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The Vice-Chancellor, in the course of a witty speech. dealt with the position of the University, and the universal desire for know- ledge which is existent in the world to-day.
His Excellency the Chancellor urged his hearers to high enden- vour, drawing many erudite and apposite parallels from the philoso- phers of ancient Grevce, and pointing the duty of Hong Kong University graduates to the China of to-day.
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throbbing response to atimulus then the smallest speck of life has is. If in nervous commotion, then the tree has it. "Mind and nature have thus become transfused. The macrocosm is that whose highest term is the one and the lowest the other. And man opening at will to new areas of stimulation iletermines his own, higher erviu- tion,
But are all these onthusiastic students being merely hured by a ill-the-Wisp farther, and further into the desert of unreality and! disenchantment! Of course, eda : cation as an art suffers acutely ' from the limitations of ita med and every schoot and every college has its failures. In all the world: there is no one more helpless or more hopeless than the half edurnt- ed man or woman whose hend
It thus appears that the scientist stuffed with half-baked and wholly
can prove to us "what the undigested conceits. Bill Sykes mystics "here always proclaimed, went to work with a dog and namely, that there is one ordered bludgeon; the modem tracksinan lite everywhere in and through all{ cuts into safes and through burglar things. Bat the seientist eun nit proof doors with a nicely adjusted tell us how to get in tune with scientific apparatus. Falucation sent that life, so as to apprehend is. tered broadcast without adequate The divine vixion of the poet and safeguards and proper standards the inspiration of the genius may may disintegrate society and pre-
tur transcend ordinary human epa duce that most dangerous of social seiousness but they remain infinitely Farasites a literary proletariat. removed from the cosmic conseiana- And education is costly. It is
ness. It is the human instrument economic madness to pour the that is at fault, that it is which wealth of the community into edu has to be improved. cational facilities which can never be productive. The taxpayer has a right, nay a duty, to insist that honey spent or education should be productive, but if he is to be a worthy citizen of no mean city he must be prepared to take a generous and far sighted view of the returns Considerations of this expected. kind undoubtedly weigh with the conservative and slow-moving Britisher especially when he dis cusses politics at his Club, But when in his capacity as a father he is providing for the future of his children then his instincts ont run his principles. Education may be dangerous but he must take the risk; his children at any rate must be equipped to face life in the world of to-day with all its marvellous opportunities and its tremendous problems,
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The Great War And Its Heritage.
The Great War and the world wide urbenval that went with it has burned into the consciousness of those who were boys and girls during its process an instinctive sense of the splendour of life and its awful brevity. The young men and the young women of to-day are demanding their full share in the heritage of humanity. They want to be actors, in the stupendous drams of the universe, not merely bored spectators. To whom are they to turn but to those who are willing to teach them. The teacher has long since realized the inadequacy of the printed page. He knows that the cultivation of the imagination and the extension of consci¬uanoss is the task of the future and so he will chow children the stars through great telescopes and spectroscopes: it is he alone who can by demon strations in botany and physiology train their imaginative faculties to a truer conception of the Universe,
truer conception of the i Universe will also be a truer con-
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The arrival of H.E. the Governor, (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G.). Chancellor of the University, was heralded by the opening bars of the
"Scientific Credulity," National Anthem. After robing in 1 the Vice-Chancellor's room the Pro
And the great problem of mankind is now, as it always has been, the cussion entered the Great Hall, to
Jast as in the industrial sphere problem of human understanding. the strains of the Processional March. The King's Bodyguard," Hornell. C.I.E.), spoke as follows: is in danger of being mastered by Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gen- his "awn machine, so in the sphere played by the band of the King s tlemen,Yet another troubled year of knowledge he is at the moment ception of the divine. Own Scottish Borderers, conducted has gone and the Iniversity still hopelessly outrun by his own instru by M. W. H. Fitz-Earie, A.R.C.M. Faulds on its way. I take this ments. We are accumulating stag His Excellency the Chancellor "pportunity of acknowledging once gasing facts but were making no then declared the Congregation in the loyalty of the students of corresponding imaginative develop the University. We are still hedged ment. We have acquired a sort of open, and the band struck up the in with dificulties, and our future, seientific eredulity and now-a-days, as Mr. Bernard Shaw has pointed University Anthem, which was, how as is to-day the future of many
will accept anything from ever, drowned by a thunderous displaces and institutions in China, is out,
clouded with doubt. I am not the high priests of science, just as charge of Chinese crackers.
