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THE HAPPY VALLEY..

LOCAL, AND GENERAL.

BATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919.

UNIVERSITY,

THE HONGKONG

Today's dollar is worth 36 7/16d

situated in the tropics it is natural that the study of tropical medi- cine should form an important part of the course lajd down. The depart. ment for the study of tropical medi- cine has been given to us by Mr. Ho Kom Tong who has shown great His Excellency the Governor, the been advisable to combine tropical interest in tropical work. It has

OPENING OF NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL

Some readers of the China Mair tribe to nation, we can see the who live in the vicinity of the Happy "herds" increasing as intelligence and Valley have asked us to ventilate a the "herd instinct" strengthened and grievance they have. We are in- waxed. Reason for an approxima-formed that when parts of the Happy It is understood that the new combinations which we called a various clubs, a fair-sized piece about 14,000 tons gross, built for the Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, CIM.G., yes- medicine and pathology in one build- tion thereto) gave us these bigger Valley were originally lent to the German steamer si, a vessel of ances, bunds ententes. It is reason separated the Craigengover and Kosmos Line, will be transferred to for a closer approximation, thereto Police clubs. On this children used the Dutch flag to replace a torpedoed which gives us the biggest yer, the to play and so were close at hand steamer." League of Nations.

and under the parents eyes. This suited the nearby residents very well, Granted the phenomenon of

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The anti-Japanese plot engineered

te y formally declared open the ing as the subjects are akin anulid new Medical Schools of the Hongkong addition, we have now added the University, comprising schools for medical library which will enable the study of Anatomy, Physiology, students to conduct their studies Pathology and Tropical Medicine more efficiently. It is within these

irational complexion) and that it is creased in number and the roads now expanding. They were said to which included H.R.H. Prince Yugula logy,physiology and tropical medicine *herd instinct" (now patting on a Oi recent years motorcars have in- by the Chinese students in Tokyo is There was a large gathering present four buildings-for, anatomy, patho- unhelpful to sneer at it and fochish around the Valley afford a suitable be intending to take the Chinese of Siam and his Suite, Major General that we are prepared to carry on to ignore it, what use can we make place for joy riding which is being Legation at Tokyo by storm. In Ventris, the Lord,Bishop Pozzoni, study and Investigation in such a of it? Without meaning to do They don't want their children to be politan Police despatched more than Melbourne, the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, and provide students with a ground abused. This makes parents nervous. order to guard against it the Metro Sir William Rees-Davies, Mr. Justice manner that we can hold our own Mr. Brock gives us a pointer, when in the roadway. To get the children two hundred policemen to guard the CM.G., the Hon. Mr. E R. Hallifax, work and a qualifying standard as he reminds us that. hatred comes more readily than love. Pity tis, to the green now meaas going Legation.

the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pas, the Hon. good as anything that can be obtain- 'tis true. As a spiritual excitement. long way round by the Civil Service

Mr. Ho Fook, Dr. T. W. Pearce,ed anywhere. (Applause.) hatred moves us more easily and or in the opposite direction to get to.

The X. C. C. Golf Section are Major G. D. R. Black, Mr. R. Pon- more surely than love. If, as hea place on the Valley within a yard holding the following competitionssonby Fane, Dr. J. T. Smalley, Mr.

HIS EXCELLENCY'S SPEECH. says, the art of life is fellowship, we rwo of where they started. Auto-day. Empire Day: This morning J. M. Wong, Mr. W. L. Leask, Mr.C. His Excellency the Governor said: our real selves-do not hunger and entrance" between the Police and there was a Tombstone. Competition. Thorne, the Rev. W. T. Featherstone, buildings which, as you have heard I have already formally opened these The winner is the player who, with: Professors Bogey 76 plus his handicap, has gone Warren, and Messrs. F. A. Redmond, Earle, Wright and his final stroke lies nearest the hole Tre, Chan Kai Ming, Ho Leang and Ho Fook, Mr. Ng Ling Hing, Mr. from Dr. Jordan, have been pro- the farthest round thecourse and with K. Erayshay, Ha Kom Tong. Ng Hon vided through the generosity of Mr. he played for. A second prize will Ho Kwong, also a large rumber of Tong. We have three of the donors also be presented, and a third prize the students of the University.

