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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1936.

CONGREGATION DAY DAY

Sir Thomas Southorn & Dr. Earle Honoured

GLOWING TRIBUTE PAID TO LADY SOUTHORN

All the pomp and ceremony which accompany graduation day," were brought out in glowing colours yesterday, when the Hong Kong University, held its Twenty-Seventh Congregation at the Great Hall. The assembly room was packed to overflowing with Members of the Court, Council, Senate, Staff and many other residents,

The Twenty-Seventh Congregation will so down as a red let- ter day for the University in that it had the honour to welcome yesterday the new Chancellor, Sir Andrew Caldecott,

Touching upon the precarious financial state of the University, Sir Andrew said:-I do not however, intend to detain you now with one of these icy appeals for funds that so effectively and notorious- ly freeze up and congeal the warm and overflowing springs of gen) – erosity. Rather, if the need should arise. I shall resort to that more homely and intensive method of approach to which our Em- pire of sportsmen of all races has attached the expressive name of "badgering." I should do so in the confidence that, if ever the question had really to be put, "And shall this University die?” The overwhelming answer would be (as in Robert Hawk's poem "Trelawney") Here's twenty thousand Hong Kong Men will know the reason why!

The Opening Ceremony

After the arrival of the Chan-

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AT THE H.K. UNIVERSITY

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"A GOOD FRIEND

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Others were:- Treasurer and the Dean, Faculty of Medicine.

Court. Dr. Gibson's life was one has done for her husband-great are glad to add your name to the of devotion and self-effacemeat, as that boon has been to us all list or the University's honarary By his work in the College of Me"It you seek her monument, look graduates and in so doing we ap- medical dicine and among the poor gen-round you." Look at the Inter-peal to you to help the erally he did much to break down national Women's Cab and the work of the University in every Our the prejudice which the Chinese Sanditands But for Girl Guides, possible way that you can.

appeal will not. I know, be in bad, and still have to some extent They tell their own story.

vain. against Western medicine. His

DR. KARCE

THE PROCESSION Majesty the King has just made Herbert Gastineau Earle went Dr. Gibson a member of the Most from the City of London School

The procession was headed by Excellent Order of the British Em-ncidentally the school.

His Excellency, the Chancellor, The pire. We congratulate him and late Treasurer Dr. Paul Lauder) to

Mace Bearer. The Vice-Chancellor, The Hon. Bir Wilfrid Thommis wish him all peace. health and

Downing College, Cambridge,

Southom, KBE., CMG, MA happiness in his retirement.

where he was a foundation scho- lar and to the Westminster Hos-(Oxon), and Herbert Gastineau Dr. W. B. A. Moore, is not at the pital. He gained a first. Class in Earle, MA, MB (Cantab). moment a member of the Univer-the. Natural Science Tripos. He sity Court; but he has often took the Cambridge. B. A degree servod for considerable periods la 1905 and the M.A., M.B de- bath on the University's Court and grees of that University. In 1913, ts Council. Dr. Moore has been For nine years he was also a De- a very good friend to the Univer-monstrator in Physiology and for sit. We are very sorry that he six of those years Joint Lecturer is going and we congratulate him in Biology at the Middlesex Hos-Hon. Mr. G. G. Alabaster. most heartily, on the honour that pital London. In 1915 he came to His Majesty the King has just this University as our first Pro bestowed upon him. We hope Dr. fessor of Physiology. In 1928 he and Mrs. Moore with live lòng tố was appointed General Adviser to njay in health and happiness the Lester Trust and he now.com- bines that office with the Direc- their retirement,

torship of the Henry Lester . In-

and stitute of Medical Research Preventive Medicine, Shanghai,

Dr. Earle is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He is so much else that I cannot

GRADUATES SUCCESSES One of our medicine graduates Dr. Sze Tsung Sing who was work- ng as an assistant to the Frores sor of Medicine won last year open competition one of the Boxer Post Graduate Schorarships and he is now studying in London. This is not the first time that one of these scholarships has been won by one of our graduates. At the exarrination Dr. Ku

A

and

Dean, Faulty of Engineering and the Dean, Faulty of Arts a

HE.. Major Gen. A. W. Bartho- lomew and The Registrar

H.H. Mr. R. E. Lindsell and the

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Hall and the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith.

Hon. Mr. E, Taylor and the Hon. sir Shouson Chow.

Hon. Mr. R. M. Henderson and the Hon. Mr,, W, H. Bell

Hon. Sir Hon. Dr. A..R. Welling-

ton.

Hon. Mr. Ts'o Been Wan and the Hon. Mr. J. P. Bragn

Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau.

Hon, Com. G. F. Hole and the

Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson.

Hon. Mr. T. H. King and the

Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Bir

Professor K. H. Digby and Pro- fessor C. A. Middleton, Smith.

Professor F. A. Redmond and Professor W. Brown.

