duppuy, was by no means a soft sentiment, and awe-inspiring platform.
Then turn to the individual. Holl, Mr. E. R. Hallifax, and Siralist but rather a hard headed What is he but a mass of systems Honry Pollock, Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. business man, and yet Henry Lee and tramckings, ranging from re-sented the winners of various that he founded a medical school Messrs. and Hon. Mr. E. D. C. ter has left handsome
money to establish and endow two spiration and blood-circulation to acholarships, after which H. E. the which taught that the physician! Wolfe.
Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow and Hon, more educational institutions in this same ultimate dance of elect Chancellor addressed the
rons and atoms? The divine is all gregation. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. R. Shanghai. A. C. North and Hon. Mr. I T. The United States of America arcund us, but not only can we not Creasy, Hon, Mr. J. Owen Hughes are not the British Isles nor are apprehend it, but we feel that such would slay us-so and Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, the Americans the British, but apprehension Sir Robert Ho Tung and Hon, Mr.only last week a man who had just dangerous is the thirst for God. A. C. Hynes, Mr. A. E. Wood and feome from a study of the Univer
The fine spirit of his medical Dr. J. T. Smalley, Mr. N. S. Brown sity of California (and he was a
school is best displayed in the so and Mr. J. R. Wood, Rev. Dr. T. W. British subject not an American).. The Hindu scientist, Sir Jagn-
called 'Hippocratic oath," which Pearce and Dr. R. M. Gibson, Hon. told me that, including those stu-desh Chandra Bose, whom I an
remains the watchword of the Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Dr. Ts dents who are attending what we proud to be able to claim as an
medical profession, and which Paid-up Seen Wan, Mr. Ho Kom Tong and fall in England "Extension lec- erstwhile colleague in the Presid-in this University and in China Professor Arthur Platt has tran Mr. Ho Kwong, Mr. Mok Kon Saugura" there, are at this moment ency College, Calcutta, has recent- and Mr. Kang Ping Shan, Prof. in the state of Californiaalone notly been showing the Tropical prompt me to speak to you for a stated thus:
few minutes this afternoon on the
"I swear by Apollo the Physician K. H. Digby and Prof. W. J. Hinton,ess than 200,000, persons who are Medicine Congress in Calculla his subject of "making bricks without and Asclepius and Hygieia and Prof, W. Brown and Prol. II. G. taking some form of university wonderful instruments for record-straw." Such an occupation is Panacea, inveking all the gods and Earle, Prof. F. A. Redmond and
ing the reaction of plants to sti-usually held be not only, unpro- goddesses to be my witnesses, Prof. J, L. Shellahear, Prof. R. K.
The demand for education in mulus
fitable but even ridiculous; yet that I will fulfil this Oath and this M. Simpson and Prof. C. Y. Wang the world of to-day is in fact uni- Function," Sir Jagadesh con- venture to think that, rightly con-written covenant to the best of my Prof. R. E. Tottenham and Prat
cluded, "is created by the"action sidered, men so engaged are not power and of my judgment. W. Faid, Prof. D. J. Finn and Mr.versal and irresistible; it is a flood
of stimulus, "which may be ex-a laughing-stock and may perhaps "I will look upon him who shall A. Cameron, Mr. W. H. Bell, and which no individual or collection.
ternal or internal. Does the be heroes. You will at once see have taught me this art even as on Mr. F. A. Perry, Mr. A. H. Crook of individuals, no political party.
mind make the body, or does what I mean, if I change the mine own parents; I will share and Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. Chau Yueno religious organization, no Gov-
the environment fashion the or-metaphor from brick-making to with him my substance and supply Ting and Mr. M. P. Talati, Mr.ernment, cant stem.
ganism? Are those two state- | warfare and recite to you a few, his necessities, if he be in need; I Kwok Siu Lau and Mr. Li Yau
ments opposed to each other, or lines of poetry which are little will regard his offspring even as Tsun, Mr. Wong Kam Fuk and Mr.
But are all these enthusiastic are they but one fact described known, but which I can never read my own brethren and will teach Li Yick Mul, M H. G. Hughes and
from different points of view? without a thrill. The lines are as them this art, if they desire to Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Dr. Eai Chi students being merely lured by a
If the internal stimulus be the follows:
learn it, without fee or covenant. Hi and Mr. A. H. Fenwick, Mr. Will-o'-the-wis further and fur-
"result of impouring forces from
I will impart it by precept, by lec- D. W. Morley and Dr. Au Tai Tin, ther into the desert of unreality
outside, then when in this in-
ture and by all other manner of Mr. B. G. Birch and Mr. F. II. and disenchantment? Of course
finite transfusion came the be-
teaching, not only to my own sons Trayes, Mrs. Ring and Miss Griffin, education as an art suffers acute- the limitations of its
ginnings of psychic life? Even Dr. D. J. Valentine and Mr. A. 1y from
in the smallest particle we may
but also to the sons of him who has taught me, and to disciples B. Hay, Rev, C. B. Shann and Dr. media and every school anil every
trace the beginning of the E. P. Minett, Dr. R. J. Wong and pollege has its failures. In all the
bound by covenant and oath ac- Captain A. McClay, Mr. A. Morris world there is no one more help-
faculty of choice. An atom of
cording to the law of the physi- protoplasm accepts or refuses,
cians, but to none other. and Dr. S. Y. Wong, Dr. D. K..less or more hopeless than the half whose
submits or resists.the multiple Pillai and Dr. S. W. Phoon, Dr. educated manor woman
"The regimen I allop! shall be for the benefit of the patients to the forces of the destiny about....it. | When in all this did psychic life begin? . in the throbbing reg- ponse to stimulus then the smallest speck of life has it. If in nervous commotion, then the tree, has it. Mind and nature have thus become transfused. The microcosm is that whose highest term is the gne and the loiest the other.
