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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1930.

NEW BIOLOGICAL BUILDING.

OPENED BY H.E. THE GOVERNOR.

University Function.

THE CHINA MAIL.

cal school of the first rank. ROUND THE CINEMAS But for four years after the lec turer's resignation such biology

as was taught was in the hands of

a temporary and part-time lecturer. THEY LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN'

AT. QUEEN'S.

In 1928 this lecturer left the Colony and something had to be done. Now in March of that year, Mr. Kwok Siu-lau had placed in the hands of the Chancellor a donation of $50,000 and the Chancellor had

arranged with the Council that the

BASEBALL ATMOSPHERE.

Masseurs and rubbers instead of Two pleasing functions took place at the University yesterday

money should be Invested and put make-up men, baseball coaches in- afternoon, when His Excellency Sir Willium Peel, K.B.E., C.M.Gaside to accumulate with its inter-stead of dialogue directors, and how- officially opened the new biological building and also unveiled a est as a fund towards the creation Jing mabs instead of quiet sound and endowment of a Chair of Blo-stages, were used, in the filming of portrait in oil of Sir Cecil Clementi in the presence of a large gather-logy. That was all very well, but, the thrilling World Series games in how during the accumulating "They Learned about Women," Van ing.

process, was Biology to be taught? and Schenek's Arst Motro-Goldwyn-

your

2nd

of occasion official visit, on behalf of all the members of the University, I bid the manifold you und Lady Peel welcome.

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NOTICE.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

HE ANNUAL GENERAL

Inboured and it My medical colleagues clamoured Mayer starring talkle," which opens MEETING of the Kowloon

His

But the Finance Commit-

By. Order of the Committee.

JAMES SMITH,

Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong. September 23, 1930.

NOTICE.

KOWLOON' FOOTBALL CLUR

Possibles versus Probables.

HERE will be an INTER-CLUB MATCH TO-DAY (TUES-

Addressing the gathering in the strove main hall in connection with the is a great joy to my colleagues for the immediate creation of a to-day at the Queen's Theatre.

In the games, Van served as Football Club will be held in the opening of the new Biological and to me to know that long after Chair. Building, the Vice-Chancellor (Mr. his mouth and ours have been tee stood firm. However, it had to catcher and Schenck as pitcher, in Club Pavilion at 6 p.m. on TUES-

choked with dust, our great scholar agree to a Readership; and in May one of the teams, Both formerly DAY, September 30, 1930. W. W. Hornell) said inter alia':-

this Chancellor's portrait will be looking 1928 I dashed off to London for six played semi-professional baseball in Your Excellency, on Brst down from its place of honour weeka to assist Sir Cecil Clementi Brooklyn in identical positions. the

Instead of being made up between have the Chancellor's chair. onto in his daring attempt to loot His

the Majesty's Treasury of one million scenes, the team-mates were rubbert activities of This University in whose power for good five hundred thousand pounds of down and massaged by trainers and Your he so fervently and persistently be-the Boxer Indemnity, and to find a given technical advice by Mike In no mere conventional act.

Out joy

is enhanced by lecturer in English and a Reader Danlin, Giant veteran, who acted as Excellency has already proved a sub-lieved.

supervisor of baseball action in the stantial benefactor to the Univer- the fact that this portrait which has in Biology.

A Great Discovery.

picture. All of the other players alty and those of us who have been now become part of the University's

were professional stars and all went Majesty's Treasury was Your inheritance, has contact with

come to us as the brought into Excellency and Lady Peel have spontaneous gift of Sir Cecil's Chin- found to be too well guarded, and in for regular training between Thousands of extras alled already lourned to hold you both ere admirers and friends in Hong the projected piracy was postponed scenes.

Kang, and that it was Sir Cecil's after much reconnoitring. In the the grand stand and bleachers at the dear.

matter of the Readership of Biolo- famous Wrigley Field, where the We thank you Sir William and wish that it should hang here.

College of Medicine,

gy, 1 was much more fortun scenes were made, providing the Lady Peel and all who have conie

Turning to the Biological De-ate, for Dr. Herklots hove in view greatest bedlam of noises ever re-DAY), at 5 p.m. All players are here this afternoon, för your pre-

asked to make an effort to attend. gence, and we extend to you all apartment I want first of all to re-and after we had exchanged a few corded on the talkie microphones.

