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too and to having a Hostel to offer to a much larger number of women students who are beginning to realize the value of this corporate student life in a Hostel.
Our hopes and endeavours to secure a permanent Hostel suitable to our needs has had the most enthusiastic support of the Government of Hong Kong in the person of Mrs. Southorn, who, on October 29th called together a great meeting of Hong Kong residents to make our wants known to them.
In the course of a speech made at that meeting by Miss Royden, the value of Hostel life was emphasized. She said.
"The University age is the age at which people form the habit of making friends and gathering the power to work with other people. They learn to value people who are not personally congenial. The corporate life of a Hostel can alone teach these lessons. Hostel life therefore prepares students for public life, The continued discipline and education of living in close con- tact with other people is invaluable. Here in Hong Kong the students have the further advantage of learning to understand those of other nations also this is tremendously important in any public work.
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Collegiate life is more valuable for women even than for men, since men have later opportunities of learning to be public- spirited. That spirit can best be fostered by Hostel life. I plead
all to make the Hostel possible for these women.' you After the appeal, a strong representative Committee was formed and they are now at work collecting Funds for the erec- tion of the Hostel.
The whole women student body have also set themselves to work to help forward this their cause, and we trust that a Hostel worthy of the name will soon materialize for them.
Meanwhile they are taking as much share as is possible in the social activities of the University.
Our small Hostel does its part specially in forwarding any of the work of the H.K.U. Christian Association. In this con- nection we have taken our part with St. John's Hall and Morrison Hall in holding Sunday afternoon gatherings for Bible study and discussion of things vital to our Christian living.
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Practices for the Christmas Concert given in the Great Hall, were organized here under the kind direction of Mr. Mason.
In all of these gatherings the men and women students have throughout worked together in happy co-operation.
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Very little social service has yet been undertaken by the We hope that this spirit will grow as we become a stronger and more united body. At present a few volunteers are found to visit the Women's Prison on Sunday and to undertake one educational class there during the week. Others undertake the simple instruction of the servants of our own establishment.
We are very grateful for the encouragement which has been given to our sports in the loan of a piece of land in Robinson Road by Mr. Ho Wing Tsun.
There is room here for courts for net ball or tennis and we already find that resident and non-resident students are begin- ning to organize games here which are a real help in the growth of a corporate spirit.
We are glad this year to record the success of our Hostel students. Miss Florence Wong, who graduated in Arts has since returned to take up work in the Strait Settlements.
Another student was about to sit for her final Medical Examination when she was suddenly taken very seriously ill with blood poisoning and to the great grief of all her fellow students passed away in the French Hospital during the examination week. We should like here to add our small tribute of respect to the sweet memory of Miss Tso Shuk Kei.
Respected and beloved as Head Girl of St. Stephen's Girls College she was one to whom we women students feel we owe a special debt and gratitude, for it was she who first made the appeal from her own school platform that the University would open its doors to admit women to the privileges of attending lectures there.
She herself was one of the first to enter St. Stephen's Hall and to enjoy the privileges of a Medical student of the University of Hong Kong.
Her quiet dignity and unassuming leadership in the Hostel united with her care for all that was for the higher good of her
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