going to weary you again, with n readily as the tales of witch doctors sarvey of our activities and opera and the stories of those who claim- tiona; "those who are sufficiently ed to be divinely inspired were "BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW" interested will have an opportuniy swallowed in Europe in the middle of reading them in the University nges. And wisdom lingers long report for 1927. My distinguished after knowledge has come. Our predecessor. Sir Charles Eliot, is brains are limited and the universe
After the conferment of Degrees
There was superstition 'enough in generally credited with having de-appers to be largely a whirl. When The Vice Chancelor and the Honsigued these amazing-garments-in our heads get into the necessary and the presentation of Scholarship the Mediterranean world when the which I am compelled annually to whirl, what little consciousness we winners, His Excellency the Chantamous pioneer of Western medical- The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and appear before you on the lines of have departs from us. A newspaper cellor delivered his speach as fol-
the Dean, Faculty of Engineer- the vestiments of some high Buddhist article recently suggested that to -ing:
Ecclesiastic. It is one of the grasnan-Einstein universe, -the-
Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Members The Dead, Faculty of Arta, cad privileges and duties of a Buddhist most appropriate training would be
the Registrar.
Ecclesiastic to beg, but even though to get apprenticed to one of the of the Congregation. Ladies and H.E. Major-General C. C. Laard I am dressed for the part I am not sects of Whirling Dervishes of Asia Gentlemen,-The conditions prevail
and H. Sir Henry Gollan.
Minor. These men have always ing to-day in this University and Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta and going round this afternoon with the Jaimed that they can reach beatific in China prompt me to speak to
begging bowl.
The Britisher' And. Education. states where they feel themselves you for a few minutes this after- in tune with the motions of the noon on the subject of "making The Britisher whose hard lot it universe.
And it is certain that bricks without straw."
Rt. Rev. Bishop C. R. Duppuy. Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax and Sir
Henry Polluck.
ADDRESS.
HEROIC, NOT RIDICULOUS.
Such an
Genius Jurma,"
The Father Of Medicine And His Cread.
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science, Hippocrates, was born in the little island of Cos more than · 23 centuries ago. A whole systent of magical, or least non-rational, aa then pharmacy and medicine in vogue and all manner of bizzarte Oriental sorceries were prevalent in and around the Aegean islanda, where the Father of Medicine spent wandering ife. He was himself born of a family of priest-physicians and brought up among its tradi- Hon Mr. C. Mel. Messer and Hon. is to be connected with education, they do rench conditions of con- occupation is usually held to be not
It was in Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe.
finds the attitude of his countrymen sinuguess quite alien to ours" and only unprofitable but even ridications and prejudices. towards this vital problem a little cut themselves with knives without loss; yet I venture to think that, auch an environment that he found- difficult to fallow. He is told that'
that the physician must be a pati- in. But the ordinary man must rightly considered, men ecgageded a medical school which taught
You will at
ent observer of fact, sceptical of with varying degrees of truculence e stability even though he knows are not a laughing-stock and may
that stability is a sheer illusion, perhaps be heroes. it is impressed upon him that the suring that everything is relative.
once see what I mean, if I change but having faith in Nature as the what is marvelous and unveriñable, deterioration and disintegration of
the
metaphor from brick-making to the social organisma (for the world ward to the inward universe the lines of poetry which
And when we turn from the out warfare and recite to you a few healer of diseases. The fine spirit of his medical school is best dis- is always getting worse) are, largely
Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow and Hon
Dr. R. H. Kotewall.
