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THE HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.

CONFERMENT OF DEGREES.

THE CHANCELLOR AND CHINESE EDUCATION.

The seventeenth congregation of the Hongkong University was held yesterday evening in the University Hall, when the degree of Doctor of -Laws (Honoris Causa) was conferred on EE the Governor (Sir. Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.), who is er oficio Chancellor of the University, as well as on the Hon. Mr. R. H. Katewall, Mr, R. Ponsonby Fane, and Sir R. E. Stubbs, F.C.ALG (in absentia),

The Vice-Chancellor (Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.L.E.) declared tho Con- gregation open, and the Senior Graduate (the Rev. Dr. T. W. Pearce, "().RE, LL.D.) presented HLE The Chancellor for an honorary degree: The Vice-Chancellor conferred the degree, whereupon strings of Chinese crackers outside were exploded.

The Vice-Chancellor' and H.EL. The Chancellor then left the Hall, and shortly returned, Sir Cocil Clementi having meanwhile donned the rebes of Chancellor. His Excellency was received with cheers. `-

Mr. Kotowall and Mr. Ponsonby Fane were then presented by the Vice-Chancellor to the Chancellor who conferred the degree on them as well as on "Sir, RE, Stubba (in abrentia).

Afterwards degrees were conferred on a number of graduates in the Medical, Science and Arta Faculties.

THE PROCESSION.

The Procession was formed as follows:

The Vice-Chancellor."

The Mace Bearer.

H.E Sir Cecil Clementi, K:OMG, The Hon Mr. R. H.. Kotowall." Mr. R. Ponsonby Fané. The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and The

Treasurer.

The Dean, Faculty of Engineering, and The Dean, Faculty of Arts:

The Registrar and H.E. The General Officer Commanding the Troops,

The Rt. Rev. The Bishop of Victoria and The Rt. Rev. Father Spada.

His Honour Sir Henry Gollan and The

Hon. Mr. E R. Hallifax.· ̈

which a distinguished Viceroy of India, in a moment of more than usual expan- sion, diagnosed as resulting not so much, from moral delinquency as from

mental hiatus,"

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AN ORNAMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY, Sir Cecil Clementi is now & Chinese scholar of substantial repute and, besides writing the University anthem in Latin verse he has published "Cantonese Love 200g (applause) nad the "Pervigi Lum Venerit." His Excellency once thereafter published a summary of the travelled from Kashgar to Kowloon and geographical observations recorded during. the journey.

He has also published a two Chinese plays, one of which was per book on the Chinese in British Guiana. formed on the occasion of the recent visit To return from this digression, when of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Now a the offer came to him in 1916, our "Chan director of companies and a harassed cellor was then administering the Govern-****

The Hou. Mr. J. H. Kemp and The Hen. Mr. C. McI. Messer.

The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy and The Hop. Sir Henry E. Pallock.

The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak and The Hon. Mr. D. W. Tratman.

The Hon. Mr. Justice J. R. Wood and sity's hands. That day has come. To why not do it gracefully Mr. Kote The Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow.

in the University, spite of the dark The Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird and The Honess which enfolds us, it is the dawn of a brighter cra. We welcome you. Your Excellency, not only as eur Chancellor but as one of our graduates whose scholar ship is an ornament to the Liniversity and whose kindly sympathy and generous understanding will be to us who work

agement (Applause.)

ment of British Quiana He wrote man of business (most business men ap accepting and expressing the hope that pear to be harassed now a days; I can't he would some day come back to Hong-think why. If they have nothing to do, kong to receive the honour at the Univer

Mr. A. O. Lang.

Dr. W. B. A. Moore and The Rev. Dr.

