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NEW UNIVERSITY HOSTEL.

FOUNDATION STONE LAYING OF RICCI HALL.

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HIS EXCELLENCY PERFORMS CEREMONY.

TRIBUTES TO THE JESUIT FATHERS.

Eloquent speeches were made and cordial tributes paid to the Jesuit Fathers on the occasion of the foundation stone laying of a new Hostel for University students on the site of the old Fly Point Battery on Pokfulam Road just beyond the Eo Tung Work- abop and in close proximity to the University buildings -The new institution will when completed to be an imposing building.. and go under the name of Ricci Hail,

His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn. C.M.C.), who performed the cere mony, arrived on the site with Mrs Southern and Capt. A', J. Î.. Whyte (A.D.C.). His Lorship Bishop Valtorta, Rev. Father G. Byrne, and other Jesuit Fathers received the Government House party and were the hosts to tea provided under temporary mat- sheds to a large number of those interested in education who were present.

The Band of the St. Louis industrial School played the.. National Anthem on the arrival of His Excellency and at the close of the ceremony which was £xed for 3 o'clock in the after- zioan. Other selections, were given by the youthful musicians be- fore the proceedings commenced and they received congratulations from those present.

His Lordehip Bishop Valtorta also addressed the gathering pointing out the value of schools controlled by the Jesuit Fathers and their influence and good-example on behalf of Modern China. It was a matter of pride, he said, that the work started by Father Ricci three centuries ago was still being carried on by willing and worthy hands.

FATHER BYRNE'S" ADDRESS. ĻI Hong Kong, as proved by the junction this afternoon fellewing

Thanks To Triends.

It is our happy task to thank all those who have been associated with us in many ways, in, the work of erecting this hostel. In the first place Bishop Vallorth who invited us to Hong Kong and to those kind Bess We owe a debt of gratitude which we cannot repay in the second place to the Vice-Chancellor of the University and the Univers sity Authorities for the beautiful site which they have put it our disposal and much helpfulness in other ways. In this connection I cannot omit to mention very special- ly H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi who has encouraged us from the start. To Messrs. Little. Adams and Wood we owe the design which we are sure wil be admired, to Messrs. Lam Woon keen interest in the con struction.

Finally it is with sincere gratitude that we thank H.E. the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.O.. for graciously setting aside "the time, out a very busy programme, for our function this afternoon. Sometimes the public do not realise what a call upon the time and a strain upon the energies of an Officer in His Excellency's position these functions may become." So it comes to pass that if some or ganized Body require a new um- brella they think it natural that His Excellency should open it.

One little "word about the band. Mr. Leong Hing Kee, who has catered for us this afternoon, hai very kindly offered the orchestra of the Savoy Hotel. The offer was. tempting, but we both agreed that the pleasure which would be yours. ladies and gentlemen, in realising what has been accomplished in the newly-opened St. Louis Industrial School, in ten months, by little boys the streets, would more than com pensate for depriving you of a first- class orchestra.

CANNON GIVE PLACE TO THE close on a similar one at Morrison who would otherwise be roaming

HOSTEL.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S

SPEECH...

Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E. (Vice- Chancellor of the University) spoke is follows:-"

Your

Excellency my Lord Bishop, Ladies and Gentlemen,- Some two years ago, Father Byrne and another Jesuit Priest came to Rang Kong on a special mission.

Hall, we are more sanguine. about Addressing the gathering. Father the role of Universities and we Byrne anid:-

should prefer to re-echo the words of Viscount Haldane that "to maintain the Universities of the country at a high level is an act of high patriotism on the "part of The word Hall" the citizens." has been consecrated to students' résidential quarters. It is rather a colourless word which we should like to replace though we might The object of this mission was find it difficult to do so. We hope the expansion of the influence of the Church of Rome as an agent that the "all" will be a home for working for Sauth China's good. I the students. We should be afraid, should not dare to suggest that, however, to write "Home" over before he landed in Hong Kong, Father Byrne had never heard of our porta la lest octogenarians might this University, Very little goes be applying for a quiet resting on in the world but Father Byrne place, or the Society for Prevention knows of it." But I have no reason

Your Excellency, My Lord Bishop. Ladies and Gentlemen.At a time when the League of Nations and many other bodies are striving to find a way of abolishing war, it is A happy omen in Hong Kong that an old landmark, suggestive of war, is losing its military appearance. Our contractor, Mr. Lam Woo, can tell us that it was a tough job to move the old cannon from Fly Point Battery, but the old cannon has gone, and to-day we have come together to lay the foundation stone of a new University Hostel Ricei Hall-the culture of peace is to replace the suggestion of war,

Like the existing hostris, the new one is called after a distinguished On the 5th September Matteo Ricci (pronounced Ritchie-arriv. ed in an official junk at Peking. He was the first Europeon to do so since Marco Polo: This was in the year 1595. At the time China was sealed Empire to all foreigners, The efforts of Ricci to gain admis sion have been told and retold as

