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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1931.
DEGREE DAY AT UNIVERSIAY.
INTERESTING ADDRESS BY
VICE-CHAMCELLOR.
FINANCE QUESTION.
With its customary ceremonial, the 2nd annual Congregation of the University of Hongkong was held in the Great Hall yesterday, His Excelloney the Governor, Sir William Peel, who is the Chancel- lor, presided, and conferred the de-i grees on graduates for 1930,
The gathering at the University included Lady Peel, and a number of prominent people of the Colony, seated on the dais being Govern ment officials, honorary graduates
Sis, not Bear Brand
of the University, ecclesiastica Under-nourished
dignitarice and the Deans of the various faculties,
Ten was served on the lawn, and a musical programme WAR rendered by the band of the South Wales Borderers. The capped- and-gowned procession which comprised members of the Court. Council, Senate and Staff of the Univeralty, entered the Great Hall Con- Ason after 5 p.m., and the gregation was formally declared open by His Excellency.
Vice-Chancellor's Address.
Addressing the gathering. the Vice-Chancellor said:
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name of Kwok Siu-lau will soon be emblazoned. The year also witnessed the starting of a new building, now under construction, a building which will bear the name of Tang Chi Ngong. A clock in memory of the late Sir Paul Chater, one of the University's benefactors and its first Hon. Treasurer, has also been installed in the Tower. This clock we owe to the generosity of the Armenian Church in Calcutta, Sir Paul's birthplace.
Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen. When Your Excel Jency came here on the 22nd Sep tumber last to unveil the portrait of Sir Cecil Clementi and to open the new Biological Building I took the opportunity, on behalf of all the members of the University, to hid you and Lady Peel welcome. In the name of this Congregation I now welcome you to this the first degree giving ceremony over which you are presiding. I said on the 22nd September, that you had already proved a substantial benefactor to the University and Sir Henry Gollan has left is, that all of us who had had the but the memory of his wise coun- Road fortune to come into contact sel, of his devotion to the Univer with you and your wife had alsity and of the warmth of his ready learned to hold both Your gracious geniality is still here. Excellency and Lady Peel dear. Our Reader in History han re- resecho what 1 then sald and onee signed, to our great regret. He more assure Your Excellency of admits that he was happy in his our loyalty towards you and our work here and that he feels the confidence in your judgment, your suverance of his connexion with windom and your fairness. We the University. But the lady to look to Your Excellency to res-whom he has become betrothee train and guide un. We also look dccided that, not oven for the to you, our Chancellor and our sake of marrying Mr. Hughes, tiovernor, to see that the Univer-would she consent to live in exile. nity gets a fair field for the dia- l'erhaps obe right-time alone charge of its manifold respon will 'show. Let us at least hope aibilities and its development. that the University's will be And we know that we shall not her gain and that of her native look to you in vain.
land to which she is so devotedly attached. It will not surprise my A year ago Sir Cecil Clementi Celtic friends to learn that the presided over this Congregation Indy's native land and that of our how he is gone. Sir Cecil Cle- menti was not a man whom one could easily forget. Those who knew him will, I think, carry about with them throughout their lives Rome influence of the railinncy of his magnetic personality, and charm. Those who never knew him will perhaps, as they come into this Hall and look up at his portrait, wish that they had known lim.
a
late Reader in History is the Prin- cipality of Wales. We have new Lecturer in English and new Lecturer in Commerce. We the presence in our midst of Mr. their colleagues, are the better for Clarabut and Mr. Cooper. We hope and believe that neither of them in sorry that he came.
Distinguished Visitors,
The year has not been without
I do wish that all the portraits its distinguished visitors to the
of our Chancellors were hanging | University-Professor G. Elliot, on the walls of this Hall. I am not going to beg this afternoon. If I did I should expect to be pelt- ed from this platform. But I am
to remind the going
wealthier members of the Hongkong com- munity, who are proud to have been Lord Lugard's friends, that this University is still without even a portrait of its founder.
Tragic Event,
Professor C. Y. Wang dled so recently that I will not dwell on the bitterness of that tragic event. It fell to me to say over his grave that he
left behind him the memory of a life of unostentatious loyalty and devotion. I will leave it at that; for I know that there la in the hearts of all of you, the pro- foundest aympathy for his widow and his now fatherless children. The year 1930 saw the comple- tion and opening of the new Bio- logical Department on which the
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Smith, Sir John Bland-Sutton, and His Royal Highness Prince Pura- chatra of Siam. The coming of such visitors and the pleasure which they appear to feel at being with us is a great encouragement. 1 am delighted to see among the audience Dr. Gordon Thompson of the Henry Lester Research Ins titute, Shanghai. We are glad to hear that the foundation of the Institute buildings are now in the ground. We hope that the Ins titute will always work in tho closest and friendliest co-opera- tion with this Univeraly's Medical School, from which incidentally it recruited both its Principal and its Professor of Medicine.
and Looking back upon 1930 passing in reflection beyond it to scan the University's harassed history, there come into my mind the proverbial words of Juvonal-
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tion of serious financial embarrass- Anyway, the year 1930 has seen ment. We are deeply grateful to what I take to be the determina- Your Excellency for the business- tion of the Government of Hong-like and prompt way in which on askong that this University must be your arrival you set yourself to
maintained at all costs.
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