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leges in Great Britain, which in-realised, the problem 'of the Uni- cludes Scotland, was 1,876,645, versity's future will be seen to be And this total did not, in one of the biggest administrative clude grants made. by the problems with which the Govern

of Last year the Council sanction- Ministry Agriculture andment of Hong Kong 'will be facedr or the Board of "But all this,” I hear the prac- ed two additional posts-a lec- Fisheries tureship in Chemistry and a lec- Education, or grants from local tical man retaliate, is rhetoric." tureship in Physica. These two Education Athorities. I have re "The sort of stuff which a Vice posts which were absolutely ea-cently had bafore me the estimated Chancellor with nothing of prac sential, have been filled by Mr.Income and Expenditure of the tical utility to propose, serves up Hill and Mr. Davies. They have Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-l'on an occasion like this. We are 2 commercial community and only recently arrived, but I know Tyne for the year which will end on that, here also, we have got two July 31, 1929. The total estimated Hong Kong is a place for trade good men. I want in this connec-income of this College for this year, not for taradiddles about culture the maintenance of British tion to make two points clear, the Is £102,111. Towards this total, or first is that we have, in the last Endowments contribute 12.9%. prestige in China, by increasing 12 months, added to our staff three Donations and Subscriptions 5.3%, the output of Hong Kong Univer important teaching posts, for the Parliamentary Grants and Grants sity graduates. Show us how your Readership in Blology, though it from Local Authorities 58% and University is going to enhance the was sanctioned some. years ago, Fees of all sorts 23.8%. The total prosperity of Hong Kong; show us has been in abeyance for the last income of this University in 1926 the standard of value in virtue of four years.

Endow which the University claims ever The second is, that amounted to $529.387.

for 46%, increasing financial support." in the course of last year the Uni-ments were responsible versity was able to secure from Fees for 22.2%, Government Granti

Opposite View London for its staff, no less than for 9.4%, Donations 7.1% and other "My friend," I meekly reply, "you Ave good men-Professor Ride, sources 15.5.% The Armstrong are a realist and frankly I find your Dr. Herklots, Mr. Hill; Mr. Dayles College, though it is not a Univer-views refreshing. You at least know and Mr. Braine Hartnell who has sily but merely a College of the your own mind. Your position is, come to the English Department University of Durham, is a bigger that the less spent on education in Its enrol- Kong the better, for Hong Kong's In the place of Mr. Hay, who was institution than ours. appointed last August to be a ment ranges from about 800 to 1,000 prosperity. I do not agree. Superintendent of Education in students. But the Institution does alone will show which of us was Nigeria. And the pay of our Pro- not comprise a medical school, but right. Meanwhile, it does occur to fessors, to Bay nothing of our merely faculties of arts, science and me as strange that the people of the Readers and Lectures, is on a sub-enginearing. The figures which United States of America who, I stantially lawer scale than that have quoted for the Armstrong Col- always understood, are pretty good of the Hong Kong Government lege include no expenditure for re-at business, should take such a dia- School masters. The latter also sidential buildings or for the travel-metrically opposite view. They are qualifying for pastons while ing expanses of the mumbers of its spend quite a lot of money on educk- tion in China. They have recently ostablished a China Institute In

our men are not.

"I Begged These" Perhaps some of you noticed as you came here this afternoon two new tennis courts; I begged these

staff.

Charge on Funds

•

Time

This University has to provide America and among the declared ob- and maintain three large hostels for jects of that Institution is the crea students and residence for the mention of fellowships and scholarships off Mr. W. H. Bell of the Asiatic bers of the staff. It has to bring to enable not only Chinese to study Petroleum Company. Our stu-practically all its teachers out from in American Colleges and Univer- dents are very keen on tennis and England with wives and families, alties, but also Americans to study they are not too bad at the game and to send them back to England in China. They have also recently either. These two asphalt courts every four years also with their established and generally endowed are the only courts that the sty wives and damilies. The Medical the Harvard-Yenching Institute for dents have, sava those that are School of this University not only Chinese studies. And, as to these fixed up on the University's Re-involves the employment of a large standards of value. I am in a small creation Ground and these are not University staff of teachers, but of way a student of history, and I have available whenever the ground is a considerable staff of persons whose not gathered that the foresight of wanted for a crleket match, as it work is confined to the Government any pericular generation in the mat- very often [8. We thank the Civil Hospital but who are a charge ter of the value or prospective in- Directors of the Asiatic Petroleum on the University's funds; it also fluence on the world of is contem- Co., for these courts. If the involves the maintenance and upkeep porary personalities and events has happiness of others be consider-of laboratories for Anatomy. His always been remarkable for Its ed a good return for a financial tology. Embryology, Physiology, acuteness. investment, then Mr. Buli has in Biology, Biological Chemistry, Pa- vested the Company's money so thology and Pharmacology to say well, that perhaps he will advise nothing of the Clinical Departments the purchase of a little more of of Surgery, Medicine, and Obstetrics this security..

