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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922.

There woulit bave been ample ex-whore led to a lepgiby and angsated cuse for Dr. Jardan had be, na na controverty; but I sospect that acting official, been content to let thèen were some of us here who felt thingú drift, "instead of setting him, that although thị/spirit, of the age jellsto remedy the defects of organs [ielt no doubt as to the ultimate fustion, and no sóợn ná the facts reault, their admission here would The eighth congregation of the were ascrętuinable, to place then at least be preceded by dignised | University of Hongkong took place [frankly before the Court. The debate Such, in fact, was not the yesterday in the Great Hall, easier inanend vireumstances în ccie. When a woman student had which was crowded for the oc- which we and ourselves today are the courage to present herself for casion. The Band of the Wilt-uainly due to the liberality of the admission, and we came to comjure shires enlivened the proceedings colonial Government, but I person our own University Ordinance with| with a well-selected programme. ally have enme, during the last year, the local Interpretation Ordinanze, There was a tennis match into he very conscious of the debt I] we found that the draughtsman, had the earlier afternoon, the present owe to the courage of mir predeces- already settled the questión for us. students of the University doingor. This Toiversity had no warm-As the only two votes I have given, battle with the past students. At 4 pm. tea was served in the Vice friend than Gregory Paul Jordan, at an interval a 20 years, as a mem and one can only regret that he ber of the Senate of the University Chancellor's Room, and at 5 pm should now have fired to see the of Cambridge, were in favour-sue- the customary procession formed up and proceeded to the Hall. The suns which we believe awaits.it. cessfully in favour of the admitston

procession was composed in the

Heanley; Mr. J. Romanis Lee and

Generons Helpers...

jof women to degrees. I cannot pre- following order:

Three oiler namnes fall to be men. tend to regret the action of our Mr. B. G. Birch and Dr. J.Boned in this connection-those of draughtsman. Whether in the case Fenton; Mr: As Ta: Tin and. Mr. the late Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, the of the individual woman the pur- Lai Hsi Chi: Dr. G. H. Thomas late Mr. Edward Earn, and the late sult of higher education - normally and Mr. H. B. L Dowbiggin; Dr.[15. 1ong Affie, Sir Bonshan Wei makes for the increased happiness W. J. Woodman and Dr. C. M. Yk's activities belong to the his. is a question on which, personally. Mr. R. W. Barney, Mr. R. Robertory of the Cobany as a whole, but I have an open mind; but there cast another-and be. I think. no doubt that the in va cagarity or son and Mr. M. Danaher: Mr. M. H. Roffey and Mr. J. Ring: Dr. latterly as a representative of the well-being of the community does Harston and Mr. R. K. Kotewall; grant-aided school-he sat upon the require some generalisation of and that Mr. Mok Kon Sang and Mr. Foiversity Court from the outer women's, education, P. Talati; Prof. R. K. M. Simpson until practically the time of his means a real need for the best pos- sible Woxen teachers. There and Prof. W. Vickers; Prof. C. Y.Jdeath Mr. Filward Ezra was the] Wang and Prof. G. T. Byrne: dome of several scholarships, ten almost limitless scope for women jean be na doab: that China offers

Prof. D. C. H. Florance and Dr.1,6k by mujal at the Shanghai destora. At the same time the R. M. Gibson: Dr. Mckenny and| Municipal school, which owe their

number of women students will!

Dr. C. Forsyth; Dr. O. Marriott juterest to the fact that be limited be strictly limited until the curri and Mr. Ho Kwong: Mr. S. W. Tso

This Hersity En and Rev. C. B. Shann: Rev. Dr.

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Bxrdfeula of our girls' schools are medi-i T. W. Pearce and Prof. F. A. Red private 106% of the

pasfied: that change is already being, mond; Mr. Sg Hoa Tse and Mr.j

students made.. Chau Siu Ki Prof. H. G. Earlej whatever in reason might be their] University Finance.

amount. So far as I can ascer-i and Mr. Montague Ede; Hon. Mr.

One of the first questions to A. O. Lang and Mr. Ho Fookain, that privilege never which I had to give my attention Hon. Mr. T. 1 Perkins and Hon. abused. Dr. Djong A Fie, and eight months ago was that of our (Established A. D. 1880.)

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A. G. Stephen and Hon. Mr. E. Sumatra, contributed $12,000 af the purpose of vexing their souls.: Hallifax: Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving! and Hon. Mr. Chow Shou Son: ear towards the expenses of the Such is not my view. I think of! Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Puk and Mr. Faculty of Arts, from the time of them as the only means of making Mel. Messer: Hon. Mr. H. E. Pol-1 do not understand that they had ethers, a very important side of

its institution down to last year.elear, both to oneself and to! lock and Mr. J. Kemp: 1. Siry vital connection with Hongur activities. We have recently William Rees Davies and Bishopong, and their action seems to me communiquted to the press very Pozzoni; Hon. Mr. Cland Severn and Sir 6. M. Eirpatrick: Dean.1 very striking llustration of that detailed accounts for the ñnancial Faculty of Arts and the Registrar:i

public-spirited idealism to which year ending last August. Those Dean, Faculty of Medicine and the stitutions such as these owe so accounts are now public property. Dean, Faculty of Engineering:

and I can leave them to speak for! themselves As regards the past. The Vice-Chancellor and

