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lege and he came to us from the Yenching University where he was Professor of Chinese, Mr. Ma Kiam's reputation as a scholar and teacher stood high in Peiping.
The Chinese of Hong Kong and Malaya have contributed gener- ously to the Department of Chin- cse and the University having now in its service three first class scholars and teachers, is offering carefully considered courses in Chinese language and literature, history, and philosophy, English being an essential part in each course. Classes in Mandarin are also held.
This last development
is an important step, for it is be- coming more and more evident that graduates who have no Man- darin are left behind in the race for appointments-especially offi- The cial appointments in China. facilities are there. The Univer- sity cannot be blamed if students do not come to profit by them.
Mr. Archbutt went on leave last April. As Treasurer for nearly three years, Mr. Archbutt rendered the University service which it can repay with nothing but gratitude. On Mr. Archbutt's departure, Mr. Morse agreed to take
the up Treasurer's work, He too has done, and is doing, the Univer- sity service of inestimable value. Before such unselfish public spirit I bow by head in gratitude. Perhaps Mr. Archbutt and Mr. Morse have come to the same con- clusion as Job-"that in all labour there is profit".
On the 15th July Lady Calde- cott opened the Eu Tong Sen Gymnasium. This was Lady Calde- cott's first visit to the University. The Gymnasium has already been a great boon and its value will in- crease. There are, in the Univer- sity, both young men and young women who do not play games, and who are dangerously neglect- ing their physical development.
The gymnasium will be open every week-day afternoon after lecture hours and an instructor will be there. The University has one re- creation field and one only, and on this field athletic sports are held, and cricket, football, hockey and tennis are played. The pro- vision is scandalously inadequate and this makes the University all the more beholden to Mr. Eu Tong Sen for his Gymnasium, and to Mr. Sum Pak-ming who recently gave us a basket ball court. Is the frst basket ball court that the students have ever had. In the Eu Tong Sen Gymnasium there is also the finest covered basket ball court and badminton court in the Colony.
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Mention has already been made of the visit which the University's Professor of Physiology, Dr. Ride, made in 1931 and 1932 to Borneo in connexion with his genetic re- searches. In 1933 the University granted Professor Ride study leave, and the Rockefeller Foundation asked him to tour America and to report on the present study of genetics and heredity with special reference to their application to problems of human physiology and pathology. The thesis which Pro- fessor Ride wrote has been ac- cepted by the University of Ox- ford and, in the language of that ancient institution, he may now supplicate for the University's de- gree of Doctor of Medicine.
In 1927 there were 292 students on the University's roll. On the enrolment 21st October 1936 the
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412-139 In the Faculty of Medicine; 133 in the Faculty of Engineering, and 140 in the Faculty of Arts. Three hundred and forty eight of these students were Chin-
ese.
In 1921 there was one WO- man undergraduate; to-day there are 76. I have once again to pay to the students my grateful tri-
bute for their loyalty, their dis- cipline, and for the goodfellowship which prevails not only among themselves but between them and their teachers. The cynical might learn much from a visit to the night school which is conducted
by the students.
In the Boxer Indemnity Scholar- ship Examination held early last year two of our graduates ap- peared, and each won a scholar- ship. Miss Lai Po-kan came first in a competitive examination in Chinese and English Philology, and she is now reading at Oxford for the honours school of English language and literature. Forty- five candidates sat for the scholarship examination. The other winner was Dr. Woo Kai- fun; his subject being pathology. He is now working in London. The Boxer Scholarship Examination was first held in 1934. Our record is four competitors and four win-
ners.
Dr. H. C. Ku who won a Boxer Scholarship in 1934, has been elected a Fellow of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Lee Hah Liong and Dr. Lim Gim Kheang (medical
of graduates ours) have gained respectively the London Diploma in Child Health and the London Diploma of Tro- pical Medicine and Health. Miss Irene Ho Tung has secured the London University Doctorate in Philosophy. Mr. Donald Anderson now holds the London University degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. S. B. Ahmed and Mr. Eric Wong Tape have both qualified to be Associate members of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the former be- ing the top of the list of those who were successful at the ex- amination qualifying for member- ship. Mr. Gan Kee-poon has been awarded the Diploma of the Im- perial College, London, Mr. W. J. C. Fletcher has won the Parsons
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Memorial Prize a prize awarded to the best apprentice by Messrs. C. A. Parsons and Co. Ltd.. New-
in castle-on-Tyne, whose works Mr. Fletcher is working as an ap- prentice. Six of our engineering graduates have been recently en- gaged by the Government of China for survey work on the Canton Mui Tsian Railway. They are now working on the survey.
In January 1936 the University heard from the Executive Yuan of the Government of China, that graduates of the University of Hong Kong were eligible to ap- pear at the Higher Civil Service Examinations. Mr. Sung Hang- chee (one of our graduates) has since passed the Examination with 2nd Class Honours and is thus qualified for an appointment.
Unless
something unforeseen happens, this will be my last Con- gregation. Looking back over my Vice-Chancellorship I am con- scious of a sense of frustration. I suspect that every head of a Uni- versity, College or School becomes, when his time is up, painfully
aware of the contrast between the little done and the undone vast. But here there are so many do- minating factors,
so many in- fluences vital to the very life of the University, over which one seems to have no control.
Behind the Universities of Europe lie centuries of tradition and of political and social ex- perience. The Universities of
America have their foundations in certain ideals which are gen- erally accepted throughout the United States-ideals which have prompted American Universities and American University men not only to start Universities in China but also to maintain them and to keep alive the contact between the mother institutions in America and their children in China, I have many personal friends in
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