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BOXER INDEMNITY
Hong Kong University.
The sum of £265,000 is to be paid from the China Indemnity Fund to the University of Hong Kong.
The University of Hong Kong is a comparatively recent foundation, its doors having been opened in 1912. It has, however, already firmly established itself as one of the most useful educational institutions in the Colonial Empire and today there are more than three hundred students, men and women, on its rolls.
The Colonial Ordinance under which the
University is incorporated declared its objects to be "the promotion of Art, Science and Learning, the pro- vision of higher education, the conferring of degrees, the development and formation of the character of
students of all races, nationalities and creeds, and the maintenance of good understanding with the neigh- bouring country of China". The idea behind the new
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foundation was that the West has more than its trade
to take to China and that in Hong Kong there was a very special opportunity of making a valuable contribution
towards the renaissance of the Chinese people. the last generation there had been a rapidly increasing
demand for Western education: Chinese students in their
thousands had flocked to the universities of the United
States and other foreign countries. Students were
plunged into a strange atmosphere and new surroundings,
cut off from the traditions of their own nation; and it
is no disparagement of these universities to say that
the results were not always wholesome. In Hong Kong,
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