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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15th, 1929,

THE UNIVERSITY'S BIG DAY.

TWENTIETH CONGREGATION AND CONFERMENT OF

DEGREES.

AN ANIMATED AND INTERESTING CEREMONY.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S FRANK REVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL POSITION.

SIR CECIL CLEMENTI ON HONG KONG'S ROLE IN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT.

Time was when Hong Kong University was regarded with a certain amount of hostility. Today, it occupies an increasingly important position in the eyes of the world mainly by virtue of the fact that time has tested and proved the effiency of its teaching.

Yesterday afternoon's Twentieth Congregation and conferment of degrees presented an unusually animated scene. The lawn adjoining the tennis courts of the University was thronged by a representative gathering of leading members of the European and Chinese communities who fraternised to the accompaniment of music played by the band of the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the rattle of teacups.

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The Chancellor (His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.AG.) and the Vice-Chancellor of the University (Mn W. W Hornell, C.I.E.), gave prominence to many points of intérest in addresses which were, as usual, of very great interest to all educationalists. Of special importance was the Governor's plea for the Chinese and English peoples to make greater efforts to study and understand each other's physical, mental, and spiritual aspirations in order that perfect arcord and unanimity in the ideals and aims of both nations could result.

AN IMPOSING PROCESSION. ""

To the impressive strains of Mancinelli's march," Cleopatra." a procession of some length fled into the Great Hall at 5 p.m. The congregation remained standing until His Excellency the Governor, in the black and gold robes of the Chancellor, declared the Congregation opened for the conferring of degrees,

THE PROCESSION,

Hong Kong's First Womar Doctor.

"Two years ago our first woman

"Last year the Council sanction- ed two additional poste-a lecture ship in Chemistry, and lectureship in Physics. These two posts which were absolutely, essential, have been filled by Mr. Hill and Mr. Davies. I want in this connection to make two points clear, the first is that wo have, in the last 12 months, added to our staff three important teach- ing posts, for the Readership in Biology, though it was sanctioned some years ago, has been in aboy- ance for the last four years." The second is, that in the course of last year the University was able to secura from London for its staff, no less than five good men-Pro- fessor Ride, Dr. Herklots, Mr. Hill, Mr. Davies and Mr. Braine Hart nell. And the pay of our Pro- fessors, to say nothing "of Readers and Lecturers, is on'a sud- stantially lower scale than that of the Hong King Government School

The latter masters.

are also qualifying for peusions while oar men are not

our

"Perhaps some of you noticed as you came here this afternoon two new tennis courts; I begged these of Mr. W. H. Bell of the Asiatic Petroleum Company. We thank the Directors of the Asiatic Petroleum Company,“

The Students.

"On the 31st December, 1928, there were 300 students on the roles of the University: of these 160 were in the Medical Faculty, 85 in the Arts and 34 in the Engineer- ing. The total enrolment includes 38 girl undergraduates, 16 in the Medical and 29 in the Arts Faculty. If any one doubts whether the Chinese of Hong Kong are in earnest about the education not only

let him motor along the Caine and Bonham Roads at about 4 p.m., when the schools are discharging their victims.

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Congregation Opened.. The Chancellor declared the Con- The procession presented an in-gregation open in

terms: I declare this congrega- | Tong wag presented for her degree tion open for the conferring of Miss Ho Tung had done exceedingly posing spectacle and was formed as

degrees."

well here and was in fact an out follows:

standing student. She went London and did very well at the

Among the many needs of the London Tropical School of Medicine University is a girls hostel, and an and in the University of London. infnential committee, of which Col. From London she went to Dublin

the following graduate in medicine, Miss Eva Ho of their boys but also of their girls. S. Moutrie & Co.,Ltd.

His Excellency the Chancellor, The Mace Bearer, The Vice-Chancellor and The Hon.

Trenaurer.

The Dean, Faculty of Medicine, and

The Dean, Faculty of Engineer ing.

The Dean Faculty of Arts, and

The Registrar,

H.E. Major-General C. C. Luard

and H.H. Sir Henry Collar. Rt. Rev. Bishop H. Valtorta and

Rt. Rev. Bishop C. R. Duppuy Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn and Hop.

Sir Joseph Kemp." Hon, Mr. C. Mel, Messer and Hon.

Mr. E. R. Hallifas. Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy and Hon.

Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe.

Dr. R. H. Kotewal.

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The Vice-Chancellor then rose, bowed to the Chancellor and the Congregation and then addressed the assembly.

THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS.

HONORARY DEGREE FOR

R. F. JOHNSTON,

to

Finarce.

and she has since become a member Skinner has been kind enough to of the Royal College of Physicians become the Chairman, has issued an of Ireland. The Head of the appeal. Rotunda Hospital has written to our Professor of Obstetrics and Gyne- MR.cology to say that Miss Ho Tung's

work was of outstanding merit.

