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THE
the
HONGKONG
DEGREE DAY AT UNIVERSITY.
various
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932.
the
rail
have
are to have the first claim on the Foundation for the promotion of accommodation of the building; Education and Culture came when that claim has been reason-originally from the Ameritan ably met, the University is at share of the Boxer Indemnity, liberty to make the best use it can Surely the allocation from the (Continued from: Page 2.) of the rent of the building.
British share of the Indemnity of The additional income which may Universities China Committee in form an
Towards the end of last year the a reasonable sum, sny £200,000, to endowment fund for be expected to Accrue to the
tenable iл Britain University from this contribution London sent a delegation of its scholarships
would not have very seriously has not yet been finally assigned to embers to China. The delegation
of consisted of Sir Reginald John-hampered the rehabilitation of the purposes Institution. In the course of lastston, Professor W. G. S. Adams waya in China and other produc- of Oxford, and Professor P. M.tive enterprises of the Government your the Hoards of the three Roxy of Liverpool. Str Reginald of Chinn for which over ten Faculties drew up schemes of Johnston and Professor Adams million pounds would still improvement and the Senate both visited Hongkong. The latter been avaliable. But it la vain to proved these schemes. But Council of the University decided ved at the University for several ponder what might have been. before
days and with able to find out for finally allotting
the
Last July the Universities of the additional income, which is not an himself not only what the Univer-British Empire met in Congress at
was actually doing in its
уда everwhelming amount, to have the
represented
nt at the Congress question of the provision which various departments, but also what Edinburgh. This University
it aspires to do. Professor Adams' which many the University should make for
Was a wing thing the teaching of Chinese thoroughly whit a great encouragement. sid. I can not refrain
in coa- What he will tell his colleagues onclusion from quoting-something of investigated. The investigation is now being undertaken by a special about us I do not know, but on one of the University of Aberdeen con-
the Universities China
Committee
tee what Lord Meston the Chancellor committee which was appointed by point I am sure he will insist and tributed to the conference:- the Court of the University. When
that is that if the British public
"Thero are certain things," adjusted against those of the other wish to increase the influence of
British educational Ideala in Chian, Lord Meston said, "essential University activities, then the scheme for assigning the whole of they can not begin even to move to the well-being of their peopics, Univer- the University's additional Income in that direction so long as those which he believed their will go before the court of the In authority in Britain peralat insities were doing, which ought to ignoring this Colony as one of the be done by their Universities and University.
centres from which this influence which could not systomatically be should radiate.
[dono except by their Universities.
the claims of Chinese have been
No Abolition of Chinese.
ly without
What Mission Sald,
no included
idealist
did
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Dispersal of Illusions. I hope that what I have just
of the And this brings me to the recent said will finally dispose
Paramount among those services absurd rumours recently afloat.British Economie Mission to the is to his mind the dispersal of that The Education Department Far East. This was a mission of illusions. It js the and the University were concocting hard-headed business men, Its nowadays for them to lecture ench a secret and vile cabal to hofish perunci
other on the unwisdom of keeping the teaching of Chinese from the University professors, no star- their Bonn and daughtera In schools and the University of the gazing educationalists, We ignorance of the mysteries of sex. Colony, A pieture of almost not invite the Mission to visit the Far more mysterious than sex is
University, but fu ating
many of its mind. Of horror was drawn-a
all its mysterion the own ne-trangeat is its greedy acceptance picture of the Director of Edura-members came of their tion and the Vice Chancellor band-card-some more than once. Well, of the impossible. It Ja this ed together to do evil, to sap the in their report the Commission breaking with Illusions which the very foundations of Chinese life, bave deplored the permeation of University spirit could ease and Disrael once said in the House of Modern China by American culture expedite.. ....First cousin to Commons that it is much easier as prejudicial to the interests of illusion is the catchword; and here to be critical thun correct." Any British trade in China. They have, also thoir Universities have way, I can assure those who have moreover, insisted that immediate fertile field of action. Catchwords
