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NEW BIOLOGICAL BUILDING.

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however impracticable it may seem to some here, is still the basis of that dignity and pride in our work without, which the calling of a University teacher in Hongkong would be a mean thing indeed.

23, 1930.

Baby's Best Friend.

dowment of the University was Sir Frederick made known to Lugard, he thought that the two projects might advantageously be This does not constitute a chal- combined. The College Court was lenge to the position which the approached, and it agreed at once mother has naturally occupied to amalgamate the College in the since the dawn of creation. For But a University. The site was given a mother is "mother".

up; the endowments subsequently friend to baby is a super-friend o merged in the University scheme the mother and what Mrs. H. C. and the College Court's appeal! Siegertsz, of Edith House, abandoned.

Place, Manning

Wellawatte. "To this courageous, far-sight: Corlon, has to say about her

self-denying decision":

Sir Cecil's Ambition. The portrait of His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi now hangs un APPEAL TO WEALTHY, veiled before you. Sir Cecil was a great scholar and a great lover of learning. So great was his The financial difficulties

ambition for this University thated and Hongkong University were touch-it did not seem to him to be in the wrote Sir Frederick Lugard in baby's best friend, should be of least extraordinary to go to the March 1910. "the project of a vital interest to mothers every- Foreign Offles in Whitehall and to University may be said in a large where. tell the startled officials of that degree to owe its inception, usan dignified Department, that this accepted scheme." University should certainly receive one million and a half pounds sterling from the Boxer Indemnity. A million and a half pounds! It makes my head whirl and my ears sing!

ed upon yesterday, when pleasing functions were combined, one being the opening of the new Biological Building and the other the unveiling of a portrait in oils of Sir Cecil Clementi, former Governor, bath ceremonies being performed by His Excellency, Sir

William Peel..

Addressing the gathering in the main hall in connexion with the Biological opening of the new Buliding, the Vice-Chancellor (Mr. W. W. Hornell) sald:

dear,

first

the evolution of a movement for

ment bad for Oxford, as one 01 ever in a fit of economy or depart-

where.

OBITUARY.

of

ACTING CHAIRMAN OF THE NANKING GOVERNMENT.

Mrs. Siegertaz writes: "I have been using Baby's Own Tablets for four of my children for An Evolution.

stomach and other ailments and Certain considerations emerge ind they have done immense good.

The this recital. from

I can highly recommend them to kong, so far at least as its Medical anyone as baby's best friend." is that the University of Hong-

(Signed) (Mrs.) H. C. Siegertsz. In the world. fraternity When this University honoured Faculty is concerned, is not the

Frederick Lugard and a few mothers, one will only recommend Sir Cecil Clementi with its honor result of a passing fantasy of Sir ary LL.D. degree, I said, after re-dreamers in those years of pros-to others that which she is con- Your Excellency,On this the hearsing his University career, perity which immediately preced-vinced, has brought real benefit o occasion of your first official visit, that it must, I thought, have beca ed the Great War and closed an her own little ones. Baby's Own on behalf of all the members of a great wrench for him to leave

all over the world. mendation the University, I hid you and Lady Oxford for the work of a Civiera in human history, but rather Tablets are carning that recom Servant in Hongkong. Sir Cecil medical training in Hongkong merc

than They correct stomach disorders Peel welcome. This is no

Your Excel- told me afterwards that he could which was started, more. conventional act. lency has already proved a sub- have stayed in Oxford as a fellow wenty years previously, by a and constipation, check diarrhoes. of his beautiful College, Magdalen. private practitioner of Hongkong expl worms, allay fever, colds and stantial benefactor to the Univer He did not say much about it at nd had been carried on during croup. Invaluable during teet sity and those of us who have been the time, but I realized that the the whole of that period by the ing, they quickly ease pain and brought into, contact with Your

of the Colony. The thus induce sound natural sleep. Excellency and Lady Feel have pain of tearing himself away had doctors already learned to hold you both been terrible. For Sir Cecil Cle-second consideration is that, if Obtainable from chemists every

