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UNIVERSITIES, THEIR

DEVELOPMENT

Interesting Rotary Club Talk

Frufessor L. Forster, of the Hong Kong University, gave an in- structive talk to local Botarians yesterday, on the functions of uni- 'versilien, at' their weekly tima meeting at the Hong Kong Hotel "Roof Garden.

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CULTURAL UNITY

The term University or Universities, sald Professor Forster

· means a "corporate body pr guild, and originated in the twelfth centur when do many of the present universities of Europe were founded. What happened then was that certain of Aristotle's works were brought into Europe as a result of contact with the Moors. The antagonism against Greek studies was subsidiary, and so a new and vital impulse was given to higher learning. Several Universities sprang up In Spain, Italy and France during this period under the aegis of the Church for theology was still the -crown-of-all-studies-though. medicine and law were also included. Father Donnelly said his tair If you go through Duke Hum-¡ The post-war poverty did not re- might be entitled, an act of re-

phreys gateway in the Bodleian at-duce the grants or the facilities for paration. As a boy he had a most

Oxford you will have the doors on higher education.. China since 1929 profound contempt of O. Henry. the right and left. leading to the. has established 59 Universities He had first teard the name when

classrooms in which the seven has 39,000 undergraduates of whom one of his classmates had spoken liberal arts were taught while at 3500 ure women. " of him and he remembered asking the end of the court-yard are the "Who is O. Henry? The titles of three doorways the central one be- his books tou, "The Gentle Grafing Divinity, that on the right ter" and "The Four Million" Medicine and that on the left Law. sounded strange.

An American. These institutions then followed he thought. who would doubtless the guild system in many respects be a vulgarian and his language but provided two types of govern- would be that as spoken in the ment, one based on Boulogne und Bowery. Years after he frst the other based on Paris which is came into contact with the writ-regarded to-day as the mother of Ings of this man, whom Professor all Universities. Leacock had described as one of, the greatest masters of modern literature, and found he had the skill and dexterity of Maupassant as well as great insight into human life."The Gift of the Major" was one of the first stories he ever read, and with it he realised the quality of the author. William Sidney Porter was his real name and why, tied down with such a label, he should choose such a nom-de-plume as O. Henry was in inexplicable, He began life in a drug-store till

health

wrist.

-

compelled him to move

For some years the was in the

Austin Bank. Texas, and later he worked for a Texas land office. Even at that time he had begun to try his hand at writing and sent skits to the local newspapers.

Later he left Texas and went to Central America and his ex- priences

there resulted in the production of "Cabbages and Kings," In 1804 he bought and edited. "Grahams Iconnclast," weekly, which, however, failed.

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Oxford, If it was not founded as a result of a strike in Paris was

The Universities have always aimed at cultural unity. This was not dificult in Europe before the Renaissance when every scholar, professed the same religion and used

the one language-Latin.

Helen Waddell's book The Wan- dering Scholars of the Middle Ages" brings this point out admirably. The scholar was equally at home in Paris, Oxford" or Padua. That certainly much increased by an In-Republic of Letters as Erasmus flue of students from that city on ¦ called it was dissolved when the occasions. There is a "document cultural and religious integrity of which says that a Robert Pullus Europe was destroyed. In its place lectured on Theology in Oxford in during the 19th century there grew 1133, some of the religious orders up a scientific world unity since the Francisclans and Dominicans pure science detached from all na were certainly established there tional and emotional associations in 1221 and between 1280 and 1280 was obviously the subject which Baltut University College and Mer- could tegitimately be uncouraged ton were established, each claims on a non-national basis. the distinction of being the oldest of the Oxford Colleges. Walter de Merton is said to have given the

pattern for Oxford Colleges The

he founded the one called after: him and based it on the monastic system, the idea being that the students should be enclosed, and under a discipline instead of being allowed to sleep anywhere, in the lowest lodging houses or in brothels Cambridge is said by Glover the historian to have been founded (I heard him say so) as the result of a murdariin Oxford by some of the students there, who had to flee for their lives so incensed were

COLDLY ANALITICAL ·

In 1898 fate dealt O. Henry a grievous blow, He was arrested the citizens of Oxford.. for embezzlement of funds while working with the Austin Bank. This episode has never been en-

It is said also that they chose tirely cleared up. Sumclent that Cambridge in order to be as far in 1888 he was sentenced to fiveaway from ecclesiastical control as years in the Ohio Penitentiary, possible, the nearest bishop at Ely sentence which was later remitted

to three years. In prison he set about the serious business of writ- Ing and many manuscripts were sent out under the nom-de-plume Henry, and some editors began to accept them. When he once again a free man the "New York World" gave him a

of 0.

