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songs in the royal palace. But his happy, Interchange. Many stud-institution be nourished into vigor- tery of Chinese literature and the the West. Complaints have beon of millions of pounds sterling be facility, which he acquired of writ made that they have, in several ing given to universities elsewhere. ing works on a wide range of sub-cases, returned unsettled them-
Falth in the Future. Jecta. In one of his letters he pays solves and unsettling in their in- a high tribute to the culture of the fluence. There is no doubt that a And then I look at Hongkong, a Chinese, adding that they needed change, in youthful years, from tiny Colony whose fate is sur only the acquisition of Western East to West is very radical: it rounded in mystery, and at a de- Science to be the most crudite may be disturbing. In Hongkong vastated and brigand Infested
both civilizations meet. It is the China, and there comes over med 4827 people on the globe.
hope of those responsible for Ricci sense of bewilderment not unting- Hall that this meeting may be the od with anxiety. But if Father hostel for the Hongkong Univer-1 is difficult to see how a more source of "fragrant streams", flow- Byrne and the great world order to 4825 (4) om With A View alty, to be known as the Ricci Atting name could be chosen for a ing into rivera of peace and con- which he belongs have faith in the University's future, who am I that Hall, was laid by His Excellency Hall in which it is hoped that the cord.
It is our happy task to thank all I should doubt? There wore the Officer Administering the
those who have been associated Jesuit missionaries in China long Government, the Hon, Mr. W. T. East and West will combine for
higher studies. Southern, yesterday afternoon.
Writing in the Cosmopolitan two with us in many ways in the work before any British trader set foot The new building is being built on a site in Pokfulam Road known years ago, Mr. H. G. Wella said: of erecting this Hostel. In the on her shores.
Opinions differ as to the intrin- "A time must come when Oxford first place Bishop Valtorta who in, as Fly Point Battery and is just and Cambridge, Yale and Harvardvited us to Hongkong and to whose sic value of the service which tho behind the Ha Tung Engineering will signify no more in the current kindness we owe a debt of grati Jesuit Fathers, have done, and are 4881 Miss Annabells Lea
A largo and representative Intellectual life of the world than tude which we cannot repay: indoing, for humanity. But no seri- i gathering of those interested in the monasteries of Mount Athos the second place to the Vico-Chan-ous student of history could ques- 4826 Since I Mot Mary Jane educational work, and particularly or the lamanorles of Tibet do now," cellor of the University and the tion tlie complete, the self-annihilat- in Catholic education work in in Hongkong, as proved by the University Authorities for the ing devotion with which every
function this afternoon following beautiful sito which they have put single member of the Order gives 0219 (My Blue Heaven Hongkong, were present. new hall had already been comHall, we are more sanguine abontness in other ways. In this con-Ignatius of Loyola- founded the The preliminary lay-out of the close on a similar one at Morrison at our disposal and much helpiul up his life for the cause for which
the role of Universities and we nexion I cannot omit to mention manced and visitors were conduct- ed over the area which had been should prefer to re-echo the words very specially H. E. Sir Ceell Ole Society nearly four hundred years close to the Great Sacre Coeur To Mesars. Little, Church which
now dominates marked for the construction of the f Viscount Haldane that to main-menti who has encouraged us from ago. On the slopes of Montmatre
tain the Universities of the country the start. building.
at a high level is an act of high Adams and Wood we owe the de- Paris, there still stands a little Tea was served in a mated patriotismi on the part of the sign which we are sure will be ad- Church, the oldest Church in erected near the foundation stone, citizens. The word "Hall has mired, to Massra. Lam Woo a keen Paris, the Church of Saint Pierre. Here in the crypt one very early and the band of the St. Louis In-been consecrated to students' resl-interest in the construction. dustrial School rendered acloc-dential quarters. It is rather a Finally it is with sincere grati morning in 1634 Ignatius of
-1 colourless word which we should tudo that we thank H. E. the Officer Loyola, Francis Xavier and a few, In calling upon His Excellency like to replace though we might Administering the Government, the other Spanish students took the oath to perform the ceremony of laying find it difficult to do so. We hope Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., which made them Jesults. The the foundation stone, the Reverend that the Hall' will be a home for for graciously setting aside the Society now extends throughout We should botime, out of a very busy pro the world-a witness for nearly Father Byrne, of the Society of the students.
