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Severity Of Sentence Appeal Dismissed

CHINA MAIL

Established: 1845

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1953.

Sheaffers

SNORKEL

UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION Graduands Receive Degrees In Colourful Ceremony

academically unsound, It would be impossible for a university 10 be academically sound-but financially

any unsound. rato for any length of time: the university would sooner or Inter have to close its doors. This is not the first time in my address at Congregation that. I have laid stress on the im- of the dollars and pre continuing to serve on the Refugees Chinese

Intellectunis porlance While the academic picture at the Hongkong University

cents aspect of the University. Colony's Executive, Legistative Incorporated have financed the And I make no excuse for

Urban Councils; our appointment of six Chinese Re- following

The gamo themo was bright, the financial aspects were sombre, said His Excellency and

graduates are playing an in-search Fellows In our newly again today. In fact, were the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, at this morning's 44thcreasingly large and Increasingly organised Institute of Oriental not to do so I should be falling Congregation of the University when degrees were conferred important part in the various Studies. The

Departments of Government; this institute within the last year our Medical Faculty has on graduands.

'vided not only this Colony but this lony, may well His Excellency, speaking as Chancellor of the University, said the University was academically sound, but he warned Medical Services tunel universi-a very complete Chinese Hbrary do not intend to do so. That, that estimates showed that within the next few years some $16 millions would have to be found for capital works over and above those for which funds were available.

SOMBRE FINANCIAL PICTURE PAINTED BY THE GOVERNOR

the world with &

development of in

my duly, as I am sure you will agree with me after you is one of the things of which have looked at the sombre and Indeed the picture that I am going to be paint. I must, however, not Director of proud; its work however demands forget the academie side and I

100

Bes both in the United Kingdom

(@M and ours unfortunately has some om glad to say, is bright; and in America are finding that ominous gaps. It is essential though here,

we have our they can expect, without fear of that we must gradually fill these problems, as has any univer- disappointment, n very filgh gaps and it is therefore with sity, any institution. They are standard of academie attainment more than usual fervour that I not, however, formidable.

thank Dr Arthur Woo for from our graduates.

To be academically sound hig recent donation of two thousand university must have proper adequate syllabuses, for pass or honours recently attended the Regional nine. hundred and three volumes and

been

N

Chancellor gave his address of scholarship, end the society the number and the calibre of at the 12th n Copenhagen chase essential additions to to their students,

An appeal brought by Ng Fai, 30, against severity believe, our subject is at least

was dismissed by the Full Court, com- of sentence prising the Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe, and the

Mr Justice T.J. Gould Senior Puisne Judge, morning.

Appellant was found guilty of simple wounding by a Jury and -sentenced to three years hard Jabour and 13 strokes of the cane by Mr Justice Reece on April 20 Jast.

Ng was charged with wounding with intent to murder and alternatively with wounding with Intent, but was acquitted on both counts.

Appellant told the Full Court this morning that he was appeal- ing against severity of sentence on the ground that the com-

this

found no grounds for upsetting the sentence.

At this point appellant hold- lng up his hand in a clenched be heard pleaded to Gift further. He said he had an and two aged mother, a wlle children and they were relying on him for support.

The Chief Justice said that he regretted the Court could not take thut into consideration.

of some small interest to every- one of you or else you would not have taken the trouble to come here today at all,

wonder

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time

In contemplating with must realise that the University credit for himself and for us by chinese Library Fund was start- be too diffused and

peaceful isolation

must

ad-

and

between

lest

the old and the new

prin pondbility

me

boon

has also

the

Ü

of of this paper from 1884, when it

must

were being

There was a large and distinguished gathering present, who stood

Of our staff Dr S. G. Davis has while the Procession comprising Wardens, teaching staff, Members of the

Mineral Re- of valuable Chinese books, a fine whether Conference on University Court, preceding the Mace, the Vice-Chancellor (Dr L. T. Ride)

sources

in Tokyo as Adviser to gesture well timed, and a valu- degrees, in the various faculties. and the Chancellor (His Excellency the Governor) marched to the dais.

