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DEGREE CEREMONY.

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China cries aloud for the applica- Lion generally of now ideas, and those idens must surely by based on a better mutual understanding between the Chinose and those Britishers who sojourn among them.

Ladies and Gentlemon, I have on

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

upon this theme I wish to address you today.

Special Science.

may give us

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1927.

Thoughts that do often lie too dous for tears.

years

means to

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sudy of man biriself; and, when we the ideal student.

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trine taught by Rono is that all life understanding with the neighbouring is one and that a basic unity in com country of China." Those aims are It has been said that a well educat position and in response to sutor noble and worthy of the fullest sup- stimulus pervades all matter, how- port not only by us who inhabit Hong- ed man should know "something of

over apparently inert or however, palkong, but by the British Dominions and Colonies on both sides of tho everything and everything of some-.

pitatingly alive. These problems of thing."From this doctring I entire ly dissent. It is utterly Impossible life and death are the most poignant Pacific Ocean as well as by the people ford not to look back, she can

nowadays to know something of with which we mortals are called upon of the United Kingdom itself. (Ap-

to wrestle: and thus, ns. Wordsworth plauso). equally not afford to refrain from

Boxer Indemnity. We are casting our broad upon everything" and it is difficult rough told, the meanest flower that blows Jooking forward. We drea the waters. If, in this matter of to know everything of something,"

I cannot myself think, of a better therefore of a comparative study Chinose study we got further sup- unless the something is so limited in

purpose to which the Boxer Inderanity In the possession of Funda, already of Chinese and western law, hlaport, we shall go on increasing our scope as to lose almost all its educa

tional value. Moreover, Pope was tory, philosophy, literature an activities. If no support is forth-

I do not wish to labour undaly the His Majesty's Government, could bo profoundly

sold that "a right when

of those some day perhaps art. We have coming, wo shall, after two years,little knowledge is

point which I am making, for you devoted than the furtherance A dangerous

will readily see how a study of the aims of the Hongkong University; and already outlined a scheme for the have to close down all our activi- thing." smatterer is a danger to

The

colour of flowers, of their nutrition earnestly hope that Parliament may comparative study of Chinese and ties in this direction. I cannot society, and the pedant with his men- Roman law. It is only the miser believe that this will be allowed tal blindness to all subjects of know. by sunshific and rain and the earth's make us a substantial allocation from

chumia- able lack of a low. paltry dollars to happen.

lodge but one is hardly less dangerous, all involves a knowledge of

marance of our new Chinese Faculty It is not these methods that we shall try, physics and astrophysice, how thone funds, thereby insuring the per- which prevents us from making un

financial Jeopardy, strive yand

The Vice- Immediate start with this most es occasions been accused of cyni-nd common ground upon which all geology, meteorology, georgraphy and and

to the purely botanical study Chancellor and

strive, sential Hino of research. Lastly clam but there is nothing cynical mon, however different their work in a host of other scientific studies are placing the whole University be

life and their intellectual interests, cognate to

which we began: and how each with

are still striving, University by its

for this we want to establish a school of in my devotion to the University can meet: nor is the ideal of a liberal

of

object; but theso

atudies in turn opone new it is for the whole the Chinese language to teach of Hongkong. My last. years in education thus to be achieved.

door in the temple of knowledge work during this year and future Chinese to those who are "not Indin were years of unceasing

Every doorway in that tompile lands yo to deserve, oven if

cannot, It Chinase by raco but who are going trouble, and strife and when the

at last by infinitely various aisles to a command, success; and as ond of the A more hopeful line of inquiry lu, central shrine wherein the proper principal' mean to this end, I urge to spend their working lives in opportunity of coming here offer-

the arts China, and also to investigate thated, I took it feeling that I had first of all, to realize that a special study of mankind is seen to be the

the

student each to most pressing problem, how Chin- earned a Hltle respite. But when science does no attempt, in so far us

stand there with our feet

"on the quaint

with what the other i ese can be most effectively and ex-I went to say goodbye to the Ben it is that specini selence, to domana-

great world's altar-stairs" that lead two are doing, and--however speci- peditiously taught to those to galee Minister of Education, he trate its own first principles. For whom it is not a mother tongue. said," "You are going to China; example, the starting point of empiri- from darkness up to divinity, we can. Falized his work-never to forget that