Chan Kal Ming and Mr. Ho Kom will be presented to the "player who an unknown spot.

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Craigengower clubs is what they would like. with this is also brought to our Another matter closely connected

notice.

At the Northern end of the Valley here is a difficulty in walking about without trespassing on one club dies." nearest

Dr. Jordan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, who live in Hongkong present

ago there was much more space with a tombstone which must te before them was the gift of a Chinese how well their donations have been round or another. A few years (N. B. Each player will be provided in inviting. H. E to declare the build here to-day and they must be very ings open, said that the building now well satisfied when they gee since then the clubs seem to have as soon as he has completed some words later, as he did not pro the donors and the purpose for which available for the general public. placed by him with his name affixed gentleman of whom he would say the building record the names of expended. The tablets in front of

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of his opponent to defeat him. It is together. The Germans, who knowfluences of the upward fungoid

perhaps excusable in certain minds. like that of the late Mark Twain, who thought human nature was cop temptible and past saving, to speak of the 'berd instinct' HILBORNE-On May 13.

of despair and scorn; but that, in the Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. 1 American idiom, cuts no ice."" H. Hitbone, a daughter.

it "butters no parsnips," and it In our own slang, past and present, does abt buy the baby a new frock."

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LOAM, 0 May 16. et Shanghai Stupid in such a thoughtful writer. į and that its basis of hate figures anxious about the future. Really,

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thirst for it. Rationally we see its desirability, but we are still so much mere animals that we have no in stinctive craving for it. Every honest man, searching his own heart deeply, knows that, so far from "loving his enemies". he finds it bard really to love his friends. The make him a Socialist or a Bolshevist instinct of pity and compassion may or a philanthropist, but at bottom he finds he does not love the proletariat. or the negro, or the half-caste, or reclaimed so much further space allowed number of strokes.) This

his tell that there is hardly anywhere left afternoon there will be a four ball pose to keep the gathering out in the the building is intended. I consider whatever group of

for the public to walk. One club's Competition for Spoons. A supper to accept at his hands the silver key formed this ceremony because E.

open much longer, he would ask HE may be that he IS

patch extends to the neighbouring will be given in the Club House at provided by the architects Messes think I am right in saying these are a great privilege to have per- compassionating. He does not yearn. toward them. Expressed club's, in practice even if not on the 815 am.. after which a musical Leigh and Orange. in terms of nationality, dres the EngW.D. plan, so that there is only programme will be rendered. lishman love his Allies? Are they the footrat eross the Valley and a

H. E. having opened the door of the first buildings that have bee not still, and after all, foreigners, for courtyards around the football

Consemble indignation has been of Tropical Medicine, all those the inauguration of the original the building dedicated to the study opened with any ceremony since whom he finds he retains an instine ground left for the public.

neused at home by the revelation present entered the hall where Dr. That is the way the position may in the Daily News that Mrs. Com Jordan, addressing the gathering March 1912 buildings of tive aversion, slight, it may be, and

the University in repressed by reasor, but there all the be regarded from that point of well the mother of Jack Travers said Your Royal Highness, Your has been done without any great Since then much same? We put it to you. Seirch Tiew.