Professor R. K. M. Simpson and

Professor L. J. Davis and Pro- fessor W. I. Gerrard,

tell the full tale of bis many omces and distinctions. He has Robert Ho Tung.

Mr. Eu Tong Sen and Mr. Mok carried out researches in metabol- Ism and many of his papers -Kon Bang. Since we met last, the Court previous

'cluding one on the Basa). Metabol Dr. R. H. Kotewall and Mr. Ho cellor, the members of the proces- has lost one of its life members Hseuh Chin, another medical grain of Chinese and Westerners Kam Tong.

qualifying Nema-duate, who after sion assembled in the Vice-Chan | Hajee Mohammed Hasan

have been published in scientific House Physician, Mr. Nemazee was cellor's Room for robing, and to zee.

one of working as

Journals

Dr. Earle, those of us who re the "strains of the Processional those who contributed generously went into the service of the Kai- March played by the Band of the to the University's original endow lan Mining-Company, won-the- 2nd Battalion, The East Lanca-ment. I have also to refer with only medical scholarship awarded member your work here. what a good teacher you were, how ex- saire Regiment, the whole proces- regret to the death during 1935 of that year by the Boxer Trustees cellent was your influence in the Professor J. L. Shellshear,

are awarded including Members of the two of our honorary graduates. Dr. These scholarships

University and how completely Professor W. Fald and Professor Court, Counell, Senate and Staff of Louis Finot and Dr. Reginald Wai on the results of a most searching

you and your wife and your child- L Forster." our for examination and

graduates Finot Was the University entered the Great ter. Brock Dr.

ren won all our affectionis rejoice Hall and took up their seats...

many years connected with the were easily first. Of its 100% suc- Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Orlent cess in this scholarship competi-o see you awaiting the bonour which His Excellency the Char-

Professor Hsu Ti Shan and Pro- VICE-CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH

He was one of those tion the University is proudcellor is about to confer on you

fessor W. Nixon The Chancellor after declaring on whom the University. frst con- surely with reason...

The conferment on you of this

Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin and the Congregation open, The Vice-ferred. honorary degrees n 1916. It is gratifying to see both Sir University's honorary doctorate is Mr. G. E. Sayer. Chancellor addressed the assembly There are still three survivors of Robert Ho Tung, and his daughter not only a mark of the Univer-

Mr K, E. Greig and Mr. M. P. * follows:-

that distinguished batch-Lord Dr, Eva Ho Tung sitting on this sity's appreciation" of your scienti- Talati. Your Excellencles, Lad.es and Lugard, Sir Robert Ho, Tung, and platform. The doctor is one ac attainments and of the high Mr. F. J. de Rome and Mr. T. E. Gentlemen: In the name of the Dr. Paul Pelfot. Long may they our most distinguished medical and honourable office which you Pearce. University and or all whom I see be spared. Dr. Finot was a great graduates. After 7 years spent in now hold; it is also a token

Mr. P. 8. Cassidy and Mr. G. P.

before

I welcome our new archaeologist, and Oriental scholar. special study, in Europe she has the, University's esteem,.of your de Martin. Chancellor to this his first Con- Ha was also a great French gen- come back to work, in a humbe outstanding qualities and of your Mr. J. H. Beth and Mr. Sam Pak gregation. His Excellency is the tleman a man of extreme simpil capacity for the University and endearing. personality. The insti- Ming. University's sixth Chancellor, the city and great humility. Many of 1er her poor fellow country women tution over which you preside Mr. E. Cock and Mr. Wong Kwong first-being Lord Lugard, our found-you will remember Dr. Brock. who Hong Kong.

owes Ita existence to a Britisher. Tin er "Let us now pratee famous men was in charge of the geological Before Sir William Peel left. Mr.In the fight that is being waged Mr. C. C. Knight and Mr. D.

the Henry Drummond. and our fathers that begat us." survey of the Colony. His untime- Eu Tog Sen gave.. the. University against disease. In Our new Chancellor comes to the ly death, in an aeroplane. accident $30,000... to build a gymnasium Lester Institute of Medical Re-

Mr. B. Wong Tape and Mr. Tang University in a time o stress nor in Canada (in which his wife also Plans were drawn up but, our Trear search and Preventive Medicine. ghiu Kin. 1 his office going to be sine- was killed) is one of those inscru surer was not satisfied with such Shanghal, you and your colleagues Mr. R. C. H. Lim and Mr. Kan

built cure. Circumstances over which table events before which we can

a.gymnasium as could be

are in a real sense heirs to that Tong Po the University has no control have only bow our heads. -ự

for the sum.. donated. He asked

great and devoted doctor who was Mr. A. Brearley and Dr. G. D. R. reduced its Income. The Univer-

Mr. Eu Tong Sen for another the father of this University's Me-Black. 000. Back came a cheque for that dical Faculty. In the mutual me- amount by return of past. You mory of Sir Patrick Manson will. I hope soon see the Eu Tong Sen gymnasium. It will not be the only building which Mr. Tong Sen has in the last few years constructed in this Colony.

