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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION

GENERAL

H.E. ON GROWING NEED OF LIBRARY ACCOMMODATION

Munificent GIN

indeed be a noble, monument to a citizen of this Colony and asting memorial Df his munificence.

Valuable Document

it

The first is the establishment of great need of that country in Ber

a central Universities Bureau for work of reconstruction. Chlaa. The proposed Bureau would serve as a centre for the

of

Closer Relations

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collection and dissemination of The Hongkong, University has provide better teaching for medi- generously the Sino-British Cul- tural Relatioris Committee have

Information about Universities, for during the past year cal undergraduates: furthermore

come into I have already mentioned the the discussion.

closer relations with activities in educational it would enable realization of that given four scholarships of Hong-

kong $300 each. conditionally upon report of the Committee which as problems and generally as an ap China in, more than one way. co-operation between the Govern-

the Cniversity providing the hol-Chancellor I appointed to advise pointments agency. That suggea. For instance, the Government of ment Institute of Bacteriology and the University Department of Paders with free tuition, and hostel upon the future development of tion. of course, is primarily China has appointed Mr. Bloss a That report has matter for the Chinese Ministry Trustee of the British Boxer In- thology which the 1937 Committee accommodation: that contribution the University.

Just been published: strongly advocated.

is an ex- of Education: I feel sure, however, demnity Fund. by the University is evaluated' at I am con-

tremely valuable document and that for their part the Hongkong $700 per scholar. vinced both as Chancellor and

gladly render the thanks of the University authorities would will time, the Fung Ping Shan Library Again, in twenty-four hours Governor that every endeavour

University to its members. In paringly take an active part in such will be the scene in which the should be made to carry this ideal

. Capt. Walter Bosman made the ticular I wish" to express our grati-an institution. out in practice, :

munificent gift of $50,000 for three tude to Mr. Han Lih-wu and to

Hongkong Branch of the Sino- The second means proposed by British Cultural two-year scholarships of $800 each the Chinese Ministry of Educa them is

Relations Asso- on the lines of the Rhodes Scho-tion for his participation in the inter-change of University

the organization of the clation will start its existence. larships at Oxford. Mr. 8. T. WI- Commitee's labours; "he trinchers, a matter in which we could service which we aim at render-

tea-

Thirdly I might mention a smiali most kindly given valuable help from the all-impor depend on the valuable assistance llamson has

ing to our sister Universities in then made reported in so practical in engineering studies. Three of us

The reasons for the appointment also recommended the appoint- and distribution of the books and tions Association. The Committee temporary centre for the reception and lucid a manner that "Septem-rmis. Messrs, John Swire & Sons. ber next will see the opening of

and Messrs. Butterfield & Swire first chapter of the report,

They dustes

more gra- other documents which the Inter from the Universities of

Bedsteads, Wardrobes, Dressing have been good enough` to offer may be summarised as a desire to

national Student Service of Great Tables, Chests of Drawers, Chester- free passages, to selected graduates" ascertain why the University had

Britain are collecting for the re-feld "Suites, Sofas, Sideboards, in engineering who wish to gain falled in one of its original pur-

establishment of Chinese Univer Dining Tables, practical experience Iri Great poses, viz, that it should serve its

sity libraries destroyed by war. Firms too numerous for great neighbour China mention have helped in the matter secondly, how that objective might of engineering apprenticeships.

Training of Teachers Another subject mentioned at ont the last Congregation training of teachers. The ad hoc

committee of which mention was $2,000 to provide an annual prize tant angle of China's requirements of the Sino-British Cultural Rela-china. That would be to act as a

the Teachers Training College in temporary quarters, next year it will, I hope. be in, its permanent home.

Ltd. Messrs. A. Holt & Company of the Committee appear in the ment to our star of

It is fundamental to com-Britain. munity's prosperity and progress that these persons to whom is en- trusted the shaping of the minds of the rising generation should themselves" be rightly and adequately trained.

Recently a great champion of humanity, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, said "Men are not prisoners of fate; they are only prisoners in their own minds." Education's greatest task ls so to Work on the mind of youth that the shades of the prison-house

Building Schemes

Brief mention may be made at this point of two building schemes which the University authorities have in hand. The more Important is for a block of buildings for the teaching of Chemistry; · Physics, Biology and. we hope, later of Geology. Plans are being prepar- ed for this Science unit on a site near Belcher Battery on Pokfulam

be attained,

China

These recommendations are. to my mind, notable for insight and vision. and.

