CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946 — Page 243

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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY

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Note on the proceedings of Tive meatings:

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Richer The University was established in 1911 on the foundation 1. of a College of Medicine established in 1887 and in-

corporated in 1907. Menson and Cantley were the chief influ-

ences in these boginnings of medical education in the Cclory.

The University remembers with some pride that one of the

early students of the incorporated Collage was Dr. Sun Yat

Sen, the maker of the Chinese Republic, who, in 1923, in a

speech at the University, referred to what in his education

for citizenship he owed to Hong Kong, and asked us to teach

young Chinese to govern their cities as ours was governed,

to build their roads like ours, and to develop similar health services "Such things, he added" are not learnt only

in classrooms, or only in practice, but in both" Between 1907 and 1910 a sun of about 14 million Hong Kong dollars

was raised for the endowment of a University. Lugard (afterwards Lord Lugard) as Govenor, was interested and

took the initiativo in 1911 in the passing of a local

ordnance to establish a University to extend and broaden

the basis of higher cation in the Colony.

But a

Sir Frederick

wider conception was always iù and Lugard's mind, num.3ly

that the University should be a centre

an influence "profoundly affecting a nation

which would grow

memberis

ring one

fourth of the population of the world, a modium for ti.