Enclosure 2.
Extract from the "Bouth China Morning Post" of
the 8th April, 1922.
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Vice Chancellor's Speech. The Chancellor having declared the congregation open, the Vice-
mellor said:
Your Excellency, Ladies audi Gentlemen, We are assembled to- day, away from one usual meeting place, yet with most of our accus-, [amed geremonial, for the purpose
of conferring upon. H.R.H. Edward,, Prines of Wales, the honorary degree that he has graciously con sented to accept at our hands. In. thus consenting to the association of his name with this Univeraity, H.R.H is only continuing the tradi; tions of his house. His Majesty the King has already honoured us by: beoosing our patron, while the most prized of our entrance scholarships open to British, as contrasted with pure Chinese, subjects are the King Edward VII Scholarships.
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I need not dwell at length upon His Royal Highness qualifications to be added to the roll of our honor ary graduates-a roll which memorates signal services to the State, to humanity and to the canlı of education in very diverse part of the world and of which we a justly proud. To many in thi audience, and to some upon this plat form, H.R.H. is perhaps first and foremost an old comrade in arma: to all of us who owe allegiance to the British Crown he is the symbol, those bonds of Empire which, hot at home, in India and throng out! the dominions, he has done so buch to consolidate from thoir of ou students who, drawn from every quarter of China, have come as the guests of the Colony to profit by Western learning he is assured of respectful and more than 'keare welcome.
Among World's Varsities. Speaking as Vice-Chancellor of the Widowcally, a giỏo of EBERLacti
vities upon which I should like, të dwell is the interest he has showni in every type of University work, an interest which is evidenced by his presence here to-day. To do so would, however, mean being chal- lenged as to how far we, with our ten years' history, are entitled to take our place side by side with the Takersities of the Empire. Let de trecks admit that we make no claima to rank as yet with those ancient] foundations whose history is en- twined with that of the Empire itself and whose special privilege it is to combine a zeal for all new develop |monts of learning with respectful
revezence for all that is best in ther traditions of the past. And yet, I would venture to maintain that, rightly understood, our very begin." nings have a romance of their own. 1n Universities worthy of the name! one of their most enleran ceremon | ies is the annual commemoration of their benefactors, and, already, ows, list of benefactors suggests a com- non effort on the part of very dis parate elements which ought to be; full of inspiration for us.
If we uwe some half of our resources to), the liberality of the Colonial Gov- ernment, our main buildings are due to the generosity of a Parsee gentle- man who made his home and found fortune in Hongkong: the Taikoo benefactions stand for a group if Bri- tish firms who are playing an import- ant part in the development of the trade of China: the Loke Yow fund is evidence of a sense of obligationį b the part of a class of Chinesei who have found fortune abroad to- was an education by which they themelves have not been privileged. to benefit for our schools of Physi jology and Tropical Medicine, as well as for other generous gifts, we see indebted to the Ho family: while the original contribution of the Can-
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