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Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for an honorary degree. To the Colonial Government the University is indebted for its site of upwards of 20 acres, for its annual subsidy of $50,000, for a contribution of $1,000,000 towards its endowment and for a grant of $700,000 for buildings and other iniscellaneous purposes. For its main buildings (erected at a est of $358.000) it is indebted to the generosity of a Parsee gentleman, the late Sir Hormujee Mody, who made his home in Hongkong. British firs traling in the Fast are more especially represented by the original gift of $400,000 from the Taikoo firms, to which Eurther $100,000 has recently been addled for the special needs of the Engineering Faculty, and by generous gifts of engineering equip- ment from other firms of an estimated value of $200,000. The late Mr. Loke Yew, C.M.G., who, in 1913, lent to the University the sum of $500,000 without interest for the term of 21 years, was typical of a class of Chinese of humble origin who have shared in the pro-perity of the Malay States. To members of the Ho family of Hongkong the University owes its Schools of Physiology and Tropical Medicine, together with numerous other generous gifts, of which the latest is the sum of $100,000 from Sir Robert | Tung for all Engineering workshop. The original contribution of the Canton Provincial Government, already alluded to, was of $300,000, while the pro nised Rockefeller contribution may perhaps, be regarded without presumption as an indication that the University has been faithful to the impartial aims with which it was created.

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