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VICE-CHANCELLOR HONOURED.

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION'S GENEROSITY.

He

NEW VICE-CHANCELLOR INSTALLED.

The fourteenth congregation of rehearse what Sir Charles Eliot the University of Hongkong held and Sir Willian! Brunyate are and yesterday afternoon, was a unique have done, is to fill myself with occasion in that there were present profound humility. Such were all three Vice-Chancellors who they, this am I. There were giants have held office the Rt. Hon. on earth in those days. Sir Charles Ellot G.C.M.G., the University's arst Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Brunyate K.C.MG who has just relinquished the Office, and Mr. W. W. Homell CLE. who has just been appointed. In recognition of their valuable services both of the former Vice- Chancellors were given the hon- orary degree of Doctor of Laws, the proceedings being marked by great enthusiasm.

mere acceptance

to that result; Sir William has visited many places in China as the University's representauve.

groat

Sir William Brunyate's is record of service and devotion, How great, no one' is in a better position to appreciate than is he who has been called upon to follow In his footsteps,

India and China.

this is an inaugural address. The best years of my life have been spent in India and I have an aching

Here I would faln have done.but

The

feeling Is as complex as the aspirations which it engenders are educated Indian what he wants, manifold and vague.. Ask the he cannot tell

you. But he

as an Indian and morbidly anxious is acutely sensitive of his prestige that India should play a dignified part on the stage of the civilized abiding product of a nation's past, world. But national character is an

of evolution, not of sudden trans and national progress is a process formation. To many a Britisher who has given his life to serve India the last twenty years has brought disillusion. One lesson at least I have learnt, and that is that an imported educational system cannot bear fruit, unless it be grafted onto the national traditions of the country to which it is brought. (Applause).

heart breaking land. The India to love for that wonderful, though Sir Charles Eliot was a scholar which I came in 1902 as a boy straight from, Oxford was a very of Balliol College, Oxford.

different place from the India won the Hertford, Boden, Ireland, which I left last month. During Craven and Derby Scholarships. the University Prize for Syriac and those twenty years has spread a fellowship at Trinity College of, India's population of over throughout almost every strata Oxford. He served in His Imperial 200 millions an intense feeling Majesty's Diplomatic Service in of national consciousness. Russia, Turkey, Morocco, Bulgaria, Serbia, the United States of America and East Africa. In 1905 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor The new Vice-Chancellor, during to the University of Sheffield. In the course of his inaugural address, 1912 he came to this University as made the announcement, which its first Vice-Chancellor, and here was received with loud applause, he remained until 1918, when he that the Rockefeller Foundation was called away to be His Majesty's had made a further gift of a quarter High Commissioner in Siberia. Sir of a million dollars for the endow Charles Eliot is not merely a great ment of a University Chair in scholar and a great linguist. He Surgery and a Chair in Medicine.

is also eminent in the mysterious There was a large gathering field of Marine Biology. His ver present when the procession enter-satility is as astonishing as the ed the Great Hall of the University. range and depth of his knowledge Included in the procession were is prodigious. Sir Charles Eliot's the following:

of the first His Excellency The Chancellor:versity was a guarantee to the Vice-Chancellorship of this Uni- The Mace Bearer.

world that the Hongkong were in earnest.

Government of The eyes of the learned world were turned to the new born Uni- versity. It is early yet to write the history of the University. When it comes to be written, the debt which the University owes to Sir Charles Eliot will stand out for all to see. That the University of Hongkong recognise this debt is evident from their de- to be more capable of assimilating own wonderful heritage and thus cision to confer their honorary what it must learn from the West. degree Mr.which was come

upon him, a decision I shall be surprised, for example, if to in 1919.I find that the education of Chinese (Applause).

Sir Williams's Ach'evement.

girls-a development which has began and which is an essential The scene of Sir William condition of any genuine progress Brunyate's brilliant University-is accompanied with the same career was Trinity College, Cam-social, and domestic difficulties bridge. He took a double first in which beset this innovation in Mathematics and the Smith's India. Heaven forbid that. I, who Prize. He was President of the have been a few days only in Union and subsequently a Fellow China, should dogmatize about of his College. For twenty years these maters; I have tried to under- he worked in Egypt where he was stand the Indians with whom I was. successively Legal, Judicial and brought into contact and I do want Financial Adviser. During the to try and understand the people great war he was twice mentioned whose sons and daughters, will

H. E. Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Eliot, G.C.M G., Sir William Bru- yate, K.C.M.G.

The Vice-Chancellor Designate, The Treasurer.

The Dean, Medical Faculty, The Dean, Engineering Faculty.

The Dean, Aris Faculty, The Registrar Sir John Fowler, His Honour Sir William Rees Davies.

Rt. Reverend Bishop of Victorla, Hon. Sir Claud Severn.

Hon Mr. J. H Kemp, Hon. C. McL. Messer.

Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood.

Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen.

Hon. Mr-B. A Irving, Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak.

Hon. Mr. Chow Shou-son, Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang.

Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe, Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall.

Dr. C. W. McKenny, Mr. G. T. Edkins.

