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(Twenty-first Anniversary of Hong Kong University)

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INCLUDED IN THE ISSUE OF HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 15, 1933.

JAMES H. BACKHOUSE

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THE UNIVERSITY COMES OF AGE

Public opinion in England and in various parts of the Empire is changing. At least one of the Universities of Canada has now its Chinese Department. Australia is increasing her trade with China. Those who come to Hong Kong on Trade Missions invariably regard the University as There was a time when in the eyes an important factor in their investigations.

quality of their wares, in China or British Manufacturers the

America with an eye on the Chinese elsewhere, was their own security. market was seeing to it that hun- dreds of Chinese youths should go university education and technical annually to the United States for training. That was the Americar.

The University comes of age to what began in 108 might never exploring the field with a view to day. What does it stand for?have happened What has it done What is its But the cost of a University was future ! The generally accepted not appreciated and the Institution view of the local attitude, towards was started on an income ridi- a prophet is not infrequently corro-culously inadequate to it needs.of borated in this Colony. Certainly The University has always had the University has all atong had to live from hand to mouth and this many critics and there are still has neither added to its dignity nor among us those who even now re-smoothed its working. Then there the Institution as a futile was the Great War followed by the foolish extravagance Will-o-the-wisp of the Boxer In

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Lord Lugard was a man of vision but he can scarcely be regarded as one who had no grasp of reality. He still looks back on the part which he played in the University's foundation as

one of the most gratifying incidents in a long and honourable career of public service. But Lord Lugard apart, would auch hard-headed men as the late Sir Robert Hart, the partners of Mesars. John Swire and Soos and the members of the Committee of the- China Association to

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million pounds sterling. The Uni-manufacturers now know that they versity finally got a substantial graduates are now being welcomed were wrong. Chinese engineering grant from that source. It will get as apprentices in British work- no more, so that disposes of the shops and the cry has gone up t Hoxer Indemnity.

strengthen the cultural relations between China and Britain. A In spite of difficulties the Univer-mittee has now been constituted British Universitics' China. Com sity has no cause to be ashamed of and is presided over by the Master its record. The last few years have of Balliol College, Oxford. see the wildest disorder among the last few weeks have witnessed the students of China and a general opening of a home for Chinese but the standard of reasonableness relaxing of discipline everywhere, students in London. and good behaviour among the affect the whole outlook of the Uni- These developmenta are bound to Kong has always been maintained.versity has no pretensions whatso students of the University of Hong versity of Hong Kong. The Uni- The students' freedom is hampered ter to a monopoly of those Chinese by few rules and overshadowed by students who are to pass on to nothing of the Viceroy of Canton-couraged to look after themselves, handle such a problem, even if it few punishments. They are en-Britain. The University could anot have supported the scheme, if it to run their own Union, their desired to do so.. But as more

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Chinese students look to British-for the rounding off of their education, eo will the demand for "admissio to the Hong Kong University in- ercase, for obviously ณ British University is the best training ground for further education in Britain. And the Chinese generally | have shrewd eyes for what really natters.

The University of Hong Kong is now in fact firmly and deeply root- nd. There are at the moment' more students an its rolls than there have ever been before and there is every prospect of the enrolment increas- ng. This is as it should be. but it is going to bring the University up: against a very difficult problem- the problem of expansion, of im- proved and itereased facilities for teaching and research, of new build- ings not only for instructional but alco residential purposes. And all this when the University is located o a rasticted site in an already overcrowded area and hemmed in on all sides by modern and expen- sive buildings. Lack of foresight ! Possibly! But the University has never had any money to spend on the purchase of contiguous land lots as they came in the market.

-The University can pay its way. on its present bags, but it cannot on its present budget hope to put anything aside for new buildings or development The Annual Gov ernment Grant Was until 1930 880,000; it is now $350,000 With the best will in the world towards the University the Government may well feel that the many other calls on the Colony's revenuca preclude any near prospect of the grant being increased.

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with all its present promise lies in the hands of those, who in Hong Kong and elsewhere have found were but the idle whim, of a way, athletic and social clubs and their peace, protection and security but under the British Bag not only ward visionary And why should games and, to a considerable ox- also opportunities for the hogour the Municipal Council of Shanghai, tent, their hostels. The University able acquisition of wealth and the Governor of Macao and the gives them-boys and girls alike general prestige and prosperity. Chinese communities of Canton, the opportunity of learning to No donor need fear that any gift Macao, Saigon, Newchang, Amoy, make a rational use of liberty, of which he may make to the Univer Penang, Wuchow and Australia exercising self-restraint and cosity will not be carefully husband-. have jointed with the Chinese, in sideration for others. This gift has ed. The University's finances are Hong Kong in supporting the not been in vain. The academia controlled by, a statutory committee proposed University, if the whole standards of the University have on which sit the Honorary idea was merely a bit of Hong never been lowered. That the Treasurer of the Institution, the Kong bombast ? It is beyond quer teaching, and the general fitmus Colonial Treasurer, the Chief tion that thus who were then best phate the Linivasal simulat Acent of the Berry Kom d qualified to form an opinion were ing is apparent in the intellectual Shanghai Banking Corporation, and unanimousin supporting the end general development which then nomince of the Hong Koog establishment of a British Univer greatsjority of the students General Chamber of Commercs. sity and of establishing it in Fong undergo, during their University The University has been fortunate Kong Were they wrong 1 Red career. Those students who have in its honoiary treasurer--the lates the preamble to the incorporating passed on to universities, technical Sir Paulptor and Mr. Paul. ordinance which mites as one of colleges, workshops, etc, in England Lauder. So long as men like. Mr. the objects of the University the have almost without exception done Lauder are willing to devote time maintenance of good understanding well-some brilliantly--and all have sad labour to the finances of the with the neighbouring country of been happy, Such studente are University, the public may feel China 1. If Hong Kong had under-cager to acknowledge their debt to secure that the University is being stoof China a little better, possibly the University

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