na esential been haunted by this dread, that steps should be taken to remedy seem to bo their fearful imaginings are entire this by increasing the number of popular digestion as certain mern- The Chinese students who pass from ing papers and patent medicines. foundation. University's School of Chinese China to Universitles, Technical Self-determination and self-expres Studies has been a fullure, there Institutes and workshops insion, democracy and bureauerney, is no gainsaying that. We have Britain, I have been asked what free trade and procection, nationa got to profit by the experience and the University of Hongkong, can laation and rationalisation--the to think out afresh how we can, do about it. It is a cheap rejoinder liet is endless; and nine men out always keeping the University's to say "wy told you so." but as of ten never give an Intelligent
one comiccted other activities in view, satisfy the fact if any
thought to their meaning. Their obligation that our ordinance im-thia University over ventured in the Universities could, and he believed poses upon us to make due provision course of the last seven years to that they alone could-insist in the. Faculty of Arts for the say what the Trade Mission has aniling all those phrases to the
Language and now proclaimed. he was *Lady of Chinese
either
counter and dissecting them, instead Literature. The University realizes ignored or snubbed. And yet a of pinning them on to banners and that for centuries Chinese social Liberal M.P. speaking in the marching after them in circles and political life has been built up House of Commons in 1924 in the
Yet another task on which of the debate
the he on the Chinese Classics and we course
would like to
their 800 sympathize whole-heartedly with Chinese Indemnity (Application) Universities active is the passing those who would regard it as BIR said
of certain insolvent conceptions serious blow to Chinese. National "We know perfectly well that in through the Bankruptcy Court, so character that this heritage should the past many of the large Ameri- that plain honest people would now be abandoned. But the en- can industrialiste, especially in refuse to give them further credit. thusiast for Chinese learning must the Engineering trade have been Spirituality is one of those, Are not forget the exigencies of modern in the habit of educating Chinese we not weary of hearing of "negro if China wants not only ad-in their universities......When we spirituals" and various cranks on and the ministrators but doctors, engineers, are asked to tender for certain their "spiritual homes" lawyers, and commercialists, able work, we invariably find that the "spiritual undercurrent" in some to do business with the world. Chinese engineers have drawn up strike cf butchars assistants? Don't make the yoke of Chinese the specifications in such a form Cheap enthusiasm and flabby study too heavy for the average as to render it impossible to get an emotions are not things of the hoy or girl to bear. If you do, you order and it has been drawn up to spirit....Another conception will produce a reaction which will send to the factory in which the which is continually being pros- sweep your treasured studies away engineer has been educated in tituted is idealism. The greatest - reaction which not even the America."
Hanlins who are now flocking to Hongkong will be able to stem, even in this Colony.
on
Need for Scholarships.
with
оп
enemy of the ideal to-day a Idealism--or what passes for it. It is the umbrella put up to shelter This University is in desperate all who cultivate the second-best, Chinese Studies School. need of scholarships which would loose in their thinking, shoddy in Lake its picked students to the their efforts, vague about their Before leaving this sahiret, Universities and workshops
A piece of goals.
of barefaced must mention the opening by Ifie Britain, but it has no endowed political intrigue is not rendered Excellency in September last of the scholarships, and no funds from respectable by being acclaimed as Tang Chi Ngong School of Chinese.which scholarships could be created, idealism."
how-
IL is an admirable building a Before the Boxer Indemnity wha My constant desire is that this worthy memorial of the generosity finally disposed of, the Government University will ever strive, of him who gave it. Just inside of Hongkong Implored. His ever narrow its scope, to do honest the door of the building the donor | Majesty's Government for a reason- work and to free the minds of its has had inscribed in Chinese andable sum for the creation of students from the tyranny of catch- English a legend to the effect that scholarships, but to no avall. The words, illusion and specfous Iden- the building is given to the Americans have at their annualliem. In so far as succeeds in University to enable it to fulfil its | disposal substantial Bums for this, the University Hongkong statutory obligation in the matter scholarships tenable in the United will be doing something to restore of Chinese teaching to which States, and these scholarships, China and the World to sanity. have just referred. Chinese studies which are handled by
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