Hon Mr. R. A. C. North and Hon.
Mr. H. T. Creasy.
Hon. Mr. J. Owen Hughes and Hon. Mr. D. G. Bernard.
Sir Rober: Ho Tung and Hon. Mr.
A. C. Hynes,
Mr. A. E. Wood and Dr. 3. T.
Smalley
Mr. S. Brown and Mr. J. R.
Wood.
Rev. Dr. T. W. Pearce and Dr.
R.
11. Gibeon.
Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and Dr. Teo
Seen Wan.
Mr. Ho Kam Tong and Mr. Ho
Kwong.
Mr. Mok Kon Sang and Mr. Fung
Ping Shan.
Prof. K. H. Digby and Prol. W. J.
Hinton.
Prof. W. Brown and Prof. H. G.
Earle. Prof. F. A.. Redmond and Prof. J
1. Shellshear.
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there is far too much education and
due to the mistaken activities. The case is no "better. The very plat
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por pedagogue in the humility of form on which the University Cor. own, but which I can never read his spirit (for pedagogues are porste is now sitting is, I am assurtout a thrill. The lines are as always pour and generally humble) ed, a whirling mass of millions of
is inclued at first to plead guilty atoms and electrons dancing in to conspiracy against the common ordered harmony. But even the University Corporate cannot cape weal, and inying aside his ferule to anticipate by a few years his with this stupendous fact. If it eventual retreat into the workhouse could. the majority of the river. He must, go: does it matter when sity Corporation would probably But as he surveys the world which leap from their scats declining any eyes him with such persistent sus longer to sit on such a divine and picion, he is surprised to find that awe-insriring platform.
Then turn to the individual. What schools and colleges, are everywhere full to overflowing and that his is he but a mass of system and critics are heseiging the doors of tracking, ranging from respiration those very pedagogues whom they and blood circulation to this same so unhesitatingly condemn." Why ultimate dance of electrons and even I have been approached by atoms. The divine is all around more that she merchant prince and us, but not only can we not appre asked to use my influence to secure head it, but we feel that such the admission of his son to a college apprehension would slay us-so in that mediaeval backwater the dangerous is the thirst for God. University of Oxford. I never met] A.the late Henry Lester of Shanghai, but I am assured by those who knew Greig,
soft sentimentalist but rather a hard Mr. Chau Yue Ting and Mr. M. P. headed business man, and yet
Erlati
Henry Lester has left handsome sums of money to establish and cndow two more educational institu- tions in Shanghai
Prof. A. K. M. Simpson and Prof.
C. Y. Wang.
Prof. E. Tottenham and Prof.
W. Faid.
Prof. D. J. Finn and Mr.
Cameron..
Mr. W. H. Bell and Mr. F.
Perry,
A.
Mr. A. H. Crook and Mr. K. Ehin that, he was by no means to be able to claim na au erstwhile
Mr. Kwok Siu Lau and Mr. Li Yau
Taun.
Mr. Wong Kam Fuk and Mr. Li
Yick Mui.
Mr. H. G. Hughes and Mr. Wong
Kwong Tin.
America And Universities. The United States of America are not the British Isles nor are the Americona the British, but only last Mr. D. W. Morley and Dr. Au Tai week a man who had just come from
Tin
A study of the University of Cali-
Dr. Lai Chi Hai and M. A. H.
Fenwick.
Mr. B. C. Birch and Mr. F. H. J.fornia (and he was a British subject
Traves.
not an Amorican) 'told me that, in cluding those satudents who are at- tending what we call in Eaginnd
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Mra Ring and Miss Griffin. Dr. D. J. Valentine and Mr. A. L.
B. HAY. Rev. C. B. Shann and Dr. E. P.
Minett,
Dr. R. J. Wong and Captain A.
McClay.
