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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.

CHAIR OF PORTUGUESE IS SUGGESTED.

TUESDAY,

No Wavering

APRIL 10, 1928.

aaid "Ladies and Gentlemen," for the middle and opened the modern there are now no less than 37 age.

It claims the whole gamut of lady students in the University

Student Liberty.

4.

ono

DISTRESSFUL NIGHTS

Are Bad For Both

The University has struggled through financial difficulties and all the trouble and confusion and we are very proud of them human life and experience as the soparable from the Great War and Residence in one of the University field of its Inquiry; it recognises ita aftermath of chaos. I am not or attached hostels is compulsory no tabus, no inhibitions. It in going to dilato on the University's unless the Scuate grants special Bists on seeing all things and de- succosses. Considering all Ita exemption from this obligation. manda to lay bare the secrets of MR HORNELL AT MACAO handicaps, it has done well, but on We have three Univeralty halls western life and religion,

one point I am going to lay stress. and two approved hostels,

To Justify Existence. Mr. W. W. Hornell, C.I.E., Vica Since the University started there (Morrison Hall) which is conduct-

The University of Hongkong Chancellor of the University. of have been two general strikes in od by tho. London. Missionary Hongkong, gave an address at Hongkong and a prolonged boy Sosicly and the other (St. John's started with the idea that China's Macao on Sunday on the origin, cott. The name of "Student in Hall) which is conducted by the greatest need was scientific and technical training; the University history and aims of the Institu- China has become, alas, a by-word Church Missionary Society.

But the good

was to become a force in the Far! tion. Ho advocaled the establish- and a reproach.

Enst by producing qualifled. en- ment of a chair of Portuguese senso and loyalty of the students

gineers and skilled doctors. The language and culture In the of Hongkong has never wavered.

I am glad to be able to say that training of engineers and doctors is University, this suggestion being When Sir Matthew Nathan, who very well received by the Portu-was once Governor of Hongkong, the University has lately been in still necessary, but the University. the University on a position to offer a site to the if it is to justify its existence as guese at Macno. Among those visited

the only British University In the present were H.E. the Governor of November 11, 1926, the students Josuits and that before long Macao and His Lordship the entertained him and Sir Cell Roman Catholic hostel will be Far East, must do for more than

Your Baby and Yourself. Bishop, as well as a large number Clementi then said that the open. Our disciplinary rules are import technical and professional teachers arust of ladies and gentlemen.

University of Hongkong, like all few and simple. Apart from those competence. Ka

One of the first signs that some Owing to the Jilness of Dr. Jono true universities, alms on training rules, the students are allowed study critically the signs of the Magalhaes, Colonial Secretary, the gentlemen in the truest sense of complete liberty, a liberty which, times, and there must be among thing is wrong with an infant is I am proud to say, has never yet, them those who are capable of disturbed aleap. If your baby is speaker was introduced by Mr. that much abused term.

I added that those of us who so far as I am able to say, been interpreting the West to China and wakeful and in pain you suffer too, Carlos Alves, Director of the

not only in anxiety but also for Macao Fort Works Department, are in authority in the University abused. In hostels the students China to the West.

Dr. Hu Shih was, recently lec-want of your proper night's rest. who spoke of Mr. Hornell's career rejoice in the courtesy and good-elect their own committee and

At such times there is a temptn- and said, "As. Vice-Chancellor of will which in spite of the storms manage their own internal affairs: turing at the University of Liver.

us still The union, which comprises all pool and he said, "Sentimentaliam tion to give the child a sleeping. that University, which very appro- which surge around

motto: animate the students of the the athletic clubs, is also run by and communal feeling do not count draught or an oplate of some kind, priately bears .the Sapientia et virtus, lumen cr University and that we believe the students themselves,

without a genuine appreciation of but, don't do it unless specially oriente, and as a subject of the that it is in this spirit of courtesy Our students play practically all the culture and civilisation of the ordered by a competent physician. grent British Empire, Mr. Hornell and goodwill and in this spirit games; cricket, football, lawn respective peoples. A slight out

áro always could not have chosen a better alone that Hongkong nay, China, tennis, hockey, basketball, and this break or offence may lead to anti- Sleeping drugs subject, and many thanks are dug will find a happy issue out of all year the University cricket elevens foreign feeling and international dangerous. Instead give to him for the interest he takes in its afflictions."

have won the shields in both bad feeling may sweep away all the University of Hongkong, which

divisions of the Hongkong Cricket the emotional goodwill, but in- has done so much in the cause of

League, education and of which he is such in fervent mentor.