Mr. C. Montague Ede, Rev. T. W. Pearce.

Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. Chau Siu-ki Dr. S. W. To, Mr Ho Kom-tong Mr Ho. Kwong, Mr. H. B. Dowbiggin.

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The last 20 years have seen even the Chinese character survives. In a greater upheaval in China, but spite of the tremendous traditions of India, the Chinese mind seems to hold more securely than does the Indian to what is abling in its

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in despatches. (Applause). Sir come to the University, to realise William Brunyate was appointed what they feel, what they hope and L.Vice-Chancellor of this Univer what they dread (Applause).

sity in 1921 after an interregnum

years. The of 3

task be convinced, and that is that the fore the new Vice-Chancellor University of Hongkong is an in- was not an casy one. On strument fraught with immense August 31 1920 the financial post-possibilities for good. tion of the University, as stated by the Commission which Govern

Dr. R. M Gibson, Mr. M. P. Talati.

Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Mr. J. R. Wood.

Mr. Mok Kon-sang, Mr. Fung Ping-shan.

Professor H. G. Earle, Professor

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Professor C. Y. Wang, Professor R.K. M. Simpson..

Professor M. H. Roffey, Pro- fessor J. L. Shellshear.

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Educational Statesmanship. Mr. H. A. L. Fisher recently ment had found it necessary to published an article on Education appoint, was that there was a de- and the Empire, at the end of ficit for the year on working which he set out the four most account of $145,000, an accrued important tasks which now, as it over-draft at the Bank of about seems to him, confront the educa $500,000 and an accrued deficit of tional statemanship of the British $70,000

an eadowment

Empire. One of these tasks is the sinking fund. Government had come to the rescue with generous in the Universities of Canada. strengthening of the Art Faculties grants, but the recovery of the University's financial posi- so necessary? The answer is that Why in particular, he asks, is this. tion is possibly the outstanding Canada is a country which may feature of Sir William Brunyate's in time hoid more than fifty million tenure of office. (Cheers). We, people and that the manner in sojourners in the East, go hence which the people of Canada are to and are soon forgotten. I do not be educated and the spirit which is think that Sir William, and Lady to inform that education are matters Brunyate will be easily forgotten of transcendent importance. Is this Mr. Lai Hsi-chi, Mr. Au Tai-tin. in this University. At any rate 1, immense prospective population to Dr. J. Fenton, Mr. A. S. Hett.

at least, so long as I hold my pre he educated in the coarsest mater- sent office and possibly for a great ialism or not? Is it to measure The Late Mr. Chan Kang-yu,

deal longer, sball bless him daily life by the standard of the dollar, The Chancellor (Sir Edward for the work which he has done in to gauge progress by statistics Stubbs, KC.MG.), having declared connection with the financial re of imports the congregation opened, ex-organization of the University.

cxports, to pressed the deep regret with

place monetary success before which the Court and. Seaate of

Rockefeller Foundation's Gilt. everything else, or is it to become The University is now full anda centre. for, the higher civilisa- the University had received the news of the sudden death on we

have no more. hostel tion?" The issue, Mr. Fisher accommodation; available. In affirms, "will be determined by Saturday from heart failure of Mr. Chan Kang-yu, who

the Rockefeller the type of education which 1922 of the six original members of the Foundation gave $500,000 for the Canada receives, and since the Court of the University, The Chan-endowment of a University quality of that education on its AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE cellox spoke of the good work Mr. Chair in Surgery and a Chair in spiritual side will be shaped and

Chan Kang-yu had done for the Medicine. The Foundation also conditioned by the Arts Facul University, and tendered to the promised a further gift of $250,000 ties in the Universities, influen- family, on behalf of the University, for the endowment of u University cing, as they must necessarily do, an expression of their sincerest Chair in Obstetrics, the condition the whole outlook and character condolences in the great loss they of the gift being that the Univer- of the teaching profession, it is. sity should be in a position to no exaggeration, to say that, if it had sustained.

The Registrar (Mr. N. Teesdale guarantee efficiency, I have in were possible to create great Mackintosh) read the resolution of my hand a cable which announces schools for the teaching of appointment of Mr. William Wood-the appropriation of $350,000 for Literature, Philosophy, History ward Hornell, C.1.E., as Vice-Charis the promised Chair (Cheers) and Economics the effect would be cellor, and His Excellency invited The University have this very ultimately felt in every region of BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE ∞ THE BANK||LINE, LD., BONOKONO,Mr. Homell to take his seat as morning heen informed by the Canadian life, in the schools, in HONGKONG & CANTON HOLYOAK MASSEY & 00, LTD. CANTON.

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to the University when the necess. It is good sometimes -10. Lee ary legal formalliles have been visions and to dream dreams. May complied with (Applause), (to all of us who are so privileged to The new Vice Chancellor was. The realisation of this princely work in or for this institution, ever received with cheers on rising to gift necessitated delicate negotia- keep before them the inspiration of deliver his inaugural address. He tions not only with the Rockeféliër | the. University of Hongkong as said:

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