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HONGKONG UNIVERSITY
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dowment was being run in a sound, In Absentia: economical and businesslike manner,
Kan Foi, Lai Ko-nin,
Scholarships
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and whether the most was being Khik-tjhiang, Kenneth Leung, Wu made of its public utility. Now it | Hok-ling. is because I have had doubts ex- pressed to me by responsible per- The scholarships awarded were: sons on both these points as regards
The Ng Li-hing Medical Scholar- this University, because also its ship: divided between S. Bard and present finances afford room for V. N. Vargassoff. considerable concern, and chiefly bc- The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming cause the Colonial Government is First Medical Scholarship: V. N. now contributing to them annually Vargassoff.
a sum of no less than three hundred The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming and fifty thousand dollars that I have Second Medical Scholarship for May decided, as Governor and with the 1936, Wu Hung-tak; For December, full approval of my Executive Coun- Cheng See-yan. cil, to appoint a small committee The Anderson with the following terms of re- 1936: Cheng See-yan. ference:
The Chan Kai-ming Engineering Scholarship: Chan Bing-hung.
Committee of Inquiry
I to investigate the present, and probable future, financial position of the Hongkong University and to advise whether any changes are desirable in its staffing, personnel, salary scales or organization;
Gold Medal
for
The Chan Kai-ming Arts Scholar- ship: Li Shi-yi.
The Great Hall was filled to capacity with invited guests and friends and relatives of those who were receiving degrees. Among II: to enquire and advise whether those present not on the dais were any such, or other, changes are de- Lady Caldecott, Captain W. J. R. sirable in the interest of its utility Cragg. A.D.C. to His Excellency, Mr. or prestige;
Secretary III: to tender any other advice or to His Excellency; H. E. H. J. Cruttwell, Private
Vice Ad- suggestions for the future of the miral Sir Charles Little, and Lady University.
Little, H. E. Maj.-Gen. A. W. Bar- tholomew and Mrs. Bartholomew; and Rear Admiral C. G. Sedgwick, grounds, the Band of the 2nd. Bat- While tea was being served in the talion, The East Lancashire Battalion, by kind permission of Major W. E
I have heard the suggestion made that we ought to get an expert out from home for this investigation, but I feel certain myself that our local conditions and circumstances are so peculiar to ourselves that the first thing at any rate, to do is to bring good, clear local brains to bear on the problem and to have their summing up of the position and their advice regarding it before we consider the expensive proposition of obtaining outside opinion which, however expert on the subject of University organization, would not be expert in regard to the special circumstances and requirements of the Far East.
The gentlemen who will be invited to serve on the Committee will be the Honourable Mr. N. L. Smith. Colonial Secretary. the Honourable Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. J. R. Mas- son and Mr. A. Morse, Honorary Treasurer of the University. The membership is small, because I do not believe in unwieldy committees, but the committee will take the
evidence of all who respond to its invitation or volunteer to appear before it. And this brings me to a very sad part of my address, for although the new year has only just begun, the long depressing shadow of an event that will mark its close already falls across this University. That event will be the departure on leave prior to his retirement of our Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell Of all who come forward to assist the Committee of which I have just
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Dowling and Officers, played selections. The programme included: "March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe", Sullivan.
"The Merry Widow", Lehar.
Selection from the Musical Play,
Valse, "Amorettan Tanze" Gung'l Entr'cte, "Humcresque", Dvorak, Selection, "Merrie England", Ger-
man,
SIR WILLIAM HORNELL
University Vice-Chancellor For 12 Years
Sir William Hornell, who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University since 1924, was formerly in the In- dien Educational Service.
A son
Hornell, Barrister-at-law of the In- of the late Mr. Robert
ner Temple, he was born in 1878 and educated at Radley School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts. In 1901 he entered
Service, and the following year was the Indian Educational
appointed Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. Transferred to Bengal, he rose there to be Director of Public Instruction. For some years was attached to spoken nobody will bring with him the Board of Education, Whitehall. a more specialistic knowledge, a wider educational experience, greater C.I.E., and administrative capacity, keener busi-Knight Bachelor. In 1933 he was ness acumen or a deeper concern for the interests of the University than Sir William.
In 1918 he was honoured with the in 1981 was created a
presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Law by the Hongkong University.
In his 12 years as Vice-Chancellor
For twelve years he has been building on its foundations and with- of the University, Sir William has.
its lay-out not any edifice of bricks and mortar but the lives and made himself extremely popular in by his genial personality and talents, careers of hundreds of young men the Colony, and has associated him- and women. He has confessed this self with many afternoon to a sense of frustration: He was largely instrumental in se- local organisations. and in that he testifies, in part, to
curing for the University a share the discontent that is called, and
in the Boxer Indemnity Fund. rightly called, divine. No good and true worker can ever rest satisfied with his work. But that our Vice- Chancellor has had a multitude difficulties and obstacles to contend against none will doubt.
of
Great Men's Gaps Nobody realises defects in founda- tion, in lay-out or in materials more than the master-builder, and the ap- pointment of my small committee will provide the opportunity for the master-builder to come forward and advise as an architectural consultant for the University's future.
Sir William has confessed also to a sense of isolation. So far as con- tact with the British Universities is at present lacking or ineffective I am bold to prophesy that, when he is back home, Sir William will per- sonally achieve for a proper and effectual liaison. He will be, I am confident, this University's apostle to England. But as regards the loss which his departure will spell for us in Hongkong I can find no words of comfort at all. It is, alas, prover- bial that great men leave great gaps. Sir William Hornell has been not only a great Vice-Chancellor but a very human one so that the gap which he leaves will be a gap not only in the list of Hongkong's dis- tinguished residents but in that in- most circle of public friends which the Colony has taken warmly and gratefully to its heart.
He ended his address to us this afternoon with the sad word "Good- bye"; I refuse now to anticipate our parting with him by returning that salutation but, at this, his last Con- gregation, and on behalf of all pre- sent, I will conclude my remarks by addressing to him two words, two simple little words which can never- theless be charged with all our in- finity of obligation, admiration and affection towards him--Thank you, Sir William.
The Graduates The following received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery:
Cheng See-yan, Miss C. Wong, Lee Hua-ngak, L. Gosano, Teng Pin- hui, Szeto Eng-kee, Ong Ewe-hin, Kho Pek-po, Kong Sau-yui, P. R. T. Naidu.
In Absentia:
Chau Woon-nin, Ng Yew-seng and Kandiah Nagalingam.
Degree of Bachelor of Science in ELquieering:
Chow Shiu-lim, Chua Keng-ju, Walter J. Citrin, Ho Chiap-chye, Hui Che-shing, Lim Chong-hin, Lu Sui-shing, Vadim Bonch-Osmolovsky, Ting Zeh, Wong Wan-kung Wong Yat-sing, Zea Yue-kur.
In Absentia:
Chang Chia-ning. Cho Tuck-choon, Alexis Ignatuis Napoloff, Shao Tsun, Adi Bejan Tata, Michael Constantin Yatskin.
Degree of Bachelor of Arts:
Chan Yoong-hin, Mrs. Kan Po- chi, Lee Kui-chee, Miss Li Sau-man, Mak Cheuk-hon, Goh Tiang-hin, Lau Kwok-ching, Leung Yau-cheung, Miss Li Wan-saan, Miss Josephine Wong Po Lin, Dachin Yih,
of Mr. E. B.
Sir William Hornell is a brother secretary in the Colony of the China C. Hornell, formerly
miral Robert A. Hornell. Sugar Refinery, and of Rear-Ad-