1935-01-08 — Page 5

HONORARY DEGREES

HONGKONG UNIVERSITY

CONGREGATION:

OPENING OF NEW BUILDING FOR

SCHOOL OF SURGERY

The honouring of two distinguished persons by the confere ing of honorary degrees and the opening of a School of Surgery. ded a note of exceptional importance to the Twenty-Sixth Congregation of the University of Hongkong yesterday.

Is Excellency the Governor, Sir William Peel, K.G-3.0. K. H.A., Chancellor of the University, and Dr. Hu Shih, BD, neclaimed as the leader of the literary renaissance of China, received the degrees of D. honoris catia

The Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell QLE, LLP, MA conferred tho degree upon His Excellency, and after donining his Chancellor's robes, His Excellency conferred the degree upon the Chinese scholar.

Bachelor degrees of Arts, Engineering and Medicine were conferred on fifty-four graduates, the Great Hall being filled to capacity with the highest representatives of all branches of local life and hundreds of gratified parents and friends of the young graduates,

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1935.

University in whose welfare and suc either of the departments and both! cess they have, I know, the greatest the professors were always prossing interest.

for · separate · accommodation for That the University will achieve and maintain such success is my very surgery, states Sir William Hornell In a leaflet Issued in connection with sincero and earnest hope.

yesterday's function. He continues:

The Graduates

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but she is sufficiently jongsighted to appreciate that there is much to be gained from wedṣtben koowioure and selence and her need expeclally for acientists and engineers in great: In this direction this University Can render valuable assistance if only it is placed in a sound position to do so;

At the beginning of 1933, the The further improvement in rela-

The Degrou of Bachelor of Medicine tions between China and the Britlali Empire is a consummation devoutly and Bachelor of Surgery was con- University, having then in hand some balancos, tho results of accrued Ray. to be desired and this can best beferred on the following:

Chlu Put Po, William Lai Fook, ings, the Council decided to orect two achieved through youth and what better channel can there be than the Wong Shing Hang, Chow Poh Heng, buildings, the School of Surgery and youth of this Institution. We must Loung King Hon, Quak Cheng Kim, he Peel Engineering Laboratory. Tann Wee Ian, Taan Wei Chean, Chan Fook, Lau Man Hin, Low Khoon Both these buildings have now been

be able to offer advantages to youth

youth of our best: this Postulates sound and continuous material nasis

A from China and wo must give to that

tance.

Shin, . . Rodrigues, Lam How completed and are in use. Hei, Leh Seng Poh, D, Roy. Cheong, Pang In K, Bung Sheung

In ausentin-Goh Teik Wah, G. 8. Scully, Lee Pitt Slow, Ip Ching Yu, Cheng Wing Kwat, F. Tiptonin, II.

Mahti Singh.

This University may be tormed the child of one of my most distinguished predecessore, Lord Luzard, whose in- Lerest in it is unflagging. Though o

The Degree of Bachelor of Science hunible auccensor that great in Engineering was conferred on the ministrator I too have its interests following: B. P. C. Fletcher, Dow greatly at heart and I most earnestly Boon Seng, Chow Han Man, Wong appeal for help 'and support. Aa one who has tried to work for the past Kam Cheung, Goh Hong Cheng, Lim five years for the good of this Colony thiam Sw, Lee Hau Mo, Ching lau I make this appeal on behalf of one Kee, Yuen Chun Ying

Vong, Gan Kea. Poon, Loon Shiu of its most important institutiong and I venture to hope that my appeal will not pass unheeded.

In absentin-Kph Shu Koh, Taong Tuh Zung, N. Vargansoft.

The School of Surgery which cont 724,181 accommodaten on the ground loor a lecture hall of 804 square foot and a dark room of 100 square feet. In the lat floor are the Operative Surgery Room with an area of 760 quare feet and a room and laboratory

or the Professor's Assistant with an tren of 203 nquare feet. The second loor providen a laboratory for the Professor with an area of 600 square 'ect, and a teaching laboratory" and

Juseum of 453 square feet.

The Professor badly needs The Degree of Bachelor of Arts was pidiuscope and the University is not Chin the moment in a poslilon to pro- conferred on the following:

Misside him with one. The opidlancope Thin Sin, Kan Yuet Keung. Kwok Wat Fun, Lau Tak Cheak, Liow in the School is on loan from a

Miss frm

Some advance has been possible but much more is needed. ecently I had the privilege of opening the Peel Engineering Laboratory and to- day I shall shortly formally open then. Tit, Loke Kok Meng. extension to the School of Surgery, Kathleen Eunice Tee, MissHildin The provision for the latter is due Alice Wood, Douglas Iunt. Mins Kwok Pul Chee, Miss Yvonne Marian in a large measure to the enthusiasm Langley, Law Chin Tong, Io Kwee

Digby, the value of of Professor

Scang, Tsang Kadh Cook. Wai Po

Warm applause greeted the Chan-Idid initiate the training of doctors in coller, who was making probably his this Colony. This training was start-whone work to the Colony and to this last address to the congregation be-ed by Sir Patrick Manson twenty-five University it in hot easy to express fore his departure from the Colony, years before the University was open-adequately in words. and the firing of Chinese crackers ed. The carrying on by the Univer emphasised the students' welcome.sity of the work of the Hongkong The British Consul-General in Canton, College of Medicine is an obligation Mr. H. Phillips tande a special trip to which this Colony standa to Hongkong to attend the ceremony, mitted.

