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UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA

PROFESSOR FORSTER'S ANALYSIS OF A GREAT

NATIONAL MOVEMENT

AMERICAN INFLUENCE CRITICISED

Professor Furster, in the course of his Presidential address to the Education Society of Hong Kong, delivered, at the Univer sity last night, gave a vivid picture of the Universities' movement in China where there are now. nearly 31,000 gudenta and 50 universities. A League of Nations' report has oulogised this great effort, an opinion which Professor Forster fully endorses, with the criticism that the American spirit of progress, with the view that the future is all-important and the past negligible, does not mix ensily with Chinese traditions.

Professor. Forster said:-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1932.

SEQUEL TO NUMBER OF KOWLOON ROBBERIES

TWO. MEN CHARGED ON!

23. COUNTS

Chan Sang and Tsang Kan ap peared, before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on 23 charges of larceny.

Among the long list of victims of i the thieves activities were severalį well-known loca] European resid- ents, Toy were:--

Mr. John Cameron, 22 Somerset Road, Kowloon. A clock valued at 823.

Shu Ho Sre, 3 Lincoln Road, Kowloon Tong. An electric' iron! valued at 814.

Mrs. Alice Burleigh, Canton Vil- las, Kimberly Road, Kowloon. A Singer Sewing machine valued at

in experiunting and exploring the According to the Intest available modern by paths of knowledge statistics there are 30 Universities namely U.S.A. The introduction in China, and these contain 33,847 of this policy has meant that stud- students of whom only 3,500 arents have been called upon to study woman. The growth in University subjects that are not relevant to the life since it has been plusuomenal, social life of China, and do not 'and is a measure of the importance emerge naturally from it. which the Chinese attach to these lins therefore been, as

Miss Maria Rajeala, 4 Peace Institutions as centres for moulding already said, confusion of aims, Avenue, Houmuntia. Dresses valu- nad directing the energies of the wrong emphasis, and much super-ed at $15. nation along the new paths, which |ficiul and meaningless work.

Western nations have

indicated.

There has been a kind of Univer

There

WO have

Shanghai and Pelping.

sity fever as a first response to the There are thirteen universities in infection caused by the Western" | Shanghai alone, and twelve in Pei- scientific germ

To illustrate this ping, and in those two cities sixty growth in another way, there were per cent, of the undergraduates of in 1912, 29 University teacher at Chinn are to be found. We visited work; in 1991 there were 5.594 on St. John's University:

This the staff of the various Universi-stitution is presided over by Dr. tics, and new institutions are still Hack Pott, & benign, stolarly man

springing up or developing rapidly

in Yunnanfu, Wuchang and Chung- king.

whose inner calm and repose seemed

to find expression in the study in which he received us, and in the League of Nations' Opinion. pleasant old world garden, with its Is a report just issued by the well-kept lawn and shady trees, League of Nations Mission of through which the sun glinted, the Educational Experts, and composed whole being shut off by a high wall of Dr. C. H. Becker of Berlin, P: from the busy noisy world outside. Langevin of Paris, M. Falski of It was difficult to recall that only Warsaw and R. H. Tawney of a month or two previously, this London, there is the following state. university had been on the edge of a modern battle field, and had wit- It is with the greatest satisfac-nessed, the dendly effect of modern Still it had survived this tion that we take this opportunity guns. of preording at this point our streng crisis, which naturally affected the sense of the educational progress students profoundly, as it had sur- made since the Revolution. To have rived several other difficulties in the rmintnised in the midst of civil course of recent years, disorder, international complica- tions, sharp Guancial strains and the recarcent calamities of flood

ment:--

and drought, the conviction that the education of the rising generation is among the principal comterns of

840.

Mr. Karel Tomesh, 10 Felix Vil las, Hong Kong, A gold watch and coat, valued at 800.

Mr. C. A. Goldenlierg, 204 Prince Edward Road. A gold cigarette case valued at $90. [

Mra, F. N. Harlottle, 12 Somer- set Road, Kowloon Tong. A valu able gramaphone.

The appearance of these two ne cused men, said Detective Inspector

Lamont, in opening the case for the

prosecution, is the sequel to a series of robberies which have been carried out with much success, from number of European houses.

After the evidence of the com-

plainants had been taken the case was adjourned.

ought finally to serve.

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CHASE BANK'S CLAIM

TO TZE YUEN

CROSS-EXAMINED

BY MR, SHELDON

DEALINGS WITH CHARLIE

CHOY

CURIOUS HOTEL INCIDENT

BLUEJACKET CHARGED

At Kowloon Magistracy yoster- day a charge of common ashult was brought against A. B. Buglar of H.M.8. Koppel by Mra, Watts, an employes of the Peninsula Hotel, A plea of "Not Guilty" was entered by the defondant through his solicitor, Mr. F. X, D'Almada.

Mrs. Watts stated that at 12.35 on the morning of October 27, she was awakened by a blow on the head, and on switching the light

The ease in which the Chase Bank is suing the Yue Yau firm in respect of a bill of exchange for Yen 100,000 were continued before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp} yester day.