They will, of course, have close considera- tion by the Connel and the Court in due course. Whatever conclusions these bodies may reach they will I wholeheartedly endorse the Committee's remark that necessary condition of our de- valopment is that we must co- operate with and not seek to compete with the Chinese Universities.

In effect the Committee's Andings can be divided into two categories, one of which concerns the curriculum. the other being once more with underlying principles.

As regards the former, at an early stage the Committee reached the "conclusion that the education given at the Hongkong University is rot up ta. University standard et efther Great Britain or China

am

Investigation Needed

sure

4.

There is, however, one question

An offer to that effect has zone forward with that object; It will, we hope, be accepted. I trust that we shall be pri vileged to help in the forging of other such links 23 time foes on.

Letter of Thanks

As all in this hall-are aware. since the fall of Canton this University has been glad to give such harbourage to the Lingnan |University as its somewhat modest

facilities

may tend less and, less to close Road; it is expected that by 1940 and that unless a higher standard which is raised in Chapter of Vice-Chancellor received a letter i

We shall have laboratories worthy can be attained then a decline to the report which, I think, of the University.

.

around the growing child. That prison-house is built by man out of tal-truths in a half light:

The other scheme is the creation. under the sun rays of knowledge of a block of flats for senior tea- It would cease to be. The old jibe chers: savings in house-allowances Quis custodiet?" smells of the pri-will-sumice to pay interest and son. If so far as the precepts of sinking fund on the money bor- education are concerned, we sub- rowed for this purpose. stitute for it the serious inquiry 'Quis docebit we shall find that the answer will cause many of our difficulties to vanish.

Appeal Met

Once more I revert to my last address to Congregation because an appeal which I made then for

In both these cases we are indebted to the Hongkong and "Shanghai Bank and I take this opportunity to state the Uni- versity's warm gratitude to the Chief Manager for his friendly ald.

Grave Deficiencies

So far, so good. but there" ar

the gift of a Hostel for Women grave deficiencies for which the Students was met almost imme- diately by a most generous offer University must provide before from the Reverand Mother Su-long if it is to fulfil its function perior of St. Paul's Convent to properly. I quote the following ex- provide additional hostel accom-tract from a note recently received modation which will ultimately by me from the Vice-Chancellor. enable forty women to be housed.

The offer was most gratefully ac-. cepted and I publicly express our thanks for the Convent's 11- berality, I trust that that fine example will be followed by others.

We have to-day 112 women students on our books; even with this new hostel the avali- able accommodation for them will take sixty only: we would much like to house the re- mainder.

C. B. S. CUTS SCHOOL DAY"

Afternoon Session May Be Discontinued

According to

recent announcement by Headmistress J. W. Buckwell, of the Kowloon Central British Junior School, It is being proposed to discon- tinue afternoon school is from September next and to "have, morning school only, including Saturdays, throughout the

year.

"The Laboratory provision for Civil and Electrical Engineering

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of Lingnan University are deep- ly sensible of the extraordinary measure of generous co-opera- tion given by the authorities of Hongkong University to Lingnar University during this period őt crisis, without which co-opera- tion the continuance of the work

investigation by an expert Every Aspect Considered committee before it can usefully Following that line of thought, refer to that raised-in-Chapter go before the statutory authorities. they considered in turn every 25- pect of the University's teaching I which bears the title "Transfer and equipment in order to discover

and Rebuilding of University." the right lines of progress.

That the University should not be They prefaced their recommen. Where It is is undeniable: whether dations with the caveat that its removal is a matter of prac "they are to be read as contingent tical politics is far more difficult on the finding, from one source or to determine. But the progress of another, of large sums of money." any institution is necessary ham Into the details of their advice pered and its future is jeopardised: do not proposé to enter this even so long as it rests under the cloud of such a doubt and I am there- fore in process-d'appointing a ther at this stage of our existence small committee to inquire whe

ard having regard to local condi- tions the rebuilding of the Univer-There are other matters which Isity elsewhere is within the bounds 1 would like to mention, but this

at practical politica.

address is already over-long.

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The scheme. requires close examination by the statutory authorities of the University and an exploration of financial possibilities before public com- ment can be of material ad- vantage.