Conwell, the boy hero of Jutland, Excellency, My Lord Bishop and publicity. In the buildings there are your hearts, you patriotic nationals,

From another, that of the Club was compelled to work 12 hours a gentlemen,-The Medical Schools of three large hostels: quarters for the in the spirit of truth, and tell us, if committees who have done so much day, and was receiving only 10%, a this University may be stated to teaching staff, and a ballding to you dare, that you find love for other love-labour in beautifying the place,week out of the huge sus collected have nationals Instinct is stronger than there is this to be said.

had The parents by the Navy League in the name the University itself. This pro and Common Room is now ap- their origin before house the University Union Society reason. You cannot do it. Faithful want to cast an eye on their children is introspection demonstrates the "herd occasionally, to see that they are by the Navy League says the paradoxical but in the year 1887 a which will be carried on in these A statementbably sounds to you as somewhat proaching completion. The studies instinct, even in the trained and safe. Some of us are parents, and committee of cultured rationalist. How then ex-

we can understand and sympathise.priating $500 for Ars. Cornwell's the Hongkong College of Medicine course of the medical faculty but I se fund, in appro- small body of men calling themselves buildings are an essential part of the plain the undoubted, the very warm

But are they as keen to keep an eye benefit during her life, did so alter for Chinese first theoretically opened would like to make special reference and genuine cameraderie of the Allies? on their children to see that they do she had been personally cenated, its doors. I say theoretically, Your to the School of Tropical Medicine. What united them? Innocently has mischief? If it were not for and had herself agreed that the pro- Excellency, because we had no doors The Pro Vice Chanceller. has a ready Mr. Brock led us to the revelation. that, every Club might throw its vs made was adequate for her to open in those days, but through drawn attention to the fact that our It was hatred. We could not have premises open to the children during needs. At that time Mrs. Com the favour of the Government at the latest Honorary Doctor in this loved our Allies so well, had we not play hours. hated the enemy more. The knitting.

well's husband was living. The cost time and especially His Excellency, University, Sir Patrick Marsen, may power of the

herd instinct" was

fof living was not so high as it now, Sir Henry May, our late Governor, be considered the

Of fear, which is the father and

and as an inlication of the already we were enabled to carry on certain tropical medicine. He and Sir Ronald mother of all hatred. We feared.

changed spirit of the Navy League, Anatomical directions in the public Ross and others during the fast the Germans as primitive man feared

Mr. P. J. Hannon, late secretary of mortuary or unclaimed bodies.quarter of a century have made this wild beasts, and for precisely similar

The fund, says, "Personally, I feel About this time the first donation for study one of immense importance to This unkind nickname for Mr. very strongly reasons. They were a menace to all Asquith is the China Mail's, and would be fully provided for out of Tsang Chak Ki' presenting the Colletrators or as medical men to live in that Mrs. Crenwelt medical purposes was made, Mr. all those who have either as adminis we valued. We hated, because that strictly copyright. Poor, dear old the Navy League Overseas Relief ge of Medicine with $10,000 which the tropical parts of the Empire and to practical political use,

is the natural emotion which accom- gentleman. learned in law, exper-Fund, and I shall be prepared to sup- helped towards the provision of a

be responsible for its health. I have exponent of judo atilises the strengthpanies the job of self preservation fenced in the party game, but unable pert this proposition if she desires to School of Anatomy. Later on came

been in the Malay Peninsula for Our common hared

drew us to anticipate the disintegrating in- take advantage yet." something of psychology, found a thrust beneath his moral pavement,

a large donation from the late Mr.

many years, and have seen the steady" useful tool in their notorious "Hymn he is now a rather pathetic Voice in

Ng Lai Hing who provided the Progress which was made by those wherewithal for the establishment of who studied the subject in the schools of Hate." Lashing ourselves into the Wilderness. He who advised us the necessary

the School of Anatomy. This school of London and Liverpool and so fury,

of Anatomy eventually developed important did it become that the lest in terms forget "a ralve admission that but apparently has not seen, or he we to wait and see," himself waited

and is now part of one of the Government insisted on every medical when the menace is past it is unna would not have put forth that lame tekere without the acquiescence of scheme