be good. the United Kingdom Delegation, able help to Chinese scholarship. Its teaching must

hos Barker

this need for Professor

Regarding

for Chinese That is primarily a matter of After the Congregation had, limited to those who had reach of its problems. The public is

books, small

4

of group pur having well qualified

professors, been declared open, the Vice- ed a certain minimal standard directly concerned with the type, specially invited to read a paper

International Con- friends recently determined to lecturers, and so on, who know fund to enable us to how from the lectern,

Zoology

us to how to impart their knowledge thus formed became known as the appiled scientists which is gress in

There He salt;

trains; -the a university. These scholars of University

public this

this summer, while our Dean of

Chinese Library as such be an adequacy of teachers. What few remaries I propose the pre-science era spent their must therefore not only take an the Medical Faculty-Professor

teaching to make today I 'should Uke to

the interest in its

King-has won great

became available; this there is not the University, but Gordon nddress

to our ninety-one new philosophy of life and

good the graduates that of course is with the classics or the humanities

serve the

publie best being chosen as their Guest of ed by an excellent donation of however can only

$10,000 from dur ever-rendy The buildings and the hope that the rest of you ns they were called; this they if they both work together in Honour at their ieu socin-helper Me Leung Yew, to whem must be at least adequate if will not be completely disin- were able to do in a relatively complete and mutual under- Ane by the American terested in what is sald, for

Gynae I now offer the University's most the students are to-reap the unmutested standing of their comunon prob- tion of Obstetricians,

full benefit of the teaching. by the outside publle, because lems We may now be the Surgeons. It is a

FCO cologists

Abdominal grateful thanks. , and

ΠΑΤΙΟ ΤΟΥ the man of action in the field, how the responsibility

Atting tributo

VALUABLE COLLECTION

How does the of the office or the workshop

had various

phases of university to the grent work, he has done

Hongkong measure up to these little in common with thesŮ

During this activities is apportioned. It is in China and in Hongkong in

the Fung criteria? year

On the

whole, very who spent their time just sitting for us in the University to watch his branch of its profession, and thinking. As learning 1 fully

Ping Shan Library has also re-well. There is nothing wrong the value of which disproportion Your graduands have now

ceived a most valuable and un- with our syllabuses. The quality more It became vancexi

I might successfully reached the end of

more obvious that the philo-

phillo- upret the balance and recognised in the intest Honours usual donation in the form of of the stall is high.

complete act of the issues of here mention that Sir Alexan. your courses in this University

academic

Carr and are about to

a. Hongkong Chinese dally paper der Feder

who be admitted phle and

Saunders, the "Wah Tsze Yat Po or visited us a couple of flourished best when shielded chciency of our echolar society: List by Her Majesty

of months to full graduate membership of our society.

from the disturbing Influence it is for us to take the major Queen. whal

"Chinese Mail", dating from 1894 ago, had some complimentary in deciding the

FINANCIAL HELP of political, racial or religious

and extent of the study of

to December 1841. The coples things

in this regard. your conception of this Univer-

to say It would be very wrong slty, or of any University for rivalries, and from this

The teacher: student ratio is, .matter,

109-interference has the Pure Arts, and to devise the After ciple of

best, the most efficient and the

We to conclude my remarks was founded, to 1899 were un- however, really ist

too low.

were that

Sarisen one of our great freesty your four years with us

means of main without reference to most economic

the fortunately destroyed by fire in however aware of that weak- financial taining the desired standards in

and steps help, and encourage that latter year, but the copies nees some of you, talding the longer doms, academie freedom. courses, It has been six years...

On the other ment we have had during the subsequent to that date were taken to remedy it. Where wo all our courses. THE CHANGE Univer

hand, it is for the public to have year from many of our friends.

kept by do you look upon the

Miss Falth Chun, the wor

were falling was in respect of dity in the same way as the With the dawn of the scienti- the major say as to what should $20,000 was subscribed by ad-grand-daughter of the founder buildings and equipment, what bus driver does, as the placent fie era, which

be taught in its institution

of mirers of the late Dr. C. P. of the paper and in donating might term the

physical realm of the end of his route which not member, was entirely due to higher learning in the

of Fong

dold these two to provide

gold

10 the University

Miss

facilities for learning. I shall It is only acts as a destination and n

sciences;

for medals to be awarded annually philosophie applied

Chun said "This collection of have more to say about this when the thinking of these COOL

the but at

same ume

public to say

of some 50 whether

years

I deal of newspapers) in a moment, provides him with label for his sitters, there came a change; ap- the

