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AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS

(Continued from page 3).

Sir Charles Ellot,

No doubt during the "coming of age" celebrations, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will make re- ferences to the development of the academic activities of the Univer sity. They were made possible only by the planning of many of those who have now left the Colony,

Looking back over the first ten years of the University we find, almost towering above his contem poraries in Hong Kong, the figure of Sir Charles Eliot. He was, in- deed, a remarkable run.

He spoke fluently 27 languages, On one occasion, during the war, Sir Claude Severn asked him if he could translate an intercepted letter which was thought to be Finnish. "I don't know if you understand Finnish," said Sir Claude. "No. I can't say that I do entirely," re- plied Sir Charles. And then, after the requisite pause "but I once wrote a Finnish grammar." And

ho wrote a classic volume about some marine insect; n classic poli- tical work Turkey in Europe "; ho translated Bhuddist Scriptures from the Chinese and did all sorts of intellectual feats which were as tonishing oven to his friends. But

ho was hopeless with Egures. He

disliked anything modern-he said, in 1913, that he had never used a telephone! Yet he was very kind and most considerate towards those who served under him,

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The University of Hongkong

Some Recollections and Impressions

[BY SIR ROBERT HO TUNG].

The University of Hong Kong but the young Chinese of today "comes of age today. I have been have very heavy responsibilities to- asked to write something about it.wards their own country and the Why I should have been asked I'do not know, for I was born in an nge when the benefits of secondary education only were available and that to the well-to-do only, and my parentage was poor and humble, It has however been my privilege to have done something to help in founding the University, and in 1926 the University did me the signal honour of conferring on me the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris

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It is to a large extent to Honig Kong that I owe the small amount of worldly wealth that I now possess.. In gratitude for this it has bean a pleasure to me to help the University or Hong Kong to fit its students to become loyal citizens and share in the commercial and industrial activities of the modern world.

Sir Patrick Manson.

The first step towards the Univer sity of Hong Kong who the Hong Kong College of Medicine which will ever be associated with the

glorious memory of Sir Patrick

Manson. I am proud to be able to claim Sir Patrick Manson as my friend.

The money for the University building was contributed by another personal friend of mine, Sir Hor musjee Młody, But it was Lord Lagard who, when he was Governor of Hong Kong, took up and fostered. the iden and carried it through to realisation.

world. They can only hope to handle these responsibilities right if their characters are sound and their minds wall balanced and alert. If the young men and women of Hong Kong sad of other parts of China will make the best use of the op portunities, which the University of Hong Kong affords them, they will have reason hereafter to be grate- ful not only to the institution and to those whose liberality created it. but also to Hong Kong, which forms an ident centre for the meeting of East and West.

folicitations to the University of I extend my congratulations and Hong Kong and to all members of that University, whether past or present. May those who have pro- fited by the advantages of the Uni- versity look with kindliness and for- hehrames on the weaknesses of those whom fortunes has not favoured with such opportunities.

Hong Kong, 15th March, 1933.

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THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY

(Continued from page 13.)

To accomodation for special pur- poses all over the city. To remedy this the Government reserved in Lord Lugard's ambition was to 1906 a suitable site on the Thi maks Hong Kong a centre for the Ping Shan reclaimed area. In 1907 higher education of Chine, He Chinese Benefactor Mr. Ng Li thought that in this way the Chi-Hing offered $50,000 to erect Me- nese and the British would get to dical College buildings there, Work know each other better. Lord was about to commence when Mr. Lugard's iden was assailed by scep Mody, a Parsee gentisman, offered ties who predicted the failure of the sum of $180,000 for the erection the University almost from the tion of a University which should start. But Lord Lagard persisted.

incorporate the Medical College. In Lord Lugard was the University's 1912 the Medical College was merg first Chancellor; ho was succeeded

ed with the University. The me by Sir Henry May, an intimate dical degrees granted by the Uni- friend of mine. Then came Sir Ed Varsity are recognised by the Gen- ward Stubbs, and then Sir Cecil eral Medical Council of Great Bri- tain. All this wonderful develop- Clemchti. and

ment and our present status are the results of Manson's untiring efforts and enthusiasm.