and Gynaecology.

Number of Students

Sir Patrick Manson You may say that the old Hong On Dec. 31, 1928, there were 309 students on the rails of the Univer-Kong College of Medicine did

Came Into His Own

"

John Ruskin died in 1900-a very old man. To the practical man of his generation, John Ruskin was an Ineffectual, scolding, sweet-temper. But to John ed, childish angel. Ruskin it was an intuition that pros- perity was not to be measured in sity; of these 160 were in the Medity comparatively little and the ed competition was not the road to good work, but cost the commun- terms of money and that unmitigat- cal Faculty, 95 in

the Arts Government nothing. I agree en-happiness. That intuition seemed to and 54 in the Engineering.

tirely as to the good work done his contemporaries the most extra- The total enrolment includes by the Hong Kong College of vagant of assertions, running count- 38 girl undergraduates, 16

Medicine. The College was found- or as it did to every approved and in the Bledical and 22 in the Arts Faculty. If any one Patrick Manson, and it was main- Age. But in that intuition lay the ed by a great man, the late Sir well-argued dogma of that Industrial doubts whether the Chinese of Hong tained by the enthusiasm and de- seeds of the Social Revolution Kong are in earnest about the edu-

votion of the doctors of Hong through which we are now passing cation not only of their boys but Kong. Incidentally, the fact that and in social and industrial matters also of their girls, let him motor there is not in this University, or we are still stumbling after Ruskin along the Caine and Bonham-roads indeed anywhere any sort of On Nov. 19, 1928, exactly a 100 at about 4 pm, when the schools memorial to Sir Patrick Manson years had passed since Franz Peter, are discharging their victims.

scarcely redounds to the credit of Schubert died. That day was ''n'

Among the many needs of the the Colony. But medical science world-festival of music. In every University is a girl's hostel, and an has grown and infuential committee, of which Col-i mands which the public makes on records were sold, his name was be- with it the de- shop where scores of gramophone onel Skinner has been kind enough the doctor. Our medical degreasing read; in every concert hall to become the Chairman, has issued

are recognised by the General throughout the an appeal. I feel aure the Chinese Medical Council of Great Britain of the world his songs

civilised parts

were: community will appreciate the public and. Ireland. This recognition being spirit of Coloney Skinner, Colonel would certainly be withdrawn if ment pieces were being play Bung and his Instru- Skinner is a busy man; he has only we lowered our standards of teach-ed. The sweetness of his harmontes recently come to the Colony and will)

ing, And there is another con- was literally floating out of the etheri only be here for a few years. Yet sideration.

When, in 1923 and from "the flood to the world's end." he is taking all this trouble for Chin 1924, the University Court accept Schubert had come into his own at ese girls.

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THE CHANCELLOR

Promotion of Anglo-Chinese- Friendship

Chief Contribution

fused,

and moral standards upon which the China of the past prided it-

lead.

a mere resuscitation of obsolete The Balance Sheet for 1928 has that the Medical School of the

union between the two races by not yet been drawn up, but. I am Hong Kong University was going

whose co-operation. Hong Kong methods, but rather for an entire- not looking forward to it with any to be conducted, not only as re-

has been converted within lessly novel system which, by passing mlagiving. We are paying our way, gards the teaching in the Univer

than a century from a barren the ancient classical teaching but the future is dark and uncer- sity, but also in the matter of its

Island into one of the greatest through the alembic of western tain. The Finance Committee has clinical work in the Government

shipping parts of the world. Here culture and modern science, shall, sounded 11 note of warn- Civil Hospital, as an efficient and H.E. the Chancellor said:———

should be the centre not only of from the amalgamation of these ing, that unless fresh sources up-to-date madern Univórsity Mr. Vice-Chancellor and mem-the highest intellectual life, but of elements, forge a now educational of revenue be discovered, the Medical School of the highest bers of the. Congregation of the the best social life of the Colony. Implement for the benefit of pre- prospective pecuniary resources status.

