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KATY KE GENER Rumun HONG KONG UNIVERSITY abaabaabba
BARON LUGARD OF ABINGER, P.C., G.C.M.G., D.§.0., LL.D. The University's First Chancellor.
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Foreword.
PHIS is not a history but it tries to be something more than a prospectus. China was proclaimed a Republic on the 12th February, 1912; the University of Hong Kong was formally declared open on the 11th March of the The motives of Sir Patrick Manson and Lord
same year.
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Lugard were clear and straightforward. They had faith in Hong Kong and in what Hong Kong could and should do for China. Therefore one founded a Medical College; the other created a University. Was this but the wild trash of sleep"? There had been revolutions and fallen emperors before 1911, but Dr. Sun Yat Sen was the first Chinese rebel to hoist a republican flag and this new Chinese flag was the symbol not merely of political change but of far-reaching revolution in economics, in customs, in ethics, and in thought. We know that China needs a wide extension of education, the development of her natural resources and the im- provement of her means of communication, and that behind and beneath all this lies the need for an alert and instructed public opinion to audit the results of Chinese statecraft. We know that China is looking to the West for help and we know that in these matters we, British, have a great responsibility. Mr. R. H. Tawney who recently came to China as an emissary of the League of Nations, has written that, unless the nation is supplied by its education system with a larger number of men who have under- gone the discipline of serious intellectual work and have learned to apply their training to the special problems of China, she will neither improve the conditions of her economic life nor achieve internal stability. The discipline of serious intellectual work," what is that but "Sapientia et Virtus”—the motto of the University of Hong Kong?
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Hong Kong, 8th February, 1933.
W. W. HORNELL,
Vice-Chancellor.
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