"the not selence is what may be called not but believe that "behind the vell" the ultimate object in

in view la the ad- man will one day nitain to what In other words, we want our perhaps you are going from fry physical fact, the fact of nature.

intellectancement of human learning for the mineralogy RBYUMOU

called the Spinoza include a ing pan into fire." And he was Thus Chinose Faculty to

school an 1, about right. But I am proud and existence of metals; geology an- love of God" and behold the universe leave the world a little better for those Chinese language

of the earth; and "under the semblance of eternity," who come nfer him. No mun ean situated a Hongkong is at the glad to be, here. The darker the sumes the existe the existence of We shall then know what God and hope to do more. No man ought to do

on this astronomy assumes. gate of the Pacific, we decline to storm clouds that lour

all tho admit that we are merely build- Colony and on the fortunes of the the sun, moon, stars and.

host of heaven. Similarly the mathe- China generally, thematical sciences are based upon

what ing a fantastic air castle when, as British in we peer into the future, we see more do I cling to the conviction.

may call abstract facts, assuming and for instance in the case of geometry this school of the Hongkong Uni- that this University can

monument should contribute something to a the fact of extension and in the case of versity standing as

(Ap arithmetic the fact of number. These to British statesmanship, a, monu better and happier, China,

tame hos spread plause.) I am still childish facts are evidently abstract, not em- ment whose throughout the civilised world. enough to believe that much of pirical; for nowhere 'in rorumi natara' do we find extension or number as After all, what we want to do is what is good in British education h

such, The empirical fact is not now being attempted nowhere and tradition can be strengthened length without breadth (ie. the fact What is in store for the island of and built into the fabric of Chin that the length of a thin abstrac

breadth, or in other words the abstrac-perly Hongkong lies on the Ing of the ese National Life.

not reveal their

tion of breadth from length), but it gods who do

The Eternal Riddle. is brendthein length and length in aecrets, but so long as Hongkong

brendth: it

not the geometrical line, is the port of the Pacific, so long

As one watches a child grow up at the long or short road, which in will there be a school of higher and thinks of the infinite possibi- also the wide or narrow road., learning and research. It may lities of human life, all this hatred Neither does experience ever show tha one, two, seem impertinent to suggest that and strife, all this vaunting and number as such, but anly this University will outlive the recrimination, all this misery and three or more individual objects. 1 Hongkong Stock Exchange, but palu seem to be a

dream-the however, the empirical and mathe

antion sciences attempted to prove such at least is my conviction, if earth spirit moving restlessly in

his sleep. It all seems so futile, they existence of their first principle, not my hope.

so unreal. Where then is reality

disquisitions physical

The Land of Goshen,

But we wanted to make a begin

af

man is.

"the

Greek Scholarship.

of all mankind, so that he may

lesa. (Applause).

At the conclusion, of his address, the Chancellor declared the Congregation closed.

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PROPERTY DEAL.

Some of you in rending that fine poem by Robert Browning, called "A Grammarian's Funeral," may have wondered, why the students of a me- dineval European university should. have determined to bury their dend tutor in the Greek language on the top-peak of a high mountain. A in SPANISH INTERESTS ÎN NEW who "acttled Hoti's business," "pro- perly based Dun," "gave us the doc- trine of enclitic De," why should his proper place after death be loftily ly intill loftier than the world sus pects,"

Where meteors shoot, clouda fern,

Lightnings are loosened,

YORK.

