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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE UNIVERSITY'S NEEDS.

FACING VERY CRITICAL. FINANCIAL PROBLEM.

DEGREES CONFERRED.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1930.

value of the thesis is made clear

by the academic recognition st will receive; Its practical value is also clear to the unscientific who Kaze the ratalning walls of Hongkong and are filled with grateful wander that more of them don't give way.

Increased Rolls.

Men Women Total

162 95

139 13 76 19

On 31st December, 1920, thero were 316 students on the rolls of the University: The urgent need for substantial

Faculty financial help in order to enable

Medicine Hongkong University to carry on was emphasised by the Vice Arts Chancellor, His Honour Sir Henry Engineering Gollah, Kt, K.C., C.B.E., LL.D., at the 21st. Congregation, which was held in the main hall of the University yesterday evening.

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Gloomy Financial Aspect.

It is natural that the academic aspect of an University should stand out most clearly in the public mind. But of equal, though more prosaic, Importance la the Anancial aspect. An University cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable without dine results. And the Budget for 1930, which has passed the University Court, does not make exhilarating reading. For it shows expenditure at. 666,845.00 Land revenue at $603,500.00; or a deficit of a little over $69,000; movements and recent currency may increasG this figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this This is an increase of six ás prospective deficit is not due to compared with the total number extravagance or to any avoidable of students as at 31 December, cause; it is in the main the 1928. The increase is not great; result of the fall in the exchange value of the dollar." which most but, still, it is an increase.

of us outside the University have Business Interest

In University. equal reason to deplora The salaries of the permanent Univer- Gratifying evidence of the insity teaching and administrative At five o'clock the procession creusing estimation in which the staffs are on a sterling basis; and entered the main hall of the Uni- work of the University is held is in translating sterling salaries furnished by the encouraging into dollars a loan of over $50,000 versity and walked alowly to the dais, being headed by His Excel-change in the attitude, of business alone in entailed on University people to its graduates. There fands under existing currency. lepey the Chancellor with mace bearer, and the Vice-Chancellor. was a time when there was appar conditions,

ently no room in business and When all were seated, His Excel-manufacturing firms in the Colony lency declared the Congregation for the Hongkong University open, after which the University graduate: but I am glad to say Anthem, in Latin, was sung to music provided by the military band. The anthem was written by His Excellency the Chancellor, and was set to music by Mr. Den

nan Fuller,

Tea was served on the tennis courts prior to the Coligregation whon musical selections were rendered by tho K.O.S.B. band, conducted by Mr. W. H. Fitz-Earle, A.R.C.M.

Sir Henry Gollan's Speech. Addressing the gatliering, Sir Henry Gollan said in part:

Salaries Anxiety,

Furthermore, the subject of the there are clear signs of the adequacy or otherwise of these gradual disappearance of any pre-salaries has provided grave cause judice against him. Outstanding for anxiety; for, without adequate business concerns like Mesara, recompense, teaching and adminis- Butterfield & Swire, the Asiaticrative standards cannot be main- Petroleum Company, and the tained. Besides, the labourer is China Light & Power Company, worthy of his hire, and none more have indicated their willingness to than be who is engaged in the encourage selected graduates to honourable, invaluable and exact- qualify for employment with them ing work of education. Hin Excel. and to provide them with facilities Iency, as Chancellor of the Univer Your Excellencies. Members of to show their worth in actual sity, appointed a Committee to go the Court, Ladies and Gentlemen. practice. Messrs. John Swire & into the matter during last year; In commencing his speech at the Sons, Limited, London, have also and the Committee has reported in congregation of 1928, the Vies recently approved a scheme where no uncertain terms as to the utter Chancellor welcomed H. E. tho by two selected graduates of the inadequacy of these salaries. But Chancellor back to the University. University will be provided with if effect is to be given to its re- I must commence,mine by express

free passages to England cach commendations an additional an- ing our deep and Insting regret af

year for further atady and to "ninnual expenditure of $140.000 will his impending departure. The practical experiance. This is as be required with the dollar University has passed through dif-sistance in the highest sense of the 1/8, and of $170,000 with the dollar ficult times during his tenure of term: in some aspects of the Uni- at 1/6.. Add this amount to the office, but it has ever had from versity problem, more valuable existing budget deficit of $80,000 him a ready and sympathetic hear than even direct pecuniary-assist- and you will get an aggrevate of ing. It could have had no truer ance. For unless openings to em: $250,000 in excess of revenue. friend and no stouter champlon playment are available for our than its present Chancellor and graduates, experience elsewhere I desire, on behalf of the Univer teaches that an Universit" educa- alty, to thank His Excellency for tion may be a curse father than a all that he has done for it, and blessing. to wish him auccess and happiness in his new sphere of netivities. am confident that I need not ask

of him continued interest in the University of Hongkong.