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I There I will leave the subject of will, therefore, conchide by wish- is, without exaggeration, lament concerned with fundamentals, may only this, that I was deeply gra- pleasant voyage and a safe return our future for the moment, adding ing, on behalf of the University, a able. It is extemporised, dispers again be usefully subdivided into

learn from a and insufhelent,

personal to Mr. Siosa, our Vice-Chancellor, and the the material and the psychological letter from His Excellency General who is going on duty-leave in two equipment is in considerable On the material side the point is Chiang Kai-shek that he sin days time. We already owe him a part already antiquated The made that in order to be of ser cerely supports our aims and plans great deal of gratitude: what He laboratories for electro-technies, vice to China the University must hydraulics and the testing of make residence here not cement and other materials, pro-attractive to students in China, it jected years ago in a building to must also make it reasonably pos- join up the Feel Laboratory and sible for them to live here. the Ho Tung Workshop on Pok- fulam Road, are needed now. Un-

Goodwill To China

for close co-operation with the proposes to do on our behalf, dur- merely Universities of China which to ing his leave will, I am confident, use his own phrase-would meet a largely increase that debt:

less we get more adequate labora- i will quote from a note which I tories we cannot pretend to keep recently received from the Vice- our place in the forefront of the Chancellor on this subject. institutions for the training of Chinese engineers. The equip- ment in the nearer Chinese Uni- versities already far surpassed ours and while in them teaching advances, conditions here make! it more and more difficult to pre- vent ourselves being rapidly our paced, Equipment alone does not make for good, engineering teaching but it is the straw of the bricks."

GROWING NEED Another growing need is library accommodation; The Fung Ping Shan Library is good but even now It is hard put to it to house its books and their readers. And the number of those who come to our The hours will be from 8.45 Library is the greater because in to 11.45 am. for Classes 1 and 2B, this great city there is no public from 8.45 to 12.15 for Classes 2Abrary worthy of the name For that and from 8.45 am to 12.45 Preason we willingly admit any, re- for Classes 3 and 4, giving the sident who is competent to make] 'same, number of hours in school

use of the Library: among them during the last two years there The children's afternoons in this have been, we are glad to think. way may be devoted to out-of-some one hundred and twenty re- school activities such as dancing. fugee Chinese scholars, music,-riding, Brownles' and Cubs

as at present-

work and meetings.

But it may be assumed that this privilege will

be:

more sought

more time

When this step becomes final, and this school will be in line with the goes

ow and

It is certala

two other Junior British Schools, that our existing accommodation, the Peak School and Quarry Bay which after all was intended for School.

Chinese literature, will before long There will be a meeting in the be unable to cope with that de- Kowloon School to-morrow after-mand. An adequate University

"If this University is to be not merely a sign, but an active agency of British goodwill to China its doors must be much more widely, open to students from China... A conspicuous obstacle to the free entry of Chinese, is its relatively high scale of charges" in this Univer- sity. These are not too high, as experience has shown, for the sons of well-to-do men from the Colony, from Malays, and from the Chinese porta. They are fantastically high compared with the charges of the Inland Uni versities of China,

"The reason for the existence of a University in this small Colony-is that it should provide in the Far East a University education inspired by British

standards. But we can offer that only at a cost which effec- tively bars the approach of many whom we st', want to help. The Commitécé was bound to conclude that in order to survive this University, must! develop and that, if anything like the full harvest of those developments was to be reaped. a large and generous provision of scholarships for able young men and women from Inland China was essential. This alone would justify the cost of deve lopment.?

Given sufficient funds, the pro-

noon where comments on this Library, therefore, stands near the vision of scholarships to students proposal will be heard by the forefront of our necessities Headmistress.:

Quite a few Kowloon realdents whose children attend the institu tion feel that the morning hours are long for children of this young nge. Also, the difficulty of a lack of park and playground space for young children in the afternoon is a: problem...

Unfortunately it is one which

lles outside the range of prac tical politics so, far as Univer-"" sity funds are concerned, at any rate for very many years to come.. 1 am, however not without hope that some yet un- known benefactor may appear

and thus endow us." It would"

from Chinese schools presents no dimculties

Two Means

So much for material considera- tions. Turning to the psychological side, the Committee suggests two means by which the University could draw closer to Chinese high- fer education.

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