Hysan

position have may contain very valuable his- financial plied science opened the way they need doctors or dentists, this memory; the family (Appellant was started at the

bus? Do you now feel you can

a gold medal faw professions, and a new engineers

to be torical material and it is our University, trial to be a watchman employ-

sum it all up by saying "I have philosophy, Natural Philosophy, many they need, and to what ed by

to the n construction company

they Architectural University,

Facully In in the library of the University aware, not the sole function of Leo

43, ricc Chow,

to be studied in the standard of proficiency shop been Com Point. North

course have finished my

and had

universities.

more than memory subjects should attain; but

of their father; the and put at the disposal of those a uni

university. Research is also a here is my ticket to prove it? were plainant was also un employee proprietor, of 157 Canton Road,

of such

It is for public decision Pharmaceutical Society that,

of whose interest and duty is the function and a very important Or is the University 10

practical and Cconomic

tho to the as to whether this need should Hongkong has donated another writing and he and appellant together ground floor, appeared before

history of one. Here wo are defnitely with three other persons were Judge W. But the something more solid and con- general

medal be met by local production or

or gold public that District

be for competition Southern China and especially weak. This is in no way Court

crete, #group of living in one of the company's Victoria

buildings the Universities became of vital by importing the article from a amongst our Pharmacy students; that of Hongkong. In cause the staff is not anxious charge of buts at the time).

morning nossession of dangerous drugs | 10wing in both size and com-nnd obvious importance to the university abroad; but it must $9.000 has been donated for Dublicly thanking Miss Chun now to carry out original research, HAD SUSPICIONS

plexity

10 whose famillor Continuing

laboratories, people of the world at large. It be realised that in both cases Rowell Prize in Education, and on behalf of the University may or that it is not capable of 50 said without a leer appellant

and

really did not

anonymous not matter to the man they have to be paid for. If in an

I express the wish that her hopes doing. They are both anxious that as a watchman he had to The accused, who is defended classrooms

libraries and halls you have be-

sum may be amply fulfilled and that and capable, and do indeed do protect his

W/23 master's property. by Mr Oswald Cheung,

you need of $10,000 for the could prove to his own satisfac applied scientists

award of her generosity and public spirit what they can. But with the He suspected complainant to be alleged to have been in possession come more or less sentimentally in the street if a philosopher Hongkong you decide that the made available a further

a type on that under

then suitable prizes. certain circ

circum-

Im should be trained here,

may be amply justifled.

disproportionately large num a thief.

of six inels of raw opium on attached? Or is it merely a

of advanced school to which you stances

the financial

ber The Rotary Club of Hong- did you must accept

of students to teach, they and two Ng further alleged that com- May 21.

has donated $10,000 to make four and ម responsibility of the in them. provide scholarships lo enable have wandered far both from iny research that they should. This In this short address, I fear I simply cannot give the time to plainant attempted to hit him No plea was taken, and heating have plodded wearily every day not with an

iron bar. He avoided of the case was fixed for June 18 in order to attain that compul-

needy belief within his own sophic

and deserving students hearers and my original theme; waiversity was aware of this and would in courte the blow and produced a pocket at 2 pan. Lee, who is on ball of sory seventy five per cent of al- long as he kept his philo which is set up to train them.

to stay on and complete their in my closing coda I return to knife

was well: with

or $5,000, had his ball extended to tendance at lectures and to plek cloistered walls all the Intention

Honours Courses, and also Immediately This argument

corrected Site to both: I hope you graduands will of lime have threatening complainant.

up sufficient of the academie Com-the day of his tefal

pro- but an economist, an engineer

criticism the

provide studentships for post now realise, if you didn't before. though here again finance-the which graduate research in plainant however chased him Another man, Yu Yue-fal, crumbs that fall from the

or a prescriber of potions may prompts to

Arts and how many sides there are to the salaries, housing, etc., of mora heard-why Science. down the stairs and during the unemployed, charged with pos- fessorial tables

you well find himself in trouble or one has so often

this university train

problema which confront staff comes in. struggle complainant

Was

acted otherwise should session of 23 ounces of heroin through the rigorous examina-W

In gaol if he wounded.