Mr. Potter concluded his address] near hor bed, she found the defend-|

She for the defence yesterday, and sub- ant lying down beside her. mitted that on the evidence there pushed him away and jumped up was not the slightest doubt that the with the intention of telephoning to bill was handed to the Equitable the hotel office. Defendant ran out Bank for collection, and it was the of the room through the window result of their own employee's fraud and escaped by the back-way. She and defalcation that it was not paid reported the matter to the Manager of the Hotel, and the police were. Inter informed of the incident.

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Mr. To Tze Yuen then gave evi. dence in support of Mr. Potter's address. Cross-examined by Mr. Sheldon, Mr. To said that there was no connection between, the Yue Yau firm in Hong Kong and the Yau Yue firm of Kobe. The Yae Yau were merely the local agents of the You Yue.

What kind of agency 1-To sell their bills of exchange and to pay their accounts.

Witness explained in answer to

further questions that he was agent for the firm in Formosa and its branches in Kobe and Amoy.

.

The following day she was asked to come to the hotel office where she saw the Manager, the Assistant. Manager, an Indian sergeant and the defendant. She identified de- fondant as the man who was in ber bedroom the night before.

In reply to Mr. d'Almada, wit- Dess said she clearly recognised the defendant. She was not dazed by the blow on her hoad, and saw de fendant's fago when she switched on

the light, she added: "I had so impression of this man's face which I will never forget to my dying

Witness said sho did not shriek because she did not want to wake up the guests of the hotel. As she jumped, out of the bed, defendant rushed to the window and stood out- side.

Mr. Sheldon: What is the Kobe day." firm's business I don't know,

It would be an unusual thing for you as a business man to draw a bill for Yen 100,000 on a firm you know nothing about? We didn't doal direct with the Kobe firm but direct with the Formosa firm, so that the Kobe firm has nothing to do with us,

You draw bills on this firm up to Yen 130,000?—Yes.

We passed on in the same city to the University of Nunking which is much smaller more compact and even more delightfully situated than

It is unusual¡ás a matter of com- the larger and older, national uni- versity about which we have just marcial practice to draw such large been speaking. This institution re-bills on a firm you knew nothing ceived its charter on incorporation about?-It was not necessary for from the Regents of the University me to know anything about the firm We proceeded to Nauking and of the Station of New York in in Kobe for the reason that I deal there with letters of introduction, 1911 and the deed entitling it to direct with the firm in Formosa. provided by the Minister of EducaGovernment registration in 1929. They are responsible to me for any tion, Dr. Chu, a keen, alert, offi. It has three faculties or collegeslom er damage.

Nanking.

Mr. d'Almada: Why didn't you go after him?

Witness:I am not a fool, Why?—You think I would chase a man who had just attacked me }

Do you say he was drunk-No,, ho was smelling strongly of liquor. You couldn't say he was drunk at the time?-He might have been, but I would not swear to it.

The Assistant Manager of the Peninsula Hotel Mr, A. Fleslie, gave evidence that he was on duty on the night of October 27 when ho was informed that a European, question stated that the Kobe firm dressed in civilian clothes, was was, he thought owned by the walking up and down the second floor balcony at the back of the Formosa firm.

What has happened to the Kobe hotel. Witness went there and found the defendant and asked him firm -I don't know.

Vhon was your last correspo- what, he was doing. Defendant re dence 7-End of 1830.

plied that he was a police offiour You seem very anxious to dis- and was making private investiga- claim all knowledge of the Kobe tions. Witness sent for the Mana- office 7-Because I don't know any.ger, and they asked defendant to go thing about it.

a civilised society, and to have cient administrator, we were ableArts, Science and Agriculture, The Witness in answer to another Jaboured, M circumstances have to enter the Central University Government refuse to recognise any allowed, to proutote its development. which is one of the most famous of institution as a University unless it is an gebievement of which not all the National foundations. This has a college of science and at least western Governments have shown university has eight faculties or two other colleges. This contrast themselves capable.”

colleges ns they are called in the with. the European tradition is too This is the higli tribute, which official nongclature-law, engineer-striking to be passed over. In Ox- these experts pay, to the zeul and ing, Chinese, medicine, education, ford Duke Humphrey's gateway sincerity of those, who are respon pure science, agriculture and econo-into the Bodleian leads up to three sible for guiding the destiny of mics. The Legal and Medical doors -over which is inscribed young China, and it is a tribute schools of the University, however, respectively Law, Medicine and that must be endorsed by all who are situated in Shanghai. Tho Theology but the lattor occupies the

to the office. travel to the chief uities of Chinn, figures for 1031 give an enrolment Central and most important posi Can you explain why in August In the office, defendant denied of 1003, and a staff of 376 teachers. tion. The supreme position to-day the Formosa firm received a letter that he had been to the hotel the Expansion and Change-over.

