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meeting of the Council His Excellency Mr. Claud Jevern, who
was then administering the Government of Hong Kong, the late
Professor G.P. Jordan Pro-Vice Chancellor, the Hon. Mr. H.B.
Pollock, the Hon. the late Mr. Lau Chu Pak, the Hon. the late
Mr. Ho Fook, Dr. D.W. McKemmy (Acting Principal Civil Medical
Officer), Mr. E. Ralphs (Director of Education), Professor
H.Q. Earle, Professor A.0. Warren, Professor J.D. Wright, and
Mr. N.T. Mackintosh who was the Registrar.
7.
The resolution of the Council which I have just
quoted came before the Senate on the 30th September, 1919, and
that body passed the following resolution →
"The Senate understanding that Dr. Parker has already been offered and has definitely accepted the appointment to the Chair of Pathology is therefore of opinion that it can not do other- wise than confirm its recommendation of Dr. Parker for the appointment of Professor of Pathology.
8.
At the meeting of the University Council which was
held on the 12th December 1919 "Correspondence was read from
the London Committee to the following effect:- that ir. Parker
has resigned the Chair of Pathology and that im. Wang has been
appointed in his place and will leave Ingland on the 1st March."
9.
It will appear from the above recital that the late
Professor C.Y. Wang was a pathologist and not a gynaecologist
and that he was a Professor in this University from 1920 until
his death in December laat.
10.
I am unable to give you the inner history under-
lying the resolutions of the Council and senate. Dr. 0.T.Wang
refers to the University having telegraphed to Edinburgh aak-
ing for a recomendation, and to the University having replied,
when Dr. C.Y,Wang's name was put forward "that they did not
wish to have him because he was a Chinese. As I have already
pointed out, the Council is under the provisions of the Uni----
versity Ordinance (see Statute 8.4) the only University body
empowered/
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