Through the good services of univerity and that above all, a In short, Hongkong Univer without a Ucenco on May 21.

tion test that marks the end of than on the generally accepted students from other countries?

was and is academically. erect a lighthouse the Hongkong Junior Chamber university can never be a fixed sity The Chief Justice said that all picaded not guilty. Date of your course?

fact that two and two actually You cannot

and is so recognised the appellant had told the Court hearing of his case was fixed for

make four.e moment acade on your rocky coast and re of Commerce, Mr Advaney, in and stalle thing: what is ideal sound, Не

DEFINITE LANDMARK Was

mle doors we opened

strict its admit

of his mother, has in one place may not be so in throughout the world. We must: beams helpful

to memory had been put before the Jury June 18 at 11.30 am.

He remanded in gaol custody, who had found him gullly.

to our University your own ships of sea and air, given money to pay for the full another and a university that so maintain it. There must ba sciences You will be surprised to a curricula, a structure was added or can you restrict the ad- medical course of a woman does not move with the times is no lowering of standards. remurted that the wound in-

that I believe it matters little at

ad a vantages of this Lighthouse of student, and

FINANCES recently

the dead, though it still live. this

moment which of these to our universities which had a

Learning of the Far East to French Government, through

I turn now to the dark side I hope you will never fall in- of the picture, the financial here views, if any, you hold, because fundamentally different founda-

Consul General those who spring from your Its to the cloisters you have probably

quite recently not had tion;

learning and

sheres only. Our mere existence in Hongkong, has made the to the error of looking "back" on Untu or the oppor-car either the time

were added the clanglog

plainant in the ease, Cheuk Vim. Date

25, went to his quarters with the intention of stealing.

at

For

Trial Fixed-

licence.

fleted on complainant was a Danish

severe one. It was furtunate,

he added,

that appellant

Was

not found guilty of one of the Minister Here.

more serious charges preferred

against him. Dismissing

Lordship sid

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unfettered think here imposes on us the obliga=| tingnanimous offer of awarding] your twiversity days, for they still thought that go for Mr A. Morch, Danish Ministerunity to alt and think of a prob workshop and bustling labor-] higher education of those who to stay in France for the you may, look back on your were in a satisfactory position. tion to play our part in the one of our students a scholarship continue though in another form; expenditure was concerned wo to China and concurrently lem such as this. I think most the appeal, hls Danish Minister to Thailand, of

received portion of us have to admit that we tory: the University became people this

or beca the academic year 1933/4. In thank- undergraduate days;, I hope you We that the Court arrived hero from Peking by

60 of teaching as well as Pacific Area irrespective of Ing the French Government for do

with satisfaction and stugo

Lope affection,

lools Promised grants totalling you in our academic learning, and its teaching their origin; that statement also this award, night en route home arrived at

metamorphosis

from Her Majesty' may the hope wo express the undergmiluate based on what had to be accept answers to a great extent those that establishing relations be forward to the graduate portion Treasury and $4 millons from post-war changes to the

days with the who ask why a university such tween a French University and Justinable, hope and a renewed This

university without ed as scientific facis.

your

'Hongkong graduate,

Government Danish Minister 10 China, Brst really thinking seriously on this

us ours should spend money on ours in Hongkong will play

had thought waa determination to work for the résearch; besides the Pro went to Nanking in. 1916. He

ANEW CT

to carry out, rea Part in further comeming | benefit of mankind as a whole./dequate his matter at all. Today you rench

mall to represent Child-continued

habilitation, and the our territorial the bonds of friendship (and

recom capacity Tea's Half Hour presented by Belly country in that

after a very definite landmark in your The new learning was in- implied

trust you have acquired the there is

mendations of Dr Mouat also this scholarship which already unite ability and the art of and I

