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CATHOLIC HOSTEL

OPENED.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

Ricci. Fr, MacDonald has just

domo to us from Canton whore, last year, he taught mathematics in Cantonese. Though Fr. Mac- Donald would be the first to deny

WARM PRAISE FOR SIR CECIL any claim to a scholarship such as

CLEMENTI.

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION,

,"

Reference to the impending de parture of H.E. the Governor was made at the official opening of the now Catholic University Hostel, Ricci Hall, yesterday afternoon by Professor C. A. Hiddleton Smith, who said that in years to come he hoped to see a "Clementi Hall" stand within the University domaine.

Ricci's, I am quite safe in saying that in devotion to the study of the language: he is one with his illustrious brother, and if be 'and: those associated with him in the work were not animated by the ideals of Ricel, this Hallwould have remained unbuilt

Scope of University.

If you ask what more precisely these ideals are, I would say that they are happily summed up in the tillo given to Ricci "Priest, Sinologue, Scientist." These ideals are developed by, Cardinal Newman The gathering at the hostel was in his, Idea of a University. a most distinguished one and in- He claims as the scope of a Univer- cluded, in addition to His Excel-- Fity the culture of universal know- lency, the lion. Mr. W. T. Southom, ledge, and shows that this aim C.M.G., Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shen-cannot be attained unless the mind ton, lion. Mr. J. P. Braga, Bishop sweeps the Heavens as well as the Valtorta, the Bishop of Victoria, earth. We have been selecting Hon. Dr. S. W. Two, C.B.E., Hon Christmas cards, these days, and Mr. II. T. Crossy, O.B.E., and many the traditions of Christmas must members of the clergy and lalty bring home to us the Impossibility of all denominations. Letters of of understanding the thought of a regret at their inability to be pro- Dante, a Shakespeare, a Milton sent were received from Lady without some of the theology of the Clementi and from the Hon. Dr. Incarnation. Nor can we divorca R. H. Kotowall, C.M.G.

the art of Michelangelo, of Raphael, of Murillo from the same theology.

Following the arrival of H. E. the Governor, and the opening of the hostel, the gathering adjourned to the rear of the building where, on a fine terrace commanding a magnificent view across the har bour, the speeches were made.

Welcoming II.E., Father G. Byrne, S.J., said:-:

For this reason, amongst others,. we can see the need of Hostels which, within a University, afford auch students, as freely desire it, the opportunity of pursuing, pari passu with their secular studies, the culture winch, to those who bo Hlevo in religion "at all, must dominate all other cultures-the religious development of their souls. In the biochemical laboratory an ex- cellent menu card of carbohydrates and proteins suitably blended for our dinner may be drawn up, but we are more interested in the socini side of our parties than even in vitamíns, and the best equipped laboratory does not analyse table talk. A full University course should prepare the student to be something more than a doctor or an engineer or a lawyer: It should prepare him to be a man, to play to the full his role of duty in life:

Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen: We have assisted at a ceremony which is simple in its accomplishment but profound in its implications. Opening a door is so simple an act that the burglar can dispense with your keys, yet opening a door in so full of mean- the that the phrase has become one of the rich metaphors of our language. Our memories of the past, our loys, our hopes, our nspirations, all crowd through the open door of our minds, voluntarily or involuntarily admitted. Every one realises that no quest is so human as the queat of the golden key which unlocks the door of the temple of knowledge. You can see, then, how fitting is the cero- mony, just performed by His Ex- cellency, of opening the door of a new University Hostel, destined for tulents of Universal Knowledge. It seems to me that there is an especial appropriateness in the function for His Excellency, at the present moment. To the regret of all, he and Lady Clementi are about to leave us. In the mind of the Home Government. Singapore is a ten higher on the administrative ladder, but to us, who know the East, it is absurd to any that Governor, in the low-lying Straits, could climb higher than Mountain Lodge, on the Peak. Certain it is that Bie Excellene will find it difficult to reach a higher point in the esteem of his new friends than he has reached in the good-will of all, Hongkong...

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust,

So near is God to man,. When Duty whispers low-Thou

must,

الم

The youth replies I can!" The social life of a University of so many Hall where students different races, creeds and varied cultures meet should be an invalu- able training, ground. The per- manent staff of the Hall will con- sist of the Warden with two or three others,

University Graduates of different faculties: thus, at present, literature, medicine and engineering are represented. ford and Cambridge private As in the residential Halls of Ox- sistance is given to such students as desire it, so it will be the aim of the Fathers to help those who may need help in their studies.

Useful Library.

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Amongst other things you will He has devoted himself, untiring- notice that we are endeavouring to ly to every phase of local develop build up a useful library for ment, and I am sure that he will the benefit of the students. We not contradict me if I say that the shall try to make this library more such growth of the University has had serviceable by lectures on ʼn very warm corner in his heart, aubjects as the use of Jibraries the and, that no one has worked more choice of books, the most proft nctively than he to help the Univerable way to read, &c. Lord Bacon nity to pass the stage of what Mr. Hornell called "its growing pains." From the first he has taken a keen interest in the erection of Ricci Hall. It is an addition to the University; and may we flatter our #elves that at least in its ideals, it is an addition that would appeal to his scholarship?

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History of Ricci,

has truly said that "reading maketh a full man" but he did not add that Indiscriminate reading may pro- duce a mental indigestion more dangerous than the bodily malady and more difficult to cure.

On the open book, above the lin door, you have noticed a phrase from the Anulects of Confucius, which we might render freely into English: "In your quest of scholar- The name chosen for the Hall-ship follow the man of high Ricci Hall-suggest that those res We shall be happy if the student of ideals, not the man of low ideala" ponsible for its direction wish to Ricci Hall has this motto "Ex- borrow a leaf from His Excellency's celsior" as his watchword. We own book of scholarship, by trying hope, certainly, that the immediate to make a happy blend of Western result of his efforts will be success and Eastern scholarship. Long be- in the examination hall. But we fore Ruel, Western inissionaries, hope still more that, even if he Western traders, Western explorers were to fall in the list of academic had found their way to the East, honours, he will not fail in the but Matten Ricci (pronounted Ritchie) was the first to establish more important roll call of being a man--every inch a ́man; "tis not himself at the court of Peking, not in mortals to command sUCCESS. only as a recognised scientist, but but I've done better, I've deserved as a master in selence who opened- it." up new fields of knowledge to the

On behalf of the staff of Rice! scholars of the East. After work- Hall, I beg to thank very sincerely ing for some years In Canton, Shiu H. E. Sir Cecil Clementi for his Hing and other parts of South presence to-day and his genuine China, Father Ricci finally got interest in the Hall; Bishop permission to settle in Peking. on Valtorta for unfailing encourage- January 24, 1601. At Peking he ment: Professor Middleton Smith, remained until his death on May the senior Dean of the University 11, 1810. He was known to the staff for his presence on the plat eltizens as Priest, Sinologue and form to welcome us into the Univer-i Selentist and to quote the words sity circle. I might add that, the of the Encyclopaedia Britannicas acquisition of the beautiful sito is "Probably no European name of duo not only to his engineering in past centuries is so well known na that of Li-ma-teu, the form in velsích the name of Rice! Was Ladapted to Chinese usage. The works which he composed in Chinese are numerous. They are said to display an aptitude for clothing ideas in a Chinese dress very rare and remarkable in a for- eigner."

...

It is natural that those who be on to the Jesuit Order of which Fr. Ricci was à member should soak to perpetunto his memory by soma suitable memorial in the East.

It is a happy coincidence that the first warden of the Hall-Fr. Mac-

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