The Vice-Chancellor, Mr. W. W. Hornell, said:

"The Balance Sheet for 1998 has

not yet been drawn up, but I am not looking forward to it with any mis- giving. We are paying our way, Sir Robert Ho Tung is one of but the future is dark and uncer the University's great benefactors tain. The Finance Committee Eas and I hope that Sir Robert feels sounded a hote of warning, that that his daughter's quite remark-

able achievements may be regarded unless fresh sources of revenue

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My first act this afternoon is to welcome the Chancellor back. to the University. His Excellency is not only the University's Chan- cellor, but its champion.

"I will ask Your Excellency to the pleasure of presenting Your Ex. And no University can stand still. confer honoris causa this Univer-cellency with another Sir Robert's "When the Legislature of Hong am I. (Laughter.) The burden of Hon. Sir Show Son Chow and Hor.sity's degree of Doctor of Laws on daughters as winner of one of the Kong passed the University Ordin the University's poverty is the His Honour Reginald Fleming John University's scholarships. The giverance of 1011, it committed itself burden which the Legislature of Hoa, Mr. W. E. L. Shenton and ston, Master of Arts of the Univer- of the scholarship which Miss Jean and the Colony to the establish- Hong Kong has laid upon us, for

sity of Oxford and Commander of Ho Tung has won was the late mept of a University for the the Most Excellent Order of the lamented M:. Ho Fook. There is motion of Art, Science and Learn British Empire." The Vice-Chan- nothing like keeping scholarships in ing, for the formation of the charac cellor then briefly explained the the family. (Hear, hear!, and ter of students of all races nation

alities and creeds, and, for the reasons for the delay in" conferring laughter.)

maintenance of good understanding this degree, suggested 13 years ago

with the neighbouring country of China.

a satisfactory return for the be discovered, the prospective. said to me the other day-The Uni- money which he has put into this pecuniary resources of the Univer-versity is always passing round the University. In the course of this sity will not, in a few years time, hat. We are getting a little tired, cover its financial. commitments. afternoon's ceremony I shall have

of this shameless mendicancy. So

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Valued Donations.

During 1929, Mr. Kwok Siu Lau gave University $30,000 and requested His Excellency to make the best use he could of the money His Excellency, after consulting the Senate and Council, decided to de- vote the money to the Department of Biology. I may added that in the course of the last few months Dr. Herklots has joiner us as a

His Honour Mr. Johnston is too well-known to need a long introduc tion at my hands. He was born in Scotland and went in due course to Edinburgh University. From Edin burgh he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and it was then that his friendship with Chancellor began.

"Mr. Johnston, as he then was,Reader in Biology. worked in Hong Kong till 1904. He "In the course of the last year, then went to Wei-hai-wei as Secre the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and tary to that Government. From the Hon. Mr. Kotewall, went out 1800-1917 he was Senior District into the highways and hedges to oficer and Magistrate in Wei-hai- gather money for a Chinese School. wei, and during 1917 and 1918 he A sum of $170,000 has already been administered that Government. collected and a further contribution From 1918 to 1925 Mr. Johnston of 830,000 has been guaranteed. acted, as Tutor to the Ex-Emperor These sums are exclusive of a con- pi China Не

appointed tribution which the University has already received from the generous hands of Mr. Tang Chi Ngoug, now

Warden of the Summer Palace in 1924 and in November of that year he brought the Ex-Emperor into the Legation Quarter of Peking He was Secretary to the China In- demnity Delegation in 1926. In 1927 ho went back to Wei-hai-wei as Commissioner.

When Sir Henry May informed

pro-

At the same time the Legislature of Hong Kong proclaimed to the world th it the standards of its University would not be below the standards of the Universities in Great Britain.

we are only trying to carry out the Legislature's expressed wishes! We can hear the burden but let the saddle be light. If we can't have money, at least let us have good- will.

Problem Of Future Must Be Faced..

"No one realises more acutely than I do, the tremendous difficul ties which underly the maintenance and effective development of this University. His Excellency the Chaucellor has just returned from **This University has to provide | Sghting our cause in London with and maintain three large hostels for a tenacity which nothing but the students and residences for the strongest conviction, nay, devotion,, members of its staff. It has to bring could have maintained. If all hope practically all its teachers out from of getting help from the Boxer In England with wives and families, demnity Fund must be finally and and to send them back to England irrevocably abandoned, the whole every four years also with their problem of the University's future will have, before long, to be faced wives and families.

here in Hong Kong:

Mr. Lo Chung Kue and Mr. F. A. Mr. Johnston, in 1916, that the being started from the beginning of nothing of the Clinical Departments quite a lot of money on education

Perry,

Mr. P. Talati and Mr. A. E.

Crook

Mr. J. H. Seth and Mr. D. J..

Lewis.

University wished to confer on this year.. bim its honorary degree, he explain. ed that the University desired to

do so in recognition of the literary work which Mr. Johnston had done

tions of China.

His

ellency And The Study of

Mr. Chau. Luc Ting and Mr. Sumon the history and existing "condi- in the University know quite well

Pak Ming. Mr. Wong Tak Kwong and Rev. H.

R. Weils.

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Robertson.