Sir William Branyate. During the interval between the departure of Sir Charles and the appointment of his, successor, Dr. Gregory Jordan, a well-known local practioner, acted 4.A Vice-Chan. cellor. He was greatly worried by the finances and the many griev nnces of the staff of the University, Si Claude Severn, then Chairman of the Council, was very keen on expansion but Dr. Jordan kept on asking where was the money to come from? And when, in 1920, Sir William Brunyate was appointed Vice-Chancellor, it must have been with feelings of relied that Dr. Jordan handed over the burden of his office. He WAS made an Honorary Graduate, an honour that ho immensely appreciated which probably compensated him for past anxieties. Unfortunately no died soon afterwards. He was a nephew of Sir Paul Chater and a man of a most kindly disposition.

Sir Cecil Clementi had groat love of learning and is himself a Chinese scholar. He struggled hard to secure for the University a grand from the Boxer Indemnity, but be left the Colony before his hopes in that direction were fulfilled.

Vice Chancellor of the University Sir William Hornell has been since 1924. To him fell the happy lot of being able to fight a strenuous and successful fight to secure the allocation of the Boxer Indemnity. To this end Sir William, had to pay ed indefatigably in the interests of a special visit to England, and work- the University.

Sir William Brunyate was the nominéd of Lord Milner, then Secre tary of State for the Colonies. He arrived at a time when the dollar Then came Sir William Peel, who had been, at different times, leghl and financial adviser to the Govern-

was rapidly falling and the Univer- ment of Egypt He had had a dis.sity was in consequence in consider. tinguished record at Cambridge, Peel increased the

able financial difficulty. Sir William winning the coveted Smith's prize.

Government In many ways Sir Williara was

grant and the University has since. unlucky while in Hong Kong. He received from the Boxer Indemnity arrived when the staff were in

à contribution of £265,000. state of great indignation about the conditions of service. He was here in the first big strike. He did not receive the sympathy for the Uni- versity from circles outside which ba had expected. His two moments of triumph must have been when ho presented H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to the Chancellor for the Honorary Degree of LL.D., and. when, finally, he was successful in persuading Sir Paul Chater to pro- Bent $250,000 to the University. Ho The Chinese supported Lord was always anxious to provide, for Lagard's University scheme; not the staff, a super-annuation, fund only the Chinese of Hong Kong, but and Chater's generosity made that also the Chiness of Canton and possible. But Sir William, himself, many other places. The Viceroy of refused any benefit from this fund.

Canton of those days also was an It is worth noting that of the the lute Sir Robert Hart. The Chi- enthusiastic supporter as was also three Vice-Chancellors of the Uni-

with scholarships and they have con- nose hava endowed the University

versity only Sir William Brunyate

was a benedict..

The Future.

Chinese Support,

tributed various sums for the con struction of University buildings. I It would be possible to write cannot go into desils, but the volumes of personal reminiscences mes of those bent.actors will be concerning the

found on the walls of the buildings. fret twenty-one years of the University.

The Chinese of Hong Kong nlao Oban- cellora and Vice-Chancellors have provided the University with n come and departed; goodness, palyfeld and pavilion The Union Sindenta Unişi, with an athletic knows how many people have given plays a very important part in the lestures within the cloistered pre life of the University. It is there cinote of this centre of learning that all the students meet;, it is From Britain have come Professor there that they learn to regulate and lecturers who have stayed for their own affairs. The students are periods varying from a few weeks not all Chinese, there is something to many yestK, KENN

University. All this is to the good, of a teshopolitan atmosphère in the for the Chinese cat no longer hve world, in isolation from the rest of the

Proud Family Record..

In the early days the University had many critics. It has since won for itself many friends Bush pro fessional and commercial leaders of the community have devoted a great dbal of time, in an honorary capa elty, to fostering ite development. Every Governor of the Colony has etcouraged its progress. The local vices which the University has ren I desire to malodge the ser- Press has always given it full sup- dered to members of my family, port and every possible help. And both boga tani girls. My eldest son in this day of rejoicing it is easy and three of my daughters are to forget the trials, the difficulties graduates of the University. One and even the mistakes of the past of my daughters hat the distingtip And so, with confidence that with of being the first woman medios this coming of aga all childish graduate of the Univer aliments are over, and that vigoráda graduating hard she went to Hurope minhood has been reached, we can for further study *** She has already wish the University, continued pros-mained distinctices in London, Dublin perity and increased vigour. May and Ylonas, and she is now work- it continue to have in the words ing in London for the Fellowship to ha seen on its coat of army life of the Boyti College of Surgeons.

Sapientiae Virting which The 21 years during which the may be transated Wisdom and University has existed have been Fangth."): For Hớng - Lohg hàể Yours of tremendous upheaval and Tesson to be proud of its Uni change. The future of China is in lighthouse on the coast the hands of the young men and

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