And man opening at will to new areas of stimulation determines his own higher evolution."
course,
Economic Madness.
Li Tso Yiu and Dr. M. B. Osmar, head is stuffed with half baked Mr. Un Po and Mr. Yue Shiu Chiu, and wholly undigested concuits, During the procession the band Bill Sykes went to work with a dog a bludgeon; the modern played the processional march and
The King's Bodyguard.", by Ray-tracksman cuts into safes and mond. His Excellency the Chan- through burglar proof doors with cellor declared the Congregation fa nicely adjusted scientific appara- open, after which the band played tus. the University Anthem.
THE VICE CHANCELLOR.
Future of the University
Clouded With Doubt.
Education scattered broadcast without adequate, safeguards and proper standards may disintegrate society and pupduce that most dan- gerous of all social parasites-a literary proletariat-And educa-
The Vice Chancellor addressedtion is costly..
the Congregation as follows:
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1: is economic madness to pour Your Excellencies. ladies and the wealth of the community into gentlemen: Yet another troubled educational facilities which can
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It thus appears that the scientist
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This I beheld or dreamed it in
dream.
"There spread. a cloud of dust
along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in
it, raged
A furious battle; and men yelled;
and swords Shock'd upon, sworgis and shields.
A prince's banner
then stagger'd backward, Waver'd,
hemm'd by foes.
And thought-Had I a sword a
keener edge- That blue blade that the King'a
non bears! But this Blunt thing He snapp'd and
flung it from his hand, And lowering crept away and left
the field,
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all and through once again the loyalty of the stu- tion should be productive, but if things: But the scientist can not dents of the University. We are he is to be a worthy citizen of no fell us how to get in tune with still hedged in with difficulties, mean city he must be prepared to that life, so as to apprehend it. The same idea is put negatively and our future, as is today the take a generous and für sighted The divine vision of the poet and in the adage-"It is a poor work- future of many places and instità. view of the returns expected." the inspiration of the genius may man who blames his tools." But found it not, be it mine to enjoy Capital (folly paid up) .............. tions in China, is clouded with al Considerations of this kind un- for transcend ordinary human con-I submit that we do better to pre-life and art alike, with good re- doubtedly weigh with the conser-sciousness but they remain in-sent this thought positively and to pute among all men for all time to I am not going to weary you vative and slow-moving Britisher finitely removed from the cosmic realize the plain fact that primi-come; but may the contrary befall
the humantiye man had at fret no again with a survey of our activi-especially when he discusses poli-consciousness;. It is
toold me if I transgress and violate my Alexandria, ties and aspirations: those who tics at his club. But when in his instrument that is at fault, that whatsoever, and that we men of path."
the twentieth century have reached sufficiently interested weapacity as a father he is provid- it is which has to be improved..
An Undying Debt... have an opportunity of reading ing for the future of his children The Great War and the world our present level of civilization he them in the University report for then his instincts outrun his poli-wide upheaval that went with it cause in by-gone centuries men did
Hippocrates died at Larissa in tical and economic principles. has burned into the consciousness make bricks without straw.
extreme old age about the year Now this University has at pre-377 B.C. His life's work, accom- My distinguished predecessor Education may be dangerous but of those who were boys and girls Sir Charles Eliot, is generally he must take the risk; his children during its process an instinctive sent three faculties-medicine,plished with no other appliances Han credited with having designed at any rate must be equipped to sense of the splendour of life and arts and engineering-and I shall than observation these amazing garments in which face life in the world, of "to-day its awful brevity. The young men endeavour to illustrate what I have was to destroy the view that dis-Honolulu I am compelled annually to appear with all its marvellous opportuni-and the young women of to-day said by an example under each eases are due either to the attacks Yos before you!
on the lines of the ties and its tremendous problems. are demanding their full share in head.
of demons or to their actual entry, vestments of some high Buddhist!
