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Second

Around Pacific Cruise

S.S. "MALOLO"

AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY

to cruise on the famous Matson Liner "MALOLO" enjoying the advantages of carefully prepared shore excursions at porta

of call under, direction of the Amorican Express Company..

Hongkong

Manila

Bangkok

Schedule

Leave

Oct. 29 Oct. 31 Nov. 4

thence to Singapore, Batavia, Macassar, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, arriving Honolulu December 11th, San Francisco December 16th. Fares include all sightseeing expeases at inter- mediate ports.

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ANDRE LEBON

24th Nov. FRLIX ROUSSEL 8th Dec. G. METZINGER. 22nd Dec. (PYINI..

5th Jan. PORTHOS.......... 19th Jan. UHENONCEAUX... Ind Feb.

To YOKOHAMA via Shangbai

€ Kobe

ANDRE LEBON..... 28th Oct. FELIX ROUSSEL... 11th Nov. 07. METZINGER.. 25th Nov. SPHINX....

9th Dec. PORTHOS...... 23rd Dec. CHENONCEAUX...

5th Jan. ATHOB II......... 20th Jan. D'ARTAGNAN..... 3rd Feb.

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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER -15, 1931,

LECTURE ON CULTURE AT UNIVERSITY.

FR. FINN ADDRESSES THE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.

.of

BKRVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

The steamship.

merely skilfully adopted the die CONSIGNEES' NOTICES. covery of a neighbour. Yet, in the period we choose-Las Tere and Confucius wore dend not yet 60 years-Greece stood distinct and supreme, and Athens was,

"D'ARTAGNAN" according to Pericios, "an educa-

Arrived Hongkong on Wednesday, tion to Greece, and her mombork

the 14th October, 1031. Speaking at the sixth general yield to none,, man by man, for From MARSEILLES &c. meeting of tho Educational independence of spirit, many- Consignees of Cargo by the above | Society, · · · Hongkong. University, aidedness

attalament. and named steamer are hereby informed last night, Father D. J. Finn, complete self-reliance in limbs that their goods with the exception of

and brain."

Oplum, Treasure and Valuables aro S... delivered * Jecture on

being landed and placed at their risk "Sources of Western Culture," a

Oxford Training.

in the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.. lecture which was Illustrated Perleles was not short-sighted Kowloon, whenco delivery can be with lantern alides, chiefly of for the West is agreed to find obtained as the goods are landed.

then Athens unageing Goods not cleared within 7 days in- sculpture and architecture, in the in the course of which he explained the models of perfection in the concluding date of arrival, will be subject significance na memorials of the position of history and of drama to rent.

All claims must be sent to the in the examination of deep phanes of Western culture,

undersigned before the Thursday, the in philosophient problems, the 22nd October, 1931, or they will not be He said: Culture is but an-art of persuading meu by pubile recognized. other word for cultivation, or speech in the rendering of beauty tending, and refers primarily to into art. Athens furnishes the planta: as we conceive all growth exemplary of well-balanced thought, to have a likeness to that of of just emphasis, of directness and plants which is so obvious, it of truth to nature. There is an wae natural to use the word actuality and a humanity in its "culture" for the training, de-lteratore that can never tarulah. velopment And refinement ΟΙ Hongkong might be reminded that mind, taste and manners, and as Oxford trains statesmen and ad- it comes to stand for the con-ministrators on the study of the dition

the of being thun refined. Athenian Thucydides and From that the next step to the Athenian Plato. Indication of "the intellectual As for Romu, the Home of the hasis ot civilisation" ta enay. Republie and the Chears, its Thun the Oxford Dictionary de-icrest contributions have been the Anes the awkward word in mytransmission of the Greek in- title, and thus I take it for the heritance, though somewhat alter-

› Continued from Page 3.) purpose of my few words.

by its own stamp of pragmatism but it is highly doubtful that it

But civilisation presents a vast field, whether you take

necount

and

studious observation. Then,

or-

Damaged Packages must be loft in the Godown for examination by the consiguees, and the Company's Sur- veyor Messrs. Goddard & Douglas at

on Monday, the 19th | 10.00 a.m. October, 1931.

No claims will be admitted after the Roods have left the Godowns.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever,

R. ONL

Agen-. Hongkong. 14th October, 1033.

GUILTY LIPS.

mud Robert Farrell any more com

fortable as he marched off into the darkness,

Norma climbed the two flights of airs, fumbled for her key and

slipped it into the lock. The door pred vealing a large square roum in which a lamp was burning. There was no one in sight. Norma hastily dropped the puppy in n worn, over-stuffed chair. Then she called mat

Hello, Chris! Have you

Laven here long?"