University's Progress.

The Functions,

tellectuni relationship is lasting. BABY'S OWN TABLETS

A Chair Suggested.

which

arms.

The University has undoubtedly

I will not worry you with further

aro guaranteed to made progress, At the present details. I have here several copies

- entirely free · from I am greatly touched by your be Very welcome is, therefore, this moment there are 321 students on of our Calendar and if anyone invitation that I should come and narcoties or oplates of any visit to Macao and very welcome its roll, which is the highest total wants any further information I is our distinguished guest, who yet attained. We have three shall be happy to do my best to Hongkong. Your Governor has and safe for even the youngest er talk to you about the University of Kind and to be absolutely pure has thus come to contribute yet Faculties, the Faculty of Medicine,

recently been to Hongkong and our most delicate Infant again to the good relations that the Faculty of Engineering and provide it. exist between the two neighbour the Faculty of Arts, and the

Governor and the British Minister They quickly correct infantile la colonies and friends, who have Faculty of Medicine accounts for

have been here. Hongkong und digestion, constipation, colic maintained in the Far East the no less then 160 of the students

I now want to say a word about Maçao are closer together to-day historic traditions which since the enrolled. The prestige of our what I conceive to be the functions than they have ever been through vomiting, wind check diarrhoea, allay teething pains, case croup 14th Century have bound the two Medical School stands high, so of such a University as the Uni-out their joint history.

But if in the strenuous and and colds, expel worms, bring peoples, from the century that saw high that there have come to us versity of Hongkong strives to be. the learned prinees who so distin recently quite a few students who in a recent number of a well-difficult days which doubtless lle peaceful, refreshing, health-giving, way. Your Kuished. themselves. in the had already taken some portion of known English periodical which is before us Macao and Hongkong sleep in a natural. sciences of their time and were their medical course in univers-called "The 19th Century and are to work together with that chemist sella Baby's Own Tablets, the sons of Philippa of Lancaster ties elsewhere, notably, those in the After" there appeared an article unity of purpose and harmony of or posts free 60 onts per vial. and King John of Portugal, the Philippine Islands.

on the anti-Christian movement in mutual respect which is indispens-from The Dr. Williams' Medicino Master of Aviz. After dealing

able to our common well being, the Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shanghai, exhaustively with the establish ment of the University, Mir Hornell said:

The three clinical chairs, Medi-China. This article opens with cine, Surgery and Obstetrics, were the following wordą: endowed

by the Rockefeller Institution and that Institution is generous in providing our past medical graduates with research travelling fellowships which are of great value to them.

On March 11, 1912, the Hong: kong University WBA opened "with simple but appropriate core many." Sir Hormusjce Mody was dead, but H. Sir Frederick

Our medical degrees are recog- Lagard, the University's first

nised by the Medical Registration Chancellor, formally took over the Council of Great Britain and buildings from Mr. N. H. N. Mody, Ireland and that means that one Sir Hormusjee's son. Above the

of our medical graduates can, if sent occupied by the Chancellore so desires, go immediately and there was woven in yellow on set up a brass plate as a physician green back-ground the Latin

or surgeon in London. legend "Anapicium Melioris Aevi"

citizens of Hongkong must get to know more of Macao and Portugal, and the citizens of Macas more of Hongkong and Great Britain.

"The most important event in recent Chinese history is not the political revolution, but the

The history of Portugal is one intellectual renaissance. The of the eples of the world and HEAR MUSIC PLAYED BY THE politically-minded West is well Macao is a landing witness to aware of the Boxer Rising of Portugal's great achievements. 1900 and the overthrow of the We welcome your students to our Dmpire in 1911, but very few University. They will add some- realise that during the last de- thing to our already cosmopolitan cade changes have been taking life.

place in the thought life of But my imagination goes much China which will make a deeper further than that The Portu- and more permanent impression quese are heirs to a great than anything that has happen-civilization. I should like to see Last year Miss Eva Ho Tung

ed in Chinese history for a thou-established in the University of "I am profoundly convinced

sand years."