Furying quantity of lottery buildings here. Then the greater officer undergoing a course of study tural to hate-we dwelt on

one of University

these schools wher our earlier cablegrams. He did not The accused stoutly denied that the University was incorporated in 1911 on one condition of engagement argument at Newcastle reported in the Government cost a Chinese $210 came up, and, as is well known, the he went on leave. It was sine qur deceive the country when he said tickets were in his possession. Well and truly has Mr. Brock there was no shortage ot munitions, To deny its existence as Mr. Brock convinced us, albeit unintentionally. Fecause he was

and absorbed the Hongkong College that any new medical man should be does is unscientific and surprisingly that the "herd instinct" is very real. his statement to the past: he was

of Medicine together with the Ng proficient in the study of tropical carefully limiting

Lai Hing School of Anatomy which medicine and public health. As a had been completed in 1913 and result, whole districts which were "A nation is not a herd... Bit a League of Herds and you see the than love. Instinctively the average this aggravating speech would have Call larger in our present state of culture were he not old and broken

formed one half of the building which extremely malarious have become, if absurdity of the proposition." Really man knows this. It is what he to be described as impudent. Am Pad, a

Is opened today. Shortly after the not health resorts, as healthy as any

forensic practice. We are partial to cannot see anything practical in this Possession of it to day does not mean The bag contained

Carrying a bag along Queen's University was opened, it was appar part of the state simply through the this is worthy the higher flights of means when he tells us that he munition in war time is like money.anished was capture by

Chinese who had been fent that there was insuficient pro- constant and well directed efforts of the reductio ad absurdum in logic. League of Nations, in "turning the solvency tomorrow, if expenditure housebreaking tools.

Jukong. vision for the study of the many the medical men. The treatment of frequently

a good set of subjects necessary in a Medical Cur malaria. beri-beri, beypanosomiasis- columns, and believe it useful; but because he "knows human nature."

attempt it useful, but other cheek," and similar ideals, continues. Its effect the country at the Blagindrucy his repente was was Physiology. In the one room mortality, has made vast progress Testaring at riculum. Prominent amongst these and such diseases which cause great the only thing Mr. Brock therein reduces to absurdity is his own pre to found the League on foundations tion to carry on? He tells us now

asked Mr. Asquith if he were solvent, nine months. He understands that we propose meaning was there enough ammuni-

that was allotted to Physiology, it during the last ten years and has was impossible for the Professors resulted in the saving of an immense tension as a scientific critic. Let us of reason and love, and because he that he doubted it, and was anxious. see how he proceeds. "The herd realizes that "herd instinct" and We know that he told us

on efficient teaching in number of lives: It is not surprising is a primitive, unwilled"human nature" are more prone to

experimental or chemical physiology that this University of Hongkong has- there was

and as for research work, it was established 2 School of Tropical thing, a survival from the past." So unreason and hatred, he

no shortage", which, after his New-

hopelessly out of the question. Medicine. far, quite correct. We accept the aloof, even scornful.

sceptical, castle admission, was a suggestio falsi. Snatching a gold car-pick from Graduates from the Home Univer- It is hardly possible, however, I premise. "But a nation is a

That is the accursed way of the woman in Jubilee, Street was an un-sities passing through the Colony understand. for students in the Medi- Here is our chance. Let us find a clever, party trickster and wily fortunate job for the snatcher. The sneered at the building as totally cal Faculty, in the midst of all other willed thing, and there is always common hatred, a universal hatred, official. They make answers which, victim, a Shanghai woman, turned inadequate. implied in it the ideal, not of the and found our League of Herds in their view, are strictly in accor on him and succeeded in having in from the Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, to make such a study of tropical herd, which is no ideal at all, but for a structure of hatred.

gift subjects which they have to acquire. rather of the orchestra... What result will be the