WAS

contract at $100 a week.

was

WOMEN AND UNIVERSITIES

written on the subject of women An Interesting chapter could be

and the University. I believe that Johns Hopkins in USA. was the fist University to admit wemen to its courses. One bold young indy applied and the council found to its surprise that it had made no provision to exclude them, so she was admitted but compelled to sit". at the back of the room behind a curtain, in purdah as it were. Now. of course co-education is an ac complished fact in America but ac-" cording to some, a doubtful blessing.

London opened its doors from the beginning to women, under the enlightened leadership of Jeremy Bentham, F. B. Maurice and John Stuart Mill. Oxford soon followed and now has four colleges for wo- being is miles away and as the men who enjoy full academic terms were held in winter time, rights. True Dean Inge is not he could not get across the marshy happy about it. He says that the country. There was also the view тел undergraduates do that originality in thought and action can spring best from the quiet wastes, Oxford has always been mediaeval, eccelslastical, and humane while Cambridge has al- ways been classical, scientific and coldly analytical.

Rot do

Justice to themselves in the Inter- mediate examination owing to the excitement of becoming engaged in their first year, and fail miserably in their anals owing to the mental disturbance caused by the young lady breaking off the engagement!

PRODIGIOUS WORKER Describing the. man himself

Cambridge as one would expect Father Donnelly said ho

While England was content to perhaps intemperate, but was un- have two universities until the only grudgingly granted titular doubtedly a prodigious worker. beginning of the 19th century Scot rights to women in 1922, Before lectures but Through all his stories ran aland had four-Glasgow (1450), Bt. that they attended Lhread of tenderness for the poor. Andrews (1411), Aberdeen (1494) were not offelally present. When His friends sald of him that he and Edinburgh (1584)-since pre-full rights were not accorded that. was shy and generous and shun- Reformation times. It is true of year one bright youth had huge ned the limelight and later when course that both Cambridge and placards printed and posted all over success came and with it a cer- Oxford added to the number of Cambridge announcing a meeting tain measure of fame he remain their colleges. The 19th century to be held in the Corn Exchange however saw a great stirring of under the auspices of the Psychical In 1910, in the prime of life, he thought in Europe, steam had Research Society the Speaker be- died. when the greatness of his made industrialism and commerce ing Conan Doyle and the subject work was beginning to be really more important than agriculture, Sex Equality after Death. The men appreciated. His dying words cities were springing up opinions students, then marched to Newnham "were--"Don't-turn-down the light were more eastly formed and and smashed up the rather hand-

ed 50.

and. quoting the popular song, he added. "I Am Afraid to Go Home in the Dark." Thus he went away with a jest on his Ilps.

(Continued on Back Pare)

STALL FOKIS IN TROUBLE

some gates just to signify their dis- approval of the new "grace" as it was called. It cost them 2700 I believe to put them was gladly paid.

right. This

focussed, criticism was destructive, It is a strange fact that to-day in adult education in England the demand is not for technical or purely scientific subjects but for more liberal arts-literature, his- In Germany the facilities for the tory, secial selence, languages and higher education of women have fine art. The democratic principle been drastically curtalled because gradually expanded the road or set it is felt that their best interests up the ladder to the University. are not served by. pursuing the until now it is said by some to be same higher studies as men. not a ladder but an escalator. Japan out of 500 students, in ̈ Uni- We Every important elty has its Universities only 127 are women. versity but none of the eight go see then there is no consensus of opinion in the world on this very back more than 60 years.

the de- important question. In mocratic countries, however, we be Ileve that most of the work' in Uni-

A remand of seven days was granted by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Police Court yes- terday in the case in which three stall folds, Bhi Kwal, Chan Cheung and Cheung Yin were charged with selling sh outside the public But the growth of these institu- market, obstructing a police con- tions of higher learning has been stable while carrying out his duty.accelerated in the 20th century. and assaulting a police officer The United States has set the pace respectively on Monday,

and other countries have striven to Mr. C. A Riss appeared for follow. In the former country one person in every 125 goes to the University, in Scotland one in 450, In Germany one in 620, in England | A turther remand of seven days in 1100 where there are 2400 was granted on the application of studenta. In Russia according ta Detective Bent MacPherson by Mr. the University in a Changing world H. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon there are half million University Police Court yesterday when a students: Between 1913 and 1921 married woman, Wong Fung; üp- London University doubled its stu- peared on a charge on kidnapping dent population. In the past ten a child 11 Yip-hop, aged 0, on years Japan has increased the December 11

undergraduates by 50 per cent,

the defence.

KIDNAPPING ALLEGED

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versities is suitable for women and be accessible to them. ought to They play an important part in public life and ought to be ade- quately equipped for the task. Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of truth. In which his soul may sall, Bull on the sea of death. For death takes toll

Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but truth.

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