Jack Conway and Sam Wood invitation to come to the Univer- mind my audience that the ear- preliminary inquiries I hailed him sity not only on ceremonial occa- liest school of medicine in Hong to Whitehall there to be vetted by directed the feature, with Bessie "Kong as the Hong Kong College of some of my old colleagues, who Love playing opposite the singing sions, but whenever you can. know how the days pass in the Aledicine for Chinese" which College said at once "he's all right" and im- stars who make their debut in the Included in the sup- duil round of duties and engage- of Medicine was established. In 1887,mediately departed with almost in-production.

the instigation of the decent haste on their summer holl perting cast are Mary Doran, Eddie ments, but

not so remote mainly at we are

Dr. Herklots is a young, Gribbon, Benny Rubin, Tommy us, the general Flong Kong tradition late Sir Patrick Manson, then a days.

(Applause), but he has first Dugan, J. C. Nugent and Francis X. still maintains. nor are our build-general practitioner in the Colony. man.

Now I am assured by those that class qualifications, unquenchable Bushman, Jun. ings and grounds altogether

and unlimited en- worthy of even a passing notice. know, that a claim, put forward on enthusiasm

He

prefera a great pleasure and Sir Patrick Manson's behalf to the ergyy. It would be

of Father

in the Buni- walking even of Tropical to If someone title great encouragement

of Hong Kong, and regards. would sometimes ring up one of Medicine would be hard to gain mer

Polly Moran, the incomparable Anyway, Sir Patrick Manson a flat and well paved path or and ask whether he or she, say,

fun makers in Rabul might not come to the University was not only a great doctor but road as merely intended to lead to comedienne, who appears as one of a

have the precipices which abound on score. of

Walah's Fox Movietone production, and spend an hour or so here in also a great man, and I

sometimes seeing what we are doing and how always thought it passing strange either side. I have

little discreditable that felt. inclined to remind him of the "Hot For Paris," was, a few years we are doing it.

neither the University of Hong memorable match between a hare back, a quite important and sue- In "Hot For Parts," which comes Kong, whose medical faculty em- and a tortoise-how the outsider cessful vaudevillian. bodies his College of Medicine, nor won, presumably to the great dis-

does on Friday to the Queen's Theatre, 1 new sort of maid character which is a riot of laughs.

Us

step

Un-

Child of the Government. This University is the child of the Government of Hong Kong, and children are sometimes a nuisance and always expensive. It is how ever a drastle, and even a criminal, to abandon a child. Your Excellency has recently enterefi upon your joint office of Governor of Hong Kong and Chancellor of this University, and my colleagues and I want to assure you of our loyalty towards you and our .con- fidence in your judgment, your wisdom and your fairness. (Ap- plause).

We want

the

and no

running

in the Colony of Hong Kong where comfiture of the punters. But it is he worked so devotedly for others, vain for age and bulk to advise

is there any sort of memorial of youth and slimness.

she

"HOT FOR PARIS."

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

TUIE Undersigned have received in The Resis- trar, Supreme Court, to sell by Public Auction

ON FRIDAY, September 26, 1930, at 12 o'clock Noon,

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

The Goods and Chattels of Metropole Hotel Annex of No. 7, Duddell Street. Terma-As Customary,

LAMMERT BROS,,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, September 23, 1930.

instructions from The Regis HE Undersigned have received

ON

FRIDAY, September 26, 1930,

at 12 o'clock Noon, at their Sales Room, Duddoll Street.

The Goods and Chattels of

A. and P. Leong Hingked (Metropole, Hotel) of

This current Walsh production is Patrick Manson. We have not Well at the end of 1928, we even got a coloured photograph of had a Reader in Biology bur no-based, ou a story idea which Walsh

"The Cock Eyed World." Victor Public Auction him, nor does even the narrowest where for him to work except one conceived directly after finishing trar, Supreme Court, to sell by

which was badly and ur-

Fifi Dorsey and El and most unsavoury lane in the room City of Victoria boar his name. gently needed by some other Pro-McLaglen,

have some Brendel are featured and the story However, when the idea of a fessor who seemed to

to it. Now, revolves around an Australian sailor University for Hong Kong was be- statutory right

the Main Gate to crystallise in Sir at

there played by McLagler, who wins the ginning

years agreat Calcutta-sweepstakes. Escorts Frederick Lugard's brain, the had stood for mnay Hong Kong College of Medicine, a solid building in which coolies to find and hand him the money We cause hilarious fun because he be- it had then become, being still and mechanies were lodged. to be worthy of without buildings of its own was shifted the coolies and mechanics lieves that the emissaries sent to Colony that created us and of the formulating a plan of development. to rented quarters outside and find him are trying to arrest him. British Empire on whose proud Government had reserved a site for with some of Mr. Kwok Siu-Inu's list of Universities we still find a the College; one Mr. Ng Li-hing money we converted the building place. The obligation to play

and another, Mr. Tang Cheuk-kai, into Biological Laboratory worthily this exacting role is ever before us, and if we are sometimes impatient at the checks of poverty and other obstacles which so per- sistently beset the path of our de- velopment, I want you to believe that, deep down below the super ficialities of temperament and idiosyncrasy, there abides in us the hope of making this University one of the 'eyes of this lander and

the

"RIO RITA."