The dance with the facts, well knowing arrested. Mr. Lindell apo the who presented $50,000 towards medicine as will thoroughly fit them makes it is a common purpose, not a of fighting each other, let man to Afterwards they can remind us that the same number of strokes with the Physiology (Applause). In that encounter when they go into China stead that we will get the false impression. substantial septance of 12 months, the building of the School for to deal with the problems they may eommon origin. It is this purpose man the wide world over recognize they were strictly truthful, because birch, and four hours' stocks. A Clutton Brock has written for

that turns tribes into they are Allies, with one enemy. their statements were the Manchester Guardian's special is "begging the question," taking us such a brief while alone. Pain tion. Mr. Asquith has got his, and nations." Here is assumption, here Death is our common enemy, leaving limited." The end of that is destruc- carefully League of Nations number an article for granted far too much, a distinct and sorrow are our common enemies; if it be any satisfaction to him, he which seems to us to be quite wrong example of the petitio principi. On let the menace of pain and sorrow may be sure that if he can in detail and yet queerly helpful in its the point of demanding what nation bring us together. Realizing that we and see" he will see others getting general effect. "The chief obstacles" he can adduce which came into are all exposed to attack, let the to a successful League of Nations; he purpose, we read a little further and ally. Let us hate. As we cannot

existence as the result of a willed "herd instinct" operate now univers. theirs, says in opening. are in the human find it unnecessary. He himself hate an abstraction, we must find a mind." This thought was ours the admits that the purpose is "supra- name for it. Let us postulate a other day when we quoted General ourselves nations we flatter ourselves, which all we frati humans find our

conscious," and that when we call Thing responsible for the tangle in ADMIRALTY'S HUGE OIL Smuts and emphasised the importance and what hinders the League of selves, and unitedly hate It. Omar of the trend of the daily talk of the Nations is the fact that there are not decided to make game of that people. The influence of a casual yet nations to compose it."

That which makes as much of me," but an admission in terms that we must go further. It sends us remark may spread like circular the so-called nations are herds, pain, sorrow, stame, death; let us voir at Rosyth for the storage of oil was remanded. ripples on a sheet of water. may which means that the "herd instinct hate it. So will we be Allies all, in fuel for his Majesty's ship in the accumulate public opinion, favourable he denied is not a myth, and not the United States of the World.

versity and to the public health of congregation. In January. In the the Colony. In him the University course of that speech he said: "In or unfavourable, on the snowball jargon. Thinking "at the pen's

Firth of Forth has recently been Observe please, not only that the completed by the Admiralty. The point," as is the too common way of thing can be done, but that it is reservoir is built of concrete: on a

had the most conscientious and the my humble opinion the University writers, instead of meditating con being done, sectionally. The pro- rock foundation, the site being the

most enthusiastic teacher in his sub should not and should never be to have been different when he centratedly, and then ordering his letariat is cultivating a hatred of bed of the sandstone quarry known bars was ass before Mr. Lind. that with the increase of the to crown his labour by opening the ject, and he enabled us to lay the in want of the necessary: funds."" wrote that telling phrase. He quite thoughts, he has succumbed to a Capital, which is foolish, but has as Howe Cove, from which stone was

foundatio of this Pathology Museum. Since the day now seven years ago The case against two armed robit, however, soon became apparent when Sir Frederick Lugard was able erroneously, it seems to us, quarrels

distressing attack of logorrhea. Calling a

a wonderfully binding force. The quarried for the purpose of building with the phrase "herd instinct" aa eminently respectable origin" jargon, and are hanging together for ought crete as a material of construction uaked Hf there was a cubicle to let services of a wholetimę man was have come forward, but so great his well-found phrase of Bolsheviks are hating the bourgeoisie, the new dockyard. The use of con related that the robbers knocked and of the subject of Pathology the Colony many generous benefactors

nell yesterday.

