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And this total did not include gent that the most important con grants made by the Ministry of tribution which the Hongkong Agriculture and Elshorics or the University can make to this Colony Board of Education, or grants is to afford Britishers the oppor from local Education Authorities, Lunity of associating with Chinese I have recently had before me the students and learning their estimated Income and Expenditure language, their modes of thought of the Armstrong College, New- and habits of life, while at the opposition. The Chinese who are castle-on-Tyne for the year which same time offering Chineso Interested in the University know will and on the 31st July, 1920. The students. every facility for quite well that had it not been for total estimated income of this acquainting themselves thoroughly our Chancellor, the attempt initiate College for this year, is £102.111. University should be par excellence with all things British. This ed two years ago, on the strength Towards this total, Endowments of $40,000 collected in Malaya, to contribute 12.9% Donations and the bond of union between the provide better facilities in this Subscriptions 5.3%, Parliamentary two races by whose co-operation University for the study of Chin- Grants and Grants from Local Hongkong has been converted csc, would have had to be abandon Authorities 68% and Fees of all within less than a century from a ed altogether. It is now for the sorts 23.8%. The total Income of barren island into one of the Chinese to show that they appre- this University in 1926 amounted greatest shipping ports of the world. Here should be the centre cinte what has been done for them to $529,387. Endowments by supporting this special course. responsible for 45%, Fees for not only of the highest intellec- If It is not supported; It will not 22.2%, Government Grant for
tual life, but of the best social be maintained. It may seem reck- 9.4%, Donations 7.1% and other whatever is most valuable in the life of the Colony, Thus will less to launch out at the present sources 15.5%. The Armstrong critical juncture into now endpav- | College, though it is not a Univer- ours. It is so. But the idea sity but merely a College of the underlying this insistence on the University of Durham, is a bigger vital importance to this University institution than ours. Its enrol of a Chinese School, is óné átment ranges from about 800 to which it is not easy to call.
1,000 students. But the Institution
cbmprise a medical The chief contribution of this does not school, but merely faculties of University to China should, 1 arta, acionco and engineering, think, be the interpratation of The figures which I have quoted British ideata, civic, ethical and for the Armstrong College include educational, to the Chinese people no expenditure for residential and the promotion of Anglo- buildings or for the travelling ex- Chinese friendship. It la indeed Penses of the members of its expressly laid down in the Hong- kong. Ordinanco by which this University was incorporated that one of its objects was to be "the maintenance of the good under- standing with the neighbouring country of China." Most of our undergraduates come from, China; and it should be our special care o to educate and equip them during their sojourn among us that, when they return to their fatherland, they may rank among its best and most useful citizens.
China is stumbling forward into a new phase of national existence, Our Chancellor believes that pa.. tional character is an abiding pro- duct of a nation's past, and he challenges China and the world to xlow that those who are going to try and guide the China of the futuro can afford to ignore Its momentous past..
After referring to staff changes, Mr. Hornell continued:.
staff.
This University has to provide and maintain three large hostels for students and residenze for the members of the staff. It has to bring practically all its teachers out from England with wives and families, and to send them back to England every four years. also with their wives and families. The Medical School of this Uni- versity not only involves the em- ployment of a large University staff of teachers, but of a consi-` derable, staff of persons whose are fixed up on the work is confined to the Govern University's Recreation Ground ment Civil Hospital but who are
Perhaps somo of you noticed as you came here this afternoon two new tennis courts; I begged theae off Mr. W. H. Bell of the Asiatic Petroleum Company. Our stud- ents are very keen on tennis and they are not too bad at the game either. These two asphalt courts are the only courts that the students have, gave those
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a charge on the University's been created to take its place; and funds; it also involves the main-it is doubtful whether the genius tenance and upkeep of laboratories of the Chinese people, working in for Anatomy, Histology, Embryo-isolation, will be capable of im- logy, Physiology, Biology, Biolo provising an educational system- gical Chemistry, Pathology and such as the necessities of the Pharmacology to say nothing of twentieth century require: bocaUBO the Clinical Departments of Sur- the urgent demand in China to-day gery, Medicine, and Obstetries is certainly not for a more re- and Gynaecology,
suscitation of obsulala methods, but rather for an entirely novel system which, liy passing the: ancient classical teaching through
modern selence, shall, froments, the alemble of western culture and amalgamation of thene elements, forge a now educational implement for the benefit of present and future generations of the Chinese race. It is a task of stupendous: difficulty; but it is a problem which must be solved-and that mental and moral standards upon which the China of the past prided itself are to be debased and forgotten. the solution of this problem, the Hongkong University is, by reason of Its geographical situation, peculiarly well fitted to participate and oven to take the lead,
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A good friend of the University rolls of the University; of these University is always passing round there were 309 students on the said to me the other day-The 160 were in the Medical Faculty, the hat. We are getting a little 95 in the Arts and 54 in the En- tired of this shameless gineering. The total enrolment in-cancy." So am I. The accredited cludes 38 girl undergraduates, 16 author of the Ilitopadean, Nara in the Medical and 22 in the Arts yan, wrote that of poverty and Faculty. If any one doubts whe-death, poverty is the worse; death ther the Chinese of Hongkong are in slight pain, but poverty is ex-soon-unless the in earnest about the education coeding grievous." The burden of not only of their boys but also the University's poverty is the of their girls, let him motor burden which the Legislature of along the Caine and Bonham Hongkong has laid upon us, for we Roads of about 4 p.m., when tho are only trying to carry out the schools are
"discharging their Legislature's expressed wishes. If vielims.