Another girl. fallor, looking older, appeared in the doorway to the alcove. Her dark hair, smouth and glossy, was drawn back from

the all-pervading influence of the Latin tongue (it is still of times, placca or types; so we are concerned only with Western much the learned tongue that culture, that is, of certain lanta Chinene botanists must learn it if West, is way of the meridian they would speak internationally) 30F west of that lies the Aegeant above all the influence on the roast of Asia Minor and the legal thought, legal codes, legal focal points of Mediterranean exactitudes of the West. civilisation. This is the type of With the mediaeval period, a culture that has become ropean new force entered on the stage; the while absorbing other elements powerful directive spirit of That it did not originally pousesaanised Christianity. It embodied and it is of this type of eutare much of the old Roman spirit of that the two Americas. North law and institution, added to the and South, are Colonies.

strong moral code which has left an indelible imprint on the West -“the highest moral tradition of It will now be patent that the the West and of the Mediterranean her face. She had dark eyes, arch- i sources mast include Greece and peoples" (Le Bras). Rome, for these are the foel of Mediterranean civilisation in its But distinctive manifestations. looking at Western culture as it exists to-day, one must take

Greece and Rome

of the lapse account

of 26 centuries and the wider aren;

sance.

n

macy of

reason

The Renaissance.

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her lacking

8.

KASHMIR 1*BURDWAN

"I wasn't hungry. Mr. Hurt seat out for sandwiches and coffee."

ed brows and clear complexion. The building of the Cathedrals The dress she wore was black, un-

age, and

that fieved by colour except for scar- typical of the

beads about architecture is one of the inspira-let and white flors of the West. What is more throat. Chris Saunders, evident even to us in the East is prettiness, had an air of distinc the University and the Grammar tion. She possessed what the gar- Sehool, which are distinctive proment trade calls "style."

10 minutes "I came in about therefore two other perioda caliducts of the Middle Ages. In the

Bob?" for note the mediaeval, way the set about the synthesis of all

Universities, scholastic philosophy ago, she said. "Where's

"Oh, he's gone. Said something 13th century, and the Renala-

knowledge, guaranteed the supre about having work to do. It's n among buman shame about you having to put in Of course it would be presump-faculties, and sharpened the wits all this overtime. I hope you stop- tuous beyond the reach of mere of ilm students. Renaissance ped for a real dinner." Tolly to set about describing or scholars were more ladebted to the discussing four such periods in ceholastics than they cared to one short lecture. An expert acknowledge.

Chris, too, held a secretrial posi- would complain if he had to ex-

tion. Her salary was larger than haust one of the periods in

Norma's. For two years Chris had. limited scrier of talks. My

With the Renaissance there up, been the highly capable, confiden

of Bradley Hart purpose is to set forth the moat peared the power of wealth and tial secretary distinctive notes of each and to magnificence, with the princely whose advertising agency handled illustrate each period with some patron,

princely merchant half a dozen of the largest accounts views of typical, monuments or and

princely learning. in the city. Norma knew Bradley artistic productions. A contract Art und science recognise Hart by sight, knew alau Chris ed survey may have the merit of, individual names as marking their Saunders answerving admiration advance. Man is more satisfied for the cynical, brilliant employer emphasis and contrast,

whose wife spent so little time In Our first source then in Greece with himself and his place in a

more fre- scheme of things worked out to Marlboro. More and and for our purposes we may it himself. Ever since then the quently lately Chris spoke of night take the one City of Athens

driving 156 West has been living in similar work, lunches in the office. one definite period-about 45009

sentiments, except that they have home in Hart's bulky roadster. F.C. to 350 B ̊C. It is not thecome more and more democratic. Repeatedly Norma assured her. absolute well-spring of that type of the very obvious implication of self there was nothing to worry of culture. There were carller

Renaissance the

nce the return in the over. She tossed off her hat, and powerful cultures with which Ancients, its results have been a moved toward the mirror la fluff Greece had contact, from which obvious that they have not aliut her hair. As she turned again | Greece learned much and derived been outlived yet. Whether that the light through the doorway fell

elements of the greatest benefit return did not mean a delay in to herself. We are indebted to the natural development of Europe Greece for the priceless gift of is a doubt that crosses men's minds the alphabet. but Greece Had more and more in recent years.

.the

the

Full on the other's girl's faen.

"Why, Chris," Norma exclaimed, "you've been crying!"

To be Cautinned).

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& Yoko

TANDA

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117,000 17,000

6th Nov.

8'hal, Kobe & Yoko

6th Nov.

IKIDDERPORE 1 5,300

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+

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