Successes and Achievements.

Grøduates & Government Service,

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It is obvious that without assist tance from outside the University cannot fate this increased expendi- ture.

Government Aid Urged. The University Court has asked to en- large its annual grant of $50,000 the Colonial Government

to one of $250,000 per annum: if the dollar had remained at 1/8, this increase would have en- abled the University to balance its Budget comfortably and to make the long overdue and much needed additions Lo Balarica. with the dollar at 1/6, unless the

still further increased by a grant resources of the University

of graduates in Government ser- The question of the employment

vice was also under serious con- sideration during last year, and we are encouraged to hope that So far as the Vice-Chancellor, the time is not far distant when Mr. Hornell, is concerned, his ubeven more vacaneles în Govern sence is merely temporary, and hement service than at present will will shortly return to his accus- be open, under approved condi- tomed place with renewed humor- tions, to selected graduates of the ous zest. Meantime, it falls to me Hongkong University. It is mat- to understady him and to take ter for gratification that 11 of our Atock of the successes, achieve graduates hold posts in the ments, resources and requirements Medical Department of Govern-out of the Boxer Indemnity of the University; and I will first deal with the successes and achievementa because they are the justification for its existence and for all claims to continued and in- ereasing support made on fis be- half.

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from other sources, it will be in- possible, until exchange improves, A Munificent Donation. to give full affect to the recom- mendations of the Salaries Com- And now I come to matter

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mittée, the utmost which has afforded

Now the request even for an satisfaction to the Univerity, au-additionni grant from Govern- thorities. During the period uider Thirty-four members

ment of $200,000 Is a large de- of the review the University received amand to make; it requires just University will be presented at donation of $120,000 from Mr. Aention. I propose to justify it, this congregation to receive due Fung Ping-shan for the provision academic recognition; eighteen of a building for a Chinese Library mainly by the experience of the, of them are from the Medical in the University. He has given British Government with regard Faculty, five from the Engineering $100,000 for the building and to its contributions for University Faculty and eleven front the Arl's equipment and $20,000 nà a con- purposes. I think I am entitled Faculty.

tribution to the endowment fund to say, categorically, that without to meet the maintenance charges these contributions, supplement, of the Library. In providing a ed by grants from Local Authori sum for the recurring expenditureties, no University in the United on the maintenance of the Library Kingdom could keep its doors Mr. Fung Ping-shan has set a most open; so it becomes most pertin commendable precedent. It is not ent to ascertain what proportioi. and grants often remembered that when dona- these contributions

luns are made for a building for bear to the total income of cer- a particular object, the University tain typical Universities in the has as, a matter of course to be United Kingdom. In the case of financially responsible for its most of them, these contributions maintenance; and in many cases and grants are in excess of fifty Two gentlemen who are already this is an item of some magnitude. per cent of their respective total graduates of the University, will A afte on the University estate haa incomes; while to cite some in- also be presented to receive higher been selected, for the proposed dividual instances, Bristol Uni. degrees. Dr. M. B. Osman, who Library and it is expected that its versity receives 70 per cent from graduated as M.B., B.S. in 1924, ferection

commenced

these sources; Exeter University

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"I must particularly refer to the Engineering graduates who proceeded to the degree of B.Sc. at the Cusgrega- Lion of 1929. All five were award- ed honours by the London Univer- xity Assessors, one in the First class and the remaining four in the Second class, a result must gratifying and, creditable to teachers and to students.

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has passed the M.D. examination shartly. I desire, on behalf of the College, 78 per cent; Leeds fa Pathology. And Mr. S. B. University, to voice its grateful University, 69 per cent; Notting- Ahmed, who graduated as B.Sc. in acknowledgment of the muni- Engineering in 1925, has qualified ficence of Mr. Fung Ping-shan; ham University College, 67 per for the degree of M.Sc. in respect and I can imagine no more ap- cent; Sheffield University, 61 per of a thesie entitled "The Theorypropriate record of it than the cent; Alieryatwith of Earth Pressure as applied to handsome building in contempla College, 70 per cent. Retaining Walls." The sclente tion

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