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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1933. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY SUPPLEMENT, WHAT THE GRADUATES ARE DOING

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BY HARRY HONG SLING, M.A., PH.B.

(PAST PRESIDENT OF THE H.K. UNIVERSITY GRADUATES ASSOCIATION).

ments,.. P.W.D.

government depart- more particularly

It is a recognised fact that the, career which has come to my notice present in reputation of any institution of which could be termed as a failure. learning is largely, if not entira ly, based upon the success of its graduates. Like the reputation gain

Medical Graduates. More specifically, the success of our medical graduates is 20 general- ed by various parts of the worldly recognised throughout the Co- for the excellence of particular lony, as well as in adjacent coun: products peculiar to each region, tries that Hong Kong is becoming sa also universities have come to to take a very high stand in this be recognized for their excellence particular field. Only this year, a by the attainments of their graduate member of the University guaduntas." By their friuts shall staff left to accept an appointment know them."

as a follow in the Lister Institute On the occassion of the maturity Medical Research Shanghai; of the University of Hong Kong, graduate fill practically all the it naturally occurs to the interest medical posts in the Tung Wah, ad person

to enquire into the Tung Wah Eastern and Kwong quality of the product which the Wah Hospitals, and many in the institution has sent forth into the, Government Civil Hospital, while world during the first two decades as large number are ja successful of its existence."

privata practice. Hong Kong

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A view of the Univerdly from Lagard Hall, showing the outlook over the harbour. Photo by Ah Fong.

graduates have also been selected for post-graduate work abroad by graduates have also foundation ana some have returned to occupy in portant teaching positions in the

Engineers.

the

The Faculty of Arts. Last, but Bar from being the least, the Faculty of Arts have striven to make scossible those fields of learning which time and experience have proved to be fundamental to all knowledge languages, literature, mathematics sciences, history, philosophy and the social and political sciences. In the more advanced curriculum, specialisation in two praction fields are available, vit, education and commerce, Gradustus in educa tion are found as teachers through: gut the schools of the Colony and others in various parts of Chins while not a few of the younger magnates in business circles ar numbered among the graduates of Hong Kong.

Taken by and large, it can be said that the University is ful- filling its function in the scheme of things, both material and other- wish. It has passed out of its portals year after year inen who have been instructed not only hav to do well the work in their pro fession or occupation but also to do such work for the cominon weal of their community. The Univer sity numbers among its graduates and past students successful physi cians, surgeons, engineers, chitects, lawyers teachers, bankers and business men, Their success in their chosen careers is gratify: ing to the University, but gratifying is the general desire of these successful men to serve their community as well as themselves,

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The Graduates' Association, It is only two years ago that the Hong Kong University Gradu ates' Association was formed, under the far-sighted suspices of the Vice. Chancellor, Sir William Hornell. Its chief object is to foster ac- quaintanceship among graduates and past students and to serve as a connecting link between them and the University. It is apparent that such an Association will unfailingly become of enormous importanes by. its influence in, reflecting graduate by opinion, somewhat similar to that now exerted at Oxford

and Cambridge. It is an organisation which has no salfish motive and according to it very nature its members give more than they re-

ceive.

In order to further contacty among its members, the Association sponsored the formation of the University Club (Hong Kong),

In comparison with such great centres of learning as Oxford, Cam- bridge, Harvard, Yale, The Bar- bonne, Heidleberg and similar universities, the University of Hong Kong makes a modest show. But University. this is a natural outcome of the sbort span of life of the latter, an spans of the of universities go. The Engineering Faculty has also When it is realised that Hong played its part in training men in Kong is only twenty-one years of civil, mechanical and electrical dge, while her sister universities in gingering. During the first decade Europe and America are entering of the University's existence, a into their three-four-five hundred considerable group of "provincial and twenty first years, the com- scholars" were enrolled. These parison immediately assumes a bet-, came from various provinces of ter prospect. Within this relative-China on scholarships established ly short space of twenty one years, by their province. Many of those there have been many successful men were in the Faculty of Engineer- situated in the Entertainment (and lately, women) of the Uni-ing, and from reports received by Buildings, which has now been in versity, as well as a great num- the Graduates Association, most existence for one year, and which ber who show promise of rising of these men are now employed in has become the headquarters of the to even higher attainments in the railway

and construction work University's graduates and past. activities which make up our mo- centering at Shanghai and Nan- students. dern life..

king. There are many who are On the eve of the twenty-first In an article of this kind it is successfully practising their pro- birthday of the University of Hong obviously impossible to recite by fession in Canton and other parts Kong, all those who have had, and name those graduates or past of Kwangtung Province. In the those who are still having, a share students of the University of Hong Colony, the majority of the in her development, as well as the Kong, who, in my estimation, are gineering graduates are engaged as community at largo, and most of all, outstandingly successful. of al-architects and civil engineers, and we who have partakened of her most one thousand graduates and there is a limited number who are generous gifte of learning, can well past-students there is hardly electrical engineers. Others are at be proud of her accomplishments..

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