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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1937.

CONFERRING OF DEGREES

INCREASE IN ROLL

of

In 1927 there were 292 students on the University's roli. On the 21st October 1936 the enrolment

412-139 in the Faculty Medicine: 133 in the Faculty of Arts. Three hundred and forty eight of these students were Chia- ese. In 1921 there was one wo-, man undergraduate; to-day there are 75. I have once again to pay

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happy life in Hong Kong. I have close already falls across, this tried to serve the University whole- University. That event will be the heartedly and" in this service 1 departure on leave prior to his have found satisfaction. Amid the retirement of our Vice-Chancellor, storm and strain of financial and Br William Hornel!. Of all who other difficulties I have tried not come forward to assist the Com- to forget that ultimately all vic-mittee of which I have just spoken tortes are moral and that spirit is.) nobody will bring with him

& more the only sure foundation to build | specialistic knowledge, a wider educational experience, greater ad- upon-Goodbye!

ministrative capacity, krener busi- ness acumen. or a deeper concern for the interests of the University than Bir Willam (Applause). For twelve years he has been building on Its foundations and within, Its lay-out not any edifice of bricks and mortar but the liver and careers of hundreds of young men and women. He has confess-

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to the students my grateful tri- Chancellor's Speech

bute for their loyalty, their dis- cipline, and for the goodfellowship which prevails not only among themselves but between them and their teachers. The cynical might learn much from a visit to the night school which is conducted by the students,

GRADUATES' SUCCESSES

Addressing the congregation. HE the Chancellor said:—-

It is a year alace I last spoke to you in these Chancellor's rotes, It seems to me and. I dare say

to many of you more than a year;ed this afternoon to a sense of for the past twelve months have frustration: and in that he test- In the Boxer Indemnity Scholar- been tighty packed with events nes, in part, to the discontent that ship Examination held early fast some of which it has been ex- is called, and rightly called, divine. year two of our graduates ap- tremely dimcult for the mind to No good and true worker can peared, and each won a scholar- sort out under the labels of de-

ever rest satisfied with, his work. So far as But that our Vice-Chancellor has ship. Misa Lai Po-kan came first sirable or undesirable, in a competitive examination in this University is concerned there had a multitude of difficulties and is no doubt whatever about the obstacles to contend against none Chinese and English Philology, and she is now reading in Oxford for classification of the Eu Tong Beuw! doubt. Nobody realises defects the honours school of Englishyam or the Sum Pak Ming in foundation, in lay-out or in

basket-ball court; they language and Uterature.

are both materials more than the master- Forty- Live candidates

the unmixed blessings for which aat for

builder, and the appointment of The gratitude of many goes out, and my small Committee will provide scholarship examination. other winner was Dr. Woo Kai-will continue to go out, to

the the opportunity for the master- fun; his subject being pathology. generous donors. (Applause).

I regret, however, that there has He is now working in London. The Boxer Scholarship Examination occurred no

considerable was first held in 1934. Our record addition to the list of the Univer- and endow- is four competitors and four win-sity's benefactions

ments; nobody has yet aspired to

ners.

Dr.

other

the

builder to come forward and ad- vise as an architectural consultant for the University's future.

Sir William has conlessed `also to a sense of isolation, So far as contact with the British Univer-

Dr

Dr. H. C. Ku who won a Boxer gure as the Lord Nuffle'd of sities is at present lacking

in 1934, has been Hong Kong. (Laughter). It would ineffective I am bold to prophesy Scholarship slected a Fellow of the Edinburgh indeed have been unreasonable to

that, when he is hack home, Siri expect any great accretion to our William will personally achieve for Royal College of Burgeons. Lee Hah Liong and Dr. Lam Gim endowments at a time of severe

us a proper and effectual liaison, (medical graduates of economic depression, but it is be-He will be, I am confident, this Kheang

cause I am optimistic enough to University's apostle to England. (Applause). But as regards the see signs already of the lifting of that depression that I have been loss which his departure will spell the University's for us in Hong Kong I can find no meditating on chances of further future endow words of comfort at all.

ours) have gained respectively the London Diploma in Child Health and the London Diploma of Tre- pical Medicine and Health. Miss Irene Ho Tung has secured the London University Doctorate in Philosophy. Mr. Donald Anderson now holds the London University degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. 8. B. Ahmed and Mr. Eric Wong

meat

If I myself had some millions of dolars to bequeath (this, I regret to say, is pure hypothesis and not a prospect) (laughter) I should

It is, alas, proverbial that great men leave great gaps. Sir Wilkam

Hornell has been not only great Vice-Chancellor but a very human оде so that the gap which he

Tape have both qualified to be certainly want to know two things, leaves will be a gap not only in Associate members of the Institute whether the institution which the list of Hong Kong's dis of Civil Engineers, the former be selected for endowment was being | Hnguished residents but in that

run in a sound, economical and businesslike manner and whether

the most was being made of its public utlilty. uk voden

ม.