Bricks Without Straw. The Treasurer: Hɔn. Mr. E. H. Sharp! With regard to our cathering of they do cat show, I think that there has been any extravagance. I do not had that too much money has been spent en buildings or that much larger sums might use- equipment It is, indeed, clear

much.

and Sir Charles Addis: The Maceļa year ago, it may have struck! Bearer: 1. E. the Chancellor. some of you on that occasion that) Amongst those in the body of the¦ I was engaged in the exhilaratingi all were: Lady Stubbs Lady task of attempting to make bricks

Rees Davies, Lady Addis. Lady without straw. It was my day fully have been so spent. But i

| Kirkpatrick, Lady Brunyats, Lady to address you on matters for

am inclined to think that the reapon- tormer University Council mayi

H Tung. Sif Eric and Lady Stuart which I had myself no Taylor, Mrs. Severn, Mrs. Pollock, |«ibility, and as to which, from Cupt. Fisher, the Japanese Cansall the nature of the case. I had alt sometimes have forgotten that you Capt. Seville. Or, Lang. Mrao little knowledge. I, at least and equipment and still have it cannot spend money on buildings B. Mrs, Perkins, the Consul for do not forget the kindly mangervailable for other purposes. The! | Portugal, Dr. Sagtes, Mr. G. Niļin which you tolerated my inex.

Orme, Mr. H. Peley Smith, Hon.perience, and I find it an encoura accounts as regards the

essential point about our!

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[capital account and endow-

the M. K. L. Mr. and Mrs. Owen will find our past year's records available for current purposes.!

of which Hughes, Dr. and Mrs. Harston, satisfactors. Allowing for de- That distinction I am very glad | OTHERS take your photos, but Miss Harston, Dr. and Mrs. Black.grees conferred in by our 3 years experience we Mrs. Marriott. Mr. E. AM. Wil-Deans of Faculty will shortly pre-of view. In the first place, it is absence, the to have drawn, from two points take yours in EXCELLENTliams. Mr. Bulger Johnson, Dr.sent to Your Excellency 28 next very sound protection for the CONDITION and NATURAL Lyon Brown, Major

Downing. graduates. it COMPLEXION instead of mere-Colonel Nicholson, Colonel and that of any previous year. I can-self.

number exceeding Finance Committee and for my-tions, already made

public, represent you, along with Pro-thare in the future. In the mean- ly clear and sharp.

Mrs. Humphrey. Mr. and Mrs.not undertake that the number

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Ron sang had just promised $50,000, the very remarkable Rockefeller Local examination stage, but the next year, drawn mainly from the Lafrente, Mr and Mrs. G. H.class, which entered the Univer-of the University but could pre-plause). I allude to the fact ining at Peking, visited. at one tions are extraordinarily

ApFoundation; and besides attend results of the December examina- 3 departmant payable in two instalments. Wakeman, Mr. and Mrs. Dovey.its in 1913, will he quite so large, sent half a Mr. and Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, Mr.

dozen demands, to order to say that we received time or another, Penang, Singable to them. At Peking, one had and Mrs. J. R. Wood, Mr. and Mrs.

but from the J. H. Taggart. Mr. and Mrs. Holthe annual number of graduate if our Endowment Fund was still the following day.

following year which we should have no answer Mok's cheque for the entire amount pore, Java, Hankow and Shanghai, the opportunity of meeting the

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(Applause)should give you some report of the representatives of similar institu- and Mrs. Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. rapidly. The numbers of our

tions in China, and I felt I rather expenditare. But, even more im, spread over ten years, home from the Shenton, Commander Hake, Rev.students are equally the iD-

round of visits, resembled the missionary school Fr. Maria, Rev. J. T. Holman, Dr. Crease. This year's entry, up to situation should be made clear to teaching of Chinese.

portant. I desire that the whole Mr. Ăn chi cho YEUDE, for the Well, perhaps I can best conveIt was very pleasant to have the master as I have pictured him. Gladys Turner.

date-and until Chinese New Year members of the Court, for under Mr.

(Applause) my principal impression by re- the figures cannot be looked upon the University Ordinance it is base laia rasinly in Java, though he that a prophet is The Vice-Chancellor's Speech.