The

com.

Importance of Surgery

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Specialists Needed

When the representative of the General Medical Council of Great

Britain and Ireland, Sir Richard Needham, visited the Medical Faculty

The City's Big

Bargain Event

WHITEAWAY'S

SALE

Now Proceeding

of the University last year, he wrYOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR A

In absentia-Chaw Nai Chang.

Awards of Scholarships |

"The Surgery) prove of great value, not only tu The following, who had been award, undergraduates, but also as a surgical The science of surgery has advanceted scholarships, were presented to the centre for the initiation and develop- enormously during recent years and

Chancellor:

ment of postgraduate instruction. through it countless lives have been

Medical Faculty Scholarships. Its construction and organisation is a The second point in that it is, I saved. I feel that I am not over-

Young Wal-Jam (Delilios Medical striking tribute to the energy and Teo was served from 8.45 pm regret to any, a delusion to imagine stating facts when I say that in this Yeang Cheng-hin (Ng Li-hing enthusiasm of the Professor af after which guests adjourned to the tent the Surgery School and the Peel work Profesor Digby has pinyed a Medical, In Fook and Chan Kai Ming Surgery. Great Hall. Shortly before five Engineering Laboratory were built of notable part and the Colony owes him o'clock tlie Band of the lat. Dn.

and Dr. Alberto Maria the University's superfluity. Balances much. This new surgery block has 1st. Médical); Dr. Lim Gim-kheang

Rodrigues The University urgently needs more | enter which the University could hardly been in use for some months though sharing ilo Fook and Chan Kai ang facilities for research in its mertical Lincolnshire Regiment, who tained throughout, heralded the Tre were devoted to these new its formal opening only takes place and Medical): Dr. Lim Gim-kheang school. Specialists are needed both rival of His Excellency the Govern buildings. No one would give us the today. I wish it every success.

and elsewhere. The with the strains of the National An: money and we did not think it fair i would that it had fallen to my lot and Dr. Low Khoon-shin (alaring in Hongkong

Medical): Chiu, Put-po only way of producing them is to give them. The procession entered and to the students to wait Indefinitely, to open a new School of Health and Jordan

picked students here a chance of took their seats while the band played No man or woman has more than one in School of Law but I trust that such (Anderson Gold Medal).

Engineering Faculty Scholarships. extending their medical training be the Processional March.

privileges will fall to my successor. youth.

In conclusion, as Chancellor of thisShao Trun (lo Fook Engineering); yond the ordinary degree stage.

The-pei (Chan Kai Ming School has given the University the chance of making a start with post-

r

This

The Vice-Chancellor declared the

In providing the new School of University I wish to congratulate the Feng Congregation upen, and Sir Robert He Surgery, the University in discharg-Vice-Chancellor, Sir William Hornell, Engineering).,

Arts Faculty Scholarships-graduate instruction in surgery, Dut Tung KT. HAD. senior honorary do some extent its obligation to the an the very fine work: which he han

ablo a graduate in medicine to carry graduate, presented His Excellency Department of Anatomy. It is also done in his present office. My duties Bachin (lo Fook Arts); Mins Mary research fellowships which would en- the Governor for the conferring of giving its Professor of Surgery, A Chancellor have been 1ht hut Cheung (Chan Kai Ming Arts).

on investigations in- surgery in the luc in inree

School arc School of Surgery

indispensable. The the degree.

Chance. I have talked with medical thin in doubtless

measure to the support and co-operas

The University's first Chair of endowment at the presens juncture of His Excellency, the Vice-Chancellor, graduates of this University who are

Surgery was a combined chair of even one such fellowship would be of and the mace bearer left the Great Working not only in Hongkong button which I have always receival Hall and returned after a brief in-ning in China, in Malayn, in Ceylon, from the present Vice-Chancellor, I

surgery ami anatomy, Un the crea- great value. Public spirited Chinese I also thank the whole of terval for His Excellency to take the und in Java. They wil proclaim their na deeply grateful, to him."

thetian of two distinct chairs it was not have practically built the University's debt to Prufener Digby. Chancellor's meat.

University staff for the devoted way possible to provide additional accom-Faculty of Medicine. It is difficult to of believe, even though times are hard, I appeal to you to make it possible in which they have carried out their modation and the Departments The Vice-Chancellor then addressed the congregation, and presented Dr. for the University, lo organise port duties nul i urge them to continue Surgery and Anatomy had for some that the needs inseparable from the Hiu Shth, upon whom the Chancellor Professor Digby is itching to

graduate courses in surgery which to give of their hest and to work to ten years to share the name premises. Faculty's development will be ignor in-gether for the general good of this This arrangement was not fair to ind conferred the degree, prolonged ap

lenow that times nugurate. plause greeting the recipient na herd, but Professor Digby won't be here for ever. The Engineering Following the conferring of the Laboratory bears the name of

Surgery School xraduates degrees nal His Ex-Chancellor. The cellency's address, the Congregation awaits a fajry-godfather whose name was closed, but the procession con- it will be proud to hear. tinued to the School of Surgery. which was formally opened by flis Excellency, the Chancellor,

returned to his sent.