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alty has met the situation in the Professor RE Tottenham and by confining its expenditure for Mr. R. R. Campbell left the Uni- this year within the limits of its versity Staff last year and their curtailed income. We are not, places, have been filled by Profes- understand, the only Institution for William Nixon and Mr. Adrian in the Colony that has had to Paterson. We searched long and Professor of face a similar crisis. It is written far and wide for a 1. the book of the Proverbs of Chinese-Professor Hsu-Ti-Shan 1

Sir Wired Thomas. Southern Solomon that "Tiches certainly Fey, worth the search.. To each of make themselves wings" and "we these three new members of the needs no Introduction. From War have the authority of Ecclesiasts Stan we extend a hearty wel-wick School he went to Corpus Christi College Oxford That col- for supposing that "there is no come.

Professor J. L Shellshear re-cge has had many famous sons. new thing under the sun." But in spite of a solemn prophetic wam-algned in October and on Friday, win-confine myself to the meh- ing publicly proclaimed the Uni-next he leaves Hong Kong to re- tion of two Air, Reginald, Stubbs Thomas. Southorn. Bir versity is not going to close. In turn to Australia his native land. and Sir giving you this assurance I have One, of the characters in a play of Thomas entered the Ceylon Civil behind me every member of the Terrance says that. there, is no- Service..in 1903; was Additional University's Court and Conncli and thing so dimcult that it may not Assistant Colonial Secretary: in the weight of our new Chanced-be found out by research. It is .1909 Principal Assistant. Colonial lor's authority. Therefore our possible that my learned collea-Secretary in 1920;.. Principal: Col- welcome to your Excellency is notyo-has never read. the play... in lector of Customs and: Chairman the acclaim with which the gindia- question but the sentiment is the of the Port. Commission in 1923. tors as they entered the arena motive power. of Professor Shell-In 1926 Bir Thomas..came here as greeted the Emperor "Hali Caesar thear's unceasing activity. This Colonial Secretary. You know the -Those who are about to die sa-activity has carried him beyond rest, How often and how.success- lute you." Our welcome is not a the fold of Anatomy into the fully he has administered the Gor- cry of despair but rather an utter realms of Archaelogy and Prehls-ernment of Hong Kong and acted

Further donations will ance of hope and quiet conndence.tory, He has been the University's as: Chancellor of the University:

many different the enthusiasm: with, which he has accepted by the Hon. Having in mind some well-known ambassador in lines from Horace. I proclaim on countries and at many and various always identified himself with Mr. McKellar, C.A.

Though in everything and anything calculated kinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. behalf of my colleagues and my scientific, conferences. seir "with His Excellency Bir An- the prime of hie he has decided to make the Colony a healthier Building, Hong Kong. drew Caldecott as its leader and to give up the exacting duties:nfand a happler place. Had. It be inspirer the University refuses to a professor in a small and poverty been for Sir Thomas, I doubt whe

ridden university in order that be ther there would be even now a despair."

may, while still active, devote him-Branch of the English Association GEN. O. C. BOERETT

Lalf to scientific work in his own in Hong Kong; without his help Lieutenant Generar O C. Bor-country. We are grateful for his the playgrounds for poor children rett was an ornament to the Uni-sojourn among us and while re- would have been something very versity's Court and an adornment greting his loss we wish hith and much less than they are now. So- of the Congregation's platform his wife all health and happiness. cially SirThomas and Lady. Sou- But he was much more than that, May the researches of Professor thorn have endeared themse ves for he was the University's good Shellshear's retirement be fruitfato everyone. I doubt whether friend whose whimsical utterances and to him a source of content-there have ever been any two were ever shot with streaks of ment If a man will begin with persons in this Colony who had certainties," wrote Franc's Bacon, so many friends in all the sections Wisdom-

"Methinks

"he shall and in doubts; but if he of the Colony's cosmopolitan po- Wisdom is oft times nearer when will be content to begin with pulation. The University is not doubta; he shall end in certainties." geving Lady Bouthern an honarary Bloop than when, we soar." Tir: R. McLean Gibson retired degree. It should be but Festion We welcome General Borrett's suc- last, April after 38 years of service lente, In a hurrying world British cessor Major-General A. W. Bar- as Superintendent of the Alice Me-universities move slowly. I am General Batholomew mortal and Amilated Hosp'tals. however quite certain that gir tholomew. and I were once undergraduates In the Hong Kong College Thomas would wish me to say at the same college in Oxford, The Medicine Dr. Gibson was Dree-what he knows and you all know College crest 18 B gryphon and it for of Btudies. The College be- refer to the great help that his Latin, motto being translated Is come the Medicine Faculty of wife has always been to him. But What you want to keep quiet tell the University and Dr. Gibson the Colony's debt to Lady Sour In fe member of the University thorn is not confined to what she

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