This is one of the surprising in China is officially reserva for from the firm in Kobe resigning night before. The police were call- But, the expansion of these new features of Chinese Universities science which thereby displaces from their position as receiving and ed and Mrs. Watte sent for. On intellectual contres has been too the generous scale on which staff is Ethics and Morals as the main collecting agents for them 1-I don't entering the office, Mrs. Watte iden- rapid to allow for reasoned and provided. Another institution we theme of study in China.

tified the defendant, while a Chinese crderly development, and the con- came upon later had thirty threa

amah also identified him by nod- sequence has been considerable con- menibers-twenty of whom were

ding her head and pointing her fusion, needless variety of work, full time-for eighty students. It

finger at him. unnecessary duplication of effort, is true that the College was being and lack of unity and common pur- reorganised and that expansion posa in the general university policy was likely to occur, but oven so the of the country.

students wore liberally provided for.

Wall Staffed.

know about it. That is a matter between Formosa and Kobe,

You can't tell why they resigned

Nor if, they are carrying on buai- Į fless now 1-No.

Young China and U.8.A. Young China turns to U.S.A. be-No. cause there is to be found the great- est encouragmont and deepest com- viction that the future is more important than the past, that #ciones is

more important than morals, and that progress is the

Was the last bill you drew on the Koba firm the bill which is the sub- ject of this,action,1--Yes.

The hearing was adjourned until Friday afternoon.

POPPY DAY FUND

84,153

8888899

$4,313

The change over to the present system has been all the more dis-

It is a sorious thing to dishonour turbing for the higher education of

In the department of Education, cemy of tradition. Though the your own acceptances Mr. To-It

Mr. J. W. Alabaster China in the past consisted of the staff of which consists of 38 influence of U.S.A. in China hither is a serious matter but in my cam Previously acknowledged study of a definite body of work-members for 289 students, we met to has been very great because of it was different altogether.

Looking at it from the Kobe Mr. E. Cock the classics. The student know, and the Dean who was about to depart her disinterested help and sympathy firm's point of view, it is a rather 3r. W. Schofield everyone else knew what was covered for Europe to study the condition with young Ching, there is little serious thing to dishonour your Prof. R. E. Tottenham

own acceptancel-My instructions Mr. J. Guerinenu by the term "scholar"; it was a of and the organisation of school doubt that such influenes is on the to the bank were only to collect the air. Ed. Stane

Mr. M. F. Key. perfectly comprehensible terai and administration in different Eurowane, though of course the initial bill... - - involved an understandable ideal penn countries. Five Chinese ware

bias which has been given will From the Kobe firm's point of Mr. A. N. Other

view, was it not a serious matter which gave a warrow defuite goal going on a tour of inspection as

never be entirely lost. The severe for them to have to dishonour their that all could aim at.

suggested by the League of Nations criticism of the American Univers own acceptance 1-I don't care. Living in the Week Aftar Next. Experts already referred to, in ority system by Abraham Flexner has about their business.

What do you mean by that 1-If I der to got arquainted with models undoubtedly damaged the prestige didn't write to them and asked of money dealings -Yes. Dealings The enormous variety of westers other than thoms provided by the of American education The criti them to stop paying, I don't know extended over many years but they subjects, and their sub-division has Fnited States, whose influence the cisms of the recent League of Ne- whether I shall be able to collect

the money here or not.

were not very frequent created a state of things in higher League of Nations says prevails to tions mission will also have a con-

Speaking about the dealings be The Tuen Kes had no account learning-in-Chine to which there a great not to any alarming, ex-siderable effect upon the organisa-tween the Tuen Kee firm and the with the Equitable Eastorn Bank!

tion and principles of higher educa Equitable Bank Mr. Sheldon aak-No. was no parallel in the past. Nor fent in Chinese education.

tion in China:

ed: Since the bank was opened Professor Forster went on in you and gistr father have dealt with So any trangction with the Com. pradore Department was purely a describe visits to Hankow and them 1-You.

Tuen Kes and the Compradore of the bank!-That ie so. I should say mich transactions were between my self and Charlle Choy.

Wittes in answer to further questions stated that there was still a sum of $6,000 due to him from Charlie Choy,

does the new learning grow slowly The effect of such infuence is to and laboriously out of the past, i impose: a system of education on Chungking. In the latter place | Charlie Choy was a personal private transaction between the is transplanted in the fulness of its variety from countries which have China which is too highly specialis they found the nucleus of a pro- friend of yours? Yes. already gone through the proliferated and which therefore provides a vincial University which was 40- You know Henry Choy1-Yes, 1 ing process, amid social to intellec body of knowledge which has little commodated in what had been an know him, but I very seldom se tal conditions which permitted this value outside the glass which ac old temple. There was, as he said, him. antirat ndency The revolution quires it There je a danger of a strong movement in Chine which The Tuen Kes Hong is your ary mind of China which ever seeks reating an intelligentsia, which is aimed at converting all temples, father's firm! Yes,

to live in the week after next, naturally turns for its model to that country which succeeded most

cut off from the people from whom Buddhist, Confucianilet and Taoist, And that firm and Charlie Choy it ought to emerge and whom it into schools, colleg and feature bad for some years a large number

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