Spanish-speaking. pass inta meta- of Greek scholarship, at

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tho

and

I have no desire to athway of Grammarian made the

must even.

be an

flowing abundance, give something cisted man with the vacred thread unlly conversies should

and

the

to our pentry.So I set out, accom-of the twice born looped over het cowart of the curriculum In His was the struggle of the pioneer, announced that a thirty-two storey

is

panied by our genial colleague, right, shoulder. The dawn Dr. Lai Chi 11s, but when I got trunking and us he sits cross to Singapore I found that I was legged and all alone he raises his regarded as an unscrupulous Food clasped hands in adoration of the of hen roosts; was warned sun: his lips are moving, that the hens were not inying well is whispering to himself the and that the nests were carefully ancient Sanskrit prayor. "Lead limits to other cognate sciences; for he might follow after him land- guarded. (Laughter). Sa 1 made

me from the unreal to the real

the

Service.

New York, Jan, 11. Spanish interests here have pur- chased the so-called Grand Central Palace, ineluding the largest ex- Stars come and gu?"

hibition hall in the city, and the The answer is not, of course, to be adjoining building, which occupy a valuable central position as n sought in any inherent splendour or pre-eminence of Greek grammatical consular trade centre for all peoples of studies, but in the fact timit the revival

at the time of Europe, Central and South- the the European Renaissance helped to in which to be found? As my mind formu-manner

exist- roll away

roll away the darkness of the America and the Philippines.

This project involves Home lates once again that eternal ridence

physical

abstract Middle Ages and opened new visions

understood facts 13 known 40 18, Those into wonderful fields of kanwledge. G$15,000,000. It is ning at once, and so in August ille, Hongkong and China fade, siences would therefore, entirely It was, however, only by unremitting to be financed by a well-known last I ventured into the land of and Fam back again in India, since their scope and character in and most monotonous labour that this Spanish financier of Manila. Goshen, I refer to the Straits Set But in this picture there is misdirected efforts to transcent their long forgotten store of I learning could Facilities will be provided in tlements and the Federated Malay Bengalee Minister. I see a river proper sphere. And, although the te

be recovered for mankind. The self-buliding for the permanent ex- States. Surely those well favour-gliding softly through a wide plain study of thought is the ultimate sacrificing drudgery of a man such as bibitions of products, of various ed lands would, out of their over and on its link an aged and ema-science in which all others must

the mediaevn?

countries using it. studies plain that

The French consul last week easy for scholars in later centuries. who "with the throttling hands of office building will be erected death as strife," nevertheless

In the same district with a view because of his intense belief that "Man has to housing various French official recovery" pool not die until he has axercitat, and Government

for the guidence of those

nose presentatives.-Router's American and pilot-lights through marks uncharted seas of thought which he strange, the baffling and previously alone had penetrated." I would com- pare Browning's picture of the Gram- marian grinding at grammar, "dend "dend in some Hindu ruin I might find a

from the

waist down," with that other place to bury, my diminished head. But Dr. Lai came and comforled

imagination of Robert Falcon Scatt picture which is still so vivid in men's to death in his litte tent freezing to

London, Jan. 10. me and suggested that I should go with him to Kuala Lumpur and Medicine, Engineering and Arts

hear the South Pole, while to the last

The continued vogue of shipping then presented the graduates, Penang. went, and though

he wrote the diary of his exploration. Paths of Linguistic Inquiry.

"These men decided not to five but fitted with internal combustion Dever asked anyone for a cent up, whom received spontaneous gifts conferred degrees:

The flower plucked from the cran- Know" and, realizing this and that by engines is revealed by Lloyds' ship- nies is primarily a matter for study their painful tail our labours are light, building returns, showing a total amounting to no less than $40,000.

Scholarship Winners.. by the botanist, and doubtless nored, we can understand why the top of world tonnage under construe- (Applause). These gifts came

learned nun would give it a clumsy-

is their proper burial peak

In place. tfon on December 31 of 1,933,000 from Mr. Chang Wing and Mr. The Vire, Chancellor preserted

name. But the mere fact of naming the enthusiasia of the Mediaeval of which niotor-ships accounted for Liew Weng Chee, both of Kualato His Excellency the following flowers, and plants suggests fascinat- Renaissance the students at European Lumpur, and from the Executors scholarship winners:

ing paths of linguistic inquiry to the universities vell understood this doc-

The total tonnage constructing of the Estate of the late Tye Kee Faculty of Medicine: Mr. reason why flowers and plents get trine. I would have the students of Yoon of Penang. On the strength Edward Wickham Jueyow, their names, Consider,