Awok's activities, I believe, minding you of the old saying, frank comradeships of a final-is 85, as against 67 last upon the Court that there rests has come recently to reside in Hung-honour. save in his own country, and, in some ways, I found my- not without aged in similar, work to oneself; His Excellency the Chancellor year, which was itself a record declared the Congregation open, But even more striking are the and the Band played the Univer figures in connection with our fsity Anthem.

junior Local examinations, where

said:

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caxions the language of exaggera. tion is not

Matriculation; wholly onpardon-our

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kong; and it was very interesting to Your presence here this afternoon seit lo a very advantageous posi me, when I was in Java. to find his has proved that the saying is not tion. Here. in Hongkong. one's The Vice-Chancellor, Sir Wil-we had an entry of nearly 400/nance. Do not think I am taking mm vs Chairman of the Board of entirely applicable. But you do mind is apt to dwell on the in- live very near us-you see our sufficiency of the endowment of liam Brunyate, then spoke. He a98-as against a previous record an opportunity when members of anaement of a school, to which difficulties and you know

our the University; outside Hongkong. the Court have, no opportunity of I shall refer later, Then, some defects. I think it would' en-one is apt to be envied, because of 234. I do not claim that that reply, to try and saddle that res-where about the month of August, courage you to know how very the general run of institutions of Mr. Chancellor. Ladies and He argues any increasing popularity thman, --it will be within the recur on the part of that examination pensibility upon them, which some received a cheque for $10,000 high this institution stands out-University rank in China have no lection of most of you that when it is simply the result of the think ought to be my own, I have and Sons Ltd. for the Engineering was very pleasant to meet school Chamber of Commerce Interest.

of you may have been inclined to from the firm of Messrs. John Swire side Hongkong (Applause). It endowments at all! reacly a year ago I took possession steady consclidation of the policy already taken the matter up with Faculty. (Applause). As a complemasters as far apart as Penang. of this seat my first official art was of the Education Department of the Court; I have told them in ment to the munificent deastion of Hankow and Shanghai who

On broader lines, I found every- to present the late Dr. Jordan, to this Colony. It means that in a detail what moneys I think they 8000,000 which we received for ge satisfied they were with the finish standards in China. It parti- where the keenest interest taken sent us students, and to hear how in education, and in educational Your ExcelTeary as worthy of an year or two there will be a will require for the next ten years,eral purposes from the Taikoo fred product we sent back. I think cular, I was invited to return to honorary degree. U such corresponding increase in the both for capital expenditure and at the institution of the University, remember that a year ago I ex-

in' as additional endowment, and al-1 think you will agree that this is pressed a hope that we and the Shaoghal to attend the annual able, and it is therefore a small words, that we are being gradually though I think they were rather a very generous gift. I don't mean missionary schoolmasters might conference of the Associated Bri- me that, speaking freed from the difficulty by which startled by the magnitude of the to say that it solves the whole en-find some common meeting ground. tish Chambers of Commerce, to-day with fuller knowledge, I can in common with all similar instituums, they have appointed the zineering problem-engineering be. I have since been led to think where the education question was in all sincerits repeat of the deaths in China-we were confronted check my estimates and to prepare does Pnable me to meet the Taikoo The life of a missionary school-The proceedings were private, but strongest committee possible to ing a progressive science-but it that I understated the situation, going to be seriously discussed. The substance of what I then said our early years, that of a tack the public appeal for the neces- Professor at Budget time on match master is apt to be a of the living. Dr. Jordan's great; of an adequate system of secondary sary support. I will not attempt more eazy terms.

rather any of you who are metabers of I think we have isolated one, and the need for the General Chamber of Conte test, as far as this University was education on which & University can to anticipate that appeal, but reason to hope that, even without educational sympathy comes only merce will have received recently concerned, came when, in the sum-be built. There can be little doubt confess that is rather difficult to imer of lats, he was called upon for that our entry will exceed 100 in see where all the money we need any formal appeal. other

a thee, then mdeterminate, to take year or two, and it should not be is to come from. But when I re- porribly some of the large in rather think that he looks to this oat when I say that the British up the acting Vice-Chancellorship, long before it reaches 150. At that Rect on the very considerable sums mount, will be forthcoming in the University to provide that sym- merchants there assembled for By that time it had become abun. stage new problems will arise in we have received in the past from

near future.

ally recognised their duty to assist. dantly clear that the endowment connection with accommodation and quite unexpected quarters, I see

High Standing Outside Hongkong. -Good Promise From Java, to the best of their power exist with which this University had been į staff.

The next matter to which I would no reason for despondency.

I spoke of Jays: It was aing, British missionary schools in founded

like inadequate

Bilode Women Students.

is ia Munificent Donations.

some little startling in Java to China; and that they look to efficiency, and the defects of This year's entry, for the first |

As I am speaking of bene senie personal to myself. Most find a Chinese English school the this University as the natural bosdi offices, organisation" rendered it time; includes

that during pupils of which were being taught of the system. (Applause). I will more

as four in number. The question of I was able, when referring, to the summer your Council invited to look upon Hongkong-as their not detain you undaly by dwelling. situation, the admission of women has else the Nematee and Ho Tang beneface to do a good deal of travelling educational Meccal. If all goes was in Peking in September to well we shall have pupils from

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than difficult to

the exact

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I

may recall

that

of you are aware

next to his need for sympathy a full report of the proceedings, sumos, in his mission work. And I and you will be able to bear me"

pathy,

on all the implications of that de

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