The Medical School. "The Medical School of this

Of Practical Valne, University not only involves the em- "But all this, I hear the prac ployment of large University staff tical man retaliate, is rhetoric; we of teachers, but also a considerable

are a commercial community and staff of persons whose work is con- Hong Kong is a place for trade. fined to the Government Civil Hos Show us how your University is a member of the University's Court,pital but who are a charge on the going to enhance the prosperity of as is also Mr. Kwok Siu Lau.

University's funds; it also involves Hong Kong "Government also sanctioned a the maintenance and upkeep of My friend, I meekly reply, it special and supplementary grant of laboratories for Anatomy. His bccurs to me as strange that the 32,200. On the strength of these tology, Embryology, Physiology people of the United States of sums, a special diploma course in Biology, Biological Chemistry America should take auch a diame Chinese Classics, and English, is Pathology and Pharmacology to saytrically opposite view. They spend of Surgery, Medicine, and Obstein China. They have recently estab trics and Gynaecology.

lished a China Institute in America "You may say that the old Hong and among the declared objects of Chinese.

Kong College of Medicine did good that Institution is the creation of Chinese who are interested work. The College was founded by fellowships and scholarships "to a great man, the late Sir Patrick enable not only Chinese to study that had it not been for our Chan Manson, and it was maintained by in American Colleges and Univer cellor, the attempt initiated two the enthusiasm and devotion of the sities, but also Americans to study Our First Chancellor."

on the strength of doctors of Hong Kong. Incidental in China. The New Year's Honours list of years ago, Mr. H. G. Hughes and Mr. B. 1928, raised our first Chancellor and § 240,000 collected in Malaya, to pro-ly, the fact that there is not in They have also, recently estab the University's practical founder, vide better facilities in this Univer- this University, or indeed anywhere

Harvard-Yenching Institute" "for Dr. Lai Chi Hsi and Dr. Au Taito the Peerage. Lord Lugard has sity for the study of Chinese, would in Hong Kong any sort of memorial lished and generously endowed the

done great service for his King and have had to be abandoned alto- to Sir Patrick Manson scarcely Chinese studies,

the credit of the

John Buskin died in 1900—a Country in many parts of the world, gether. It is now for the Chinese redounds, to

very old man. To the practical man "But medical science has grown of his generation, John Ruskin In replying to my congratulations to show that they appreciate what Colony.. he did not hesitate to say that he has been done for them by support-

and with it the demands which the was an ineffectual, scolding, sweet looked back on, no event with ing this special course.

China is stumbling forward into public makes on the doctor. Our tempered, childish angel But to greater satisfaction and pleasure

new phase of national exist medical degrees are recognised by than the creation of this University.

"Last year we lost by death ence. Our Chancellor believes that the General Medical Council of John Raskin it was an intuition that prosperity, was not to be men- Dr. Joseph Bartlett Addison and national character is an abiding Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Jackman, both of whom served product of a nation's past, and be recognition would certainly be with. 'sured in terms of money and in that on the Council and Court of the challenges China and the World to drawn if we lowered pur standards intuition lay the seeds of the are now passing and in social and University. Both wore good friends show that those who are going to of teaching. And there is another Social Revolution through which we industrial matters we are still to this Institution and the Univer- try and guide the China of the consideration.

future can afford to ignore its When, in 1923 and 1924, the stumbling after him, sity deplores their loss.

University Court accepted the

On the 18th November, 1928, Rockefeller endowments, it did so Changes In Staz,

01 the understanding that the exactly 100 years had passed since Professor Earle and Professor Medical School of the Hong Kong Franz Peter Schubert died. That medical Anderson left us during 1928, draw University was going to be conduct day was a world-festival of music. student who was about to enter away to Shanghai by the wealthy ed, not only as regards the teach-The sweetness of his harmonics was with the highest hopes for the final Lester Trust,

ing the University, but also in literally Aoating out of the ether examination of the Medical Course." In Dr. Earle's place we have the matter of its clinical work in the from the flood to the world's end." Schubert had come into his She got blood poisoning and the end Professor L. T. Ride from the Government Civil Hospital, as an came with tragic quickness. A hard- Physiological Department of Guy's officient and up-to-date modern own at last! Yet in his day he went working student and one much he Hospital. Here the University han University Medical School of the hungry!" (Applause.)

(Continued on Page 5.) loved by her fellows. (Hear, hear.) been exceedingly fortunate.

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Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr.

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Mr. A. H. Fenwick and Mr. B. G.

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Mr. F. H. J. Trayes and Mr. A.

C. Braine Hartnell,

Mr. R. A. Hill and Mr. D. F.

Davies

Mrs, Ring and Miss Griffin. Rev. C. B. Shana and Mr. 8. V.

Boxer.

Mr. A. Morris and Dr. E. P.

Minett

Mr. G. W. Reeve, and Dr. E. W.

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Dr. A. Cannon and Dr. S. Y. Wong.. Mr. T. A. Martin and Dr. R. J.

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Dr. S. W. Phoon and Dr. G. H.

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