CO129-531-9 Hong Kong University- proposal to found faculty of Chinese studies 17-10-1930 - 10-6-1931 — Page 26

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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

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