FINANCE CONCERN

inmost circle of public friends ing the top of the list of those who were successful at the ex-

which the Colony has taken warm- amination qualfying for member-

ly and gratefully to its heart ship, Mr. Gan Kee-poon has been

(Applause). He ended his address awarded the Diploma of the Im-

Now it is because I have had to us this afternoon with the sad perial College, London, Mr. W. J.

doubts expressed to me by respon-word" "Good-bye". I refuse now to C. Fletcher has won the Parsons, Memorial Prize a prize awarded sibie persons on both these points anticipate our parting with him by retuining that salutation" but, at to the best apprentice by Messrs.regarda, this University, because this his last Congregation and on C. A. Parsons and Co. Ltd., New-slso its present finances afford behalf of all present, I will con castle-on-Tyne, in whose works room for considerable Mr. Fletcher is working as an, ap- prentice. Six of our engineering graduates have been recently en- gaged by the Government of China for surves work on the Canton

Mui Talan Railway. They are now

working on the survey.

concern,

and chiefly because the Colonial clude my remarks by addressing to him two words, two simple little Government is now contributing words, which can nevertheless be to them annually a sum of no less charged with all our infinity of than three hundred and fifty obligation, admiration and affec thousand dollars that I have de- tion towards him:-Thank you. cided, as Governor and with the Sir William. (Applause),

reference:

full

approval of my Executive In January 1936 the University Council, to appoint a small com- heard from the Executive Yuan ofmittee with the following terms of the Government of Chins, that graduates of the University at (1) Hong Kong were eligible to ap- pear at the Higher Civil Service Examinations. Mr, Sung Hang- chee (one of our graduates) has since passed the Examination with 2nd Class Honours and is thus qualified for an appointment

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S FAREWELL

Unles something unforeseen happens, this will be my last Con- gregation. Looking back over my Vice-Chancellorship I am con- acious of a sense of frustration. I

GRADUATES 1936

to investigate" "the present,

'Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and probable future, financial. position of the Hong Kong

Cheng Bee Yan. Miss Cissy Wong, University and to advise whe-Lee Hua Ngak, Eduardo Liberato any changes are de Gosario, Teng Pin Hul, Szeto Eng straple in its staffing. per- Kec, Ong Ewe Hin, Kho Per Po, Kong Sau Yul, Pala Raj Timothy Naidu.

ther

Bonnel, salary scales or ganization;

of-

(2) to enquire and advise who- ther any such, or other," changes are desirable in the interest of its utility prestige;

or

(3) to tender any other advice or suggestions for the future of the University. -

suspect that every head of a Uni- I have heard the suggestion versity, College or School becomes,made that we ought to get an when his time is up, painfully expert out from home for this aware of the contrast between the investigation, but I feel certain little done and the undone vast. myself that our local conditions But here there are so many do-

and circumstances are so peculiar minating factors, so many

in-

to ourselves that the first thing at

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· COMMITTEE NAMED

In Absentia Chau Woon Nin, Ng Yew Seng, Kandiah Nagalingam. Degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Chow 8hlu Lim, Chua Keng Ju. Walter Joseph Citrin. Ho Chiap Chye, Hui Che Shing, Lim Chong Hin, Lu Bul Shing, Vadim Bonch- Osmolovsky, Ting: Zeh, Wong Wan Kung Wong Yat Bing, Zea Yue

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Chang Cha Ning Cho Tuch Choon. Alexis Ignatius Napoloff, Shao Tsun, Adi. Bejan Tata, Michael Constantin Yatskin.

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atming up of the position and their Europe lie centuries of tradition advice regarding it before we con- and of political and social ex-sider the expensive proposition of perience, The Universities of obtaining outside opinion which America have their foundations however expert on the subject of in certain ideals which are gen-University organization, would not erally accepted throughout the be expert in regard to the special United States-ideals which have circumstances, and requirements of prompted American Universities the Far East and American Univeralty men not only to start Universities in China

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Hoihow, Pathol and Haiphong Ho Fook and Chan Kal Ming | Shanghai and Japan a few of them. But there the consity The membership is small, tact has ended. It is not their because I do not believe in un second medical scholarship (May, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Bouth Afrios, Aden, Egypt and fault. The connecting link be wieldy Committees, but the Com-1936):-Wa Hung Tak tween the Universities of Britain mittee, will take the evidence of

EUROPETA Marseilles-dua Bar meilles, 6th February... and the University of Hong Kong all who respond to its invitation

or volunteer to appear before it has not yet been forged. The very desirability of such a link has not. SIR WILLIAM HOÉNÉLL been realized. Geographically in And this brings me to a very China yet outside it, this Univer- sad part of my address, for al- sity stands isolated. I have often though the new year has only just been sorely puzzled and very lone-begun, the long depressing shadow ly; but for all that, I have had a or an event that will mark its

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