T. W. Pearer.

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a treatise entitled Visasaki or the In- perial Tombs, a treatise entitled Haitei perors or ex-emperors who were exiled. Monogatari, or the story of certain em- He has written about the ancient Capitale and Palaces of Japan and about the He has translated two exceedingly in- capital of Heian and its great palace teresting Japanese books, one Kokuro Nothikari or the "Strength of the Sout the other Sutoritata No Zu or wall somehow finda time not only to serve, the "Path of Knowledge" Mr. Pon the public with a devotion which is liter sonby Fane has been a friend to the ally amazing, but also to attend to the University in many ways that few know troubles of his friends. And done whose work in this University ef and we welcome him with acclamation whether there is any one in the Colony who has pioro friends than Mr. Kotewall has been one long labour of love. (Ap-' (Applause.) To all of us, in the Univer. Plause.) sity, whether teachers or students, Mr. AN APPEAL FOR THE UNIVERSITY, E

Mr. Mok Kon Sang and Mr. Feng Ping Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs and I were spective needs. And all this is been was to us who work in the University, never failed us in the hours of our re- day of your coming back to Hongkong schooled under the same ferule and in those days the scriptural maxim about and done without ostentation, in the dawn of a brighter era. This is not. the calamitous results of sparing the rol the midst of domestic anxieties before a mere platform platitude, but a convic H. were apt to be interpreted mere literally which the most public-spirited of tion which bared by all (Applause.)

than they are now."Is it true," an welcoming Mr. Kotewall into the goodly distress and this Colony is beating u

might reasonably have succumbed. The world is passing through a period of Magitated mother wrote in these brutal fellowship of honorary graduates, I can against a strong head wind of unexpected

days, that capital punishment is still in vogue at Tonbridge "Dear madam," not refrain from quoting what Dr. John and unmerited misfortune. We do not zon wrote of his friend. Henry Thrale,want to be a nuisance, to be always cry- Dr. Wood, the Headmaster replied, "I the Brewer regret to say that capital punishment is

Dr. R. 31. Gibson and Mr. G. M. Young Mr. Ho Kom Tong and Mr. Ho Kwone

Dr. S.. W. Tso and Mr. Ho Fook.

Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin' and Mr. M. Pere, an abiding consolation and encouretewall has ever been a frienul, who-has Your Excellency, I have said that the

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Pref. W. Hinton and Prof Middleton Smith.

Prof. C. Y. Wang and Prof. K. Digby.

Pro M. H. Roffey and Prof. E. K. Simpson.

Prof. W. Faid and Prof. J. Anderson. Prof. R. E Tottenham and Prof. J. W.

N. Smith.

ing poverty and clamouring for more

Mr. A. Cameron and Mr W. II. Bell, not in vogue at Tonbridge. The punish-"Simple, open, and uniform in his man-money. But surely the present is not the The Rev. C. B. Shann and Mr. P.ment is purely corporal." (Laughter) Lauder.

Dr. G. H. Thoras and Mr. G. W. Keeton.

Dr. Arthur Woo and Dr. E. P. Minett. Dr. D. J. Valentine and Mr. S. Wong

Mr. A. Fenwick and Mr. D. w. Morley,

Dr. Lai Hai Chi and Mr. An Tai Tim. Dr. J. Fenton and Mr. A. S. Hott. MAL. B. Hay and Mr.AC. Franklin.

Mr. A. Morris and Mr. H. (Hughes, Mr. A. McClay and Dr. D. R. Píllại. Dr. S. W. Phoon and Dr. R. J. Wong. Dr. W. Paterson and Mr. W Gittins.

Dr. G. W. Fope and Mr. Un Po. Mr. Chan Chak Lama and Mr. Yue Shui

Chiu.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'E ADDRESS. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, Rddressing the assembly, said:

SIR R. E. STUBBS.

ners, His conduct was without either art or

Affectation.