this four centries to the faith of mon afraid, however, to write 'Home'gramme, for our function Jesus, said:
lord over our portals lest octogenarians afternoon. Sometimes the publie of many different races in a cause Your Excellency, ту Blahop, Ladies and Gentlemen-might be applying for a quiet rest-do not realise what a call upon the far greater than themselves, And At a time when the League of ing place, or the Society for Pre-time and a strain upon the enor this faith Is the source of tremen- Nations and many other bodies are vention of Cruelty to Animals gies of an officer in His Excel-dous power, of immense capacity striving to find a way of abolishing might become curious about our lency's position these. functions for effective action. I believe Thoro may become. So it comes to pass that this power and this capacity war, it a happy omen in Hong- housing. accommodation, kong that an old landmark, sugges are six Halls in existence, three that if some organised body acquire will henceforth be among the tive of war, is losing Its military belonging to the University and a new umbrella they think it na-forces working for the greater use- appearance. Our contractor Mr. the three under the management tural that His Excellency should fulness of the University of Hong-
open it!
kong and I am therefore glad to be Lam Woo, can tell us that it was a of missionary bodies.
The very concept of University One little word about the band. here this afternoon. tough job to move the old cannon' from Fly Point Battery, but the education makes it clear why there Mr. Leong Hing Kee, who has
Bishop Valtorta's Address. old cannon has gone, and to-day should be Hallo differing in the catered for un this afternoon, had
The Right Rovd. Bishop Valtorta we have come together to lay the facilities which they offer the atu- very kindly offered the orchestra of Foundation stone of a new Univer-dent for the development of that the Savoy Hotel. There was also addressed the gathering. He sity Hostel-Ricei Hall-the culture side of his education, which does tempting; but we both agreed that said that he felt he must disclaim of peace is to replace the sugges-not enter into the curriculum of the pleasure which would be yours, the honour of being responsible the lecturo rooms, Newaan, in tudies and gentlemen, in realising for calling the Jesuit Fathors to Like the existing hostels, the his "Idea of a University," defines what has been accomplished in the Hongkong. The idea had been one new one is called after a distin-a University to be a place of tenel-newly-opened St. Louts Industrial of the most cherished wishes of the He School, in ten months, by little late Bishop Pozzoni who, had he guished man. On the 8th Septem- ing universal knowledge. ber, Matteo Ricci (pronounced Rit-stresses the fact that its object is boys who would otherwise be roam-lived long enough, would have chie), arrived, in an offlefal junk intellectual but hastens to add that in the streets, would more than brought out the Jesuits much
the first moral formation is necessary for compensate for depriving you of at Peking. Het
sooner, at better times and on bet European to do
Ler terms. so since Marco its integrity Nown Hall under a first-class orchestra.