of the Chinese Renaissance understand 125,000 bélow last year. "day's

On the other hand the of this money, which is not enough winner of the Ng Liding the daisy. In its oldest English force, the Hongkong University at this time in Britain was 700,000 which was to enable us to start a Chinese and Chan Kai Ming scholarships; beautiful ulusion both to the it as fully. No subject of knowledge Faculty, we have made Dr. Lai Dr. Ban Tau Zung, the Blake appearance. of the daisy and to the but that rightly agery so pedantic, Įnage buliding abroad was 1,173,000

so humble, no

you will find it or 97,000 above last year.-Router. to be part of that seamless web of universal knowledge whose warp can- not be torn from the woof without dis-

Rugby, Jan. 11. integration of the whole fabric.

Lady Irwin, wife of the Viceroy Moreover, in connection with re- of India. at Delhi yesterday

arch work, and more especially in christened the Hercules air liner connection with research into things

every Faculty of a University. would rather observe that a clear res alization. bf this manner of the limi- bustion, with must inevitably lower science worka, stimu late the desire to pass beyond those

of knowledge, no matter how insigni- there is no object within the field feant in itself, which cannot be eye a vision of universal knowledge and thereby compel us to take note of man's place in the universe and consequently of man's duty in that sphere of life into which it has pleased God to call hint.

up my mind to quit and had al lead me from darkness to light; ready lifted up mine eyes unto the lend me from death to immorta-studied as to throw open to

to the mind's hills of Java, thinking that there lity (Applause).

1

The Degrees. "The Deans of the Faculties of

His Excellency

and Dr. Au full time Chinese Rea- scholarship; Dr. Tseung Fat. Im, dore, we have engaged, a very oficient young Chinese, an ex- graduate of oura, as a translator.

Government Cadets.

scholarship: the Jordan Tseung Fat Im and Dr. Jamshed Sorab Gazdar, the Ho Fook 'scho- larship.

this word is written duezas ease

way in which ita rays close in the Dr. evening,

to conceal the yellow disk, and open again in the mornin But the word "day" written in its Low German form "dog" carries us back many millennin in the story of human speech to the Indo-European

Faculty of Engineering: M

LLOYD'S RETURNS.

INTERNAL COMBUSTION

306,000.

ENGINES.

ton-

We are spending $10,000 on a Chân Kụi Chnen, the Chan half toch dhook and the Sanskrit root da Chinese such as we hope mny be, un-in which the Air Minister and his

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from London,

prepared to teach certain courses Ho Fook scholarship.

cribes the burning head of the day

day the departments of this University The machine was named, "City of Chinese classics up to the Faculty of Arts; Mr. Cheung time. Equally venerable is the story the Chinese Faculty, it may well be of Delhi." degree stage in the Faculty of Wihe Min, the le, Fook scholar fold by the word "eye," which in the that to some of you will come the ins Sir Samuel Hoare stated the" Arts. No: are we coatining even ship; Mr. Leg Chin Lin, the Chanonga and in the Old Norse form auga of knowledge, or as Kipling puts it tended to name all its aeroplanes

Old High German form was written piration of the explorer in new fields Imperial Airways Company in our immediate efforts to the teach-Kai Ming, scholarship.

and is referred by most schchurs to THO everlasting Whisper day and ing of Chinese classics. His Ex

for the new service after the The Chancellor's Address. the ancient Indo-European verb od night repeated-go cellency is sending the new cadets.

