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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922.

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politician? Will you boar with me Government, further, paid off all amounting to'- anothér while 1 try to draw an alternative debts, Ficture 1. Take a man of more than $700,000. So the financial situa. average culture--and to me there in tion was relieved. To-day the Uni- (Continued From Page 2) a suggestion of culture about the versity was a healthy going con- cern on a business footing, and RL degree that is sadly lacking growing a very satisfactory posi rision, but it does mean, 1 think, about the LB-make him for tion after only eight years work- that a decision most be taken in years your trusted adviser on yourfing, especially remembering that the very near future as to whether

mare serious business interests those eight years included the this University is to be regarded and even сд Four most comparalysing period of the war. as a purely local institution, or to dential family affairs: place him The Plans for Expansion. be regarded as the British Univer-apon Your Excellency's Executive This brings me to the plans-for uity for Chins. The wider position Council where, with no undue bar expansion, to which the Vice- would involve very grave responden of responsibility, he is able to Chancellor has referred. sibility, and I am fully alive to the watch and sometimes to influence shown by the extract which-1 just argument that, if the benefit is to the processes of gaverament: add now read from the Commission's be Chius's, Hongkong cannot rea- the traditions of a great profession report, it considered future expan sonably support the whole burden. which, in its own way, aims ever to fulall its proper functions, and sion essential if the University is There are, however, very pertinent at justice-and I think you may be rise to its opportunities. The very considerations in the opposite sense, proad to add the resulting product troubles which called the Commis A very great part of the advantage to the roll of honorary graduates sion into being sprang from the of this University in, as I see is, of this Uaiversity. (Loud and pro- fact that the University had given] that it already provides a meeting longed applause).

rein to ambitions and aspirations ground" for students from all parts

beyond its present financial means. Hon. Mr. Sharp's Reply. of China. 13 well as from the

The Vice-Chancellor: Your Ex-And it would be a sad thing for penses of a University are already to mention to you that Mr. Sharp But such expansions cannot be Straits. Then again, the great excellency, it is my regrettable date the University if it had not these larger ambitions and aspirations. incurred, in seruring efficiency what is in his doctor's hands, has lost carried out by running into debt ever the number of students. At this voice and is forbidden by him Funds are needed, and will doubt- the present moment, for instance, to speak. Under these circumless be forthcoming in time: It is an increase of numbers would mean stances he has very kindly reduced is question of time, which all who an increase to our fees exceeding to writing what he proposes to say are interested in the University any increased expense. And, final to us, and is requesting the Regis- desire to hasten. The Government ly, in the long course al years, trar to assist him by reading it has, for the present, done its part. institutions such as these depend on his behalf.

The further. money must come for their success upon the support Hon. Hr. Sharp's speech was as from the public. Chinese and Euro- of public-spirited benefactors, whose follows:

Ipean, and I have no doubt it will support is most readily and mostļ Your Excellency. Mr. Vice-Preparing in advance a more willingly given to an institution that Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen, less definite scheme of future ex- makes a wide appeal. That. Your very highly appreciate the pansion, which I understand is Excellency, is the substance of the honour which the University has now being done, has this practical report I have to make, and I am conferred on me in making me advantage: that it shows intending enly sorry that it should have de- one of its members and giving me donors how they can, if they wish.

particular thank select some kas from what this honorary degree. I 40

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The Recent Commission.

on benefit of China.

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object ** perhaps the principal pur you, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, for the Which specially assists the Univer

of this Congregation-the terms in which you have just selves, and earmark their gifts to sity or specially interests them-

which I Presentation of two new honorary Presented me.-terms

that object raduates in the persons of Sir wish were better deserved. I feel

that the Charles, Addis

The Boxer Indemnity. degree and Mr. Sharp.

which has been conferred on me is in a

In case we have the good for- (Applause).

A Distinguished Banker.

different position from the honttune to get the much-discussed contribution from the Boxer In- We welcome Sir Charles Addis ary degrees usually given here-demnity, it will, of course, be a to this platform for the first time. Generally they are in recognition splendid help. Our honorary gra and our wele:me is a very warm the individual eminence or dis-duate, Sir John Jordan, the former one after his too long, absence inguished work of the recipient British Minister in Peking, spoke from the East. It is the too com personally. In the present case. very hopefully in this hall about mon fate of men who have spent

I recognise that the honour comes the prospects of the Indemnity long years in the East, that they me as representing the late being devoted in some way to the return to England to

University Commission, and find that

What greater they are cut of touch with Englishbehalf of all the members of that benefit could be given to China conditions, and too often finally to Commission I thank the Univer-than that of education. If the settle down authorities

sity for this proof of its kindly amount still due to Great Britain Eastern conditions, with which, appreciation of the Commission's were spent upon the general cause in the meantime, they have become :odwill towards in-this proof of education in China: upon the equally out of touch. Such has that it realizes the Commission support of schools in China, par- not been the Ente of Sir Charles was a friend, not an enemy. (Apticularly in the South. which would: Addis 1 think I saw, at the time

naturally feed the University, as well as upon an adequate contri- of his election

bution to the University itself. I should certainly like to we believe the money would be vi the say this about the

