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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JANUARY

1936.

DEGREE DAY AT ch more than that, for he was the his wife all health and happiness. sum donated. He asked Mr. Eu Tong-

UNIVERSITY

SIR THOS. SOUTHORN HONOURED

ALSO DR. EARLE

University's good friend whose whim- May, the researches of Professor sen for another $7,000. Back, camo ical utterances were ever shot with Shellshear's retiroment be fruitful and a choque for that amount by return airoaks of wisdom:

to him a source of contentment. "If of post. You will I hope soon HOO a man will begin with certainties, the Eu Tong-ten gymnasium. It will **Methinks

Wisdom is oft times nearer when wrote Francis Bacon, he shall end not be the only building which Mr.

the last in doubts; but if he will be content Eu Tong-ath has in to begin with doubts, he shall end years constructed in this Colony. In certainties." (Applause).

(Applauso.)

We

Dr. it. M. Gibson

no

few

Bir Wilfrid Thomas Southern need. Warwick introduction. From. School he went to Corpus Christi College Oxford. That college has had many famous sons. I will confine Reginald Brubbs and Sir Thomas Southorn, Yle

..A.brilliant and a happy occasion being..translated is "What you want Hongkong College of Medicine, Dr. myself to the mention of two-

Bince we met last, the Court has College became the Medlen? Faculty Ceylon Civil soms entered

the

was

In

scre as the

Stoop than when wo scar". We welcome General Borrell's Ruc- cessor Major-General A. W. Bartho

Dr. R. McLean Gibeon_retired Isat lomew. General Bartholomew and I were once undergraduates at the same, April after 38 years of service a college in Oxford. The Collego crest Superintendent of the Alice Memorial Amated Hospitals. In the a gryphon and its Latin motto and

Director of Studies. The Gibson was was the twenty-seventh Congreg to keep quiet tell to no one".

1003; tion of the University of Ilong- kong for the conferring of degrees and Dr. Colonial

Principal Assistant- After An Illness held in the Great Hall yesterday. Mohammad Hasan Nemazeo. fr. life member of the University Court fary In 1900 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills The honorary degrees of LLD. Nemazes was one of those who con- Dr. Gibson's life was one of devotion Colonini Secretary in 1920;. Principai were conferred on the Hon. Sir tributed generously to the University's and self-effacement. By his work in Collector of Customs and Chairman

the College of Medicine pad among of the Port Commission in 1023 original endowment. Speed Recovery.

I have also to refer with regret to the poor generally he did much to 1920 Sir Thomas came Thomas Southorn, K.B.E., C.M.O., Recovery from an illness is often

Chinese slow because the blood has become Me (Oxon.), the Colonial Secre

honorary graduales, Dr. Louis Finot

against Western medicine fully he has administered the Govern- impoverished, scanty and thin; there. tary, and on Dr. Herbert Gastineau the death during 1935 of two of our break down the prejudica which the Colonial Secretary. You know fore to regain health and strength the Earle, 3.A., M.D., (Cantab.) first | il Dr. Reinald Walter Brock: Dr. Sxton ad and still have to nome rent. How often and how success- | main essential is to build up the Professor of Physiology at the Uni-Finot was for many years connected His Majesty the King has just made ment of Hongkong and acted blood. Dr. Williams Pink Pills rapid-versity following eulogistic descrip- with the Ecole Francnias d'Extreme Dr. Gibson a member of the Most Chancellor of the University; the ly improve the blood, and their tion of their servlees to the com-Orient ntanol. The was one of thone We congratulate the British Empo: enthusiasm witit which he has always all pence, health and happiness in his anything calculated to make the offiency during convalescenes

retirement.

Colony a healthier and a happler: trikingly proved in the case of "munity by the Vice-Chancellor Sir..on whom the University Arat con-o congratulate him and wish him identified himself with everything and

William Hornell, GLE, LLJ., M.A. forred honorary degreasin 1910.

Distinguished Survivors

Dr. W. B. A. Moore is not at the place.

Sir Thomas Boulhorn.. There are

stilt three survivors moment a member of the University In the name of the University and of of that distinguished batch-Lord Court; but he has often served for

Had it not, bech for Sir Thomas, the all whom I see before me I welcome Lugard. Sir Robert Ho Tung and Dr. considerable periods bolt on

Branch of the English Associa Dr. Finot was 1 our new Chancellor to this his first Poul Polliot. Long may they be University's Court and its Counell. I doubt whether there would be even great Dr. Moore has been a very good friend tion in Hongkong; without his help Congregation. His Excellency in the spared. University's sixth Chancelier,

that He

French gentle Also n

going and we congratulate would have been something very much great of extreme simplicity him most heartily on the honour that wou

Margaret Brethour al' Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, who gives all the credit of her quick recovery to this world famous tonic.