In the senate steadily attentive to the

interests of his king and country. He looked down with contempt on the

clamours of the multitude: Though engaged in very extensive

business,

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He found some time to apply to polite

literature: And was ever ready to assist his friends Labounng under any dificulties, With his advice, his influence, and his

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purse:

To his friends, acquaintances, and

guests,

He behaved with such sweetness of

munera

as to attach them all to his person: So happy in his conversation with them as to please all, though he attered --noperibus, creed,

MR. R. PONSONBY PANE.

moment for curtailing educational work in Hongkong. It was the commercial community of Hongkong which brought this University into being. "There can be no doubt," wrote the then senior part ner of John Swire and Son to Sir Frederick Lugard, "about the merits of your scheme which strongly appeals to my partners and myself and to which we contribute, believing that a University in Hongkong will be to the advantage of the Colony and our Empire."

Your scheme," wrote Sir Robert Hart, is excellent and deserves the fullest sup- port, and it promises much that will do real good."

Standing on this very platform on the 11th March, 1812, Sir Frederick Lugard dared to say: "When the petty questions which necessarily occupy our time and. thoughts in the busy curriculum of the day's work are swept into oblivion, when new objects of interest rise for a new. generation, this building shall atand for its purpose, has a boundless horizon and

Our late Governor won every scholar- ship and prize which Radley could offer Yand passed on to Oxford as an Exhibi- tioner of Corpus Christi Corlege. He won a first class in the honours school of Classicni Moderations and a first class in the final school of Literae Humanisers, He went into the Colonial Office in 1800 and rose rapidly. In 1913 he went th Ceylon as Colonial Secretary and in 1918 he came here as Governot. Of. Sir Ed. Iward Stubbs' career as Governor of Hong- kong I seed not speak, but as one who knew him from his boyhood I cannot refrain from saying, that the amazing quickness and tenacity of his intellectuni grasp which was my envy and despair while we were at school together, con- tinued to excite my wonder and admira tion during the 20 months that I worked In the hour of its direct heed Sir Edward. with him as Chancellor of this University.

Mr. Richard Ponsonby Fane is well-it is founded on motives and principles, Stubbs saved this University; and in conknown in Hongkong. (Applause.) He which neither pass nor die.” Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentle ferring on him the doctorate of the has served the Colony, nay the Empire We stand before the public to-day ask. men.--Let me Erst explain why at the University, we are enroiling in our records in several ways, but always in a spirit ing them not to weigh our merits, but opening of these ritea a departure was not merely a faithful Chancellor and a distinguished Governor but a great in

of self-sacrificing devotion, which is at to pardon our defects. If you can't give. made from the usual ceretconic. Why tellect. (Applause. I understand that once evidence of his sense of service still as money, we will carry on cheerfully. we put strange garb upon our Chancellor Sir Edward Stubbs published works de animating his distinguished family and of making, the best of the little that we have and then hurried him away take it off again and why the Vice-Chancellor emerg: not extend beyond the fret volume of that quiet, and all-pervading piety which but, we do claim as a right your sym- is so vital an influence in his life. Mr.pathy and co-operation. (Applause.) ing from the academie seclusion in which Lucna Historical Geography which he Ponsonby Fane was educated at Harrow, Not many years ago,

a writer in the edited. I have that he re- the Nineteenth

observed :: for a few crowded, minutes of his in-corded from time to time, in the files of indifferent health. When he was only 17 Century

cynic wrote glorious life exalted functions which ordi- the Hongkong Government, utterances he became private secretary, to the Gover with some truth The English narily appertain to office which belongsworthy of remembrance, if impossible of ner of Natal; and he has since served four middle classes have never believed by right to the highest in the land. Our publication. (Laughter.)

other governors in the same capacity, in education; they send their sons Chancellor is a man of great mental and MR. R. H. KOTEWALL, including Sir Matthew Nathan and Sir to public schools to be inoculated. bodily activity; a man, moreover, of many parts, albeit essentially self-contained, I Mr. Robert Hormus Kotewall was educ- Majesty's representatives in Hongkong, belief. A change began in 1916 and since Henry May. He has ministered to His against it." The War destroyed this un- terea atque rotundus, yet even he shrank ated at Queen's College and the Diocesan Natal, Trinidad, Ceylon and Fiji, and five then the conviction has grown, that it

