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THE UNIVERSITY.

ENGINEERING: SOCIETY'S ANNUAL DINNER,

It was quite evident that tho University engineers, bud isade up their minds thoroughly enjoy Themselves on Friday night, whion over a hundred hosts and guests gathered together in the Great Hall of the University.

The Hall itself is a fine back. ground for efforts in the way of decoration, and the Engineers Had risen to the pecusion, displaying The most originality and tasta. prominent feature of the scheme was a huge model of a lighthouse, which stood about twenty feet high above the platform at the back of the Fall. This lighthouse was made from the wood of. pucking cunes which had contained a new 50 h.p. all engine, recently pre- The scated to the University.. uninitiated might navn thought that the framework of the structura was made of steel; it was merely

A brilliant roy, Į painted wood. focussed on the vice-Chairman,!

Below eame from the lighthouse. were rocks, and a notice rending Degroo Bocks. This idea of the University as a lighthouse was also used on the very original mem card. The foundations on which the lighthous rested were labelled | "Truth" and thể rays, "Loyalty."' The menu it und ficiency."

self was called The Indicator Carl, and beneath ench toast were quotations, mostly from Con

fitcius. Thus, under The Uni- versity, were the wards, Study without thought is vain: thought withet study is perilous."

Everywhere could be seen the implements known to engineers. The President used a hammer and an anvil to call for silento, und spaunes, etc., were frenly dis played.

The guests included the Hon Mr. H. T. Creasy, Messra; G. M. Young. R. M. Dger, J. Roid, F. Marsh, K. E. Greig and others WE RECOMMEDwell known in local engineering

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The Toasts.

After the loyal tunsts had been bonoured, Mr. Fou Ping-Sheting, B. Sc., in 1916 1st. Class Honours Engineering Graduate H. K. 6.), the. tonst Of The proposed University." He spoke of the great opportunities that Hongkong offered to young men from all parts of China and the Far East, and be expresand his full confidence in the work already accomplished by the

WHOLESOME University.

AND

Professor W. J. Hinton replied, and remarked humourously upon. the position of the lighthouse upon

INVIGORATING...he recolher the metapler should be changed, for the Univor sily might be compared to a coral TELEPHONE K. 626-island, which was formed by the

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efforts of countless workers, who even left their harlies over their work, so that indeed the coral was built up of them.

Mr. Khoo Gve-lee, Cuirtoan of the Society, proposal "Phetitests', und He welcomed them all. partientarly mentioned, how much the members of the Society ap the preciated the kinginess

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who allowed the managers, engineering students to visit the large work in Hongkong. He particularly hoped that men like The Hon. Mr. Creasy, Mr. Dyer and Mr. Reid would dress meet ings of the engineering students, so as to give them good advice and the benefit of their grint

to Mr. perience, He referred Dyer constmit interest in the University, an interest which com- merived long before the, University opened. He could not allow the opportunity to pass without saying how much the Chinese people | appreciated the splendid generosity of Re. Taikoo firms. for, without their subscriptions of over £50,000, there would artainly have bei no Fogineering Faculty, and probably nu University?

The Hon. Mr. Creasy replied; pointing out the remarkable variots

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of engineering work done in this Colony and the wonderful results that. must fellow in Chine, it was applied engineering science thero.

Mr. Reid, manager of the Tailwoo Dockyard, proposed "The Society He said how plensed were all the members of the profession in the Colony to do

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sono of his own early experiences, and strongly urged the importance of the workshops as a part of any engineer's training.

Net Aittolls-Royces The President, Profesor Mi leton Smith, replied, remarking that Mr. Reid, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Greig and others present were the finished products, while the students were the raw material. The University was not like a modern mator.cap factory: they could not turn mit all of the raw-mterial into Rolls-Royces lilte. Mr. Reid, but they had already had some quite good results.

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it was true that engineering was an extraordinary difficult profession in mony ways; but it was absorbingly intercaling. While they wantel all engineering students to have above the barely no gessity of earning mechanics, remained. If this little kind: Above all else would it be ning. The ideal was service for Island at the mouth of the Canton told that, ni a' erowning offort, gud tice, it was a law of nature as much as gravitation was, that others, and me slavery but the liver, by some great extastrophe of thera lund been founded a Univer แถ earthquake sity, a symbol of the highest type work was essential to happiness, utilisation of the forces of nature nature such us

to do the drudgery.

shoubb disappear and be sub-of any divilisation, for it stood for There was a grent deal of talk ni

Ton often The spraker referred to the upmerged, never to be seen again the fruition of all inbour, the quest.

med uf Professors i by ,"it could nover be for yet more knowledge. If the times about culture.

punching enve-

The romantic story University Engineering Society the kybarite and the luzy used the

-Redmond and Roffey, and of their lorgotten. word an elonk for slackness, in-

even dissipation. work on behalf of the stukais juf The dimentice of the past could help in its efforts, in however femperance. There would be no real gulture with extending over many years. The eighty years, at first apparently small a manner; "nothing better out hard work. The Greeks - hnd Hongkong University always, re-insuperable but netually overcome could beskak of it

than wendid legacy of liters minded him of the Greek effort at would always remain in poetry and musical programme was pro-- ture and scientific ideas, but the Alexandria, and though that in prose. The conquest over the vided by Professor. Brown, Mesara, Greek structure of society depended centre of learning had passed away, ignorance of men and the defiant Fenton, Day and Saye.

entirely on a system of slavery, and yet products if it, such as Euclid's refforts of nature would always be

idons en preserved in the history of man-: assumed that the cultured névd not theorems and certain

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