A Chinesa xenan students and with the importance University just before he left the "scientific jargon." "It sounds like he has himself jargonized. This is to hang?) on the strength of it. By for oil reservoirs of large size is a A woman die the ingooting and then required and professor science," he says, "but it is really a pity, because A. Clutton Brock is virtue of hating foreigners, the novelty, and the concrete deposited culled up her uccomplices. The rob have such a Professor out from are the prospects of the futurethane Boon to been the progress made and so bright. satire." It all depends who employs 3 the phrase. We are aware of the during recent years, in a wilderness Someone whom all men may hate, yards. The total amount of rock a shot was fired at the witness carry out all the requirements for has ever been. I hope to have an rame that has earned respect nations are knitted. We must find amounted to about 98,500 cubic here had revolvers and doggers and Home. Then we shall be able to need of help is greater now than it existence of the political Pharisee of wild and woolly journalese. who scores the mob and uses the So far are we from being repelled to hate, and thus bring the human struction of the tre sections of the scceed her clothes. $80 in notes students will be enabled to prepare in detail a list of our requirements someone we may teach our children excavation carried out in the con- The bullet went dose enough to teaching practical pathology and the opportunity before long of submitting expression to superior and aloof, is not as other absurdum, we are quite willing to sign be our commos mortality, our cubic yards. The combined capacity

indicate that he, by his attempt at the reductio ad race into one Order. Let our Masonic reservoir was upwards of 300,000 were stolen and then the robbers left, their subjects in this museum. Such but I feel it is not out of place, men are. But we are also aware of speak of a League of Human Herds. secret grip our common hatred. Let of the two sections is about 60,000,000 accused wore picked out as two of the generosity of another Chinese open these buildings, to state as Further evidence disclosed that a course has been made possible by when we are met here to-day to the existence of the scientific thinker so long as it clarifies exposition us give. It a name. Is it because we gallons, and the area occupied by the the robbers at an identification gentleman, Mr. Chan Kai Ming, who briefly as possible what the present who sees the "herd instinct as a Atkinson's vivid picture of primal man don't believe in the Devil that we reservoir and surrounding spadway, perude at No. 2 Police Station. At has given a donation of $50,000 position is. As regards buildings, "factor not to be ignored, and who in will do for a starting point. Bigger tolerate war? If so, let us believe pipe truck, &c. is 114 acres, the roof this stage the case was raranded for the building of the School the hostels are barely sufficient for. more than one way may try to put it human combinations thereafter are and hate.

-area being 7 1-3 acres,

till Monday.

Eliza, widow of the late W. Iourn, 1. 31, Castors, age

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Julin Hays, solicitor, only on of Canon John Hays, of Saven by, Lincolnshire, aged 40 years,

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building, sir, we shall be suff or other parts of the world. It is ciently equipped with all the requires therefore the hops of the University ments of experimental and chemical authorities that all graduates in the physiology and can also prepare for Medical Faculty who can see their research work. I am also assured way to do so will puc in a post- the Magistracy yesterday, four C'hi full equipment arrives from Home, may complete their studies in tropical Before Mr. R. 0. Hutchison at by Professor Earle that when the graduate course in order that they

Dese, one man and three women, the School of Physiology will be medicine. (Applause). I hope minge were indicted for kidnapping two second to none anywhere. (Applause), students will do that. Before I children. The children were "taken In the teaching of Pathology; both close I wish to say a few words on while the mother was at work, She before and after the University the needs of the University. I think informed the Police as soon us her was established, we had the most this is a suitable occasion to do so. low was discovered. The Police af-invaluable services of the late Dr. but I am only going to deal with the rested all four at different places.MacFarlane. His unfortunate and subject briefly because I hope later It was discovered also that the child. untimely end, I have no hesitation on to have an opportunity of going ren had been sold at Canton and had in saying, has left a great gap the into the matter in detail. You all realised over $100. The chikken Colony with regard not only to the remember the notable speech de The construction of a large reser have not been found yet. The case Government, but also to the Unilivered by Dr. Lim Boon Keng at the

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of Pathology. In

University (Continued on Page 3.).