No. 22, Ice House Street.. Terms: As Customary.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, September 23, 1920.

FIRE FIGHTING.

LOCAL FOAMITE FIREFOAM DEMONSTRATION.

had offered respectively $50,000 which I am now asking Your Ex- A new box office record has been and $10,000 and the Court of the cellency to open. It is neither made by the Central Theatre as re- College had issued a public appeal an imposing nor a magnificent ceipts for the first five days showing for funds. Now when the late Sir building; it hasnelther marble of "Rio Rita" the all-talking, all- Hormusjee Mody's offer of a con- floors nor a miniature zoo on the musical Radio Pictures' extra- tribution, towards the construction roof. It is like the University as vaganza, went to a new high mark. and endowment of the University a whole, humble and unasaumbız. Local fans déclare "Rio Rita" to was made known to Sir Frederick But about 10 days ago, Professor be the most pretentious picture they Lugard, he thought, that the two Elliot Smith was passing through have witnessed. projects might advantageously by Hong Kong: I took him to the The extraordinary quality of Bebe combined. The-College Court was building and he pronounced it Daniels's singing volce; the irre- Messrs. Dodwell and Co., which we utter from time to time approached, and it agreed at once good practical working biological pressible comedy of Bert Wheeler. Limited, inform the. China Mail to.amalgamate the College in the laboratory. That's good enough Robert Woolsey and Dorothy Lee; that arrangements have been University. The site was given for me, for Professor Elliot Smith the sumptuous sets and, above all, up; the endowments subsequently is not given to paying conven- the beauty of Harry Tierney's music made to run a Foamite Firefoam Demonstration on Wednesday at merged in the University scheme tional compliments where the have created a cinema sensation in 3.30 p.m. at the Praya Reclama and the College Court's appeal dignity of science is concerned. town,

We have then a good practical

that the protests and complaints

abandoned.

are largely the spontaneous out- ery of those who are working, often in loneliness and in anxiety, for the realization in this Colony of the University ideal which, however impracticable it may seem to some here, is still the basis of that dignity and pride in our work without which the calling of a University teacher in Hong Kong would be a mean thing indeed. '(Applause,)

A Great Scholar, The portrait of His Excellency from this recital. The first 'is' that Mr. Kwok Slu-lau. (Applause). Sir Cecil Clementi now hangs on the University of Hong Kong, so veiled before you, Sir Cecil wes for at least as its Medical Faculty

of learning. So great WAS his ambition for this University that

4

of a University may be said in. a therein. (Applause). This is at in the cast include Don Alvarado, hand extinguishers will be under-

'John Boles, whose voice has al-tion immediately behind the Wan-

chai Fire Station. "To this courageous, far-sighted biological laboratory and a keen ready won him a ranking position in and self-denying decision" wrote and well-qualified young Reader the talkies, sings the leading mala

Practical tests illustrating the Lugard in March 1910, "the project who will, we hope, win his apurs role opposite Miss Daniels.

Others use of the 1 gallon and 2 gallon and Helen, Kaiser, Georges Renevant and taken, as well as a demonstra- tion of the Foamite Generator we hope well begun. That, I Miss Rosita...

honestly say

Many of the beautiful chorus of (Model 15) which produuces Certain considerations emerge is due to the generosity of 100 girla in "Ric Rita" were in the continuous supply of Firefoam. original Ziegfeld stage production This particular type of apparatus Governor's Speech.

and helped to make the "Kinkajou" can be used, either His, Excellency said:-Mr. Vice- famous.

large degree to owe its inception, least something begun as an accepted schome."

Some Considerations.

.com

this

now,

| welcome you have given to us.