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SPRINGS ON THE

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| NO APPRECIABLE ADDITION TO OUR WATER.

of Cruelty to Animals might becam for thinking that he had any parti- Byrne, my Lord Bishop, Ladies cular interest in us. Certainly the curious about our housing accom establishment, of a Roman Catholic and Gentlemen,It was

MANY ALREADY USED, modation. There are six Halls in Hostel to be associated with this of great satisfaction to me, 'both existence, three belonging to the University, though such a project as Pro-Chancellor of the University had been mooted before, was not so and as Officer Administering the University and three under

Although the Water Authority do management of Missionary Bodies.

far as I am awaze, one of the ideas Government of this Colony, to know The verp concept of University which Father Byrne came from that the Jesuit Order had under- not doubt the existence of springs en the island. they nevertheless education makes it clen: why there Ireland to China to realize. At taken the work of providing an- should be Halla differing in the any rate he came and after brief other hostel for the undergraduates think that no appreciable addition facilities which they offer

interviews with H.E. the Chan.of Hong Kong University, The student for the development of that cellor and myself, supplemented no University, as you know, is very could be made to the water in our A fascinating page in the history side of his education, which does doubt, by the advocacy ef that good dear to the heart of the Hong Kong reservoirs by tapping these springs. nc is it This interesting statement WAB of missionary endeavour. He is not enter into the curriculum of friend to the University, Bishop Government, and to described by a Chinese annalist; the lecture rooms. Newman, in his Valtorta, he decided to throw in his dearer than to the Governor, Sir made at the Sanitary Board meet-

A man with a curling beard and Idea of a University, defines Int with us. The result is this Cecil Clementi, who will, I am sure, blue eyes, his voice like a great University to be a place of teaching Hostel Ricci Hali, the foundation regret as much as we do his in- ing yesterday in reply to questions bell, was admitted to an imperial universal knowledge. He stresses tone of which His Excellency will ability to be present on this perd raised by Dr, W. V. M. Koch.

sion, for we are not merely, laying audience. He presented books, the fact that its object is intel-

Mr. G. R. Sayer presided at the the foundation stone of a material images, and other objects from his lectual but hastens to add that lay this afternoon.

University's Growing Pains.

structure, but are laying sure meeting and he was supported by native country. He was intelligent, moral fermition is necessary for

This decision of Father Byrne and foundation for the continued pros the Hon. Mi. Harold T. Creany, witty, and of manifold ability, its integrity. Now a Hall under understood our Chinese writings the management of a religious body the unfaltering faith and enthusiasm perity of a great Institution. and could read whatever he had provides, for tht student who with which he has pressed on with

I wish to endorse what Father C.B.E., Dr. G. W. Pope (M.Ö.H.), wishes to avail himself of it. the the project have been to me the Byrne has said of the need for this Dr. S. W. Tao, Mr. J. P. Braga, Guce glancel at."

possibility of continuing pari source not only of comfort but also hostel, of the advantages of higher Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Dr. W. V. with his intellectual training the of encouragement. The University education and of the magnificent religious culture of his soul, and of Hong Kong has just grown big possibilities for good which are in- M. Koch, Lt. Col. and Brevet Col

aud Mr. J. Watson · for those who believe in religion enough to feel its growing pains herent in the University of Hong Bostock no deducational claim can surpass

Can this young institution be Kong

We stand in a unique posi (Secretary). this claim. It is for this reason nourished into vigorous and effec- tion towards the great nation of

Dr. Koch: Will the Head of the that the Catholics of Hong Kong Live manhood? I read of millions China, an oasis of peace where the have for many years desired the of pounds sterling being given to different races and different creeds Sinitazy Department ascertain for perhaps, to forget our scientiel erection of the hostel of which the universities elsewhere. And then I can dwell together in unity, and the information of the Board whe look at Hong Kong a tiny Colony it is to our University, built and ther any attempts have been made whose fate is surrounded in mys endowed largely by Chinese liber

Father Ricci And The Learned QI Peking.

We are inclined to forget that, even to-day, we must enter the galleries of the sixteenth century 28 ppils learn frein great ms ters such as da Vinci Michael Angelo, Raphael or "still

more.

debt to Kepler, Tycho Brahe Galileo, Yalius. Ricci did more. than move under the shadow of

foundation stond is laid to-day.

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China.

Dr. Koch: Assuming such surrey

Bread And Eutter Outlook.

tory, and et a devastated and ality and serving almost exclusively by responsible authorities to find From time to time the bread- brigand infested China, and there the needs Chinese students, DEPT.these great names, he was a pupil and-butter outlook" becomes strong comes over me a sense of bewildere mods of cranes the lightht out," by boring, the existence of

of Clavica of whom Galileo wrote: isome section of a community and ment not antinged with anxiety.of western culture, to extend the springs on the island.

