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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