Jones I do suggest to you:

thinking and Songs of Ann (Studio); 0.30, The

exciting; obligation WIS

Mr Walter Adams, who, Important Vivian Elli 7. The 44th Congrethe present Government came that this is a very fitting moment to sling, I

there can four two peoples.

it' is the base of your life' BAUon of the Universily of long-to power and was appointed

you will recollectValted work as well as your university Hongkong in 1930 and madt by 11:0

to institution kong including Sprecios

AMERICAN HELP biological led consider what your relationship

of higher learning;

work and I suggest you take their report in the same year Cheerior, Sir Alexander Grantham, concurrent Minister to Tholland. to reflect on this matter and to the bohemistry, mathematics, be no be fact that there can O.C.M.G. and Vice-Chancellor Mr Morch is flying to Bang- is to your University; from now exploration and discover the our job does not cease as far as

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From the continent of America as guide the advice of a great on the future of the University one individual is concerned to play steam engine, the internal com on you have a dual role to

and a man who and electrical any as bustion engine

we loo must acknowledge some phi

philosopher when he or

she takes University

Report in their turn led to the

the qualifying degree.

He was accepted by: We must most valuable helps the China know intimately the world of in its next phase. That

All concerned and generation. of land, sea and air; the members of the Staff the

both here and in London. Wa research facilities to Medical Board of New York tras his day have

things are and

how perhaps the the new Pathology Department true, whatsoever academic reputathe

wo were going to meet the professions of

whatsoever things are which It is hoped, we shall start honest,

***** | recurrent expenditure.....for im- What? A quiz Programite com by a Charge d'Affaires, Mr H. tion; as members of the pulse plied sciences became the most of

outbuilding in the near future; In just, whatsoever things are pure plementing the Report; but one. thousand two you should share with us the

the lucrative,, All this is re humired

United

Board for whatsoever things are lovely. Canada The

with the interest from the Age by Bertrain an Atomto Christensen.

eventy-nine Christian Colleges in China has whatsoever things are of good endowment fund of $10 millon responsibility of determining the

of graduates of this University's policy and function. fected

university

the report; decided, to

be there

any created by the Japanese asscla to make. thitisois The former statement you will a modern university; of our since its foundation only

until Umes as hundred hope to be is in a largɑ measure because we telon University is able again

China praise, think on these things."

were willing to help us, an in of latter? How even but what the function of doctors, engineers, architects, have not been able to provide receive, ald from Canada; the

Bubvention from the CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH creased and

Hongkong Government,: It looks whito only

two

an that we should have provided. proceeds from two memorial Addression the Congregation, of as though the position re of its a cuivities, determined? -kundred odd are reading for and the facilities for higher studies to

funds The De Janet McClure H. E: Sir Alexander Grantham garding recurrent expenditure The early universities in Europe Arts degree. But the one effect

I must not, however, finish Kilborn Scholarship Fund, and a sakl:** developed from small groups of to which I wish to draw your

was quilo "capable of solution A university to be worthy of Nonetheless scholars, both young and old, attention today is the effect on on such a self-condemning solo fund in memory of Frofesor

Treasurer's who were all fired by the com- academic freedom. A modern as that; with what facililles it Kilborn's parents; we accept and the name must be academically address to the Court on 2nd mon desire to help in the pro- university cannot hope to live let has had at lis disposal our acknowledge this help and also round. It must also be financial- December last showed that it And, wherDOM - It would be unwise for us to bố servation, the spread and the alone flourish in seclusion behind University has done remarkably the privilege of being able to sound.

art aendemle curtain, it needs wall in its short life of forty-koep alive this memory of thow would be possible and there complacent, on this score. This advancement of learning;

the help of the public in both one years; it has provided elder who did so much for education are examples of a university warning and one or two other (Contd on: Pago 2. Col. 4). A became the delineation and the solution statemen who have sorved and in Western China, The Ald being financially sound but

Thuts to Denmark where Mrs Morchaduates you will share with mder the new learning] train our graduates. for higher promised us G$75,000 to equip | advised "Whatsoever things. us were riot quito:80, happy as to Guest Peking is now being represented Unly maintaining tewas popular and added to that degrees

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