I have had a long discussion with they grow restless, like Mr. Wells But if Father Byrne and the great benefits of western science among Mr. Sayer: Not by the Water Father Clavius and with two other who by the way was trained in a world order to which he belongs the people of a great nation whose Authority, who has no reason to most intelligent Futhers of the same University to which he must we have faith in the University's future; own culture, great though it has doubt the existence of springs on Jegait Order.

We have com- some of his literary style, because who am I that I should doubt been, is unequal, by its own unhid- pared notes and have found that University graduates are to be There were Jesuit Missionaries ined efforts, to the stupendous task the island. our experiences tally in every rea- found selling tea and sugar over China long before any British of the rehabilitation of Modern Dr. Koch: Has any report on the pret." Father Clavius was called counters. Some years ago we, read trader set foot on her shores.

It is indeed appropriate the Euclid of the sixteenth cen- of a man who, without any scholas-

Self Arzihilating Devotion that the name of one who did so Geological survey of the Island and tury and to the end was a per- tie training built up, a big grocery

Opinions differ as to the intrinsic much to introduce the arst know- Mainland been drawn up lately; sonal friend of Galileo. Trained in businese. On his death a member

scholars of China should be per such a school Ricci had no difficulty of a club which he used to frequent value of the service which the ledge of Western science to the and if so has the report been made in becoming astronomer, physicist, sarcastically remarked that the most suit Fathers have done, and are petuated in this hostel, which is to public if not is there any inten-

tion to make such report public? continue and to extend the work geographer, watek-maker to meet fitting inscription for his tomb doing," for humanity. But

Mr. Sayer: The report is not yet many demands of the learned in would be: Born a Man. He died serious student of history could he so ably began; and I trust that Peking. Ha was a musician also, a Grocer. It was a hard word; question the complete, the sell the faith and liberality which are in the hands of the Government. It and composed eight melodies, with but it was a neat way of express annihilating devotion with which words teaching Christian morality, ing a profound truth. There are every single member of the Order manifested in to-day's ceremony is hoped that it will be completed These, we read, became popular great possibilities in a human life. gives up his life for the cause for may inspire others to contribute of by the spring of 1929. When com eongs in the royal palace.

But his These possibilities are not express which Ignatius of Loyola founded their abundance to the pressing pleted it will be made public. greatest achievement was his mas ed by anything outside a man, they the Society nearly. four hundred needs of this most potent instru- lery of Chinese literature and the are to be gauged by the culture of years ago. On the slopes of Montment for the peace and prosperity facility, which be acquired of writ- the man himself.. A man may live matze close to the Great Sacré of China-the University of Hong

Kony. ing works on a wide range of sub in a glorious castle; yet his life Coeur Church which now dominates

THE STONE LAID. jects. In one of his letters he pays may be empty because his mind is Paris, there still stands a little

so, is it not possible to tap, them a high tribute to the culture of the void of ideas and his will is not Church, the oldest Church in Paris,

the Church of Saint Pierre. Here After a dedicatory prayer by His and ensure a reasonable addition to Chinese, adding that they needed braced by ideale. only the acquisition of Western East and West have much to in the crypt one very early morning Lordship Bishop Valtorta, the stone the water stored in the various

His Reservoirs 1'. Science to be the most crudit: learn from each other. Hong Konger and a few other Spanish Excellency declared the stone to be Mr. Sayer: The Water Authority

in 1534 Ignatius of Loyola, Francis was lowered into its place. people on the globe.

should be an ideal place for a It is difficult to see how a more happy interchange. Many students students took the oaths which made well and truly laid to the glory does not consider that any appre fitting mme could be chosen for a from the East have gone to the them Jesuit. The Society now ex-of God and in the cause of higher ciable addition to the amount of water stored in reservoirs can be Hall in which it is hoped that the West. Complaints have been made tends throughout the world wit-education."

The stone bore the following in- looked for by tapping the springs" Bast and West will combine for that they have, in several cases, ness for nearly four centuries to

returned unsettled themselves and the Inith of men of many different scription:--- higher studies.

unacttling in their influence. There races in a cause far greater than is no doubt that a change, in youth themselves. And this faith is the of tremendous power, of ful years, from East to West is source very radical: it may be disturbing. immense capacity for effective ae- In Hong Kong both civilizations tion. I believe that this power- meet. It is the hope of those res and this capacity-will henceforth ponsible for Ricci Hall that this be among the forces working for the meeting may be the source of greater usefulness of the University fragrant streams", flowing into of Hong Kong and I am therefore

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THE HON, W. T. SOUTHOIN, C.H.G. ON TUESDAY THE 13TH NOVEMBER, 1928,

to have been made, are there any indications of the existence of springs on the island, especially in and about Mount Parker, and if

on the island. A large number of springs are already tapped by the catchwater.

I would also observe that these questions fall entirely outside the purview of my own department, and I have to acknowledge, in par ticular, the assistance of the Water Authority in providing me with replies to questions Nos. 1 and 3,