we can't have money, at least let bear us have goodwill. We can the burden, but let the saddle be light. No one realises more acutely than I do, the tremendous difficulties which underly the
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Amonit the many needs of the University is a girl's hostel, and an influential committee, of which Colonel Skinner has been kind enough to become the Chairman,
This University (as you know) has issued an appeal. I feel sure maintenance and effective develop proposes, when funds permit, to The Chinese community will apment of this University. His Ex-organize within itself a Faculty of preciate the public spirit of cellency the Chancellor has just Chinese such that Chinese students Colonel Skinner. Colonel Skinner returned from fighting our cause may take a degree in subjects is a busy man; he has only recent in London with a tenacity which which will assist them in their ly come to the Colony and will only nothing but the strongest convic- official or professional careers in be here for a few years. Yet he tlon, nay, devotion, could have their own country. It should be is taking all this trouble for Chin-maintained. If all hope of getting no longer the custom tha ese girls.
help from the Boxer Indemnity Chinese, whom his parents wish to Fund must be finally and irrevac-[train in western knowledge, must ably abandoned, the whole problem travel at a youthful age to Europe The Balance Sheet for 1928 han of the University's future will or America and spend ten or more! not yet been drawn up, but I am have, before long, to be faced hore of the most impressionable years not looking forward to it with any in Hongkong, I hope that I am of his life away from China, re-i misgiving. We are paying our not being unduly egotistical, if I turning with a veneer no doubt of culture but 1 most way, but the future is dark and suggest in all humility that when western uncertain. The Finance Con- all the issues are realised, the pro- lamentable ignorance of things mittee has sounded a note of warn- blem of the University's future Chinese. This University would ing, that unless fresh sources of will be seen to bo one of the be a far better training place for while pursuing revenue be discovered, the pros- biggest administrative problems such men and, pective pecuniary resourees of the with which the Government of here their academic studies, they University will not, in a few years Hongkong will be faced. time, cover its financial commit- ments. And no University can stand still. When the Legislature of Hongkong passed the Univer- sity Ordinance of 1911, It commit- ted itself and the Colony to the establishment of Л University
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would also be able to see for them- selves how Great Britain governs and develops a Colony of which the population is mainly Chinese, Thus they would come to realize that the political education of a people cannot be crammed, that freedom is not to be snatched by "for the promotion of Art, Science The University's Contribution uden revolution but "slowly and learning, for the formation of
broadens down from precedent to the character of students of all
precedent," and they would then be races, nationalities, and creeds,
His Excellency the Chancellor, better fitted to show their fellow- and, for the maintenance of good addressing the congregation, said countrymen how to restore and to understanding with the neighbour. Mr. Vice-Chancellor and Mem maintain law and order. In a ing country of China." At the hers of the Congregation of the word they would learn the lesson same time the Legislature of University of Hongkong: Stand-of patriolism, Hongkong proclaimed to the worlding before you to-day, as your
Patriotium Not Enough. that the standards of its Univer- Chancellor, I cannot but ask sily would not be below the stand myself-what is the special con-
But a noble saying, spoken in ards of Universities in Great Bri- tribution which this University tain. But the cost of British Uni- should make to Hongkong, to the face of imminent death, warns versities has increased enorman's China, to the world?and I beg ya that "patriotism is not enough.” ly since the war, and the contribu- you to bear with me while I en- From the centre of home
Faith, Hope, Love and Work. tions to Universities, not only from deavour in the fewest words pos- hearth, and far beyond the bounda His Majesty'a Treasury, but also sible to answer these "obatinate of their native land, the love of
You may think that I pitch my men and women must widen to from the local Education Authorl questionings," ties, has increased out of all pro- At the outset let me remind you clasp the earth. "Within the four expectations too high. You may portion to the receipts from other that the Colony of Hongkong in soas all are brethren," Bald Con-object that bricks are not made the principal meeting-ground of fuclus; and we do well to lay those without straw. You may urge When I left the Board of Educa- the British and Chinese civiliza- words to heart, for patriotism in that a University can only work between the British and Chinese tion in Whitehall in 1913, Mr. Lions. Here, therefore, better many countries-and in this Ching upon the human material which it races of which, our wonderful whether 14 undor Hongkong is so splendid an object- Lloyd George who was then Chan- than anywhere else on the face of inno exception has often recoivos,
but hatred graduates or a staff. But I will lesson: we must have hope in the nothing cellor of the Exchequer, had re- the earth, the Chineas may learn meant
Here again remind you of Mr. Baldwin's fino future both of this Colony and of cently made an annual grant of those lessons which Great Britain of the foreigner. £50,000 available for Universitics can teach them and Britishers may the Hongkong University must saying that four monosyllables China; we must crush out all anti- and University Collegen in Eng-study things Chinese. Now, if two set before itself the high ideal are words which contain salvation foreign hatreds and spread the sincere for the whole world, and they gospel of love both East and West: Jand and Wales, and the grants foreign peoples are to understand of bringing about a
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to these institutions from local one another, they must begin by understanding, not only between aro "Faith," "Hope," "Love," and and we must work and work and. Education Authorities were tri- learning each other's languages, the British and Chinese races, but "Work.". If this University is to work in season and out of season fling. In 1924-25 the total grants reading each other's literature and between all the races Inhabiting win through to better days and until faith and hope are achieved to Universitica and University history, and familiarizing them and frequenting this most cosmo- fulfil the high destiny which, 1 In sight, un love is justified of Colleges in Great Britain, which selves with each other's manners politan of all colonies. Doubtless bellove, awaits it, then we must Its sacrifices, and until the Ideal Includes Scotland, was £1,876,645, and customs. So I venture to sug-In the years that lie bohind as have, faith in that co-operation is at last the real. (Applausno),
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