Boys' School, Hongkong. He entered from the nerobatic feat of conferring a Government Service in 1996 after winning yeare of his life have been spent in roving is the duty of the age to furnish its youth Tency was ever faced with the dreadful As a civil servant he was given post same brown comforter about his neck universities are filled as never before. degree upon himself. That His Excel- first place in a competitive examination ever, the sens mainly in search of Gover with its best, and that best is believed nora, always a picturesque figure with the to be a liberal education. All schools and prospect of so daring a performance came which were always before and have ever (Laughter and applause.) Rich parents anxiously besiege house about in this wise. In 1910 the Univer- gince been held by Britishers, viz:-Chief sity of Hongkong decided to confer a Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office was Governor, this University was in dif. ents from less wealthy homes clamour During the War, when Sir Henry May masters' doore, while no less cager par- honorary degree on Mr. Cecil Clementi, First Clerk in the Magistracy (a post ficulty owing to teachers not being avail for the admission of their children into as he then was. Mr. Clementi had done usually held by men of legat training)able Mr. Ponsonby Fane then came for the municipal secondary schools, Nor is great service to the University in the critical days of its infancy and he him- and officiating Justice of the Peace. Mr. ward to help the University and ever it hard to End a reason for this new- self is and was a distinguished scholar. pursint of budget preparation were such ingly, in devoted, and gratuitous service the failure of force is education's oppor Kotewall's exploits in the soul-destroying since 1016 he has given himself. unspar belief in education. Forse has failed, and (Applause)

Educated at St. Paul's School, London, as to attract the attention of H.'s to the students of this institution. He tunity (Applause.) and passing in due course to Oxford Kotewall has always takon a great in with them; and in the annals of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mes taught them; be bts played cricket

THE CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS. 4 Demy of Magdaler College, our Chas-terest in education, especially vernacular University Cricket Club his name is and Sir CECIL CLEMENTI said:-I value very cellor took a first class in the honours education. He is a member of the Court will ever be a household word.highly the added opportunities which are school of Classical Moderatiopy and the and Council of the University, a Univer Boden Sanskrit Scholarship. He was

For some years Mr. Ponsonby Fano has cow given to the Governor of Hongkong honourably mentioned for the Hertford,sity honorary examiner in Chinese, presi made, Japan his summer residence, only for assisting in the educational progress. Craven and Ireland Scholarships and dent of the University Football Club and occasionally visiting his beautiful family of the Colony by reason of the fact that approached very nearly as the Latin Scouts. He translated His Excellency's Fane is always emphatic, that he is nokong. University I must also thank you a Patron of a Roving Troop of Boy seat in Somersetshire. Mr. Ponsonby he is t-offin Chancellor of the Hong phrase had it to the winning of the Latin University Anthem into Chinese scholar, though if genius bo an infinite most sincerely for the welcome you have Gaisford Greek Prose prize. I dare wager that there was a time when our verses of such erudition that it is said capacity for taking naine, fow would have given me on the occasion of this, my Chancellor was tempted to stay in Oxford that no one but His Excellency can under greater claims to the title than he has and live the life of molar there, but stand them (Laughter.)

Oxford's loss was Hongkong's gain. Nor A lover of books, Mr. Kotdwall has a has our Chancellor, since he came among fine library of Chinese and English us as a cadet, allowed his muse to die authors. He has written on Forestry of departmentalism that awful condition and "Government and is the author of

At any rate Mr. Ponsonby Fane has first ceremonial visit to the University published many interesting and valuable as its Chancellor and for the honorary contributions to Western knowledge of degree which the University has con things Japanese. He has published ferred upon me. It will be my constant- treatise of the Imperial Family of Japan,

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