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Richer The University was established in 1911 on the foundation 1. of a College of Medicine established in 1887 and in-
corporated in 1907. Menson and Cantley were the chief influ-
ences in these boginnings of medical education in the Cclory.
The University remembers with some pride that one of the
early students of the incorporated Collage 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 ours, 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 14 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
Sir Frederick
wider conception was always iù and Lugard's mind, num.3ly
that the University should be a centre
an influence "profoundly affecting a nation
which would grow
memberis
ring one
fourth of the population of the world, a modium for ti.