We thank you Sir William and the lovely places of the World in mental zeal, the rulers of Hong- which classical learning still kong be tempted to play with the Lady Peel and all who have come lingered, something of the devo-idea of abolishing this Univer- here this afternoon, for your pre-tion which the scholars of the sity, or of abasing its dignity o sence, and we extend to you all an early Italian Renaissance had for effectiveness, let them reficet 07 invitation to come to the Univer-

Hellenie culture.

the obligation which was incurred the of sity not only on ceremonial occa-

This University is not Oxford, vhen, at the instance sions, but whenever you can. I

Hongkong College of Cecil of the know how the daye pass in the nor even Cambridge, but it is the Governor of Hongkong, the Court

Nanking. Sept. 22. dull round of duties and engagé University for which Sir

General Tan Yen-kai, the acting we are not so remote Clementi strove and laboured and Medicine merged that institution ments, but

During the earliest years of the Chairman of the National Govern- as the general Hongkong tradition it is a great joy to my colleagues in the University of Hongkong. still maintains, ner are our build and to me to know that long after

ours have been University's Medical School it was ment during the absence of Mar. whole-shal Chiang Kai-shek; and chief not possible to employ a dust, our

of the Administrative Yuan, died ings and grounds altogether an- his mouth and

great worthy of even a passing notice. choked with It would be a great pleasure and Scholar Chancellor's portrait will time teacher of Biology. But in

It is reported that Mr. Hu Han-! 1922 the great encouragement if someone be looking down from its place of 1920 a lecturer was appointed who of apoplexy this morning.

from

the min (the Chairman of the Legis lative Yuan) has been nominated would sometimes ring up one of honour above the Chancellor's resigned in 1924. In

Rockefeller Foundation certain us and ask whether he or she chair, onto the manifold activities University nccepted

endowments on behalf of its as acting Chairman of the Na- might not come to the University of the University in whose power

Finance Minister) and spend an hour or so here in for good he so fervently and per Medical School, thereby commit- tional Government, and Mr. T.V.

Soong, (the sistently believed. seeing what we are doing and how enhanced by the fact that this porting itself to the development and has been nominated Chief of the

maintenance of a University trait which has now become part medical school of the first rank. Administrative Yuan.-Reuter. of the University's inheritance; But for four years after the lec- has come to us as the spontaneous turer's resignation such biology felt inclined to remind him of the gift of Sir Cecil's Chinese admirers as was taught was in the hands memorable match between a bare of a temporary and part-time lec- and a tortoise-how the outsider and friends in Hongkong, and that it was Sir Cecil's wish that it turer. In 1928 this lecturer Jeft

won, presumably to the great dis- the Colony and something had uncomfiture of the punters. But it should hang here.

be done. Now in March of that is vain for age and bulk to advise. College of Medicine.

year, Mr. Kwok Siu-lau had placed

youth and slimness. Turning to the Biological De-in the hands of the Chancellor a

The New Laboratory. partment I want first of all to re-donation of $50,000 and the Chan- had arranged with the

Well at the end of 1928, we had mind my audience that the ear-cellor

a Reader in Biology but nowhere liest school of medicine in Hong-Council that the money should bo kong as the "Hongkong College of invested and put aside to ac-for him to work except one room cumulate with its interest as a which was badly, and urgently Medicine for Chinese" which College of Medicine was established fund towards the creation and needed by some other Professor in 1887, mainly at the instigation endowment of a Chair of Biology to whom it apparently belonged. of the late Sir Patrick Manson, That was all very well, but, how Now, at the Main Gate there had years. a solid and then a general practitioner in the during the accumulating process, stood for

was Biology to be taught? My building in which coolies Colony."

lodged. We medical colleagues clamoured for mechanics

and the immediate creation of a Chair, shifted the coolies and mechanics But the Finance Committee stood to rented quarters outside firm. However, it had to agree to with some of Mr. Kwok Siu-Jau's Readership; and in May 1928 I money we converted the building dashed off to London for six weeks into the biological Laboratory to assist Sir Cecil Clementi in his which I am now asking Your Ex- daring attempt to loot His Majes-cellency to open. It is neither an ty's Treasury of £1,500,000 of the imposing nor a magnificent build-Į Boxer Indemnity, and to find aing; it has neither marble floors

in Biology, lecturer in English and a Reader

we are doing it.