University's Gratitude.

· Governor's Address

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His Excellency the Governor said: Mir. Vice-Chancellor, Your Excellen eles. Ladies and Gentlemen.-Apure i The Vice-Chancellor said: Your from the occasion of the coming of Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, age of this University I have not ad- On the 12th May, 1930, Sir William dressed the Congregation, as the psi- Peel, became our Chancellor. The Lion has always been adequately University was then facing-net for dealt with by the Vice-Chancellor, the first ime-financial crisis. We propone to any a few words on this erled unto him in our trouble and he occasion as in all human probability delivered us

this is the Inat Congregation of the out of our distress, Nearly five years have passed five University-at-which shall have the. years of development albeit of dishonour of presiding and moreover I appointment and now we learn with wish to thank the Court for the regret that this Congregation will in all human probability be his last.

honour which has been conferred upon me to-day. I appreciate that honour enormously and am most grateful to An we look fearfully at the dark the Court. It is an honour which clouds which are louring over us, our intl appreciate to the end of my regret grows deeper, our anxiety days. It la enhanced by the fact thr! nore polynunt. But we know that have received it in the company of when His Excellency retires, we shall such n distinguished scholar ns Dr. have in London a wine friend who will Hu Shih. His reputation as a scholar plead our cause and help to roll away is unrivalled in China and is well that miasma of prejudice and min-known throughout the Far East: understanding which has always dar- kened and is still darkening this University's path. It is no formal emphasised the help and encourage compliment which we have just paidment which Dr. Hu Shih has given the Your Excellency; it is the spontaneaux University in connexion with its De expression of our profound gratitude, partment of Chinese Studies.

The Vice-Chancellor has already

lis

presence here to-day bears witness to

We do not think that you will easily the University's peralatent purpose LO forget this University of which you contribute what it enn for the revival

His

'con-

are now a life member. Here your of Chinese scholarship and culture to name will long be valued as one who, which he la deventing his life. with rare foresight, ever looked be- acceptance of the honour Just yond our many defects and the dim- ferred. upon him has wilded distinction culties of the moment to the greater to this University, ponsibilities for service towards which every University must strive ог perish.

Father of Renaissaner

Value of Engineering

As I have said this is almost cer-

tainly the Inst occasion on which I

shali proside, over the Congregation

Dr. Hu Shih needs no introiluetion. and I wish to take the opportunity of He is the father of the literary making a special uppent for

this гопрівависе In Chino, The full University. I doubt whether its Aiguificance of this movement His-work and utility are sufficiently n tory will in time recall. In the annals preciated more especially among the of his country'n history Dr. Ilu Shih's European community in the Colony. name has already been written in ink There is no doubt that it has done that will not fado. If the future of and is doing very fine wórk and that China is, I believe it to be, one it is a great asset both to the Colony of the world problems of to-day, then and China. It is, however, eramped surely this University will go down for funds, with a dwindling income- to posterity for the honour it is to the result largely of lower rates of diny conferring on one of the living interest on its Endowments-and its forces of a changing China.

future prospects cause me

and. all those interested in It grave concern. But this University has n more This University must advance or it immediate cause for gratitude to Dr will inevitably go back and it more Hu Shih, for he has helped and is funds cannut be obtained the rate of helping us to organise our Chinese deterioration will be more atudica on the right lines. We have Such is contingency is not to be con: rapid. often been reminded that Hongkong templated with equanimity and would is not China and upbraided for being indeed be.a grave stigma on ao foolish as to believe that any Colony. The value of this University serious student would come here to to the British Empire is undoubted, study Chinese. Our reply is to refer not only from a cultural but also from to, the preambio of our Ordinance and a material point of view. If it can to insist that this University, being turn out efficient engineering more than a technical or professional graduates as it is doing at present, collone, can not and will not ignore and more especially if such graduates the culture of the great country to enn in addition get adequate practical which the majority of its students experience in England and then take belong. Dr. Ilu Shih's presence here up work in Chins the benefit to Erl. to-day in a testimony to his convictish trade would undoubtedly be con- tion that this University can and will aklerable, play its part, however humble, in the -cultural rebirth of China.

Fairy Godfather Wanted

this

I stress the point for there is a tendency to cast double on the prac tient value of this, Institution; such view is entirely erroneous and great-

Some account of the Surgery Schoolly to be deprecated. Sul, be found in the brochure which

has been distributed. There are only

-two points which I want to emphanino.

Lord Lugard's Interest

The first is to remind you once again China has a great belief-end that the founders of this University Justifiably so-in her own capabilities

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