It is hardly. necessary for me

(a). Manually, with hose and a great scholar and a great lover is concerned, is not the result of Chancellor, Ladies and Gentle

nozzle (as in Wednesday's test). (b)-As pornble or fixed in- a passing fantasy of Sir Frederick'

stallation for the protection of oil Logard. and a few dreamers in me, on behalf of my wife and myself I thank you, the Vice it did not seem to him to be in the those years of prosperity which Chancellor, and the members of tion. I feel sure that when he storage tanks, oil barges, oil least extraordinary to go to the immediately preceded the Great

Kong his pleasure. must have For the Foamaite Generator test, Foreign Office in Whitehall and to War and closed an era in human this University for the very warm returned to his first love, Hong tankers, marine and similar riska. tell the startled officials of that history, but rather the evolution of Although I have visited the Union greatly enhanced at the the contexts of a pit about 12 ft. dignified Department that this a movement for medical training inversity informally and have been thought that as well as being in diameter (about 112 sq. ft.) University should certainly receive Hong Kong..which was started, engaged to a considerable extent Governor he would also be Vice consisting of about 120 gallons of one million and half- pounds more than twenty years previously, with its affairs since I arrived in Chancellor of this University. In oil primed with petrol and kero- sterling from the Boxer Indemnity. by a private practitioner of Hong Hong Kong last May, this is my that capacity he has taken, the sene will be ignited and when well It makes my head whirl and my cara Kong and had been carried on dur first official visit and I am very greatest interest in it and he bas alight will be extinguished, sing!

ing the whole of that period by the glad that it is associated with worked hard and loyally for it. A fire of this description is in- When this University honoured doctors of the Colony. The second

two such pleasing ceremonies. It ary LL.D. degree, I said, after re-fit of economy or departmental portrait of my predecessor, Sirship and sympathy with the Chin-approach to within about 40 feet Sir Coell Clementi with its honor- consideration is that, if ever in as a great privilege to univer: the to expatiate on his great friend- tensely hot and it is impossible to hearsing his University career, zeal, the rulers of Hong Kong be Cecil Clementi..

ese and on bis restoring the 5o that it cannot be extinguished that it must, I thought, have been tempted to play with the idea of

friendly relations, between this by ordinary methods and, of a great wrench for him to leave abolishing this University, or of The post of Chancellor of this Colony and its neighbours, relacourse, water is useless. As an indication of the efficacy of deal- Oxford for the work of a Civil abasing its dignity, or effectivendas. Univeralty fe, as you know. ex-tion which I need hardly say I Servant in Hong Kong. Sir Cecil let them reflect on the obligation officio, though the holder may will ever endeavour to maintaining with this type of fire by means told me afterwards that he could which was incurred when, at the possibly have some claim to ad-(Applauss). It is fitting, there Of Foamite Firefoam the confta have stayed in Oxford as a fellow fustance of the Governor of Hong ministrative experience, but need fore, that some of his Chinese Station is usually completely ex- of his beautiful College, Magadalen. Kong, the Court of the Hong Kong not necessarily possess those high friends and admirers should have tinguished in less than a minute. The demonstration should be of He did not say much about it at College of Medicine merged that academic qualifications which one combined to have this portrait the time, but I realized that the Institution in the University of may reasonably associate with painted and presented to the Unl- unusual interest.

the holder of auch office.

versity to which he was 20 de pain of tearing himself away had Hong Kong

These qualities were combined voted. As Chancellor of the Uni- been terrible. For Sir Cecil Cle- History of the Chair. menti had for Oxford, as one of During the earliest years of the in Sir Cecil Clementi. He had varsity I thank them most sin the lovely places of the World in Univeralty's Medical School it was most brilliant academic career at cerely for the gift.

Financial Problem. which classical learning still not possible to employ a whole-Oxford and gained many distinc ingered, something of the dero- time teacher of Biology. But in tons. As the Vice-Chancellor has

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tion which the scholars of the 1920 a lecturer, was appointed who atrendy informed you he might The other ceremony which I am early Italian Renaissance have for resigned in 1024 In 1922 the have stayed on there, added to his to perform is the opening of a

Mukden, Yesterday, Hellenic culture

University accepted from the academic laurels and done great Biological, Laboratory M experl Rockefeller Foundation certain work in an atmosphere which unence, so far of the University's The Chinese delegation in This University in not Oxford, endowments on behalf of Its doubtedly appealed to him. But affairs, has been somewhat de Moscow has telegraphed that the nor even Cambridge. (Applause) Medical School, thereby commit he chose a wider aphere and hoa pressing, though it is almost en official conference on the Chinese But It lathe University, ting itself to the development and served his country several tirely connected with its Dnances. Eastern Railway question opens,

on October 11-Beuter for which Bin Cecil Clementi maintenance of a University medi colonies with ability and distine (Continued on Page 9.),

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