Commission, used in the way which would most fart that perhaps English that the work was a pleasure to advantage China. (Applause). banking was becoming too parcits members. It was appointed

Real Education. chial At any rate, it was an during the summer of 1920, at a I should like to say a few words unprecedented hoavar for time when the University had got especially to the Chinese students. Eastern banker. (Applause). So, into troubled waters. No doubt. With all the new and excellent I believe, was his

recent then (as was generally known), the work you are doing here, and all election as President of the Bank University's expenditure exceeded these expansions, I would venture ers' Institute. (Applause).. In the its income and it could not meet to say: Don't forget the good in unfortunate absence on sick leave its obligations; its financial situa- your own old literature. I am of our Professor of Political tion was bad and getting worse. sorry to say I don't know Chinese; Economy, I will not attempt to Under these circumstances the bat in my time as an undergra comment on the masterly refer Coumission was apparently pre-duate at Oxford, Dr. Legge, whose ences to the international ex-sumed to be hostile. We were name you doubtless know, changes which formed part of his expected to advise all sorts of Professor of Chinese there. presidential address-all the more terrible things; either the closing had previously occupied the posi- as I noticed that my own financial of some Faculties entirely or the tion of our Dr. Pearce, as head guides were most reticent on the crippling of the University's work in Hongkong of the London Mis- sion, which was a ploneer of subject Should Sir Charles bejto such an extent as to destroy its

Western education in China. Dr. minded to continue his literary efficiency. I scarcely need a Legge made a translation of the efforts and after listening to a now that nothing was further Chinese classics, which you have him yesterday at from the mind of the Commission. in your library. On his advice speech from lunch time I trust he is-I would Indeed I am sure the Government I read some of them. They teach, recommend to him the writing of would have accepted such as you know, a high code of a work on the Romance of Bank-advice of any Commission had ethics; and with regard to the ing. For such a work I am sure given it. The main objects which the purpose and aim of education. his experience as a representative Commission kept before it were which particularly concerns of the British Banks the First, to extricate the University here, they lay down some funda- Chinese Consortium, and as ceasor from its immediate financial diff-mental principles. Real educa of the Bank of Morocco-if that culties and provide safeguards tion, they say, is not merely learn post still existe-should farmish him which should make their recuring a catalogue of facts, which with ample material For the rence impossible; second, to carry alone is valueless and apt to 105 Into 2 false moment he will be all too busy, as on the existing work under the delude

of knowledge: it is member of the Foreign Office best conditions and arrange for sense

future expansion when funda also necessary to train the power Committee on British Education in

allow.

of thought in order to apply the China. Let me add that we owe

The Government's Help. fact we learn. Farther, they Sim a very deep debt of gratitude

Mr. Sharp quoted the following say this power of thought alone, as Chairman of our Consulting Com mitter in London. (Applause).

passage from the Commission's without learning the material to report: "The Commission.

think upon, is even worse-posi- | On Lawyers.

strongly advises that the Univertively dangerous to other people. The presentation of Mr. Sharp is a tuore domestic, but none the less ty should be carried on in all Both, they say, are required, the three present Faculties of Medi

learning, Faxrerable. task. His chairmanship cine, Engineering and Art.

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of the University Commission of under conditions which make for Confucius expresses iti in words two years ago gives him an efficiency and success; that if it which have been put up over the rivalled knowledge of this Univer is to reach and keep a position entrance gate of the Chinese) city and of its defects; and if, with worthy of the Colony and the Bri- College at Tsinan-fa, but which, full knowledge of all our failings. tish Empire and if it is to take I fear, lose half their force by e still has faith in us, it is a very its proper part in the develop translation, "Learning without the great" encouragement to us (Apments now in progress in China, power of thought deludes oneself; plause). It is to me

an added it most maintain a standard fully the power of thought without source of satisfaction that he is one as high as, or higher than in the learning endangers others." This of the leaders of a profession of past and most expand soon and is a fine conception; and as much

needed in the world in these days graduates who must ultimately spirit of good fellowship gained which I am a humble member. With widely."

This extract, he remarked, would as when it was written over two make the success itself. It is for at your old University, that its all the popular indictment against

you, whether you come from China success will finally depend. The a profession. I am familiar.clearly show the Commission's gen-thousand years ago,

eral, attitude. He reminded the

The Students' Park.

or the Straits, or Malaya, or else-University is in the fullest sense We talk a jargon far removed from

assembly that the Government And there is one more thing I where, to create the University's your University, Therefore, I the realities of practical life: devoid gave the large capital sum of should like to say to you students, reputation in the world: it is by would say: Don't think only of of conviction, we speak always to $1,000,000 to the Endowment Fund, I have referred to the need of the men and won the University what you can get out of it, bat par brief: we constantly interfere which the Commission recommend money; but, after all, money and turns out that it will, be, judged, bear in mind zine what you purs with things outsile our legal sphere; ed, and increased its yearly grant equipment and stan can only It is on you and your successors, to it. On this subject Isbaumet while some of us have, even sank of $20,000 to $50,000, as the Com-render the University's success and on the way you show the ad- do better than quote in conclurion, to that lowest depth-the lawyer mission also recommended. The possible. It is you under-vantages of the learning and **** (Continued on Page 5)

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