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ONG KONG UNIVERSITY

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1.- The University was ustablished in 1911 on the foundation

of a College of Medicine established in 1887 and in-

corporated in 1907. Manson and Cantley were the chief influ-

ences in these beginninga of medical education in the Colony.

The University remembers with some pride that one of the

early students of the incorporated College was Dr. Sun Yat

Sen, the maker of the Chinese Republic, who, in 1923, in a

speech at the University, referred to what in his education

for citizenship he owed to Hong Kong, and asked us to teach

young Chinese "to govern their cities as ours was governed,

to build their roads like curs, and to develop similar

health services "Such things, he added" are not learnt only

in classrooms, or only in practice, but in both" Between

1907 and 1910 a sun of about 1 million Hong Kong dollars

was raised for the endowment of a University.

Lugard (afterwards Lord Lugard) as Govenor, was interested and

took the initiativo in 1911 in the passing of a local

ordnance to establish a University to extend and broaden

the basis of higher cation in the Colony. But a wider conception was always lord Lugard's mind, namely that the University should be a centre which would grow

an influence "profoundly affecting a nation ukoring one

fourth of the population of the world, a medium for ti

Sir Frederick

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