I shall not, however, go back into the body-a view which even the heritage of humanity. They Human Understanding, Ecclesiastic, "It is one of the pri-:
want-to-be-actors-in-the-stupend-to prehistoric times, but content to-day is common enough and to tebe obidined on application. vileges and duties of a Buddhisti And the great problem of man-
from ancient Greece, remembering fie study of medicine. Ecclesiastic to beg, but
even kind is now, as it always has been ous-drama of the universe, not myself with lustrations taken lay the foundations of the scienti- though I am dressed for the part I the problem of human understand-
He served a great cause the To whom are they to turn but to that, as Lord Macaulay wrote with
are willing to teach characteristic overstatement of a cause of healing and alleviation of am not going round this afternoon ing. Just as in the Industrial those who with the begging bowl...
sphere man is in danger of being them. The teacher has long since good case: "There is not one art, human suffering-by his life-long Attitude to Education. mastered by his own machine, so realized the inadequacy of the not one science, about which we
fight against superstition and The Britisher whose hard lot it in the sphere of knowledge he is at printed page. He knows that the may not use the same expression magic. is to be connected with education, the moment hopelessly outrun by cultivation of the imagination and which Lucretius has employed
Every one of you in the' Faculty finds the attitude of his country his own instruments. We are ac- the extension of consciouness is about the victory over superstition of Medicine owes him an undying men towards this vital problem a cumulating staggering facts but the task of the future, and so he-Primum Gruius homo,"
debt; and those of you who go: little difficult to follow. He is we are making no corresponding will show children the stars
out into China to grapple with pro- told that there is far too much imaginative development.
through great telescopes, and spec.
blems of sanitation and disease education and with varying de We have acquired a kind of troscopes; it is he alone who can There was superstition enough among a people whose trust is grees of truculence it is impressed scientific credulity and nowadays, by demonstrations in botany and in the Mediterranean world when still largely placed in geomancy,- pon him that the deterioration as Mr. Bernard Shaw has pointed physiology train their imaginative the famous pioneer of western if I may so translate the phrase nd disintegration of the social out, we will accept anything from faculties to a truer conception of medical science, Hippocrates, wasfung ahus-whose belief in de- ganism (for the world is always the high priests of science, just the Universe. And a truer concep born in the little island of Coamons is still very real, and much etting worse) are largely due to as readily na the tales of which tion of the Universe will also be a more than 23 centuries ago. A of whose pharmacy and medicine whole system of magical, or at is to this day non-rational, cannot mistaken activities. The poor doctors and the stories of these truer conception of the divine. agogue in the humility of his who claimed to be divinely inspir-Ladies and gentlemen I stand least non-rational, pharmacy and do better than take the life and rit (for pedagogues are always ed were swallowed in Europe in once more before you to plead the medicine was then in vogue and all work of Hippocrates as your in- br and generally humble) is in the middle ages. And wisdom cause of this University, not for manner of bizarre oriental sor-spiration.
were prevalent in and hed at first to plead guilty to lingers long after knowledge has what it is but for what it might ceries
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Manager. Hongkong, 7th January, 1927.
FAI # BANQUE FRANCO-CHINOSE, pour lo
Commerce et l'Industrie. (Incorporated in France.) Prince's Building, Chator Road, Corner of Ice House Street, Hongkong.
HEAD OFFICE 74, Rue St. Lazare, Paris. Capital fully paid up Frs. 60.000.000 Special working
Capital
Frs. 50,000,000 Reserves Fund Fra. 15,304,985 Branches:-Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Saigon, Haiphong, Hanoi Tour one, Vinh, Prom Ponh, Peking, Shanghai, Tientsin.
Bankers: Societe Generale, Banque Nationale de Credit, Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. London:--Midland Bank Ltd. "
Now
York:-American
Exchange
Irving Trust Co. San Francisco:-Bank of Italy.
Every description of Banking etc.
A. ROLLIN, Manager. Hongkong, 1st January, 1928,
THE BANK OF CHINA.
SPECIALLY AUTHORIZED BY PRESIDEN
TIAL MANDATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUINA ON THE 22ND OF
NOVEMBER. 1017.*
-------840,002,000.14 ****-18,270,009.#1 | Reserve 'Frode AAMUS 9,620.435:34
Authorised. Capital-
Paid-up Capital
DEAD OFFICE PEKING. HONGKONG BRANCHES,
4, Queen's Boid Central - Branchen and Sub-branches all 'over "Obiam jand correspondants In Europe;··· America sor"
other parts of weran
LONDON BANKERS
The National Provincial and Union Ban
of England Limited.
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York-
NEW YORK BRANCHES
The Irving National "Banke, The Equi abla Trust Company of new York, jus
Internet, 'allowed on Current Accounta, kad Fixed Deporĺta. Tarzan on Coplestion,
Every_description of Banking : "kustamo
traomcted,
Losne granted on, approved ssonetilas" Special facilities for Home Machanza:
SHOUJ.. CHEN,
Haare,
THE HO HONG BANK, LID,
Fald-Up
(Eatablished 1917.3 CAPITAL.
· Authorised 'Capitaluri $20,000,000 Imanad
agir+48 8,002,248 ..8.4,009,100 Bomeria LiaMILI of share=
baller ;
$ 4,000,888
Barplus
* HRAD OFFICEI-BINGAPOZE. Branchen, agencies and Correspondente in all the principal thile of the world, man
Every daaription of Banking and Exobasis basinaid, transacted.
KOʻLIUNG HOM