Hongkong a Chair of Portuguese that the opening of this Univer- graduated in medicine at the

The writer of the article pointed | language and culture. Then could sity in Hongkong to-day is an Hongkong University after a bril- liant university career. Miss Ha event of the greatest historien! interest and importance in the Tung is the first woman to qualify out that since the days of Julius we welcome scholars who wished annals of the Far East. If this in Hongkong as a Doctor. She is Caesar, China had dwelt behind to study those matters and give University develops on right now in London where, after being her Great Wall, secure from bar them the benefit of all else that

barous attacks, perservering and the University may have to offer. London

Then could we say to your sons lines-as there is every reason very successful at the to belleve that it will on the School of Tropical Medicine, she developing her own distinctive

secured the London culture, and closing her mind, as and daughters who come to us as lines which its founders laid has now down, I doubt, if there is a man University's Diploma of Tropical Well as her ports, against every-students, "We will teach you courses of medicino, and or a woman of those here to-day Medicine and Hygiene, Miss Hothing from outside. Such an atti-English, we will guide you through

tude could only spell death, as all our who realizes to its full extent Tung is a daughter of Sir Robert isolation in an increasingly inter-engineering and equip you with the enormous importance of the Ho Tung, who is not unknown independent world must, and China professional and technical skill was constrained, in order to save but don't forget that national character is an abiding product of hor very life, frs to open her it may, and will have on the

doors to western goods, then her nation's past and that the man future of China and on the re-

Our Faculty of Arts is doing mind to western education, and or woman who would be a worthy eltlzen of the world must first bó lations between the East and well. In one of the departments finally her political life to western West-particularly between of this Faculty teachers are train- constitutional methods, Great Britain and the Chinese ed for work for the secondary! Nation. When the historian of schools. Wo have a

task to which we are putting our Macao, hande or the far-reaching effect

་

The Lady Students.

Commerce

Frank Inquiry.

a loyal member of Д nation!"

Great Memorles,

I was reading only this morning the next century reviews the department and I am glad to be But thoughtful Chinese have a review on the correspondence of progress of the Eastern world, able to say that some of the lead-long realised that these changes King George the Third of England it may be that he shall point to ing British firms in Hongkong are have not resulted in the emergence for those eventful years 1760-1768 this Colony of Hongkong, a mere speck on the map, as the centre now taking our graduates in com- of that strong, united, modernised the years during which Britain from which emanated an in-merce and placing them in post-China for which they yearned. lost her American colonies and I They are now beginning to feel came across the following pas- fluence which profoundly affect tions with good prospects.

Our Faculty of Engineering that they have so far missed the sage. Does anybody suppose," ed a nation, numbering one- fourth of the population of the was once the most popular faculty real secret, and that they must the reviewer asks, "that any settle- world. When the patty ques- but it has suffered from the therefore probe down into the ment (1. e, aor settlonient between und her American tions which necessarlly occupy troubles of China as there is not philosophy and the faith that lle Britain our time and thoughts in the much demand at the moment for at the base of western science, colonics) that could have been busy curriculum of the day's engineers in that distracted coun-western education, and western made, as things were at that time, had any chance of lasting? It re- work are swept into oblivion,try. The Faculty of Engineering politics. when new objects of interest is still holding its own and 1 am Of late years there has accord-quired our (Le. the British) defeat arise for a new generation, this proud to think that Mr. Lau Chan, Ingly been going on a movement of by the Americans to teach as (1. e. building shall stand, for its purwho helped to build the Macao-frank and searching inquiry, and the British) the lesson that great pase has a boundless horizon, Shekki Road, is a gradante in Civil the best of the Chinese are de-empires are not held together and it is founded on motives and Engineering of the University of tefined to prove all things, and to either by law or by force, but by principles which neither pass Hongkong.

hold fast that which is good, freedom and consent, by common Just a word about our students. This new tide is a movement in the memories, common sympathies and I have said that we aim at train- realm of reason 48

was the re-common hopes," A

(Continued on Page 13.) ing gentlemen. I should have naissance of Europe, which closed

nor die."

Such were Sir Frederick Lagard's aspirations.

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