Mr. A. Morris and Dr. B. Y. Wong, Dr. D. K. Pillai and Dr. S. W.
Phoon.
Dr. Li Teo Tiu and Dr. M. B.
Osman.
Mr. Un Po and Mr. Yue Shin Chiu,
Extension lectures," there are at this moment in the state of Cali
·fornia alone · not less than 200,000 persons who are taking some form of university course. The demand for education in the world of to-day is in fact universal and irresistible; it is a flood which.no individual or collection of individuala, no poli tical party, na religious organiza. I tion, no Government, can stem.
Hindu Scientist's Discoveries, The Hindu scientist, Sir Jagadesh Chandra Bose, whom I am proud colleague in the Presidency College, Calcutta, has recently been showing the Tropical Medicine Congress his wonderful instruments for recording the reaction of plants to stimulas.
"Function," Sir Jagadesh con- cluded, "is created by the action of stimulus, which may be ex ternal or internnl. Does the mind.
make the body.or does the environment Inshion the
foltowe :-
This I beheld or dreamed it in a
dream.
There spread a cloud of dust
along a plainį
And underneath the cloud, or in
it. raged
A furious battle; and mea yelled;
and swords", Shock'd upon swords and shields
A prince's Lanner Waver'd, then stagger'd back-
"ward, hem'd by focs. A craven hung along the battle
fringe
And, thought: Had 1 a sword
a keeper edge-
pla
played in the so-called "Hippo- cratic oath," which remains the watchword of the medical profes- sion, and which Professor Arthur Patt has translated thus:
"I swear by Apollo the Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panacea, invoking all the gods" and goddesses to be my witnesses, that I will full this Oath and this written covenant to the best of my power and of my judgment.
I will look upon him who shall have taught me this art even as on mine own parents; I will share has necessities, if he be in need; I with him my substance and supply will regard his offspring even as my own brethren, and will teach them this art, they desire. to
That blue blade that the King's learn it, without fee or covenant.
son bears) But this
Blunt thing I He snapp'd and
I will impart it by precept, by lecture and by all other manner flung it from his hand,
my cwn of teaching, not only to And lowering erept away and left sons but also to the sons of bim who has taught me, and to disciples. Then came the King's son, wound-bound by covenant and oath accord-
the field.
ing to the law of the physicians, the but to none other.
ed, sore beset And weaponless, and aw
broken sword, Hit-buried in the dry and trod
den sand,
And ran and snatch'd it and with
battle-cry
Lifted afresh he hew'd his enemy
dowa
And saved a great cause that
heroię day.
The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of the patients to the best of my power and judg ment, not for their injury or for any wrongful purpose." I will not give a deadly drug to any one, though it be asted of me, nor, will lead the way in such counsel; and likewise I will not give
The same idea is put negatively in woman a pessary to procure aber- ganism 1 Are those two state the adage" It is a poor work- tion. But I will keep my life and ments opposed, to each other, or man who blames bis tools" But I my art in purity and holiness. are they but one fact described submit that we do better to prevent Whatsoever house I enter, I will from different points of view? If this thought positively and to enter for the benefit of the sick, the internal stimulus be the result realize the plain fact that primi refraining from all "voluntary of inpouring forces from outside, tive man had at first no tools what- wrongdoing and corruption, espe- then when in this infinite trans-soever, and that, we men of the silly seduction of male or female, fusion enme the beginninge of twentieth century have reached our bond or free. Whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of prychic life? Even in the smallest present level of civilization because. particle we may trace the beginin by-gone centuries mon did make men, in my attendance on the sick ning of the faculty of choice. And bricks without straw.
or even apart from my attendance, atom of protoplasm accepts OF Now this University has at pre-which ought not to be blabbed refuses, submits or resists the sent three faculties-medicine, arts abroad, I will keep silence, on them, multiple forces of the destiny and engineering and I shall endes counting such things to be about it. When in all this did your to illustrate what I have said religious secrets. psychic life begin! If in the by an example under each hend
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