University of Hong Kong, Stand-Thus will whatever is most valu- sent and future generations of the It is a task of of the University will not, in. University's Burden '. ing before you to-day, as your able in the two civilizations-Bri- Chinese race.

stupendous difficulty; but it is a few years time, cover its finan- A good friend of the University Chancellor, I cannot but ask my-tish and Chinese-be cial commitments. And no Univer- said to me the other day "The self-what is the special contribu- fashioned and adapted by your problem which must be solved, sity can stand still. When the Legis- University fa always passing tion which this University should efforts for the special needs of and that soon,--unless the mental lature of Hong Kong passed the round the hat. We are getting a make to Hong Kong, to China, to Hong Kong. University Ordinance of 1911, It little tired of this shameless men- the world?—and I beg you to bear committed itself and the Colony to dicancy." So am L The ac with me while I endeavour in the. The chief contribution of this self are to be debased and forgot- the establishment of a University credited author of the Hitopadesa, fewest words possible to answer University to China should, I ten. In the solution of this pro- "for the promotion of Art, Science Narayan, write that of poverty these "obstinate questioning. think, be the interpretation of blem, the Hong Kong University and learning, for the formation of and death, poverty is the worse;

Meeting Ground fly

British ideals, civic, ethical and le, by reason of its geographical the character of students of all death is slight paid, but poverty At the outset let rae rantado éducational, to the Chinese people altaation, peculiarly well fitted to races, nationalities and creed, and, is exceeding grievous! The but that the Colony of Hong Kong Is and the promotion of Anglo-Chin- participate and even to take the for the maintenance of good under den of the University's poverty is the principal meeting ground of the ose friendship. It is indeed ex-

When Funds Permit standing with the neighbouring the burden which the Legislatura British and Chinese civilizations. pressly laid down. In the Hong

This University: (as you know) country of China. At the same time of Hong Kong. has laid upon us, Here, therefore, better than any-Kong Ordinance by which this

when funds permit, to the Legislature of Hong Kong pro- for we afe.only trying to carry where else on the face of the University was incorporated that proposes, claimed to the world that the stand out the Legislature's expressed earth, the Chinese may learn those one of its objects was to be "the organize within itself a Faculty ards of its University would not be wishes. If we can't have money, lessons which Great Britain can maintenance of the good under of Chinese such that Chinese atu- below the standards of Universities at least let us have goodwill We teach them and Britishers may standing with the neighbouring dents may take a degree in sub- in Great Britain. But the cost of can bear the burden, but let the study things Chinese. Now, if country of China. Most of our jects which will assist them in

official or professional' British Universities has increased saddle be light. No one realises two foreign peoples are to under undergraduates come from China: their enormously since the war, and the more acutely than I do, the tre stand one another, they must be and it should be our special care careers in their own country. It contributions to Universities, aut mendous difculties which under gin by learning each other's lan- so to educate and equip them dur- should be no longer the custom only from His Majesty's Treasury, ly the maintenance and effective guages, reading each other's ing their sojourn among us that, that a Chinese, whom his parents

(Continued on Page 0.) but also from the local Education development of thisUniversity. Itaráture and history, and fam- when they return to their father. Authorities, has increased out of all His Excellency the Chancellor has Harising themselves with each land, they may rank among ita proportion to the receipts from just returned from fighting Our other's manners and customs. Es best and most useful citizens. other sources.

cause in London with tense I venture to suggest that the must be Working in Isolation Grants, etc.

which nothing but the strongest important contribution which the The fime-honoured syste

tion was When I left the Board of Educa conviction, may otion could Hong Kong University, can make Chinese classical tion in Whitehall in 1913, Mr. Lloyd have maintained

to this Colonyle to afford B destro in the George who was then Chancellor of getting help.

tinkers the opportunity ofda the Exchequer, fad recently made demnity Fund an annual grant of £50,000 available irrevocably for Universities and University Col problem ot leges in England and

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