A Government Child.

Our

joy is

that

many

were

This University is the child of the Government of Hungkong, and children are sometimes a nuisance and always expensive. It is how ever a drastic, and even a criminal, step to abandon a child. Your Excellency has recently entered upon your joint office of Governor of Hongkong and Chancellor of this University, and my colleagues and I want to assure you of our loyalty towards you and our con- fidence in your judgment, your wisdom and your fairness.

On the 12th November. 1568. there matriculated, as a sizar, at Queen's College, Cambridge, one William Wilkinson, who in 1579 published a treatise entitled "A Now I am assured by those that Confutation of certaine articles know, that a claim put forward on delivered unto the Familye of Sir Patrick Manson's behalf to the of Father of Tropical Love and the exposition of title Theophilus a supposed elder of this Medicine would be hard to gain- sayd Familye". As this learned say. Anyway, Sir Patrick Manson gentleman was a member of Your was not only a great doctor but Excellency's College, Your Ex- also a great man, and I have doubtless well ac-always thought it passing strange cellency is quainted with the work to which and no little discreditable

nor a miniature zoo on the roof. It is like the University As a I have just referred and will re-neither the University of Hong-

whole. humble and unassuming. member that there occurs in it the kong, whose medical faculty, em-

Dr. Herklots. following sentence-"They labour bodies his College of Medicine, nor

But about 10 days ago, Professor to put out the eyes of this lande in the Colony of Hongkong where

His Majesty's Treasury was Elliot Smith was passing through he worked so devotedly for others, (the Universities I mean)."

We want to be worthy of the there any sort of memorial of found to be too well guarded, and Hongkong: I took him to the build-

working reconnoitring. practical

biological Colony that created us and of the Patrick Manson. We have not the projected piracy was post-ing and he pronounced it a good British Empire on whose proud even got a coloured photograph of poned after much list of Universities we still find him, nor does even the narrowest la the matter of the Readership laboratory. That's good. enough

tunate, for Dr. Herklots hove in is not given to paying place. The obligation to play and most unsavoury lane in the of Biology, I was much more for- for me, for Professor Elliot Smith compliments where, the worthily this exacting role is ever City of Victoria bear his name.

view and after we had exchanged tional of idea However, when the before us, and if we are sometimes University for Hongkong was be- a few preliminary inquiries dignity of science is concerned. impatient at the checks of poverty ginning to crystallize in Sir hailed him to Whitehall there to We have then a good practical of my old biological laboratory and a keen and other obstacles which so per-Frederick Lugard's brain, the be vetted by some sistently beset the path of our de- Hongkong College of Medicine, as colleagues, who said at once "he's und well-qualified young "Reader velopment, I want you to believe it had then become, being still allright" and immediately depart-who will, we hope, win his spurs that, deep down below the super without buildings of its own, was ed with almost indecent haste on therein. This is at least

"(Continued on Page 11.) ficialities of temperament and formulating a plan of develop their summer holidays. Dr. Herk- idiosyncracy, there abides in us the ment. Government had reserved lots is a young man, but he has class qualifications, un- hope of making this University a site for the College; one Mr. Ng first one of the eyes of this lande' and i-hing and another. Mr. Tang quenchable enthusiasm and that the protesis and complaints Cheuk-kai, had offered respective limited energy. He prefers run- which we utter from time to timely $50,000 and $10,000 and thening to walking even in the sum- mer of Hongkong, and regards a are largely the spontaneous cut-Court of the College had issued a

who are working, public appeal for funds. Now, flat and well paved path or road ery of those often in loneliness and in anxiety, when the late Sir Hormusjec as merely intended to lead to the for the realization in this Colony Mody's offer of a contribution to-precipices which abound it on I have sometimes of the University ideal which, wards the construction and en- cither side.

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