"to see," to which belong the synony- "Something hidden. Go and find capital cities of countries along to us. We are engaging a Chinese His Excellency the Chancellor mous words in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin itt Go and look behind the Ranges the route to India-British Wire teacher who hus had experience in addressed the Congregation as fol-

and other branes the so-called

Something los

lost behind the Rangos.es. Or let us take the Lost and waiting for you. Go!" teaching the Chinese language to lows;

Aryan family. charming qwer-nario.

wer-name "forget-me- non-Chinese beginners, and the Outside Lincoln Cathedral, standa

To those whom God chooses for this which ian translation of the Rev. H. R. Wells of the London very appropriately a fire statue of French

name: "ne, m'oubliez raya Whisper, who go farth and find and Mission has promised, to give us Tennyson holding in his hand a tiny

say to mankind conceiving their lis- whence comes also the German "vercovery's your!" to such ar these gratuitously throughout the year flower and underneath are inscribed

Liz mein nicht." The flower was their price is paid ten times over by all the time that he can spare from

so called because In the 16th century the duties imposed on him by his

of our era it was commonly believed their Maker. May many such ga

forth among

you! 'mission. We do not want mercly

to have the magicni virtue of ensur

that those wearing it would never to teach cadets; we want young

be forgotten by their lovers: and 50 men who have just come out to

the name opens up a vista into 'Now the immense value of educa- medieval custom and myth. Or, for tion at a residential University is due

Passed into.

commercial houses in Hongkong ta

come to us, out of office hours to

foin this University ne external"

his own wonderful lines:

Flower in the crannied wall,

影

I pluck you out of the crannies. I hold you hère-root and all-in

my hand.

Little Blower! But, if I could under-

stand

What you are, root and all and all

in all,

not

ing

tha

The Alms of the University.

A compilete change of thought, take to the congragation therein of men

word "alulot," which

of research.

what God and English, throught the French echaloteakaged in very various studies s

༞!

well nu in all kinda

known to the Romans aria, friends with pendants in other Facul

to

I should know students, to become members of

man la. our Students Union, to learn to

and is derived from Ascalon, the Every opportunity is thus afforded to Translated into prose this means know our students, to play games that almost any subject may be so

famous town in Palestine, where grew students in one Faculty for making the small onion, a native of with us and to be friends with us studied that, however huniblo and

ties, obtaining an insight into the generally. We British are essen- commonplace the original starting Ascalonicum, and whence it was in-work which their fellow students are tially a conservative race. In point, a full comprehension of it wil

troduced into Europe by the orusaders, doing and then reflecting upon the re 1852, Lord Palmerston thus ad- embrace the highest spiritual year-

A multitude of interesting historical Iation

such beara which dressed a political meeting at nings of the human mind. It means

Atudies is suggested by this simple their own studies. If the sole object alao,

,'na I recently had occasion to

Why use an elephant gun to Tiverton: "In many parts of the remind the Arts Association of this

name, to which ordinarily we never f

of a man were to become a good doc give a thought.

tor. good engineer, might be shoot rabbits? Why take large

It continent if in Inn-keeper wishes University, that, no matter how

contended that these subjecta could disagreeable purgative pills, or be tho to recommand his inn, he hangs diverse

Mystery of Life and Death. up a sign of "The New White objects of our stin' our minds the

verac and specialized may

well be taught in two special schools study, there should

Consider further how all the mys- entirely independent of each other and nasty oil or salts, to remedy liver Horse' or 'The Now Golden Cross,' 'alway to strive after a reintegra- tery of life and death is involved in situated in widely separate localities, and bowel irregularities, when Haro gentlemen, a contrary courantion of all knowledge in a higher the study of a lower.

A dramatic But the aim of a University is not Pinkettes, tiny but thorough, do is pursued, and if the owner" of a

scene was recently enacted before the merely to make one man a good en- just as well. Pinkettes are luxu country ale house wishes to draw unity, which will correct our outlook

life and сп

to enable us grasp, B5 it British Association at Oxford, when ginger or another man s good

nims of this

pel constipation, liverishness, sick physiologist, caused a great sensation sity are

headaches, bilious attacks, clear

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The Old Plough Revivod""....... entire and hereafter perhaps remould somo tiny fragment of it a little near- Better Mutual Understanding." or to the heart's desire. This is the true object of a University, as die I still consider myself a mero tinet from (say) a School of Tro- stranger In China. At any rate, pical Diseases or a School of Orion- who am I that I should advise?tal Studies or any other highly speci. But surely the present condition of alized educational establishment: and

by making visible through the uso of which constituted it to bothe reaction of

promo-

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