a religious Polo. This was in the year 1598. the management of At the time China was a sonled | body provides, Yor the student who Empire to all foreigners. The wishes to avatt himself of it the
Immediate delivery. Mr. W. W. Hornell, Vice-Chan felt but he was sorry to observe efforts of Ricci to gain admission possibility of continuing paricellor of the University next ad- that many schools were turning have been told and retold, as a pass with his intellectual train- dressed the gathering. He said:out young men, those very young fascinating page in the history of ing the religious culture of his Your Excellency, Your Grace, men who would be called to- missionary endeavour. Ife is des soul, and for thene who believe in Ladies and Gentlemen-Some two morrow to guide the destiny of cribed by a Chinese annalist: "A religion no educational claim can years ago, Father Byrno and an- their own country, to live without man with a curling heard and blue surpass this claim. It is for this other Jesuit priest came to Hong God, or as in Russia, to live against eyes, his voice like a great bell, reason that the Catholics of Hongkong on a special mission. The God. The social and moral result was admitted to an imperial audi-kong have for many years desired object of this mission was the ex-of such education would be deplor- ence. He presented books, images, the erection of the Hostel of which pansion of the influence of the able. The saner parts of the and other objects from his native the foundation stone is being Ind Church of Rome as an agent work-country was still for law and order
Не country,
Ing for South China's good. and consequently a very great at- intelligent, to-day. Was witty, and of manifold ability, From time to time the "bread-should not dare to suggest that, tention is still paid by many to the unleratood our Chinese writings and-butter outlook" becomes before he landed in Hongkong, spiritual side and to the spiritual and could read whatever he had strong In some section of a com- Father Byrne had never heard of advancement of life. For such as munity and they grow restless, like this University. Very little goca those were the schools and hostels once glanced at."
We are inclined to forget that, Mr. Wells who by the way was on in the world but Father Byrne controlled by the Catholic Church. even today, we must enter the trained in a Univeralty to which knows of it. But I have no reason. Speaking of Father Byrne, Bishop galleries of the sixteenth century he must owe some of his literary for thinking that he had any par Valtorta remarked that he was sure as pupils to learn from great style, because University gradu- ticular interest in us. Certainly that the great predecessor of the masters such as da Vinci, Michael atos are to be found selling ten the establishment
Roman Jeunits, Father Ricci, must be proud over counters. Some Catholic Hostel to be associated of him and must rejoice that the Angelo, Raphael; or still more, and sugar perhaps, to forget our scientific years ago we read of a man who, with this University, though such great work which he started three debt to Kepler, Tycho Brahe, without any scholastic training a project had been mooted before, centuries ago was still to be car- Galileo, Vesalius. Ricci did more built up a big grocery business. was not so far as I am aware, one ried on by willing, and worthy than move under the shadow of On his death a member of a club of the ideas which Father Byrne hands. these great names, he was a pupil which he used to frequent sarcas- came from Ireland to China to of Clavius of whom Galileo wrote: tically remarked that the most fit-realise. At any rate he came and "I have had a long discussion with ting inscription for his tomb would after brief interviews with His Father Clavius and with two other be: "Born a man, he died a grocer Excellency the Chanceller and my- most intelligent Fathers of the It was a hard word, hit it was a self, supplemented no doubt by the same Jesuit Order..... We neat way of expressing a profound advocacy of that good friend to have compared notes and have truth. There are great possibili-the University, Bishop Valtorta, he found that our experiences tally ties in a human life. These pos- deckled to threw in hie lot with
as Pro-Chancellor of the.. in every respect. Father Clavius sibilities are not expressed by any-us. The result is this Hostel- both was called the "Euclid of the six-thing outside a man, they are to Ricci Hall, the foundation stono University and as Officer Adminis- teenth century" and to the end was be gauged by the culture of the of which His Excellency will lay tering the Government of this
Colony, to know that the Jesuit Chinese Antiques personal friend of Galileo.man himself. A mun may live in this afternoon. Trained in such a school Ricci had glorious castle, yet his life may This decision of Father Byrne Order had undertaken the work of no difficulty in becoming as-be empty because his mind is void and the unfaltering faith and en- providing another Hostel for the of Ideas and his will is not braced thusiasm with which he has press-undergraduates of Hongkong Uni- tronomer, physicist, geographer, watch-maker to meet many de- by Ideals, mands of the learned in Poking. He was a musician also, and com- posed eight melodics, with words East and West have much to teaching Christian morality. learn from each other. Hongkong These, we 'rend, became popular should be an ideal place for growing pains. Can this young · (Continued on Page 15.j
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