"I was in hospital four after the birth of my baby," states Mrs, Brethour, "and

The Vice-Chancellor salil: Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,

WOR

MA

Wo

(Applause.)

now a

п

months

came home

being Lord Lugard, our founder Archaeologist and Orienta: scholar.¦ to the University. We are very sorry the playgrounds for poor children i weighing only sixty five pounds. I Pills began taking Dr. Williams' Pink

A us now praise famour men and mun man and it wasn't long until I weighed our fathers that begat us" Our new and great humility. Many of you His Majesty the King has just bestow-less than they are now. Socially Sir endeared themselves to everyone. I health was of the best. Every spring a time of stress nor is his office going charge of the geological survey of the Moore will live long to enjoy in health doubt whether there have ever been ninety five pounds, and my general Chancellor comes to the University in will remember Dr. Brock who was ined upon him. We hope Dr. and Mrs. Thomas and Lady Southern have

their since then I take the pills na a tonic, to be a sinecure. Circ

retirement. Ili untinely death in an and Circumstances over

happinces Colony.

any

two persons in this Colony who the and would not be without them,

which the University has no control aeropiane accident in Canada (in

Boxer Scholar

had so many friends in all Ktrongly

sections of the Colony's cosmopolitan recommend them all have reduced its Income. The Univer-which his wife also was killed) in

is not mothora."

alty has met the situation in the only one of those inscrutable events before

One of our medical graduates Dr. population. The University Dr. Williams' Pink Pills

Sze Taung Sing was working as

Lady Southorn an honorary Professor R. E. Tottenham and Mr. tonle in any illness which has way open to the honest poor by con- which we can only bow our heads.

Festina to the Professor ideal

of degree. It should be but fining Ita expenditure for this year

an assistant

lente. In impoverished blond as a basle cause. within the limits of tr curtailed R. R. Campbell left the University Medicine won last year in open com-

world British hurrying petition 010 of tho Boxer Post universities move slowly. They also are a proved specific for incoine. We are not, 1. understand, Staff last year and their places have nervous dobility, digestive weakness, the only institution in the Colony that been filled by Professor William Graduate Scholarships and he is now

We

I am however quite certain that i rhoumatiem, sciatica, lumbago, and has had to face a similar cris.s. 1.Nixon and Mr. Adilan Paterson studying in London. This is not the Sir Thomas would wish me to say: the allments peculiar

written in the book of the Proverbs searched long and far and wide for first time that one of these scholar what he knows and you all know Chemists everywhere sell

of Solomon that riches certainly a Professor of Chinese Professor ships has been won by one of our refer to the great help that his wife make themselves wings" and woshave Hau-Ti-Shan is well worth the search.

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Teney is not the acclaim with which the gladiators as they entered the arena greeted the Emperor "p?? Cactar- Kalute

come.

Professor Shellshear

the

Southern

Dr. Williams Pink Pills, the authority of Ecclesiastes for sup. To each of these three new members graduates. At the previous examins. has always boen to him. But the

posing that "there is no new thing of the Staff we extend a hearty wel-ton Dr. Ku Hisenh Chin, another Colony's debt to Lady.

medical graduate, who after qualifying not confined to what she has done for under the sun".

and working as a House Physician, her husband great as that boon has But in spite of a solemn prophelle

went into the service of the Kailan been to us all "If you ook her Company, won the only monument, look round you." Look warning publicly proclaimed the Uni- Professor J. L. Shellshear resigned] Min'nt versity

not going 15

that at the International Women's Club, clone in October and on Friday next ha medical scholarship awarded

Girl giving you thin leaves Hongkong to return to Aus-year by the Boxer Trustees. These and the Sandilands Hut for AGENTS(Applause). In

Assurance I have behind metralis, his native land. One of the scholarships are awarded on the re- Guides. They tell their own story.

ation (Applause.) very member of the University's characters in a play of Terrence says sulta of a most searching examination Court and Council and the weight of that there is nothing so simcult that!

and

our graduates were easily first.

Dr. H. G. Earle Chancellor's authority. it may not be found out by research. Of its 100 per cent, success in this

Herbert Gastineau Earlo went from Therefore our welcome to your Excel- It is possible that my learned col-schol proud-rely the

Univer- with reason.

(in London School eague has never read the play

Insity

the City of

late It in gratifying to see both Sir

the school. of our cidentally question but the sentiment is native power of Professor Shell Robert la Tung and his daughter Dr. Treasurer Dr. Paul Lauder) to Down- sherr's uncensing nelivity. This Fra Ho Tung sitt ng on thle platform. ing College, Cambridge, where

ctivity has carried him beyond the The doctor is one of our most dis was a foundation scholar and to the held of Anatomy into the realms tinguished medical graduates. After Westminster Hospital. Ha gained a if Archaeology and Frehistory. He even years spent in special study in first class in the Natural Science of hope and quiet confidence. Having

has been the University's ambassador Furone she lins come back to work Tripes. in mind some well known lines fram

He took the Cambridge B. Horace 1 proclaim on behalf of my n many different countries and at for the University and for her noor A. degree in 1906 and the A

con- fellow country women in Hongkong.

M.B. colleagues and myself With many and various scientifle

degrees of that University in 1913. For nino yenra

he he was Excellency Sr Andrew Caldecott as ferences. Though in the primo

Mr. Eu Tong-sen's Gift

Demonstrator in Physiology and for its leader and inspirer the University life. he has decided to give up the refuses to despair".

exacting duties of a professor in a

Before Sir William Peel left, Mr. six of those years he was also Joint mall and poverty-ridilen university

the University

Lecturer in Biology at the Middlesex Lt. Gen. 0. C. Borrett

in order the he may, while still active, Eu Tong-sen gave

330,000 to build a gymnasium. Plans Hospital London. In 1915 he came Lieutenant General O, C. Barrett levate bimself to scientifle work In

were drawn up but our Treasurer to this University as our first Pro- was an ornament to the University's his own country. We are grateful

antisfied

a fessor of Physiology. In 1928 he was Euch with Court and an adoroment of the Con- for his sojourn antong us and while

(Continued on Pago 7.) gregation's platform. But he was regretting his loss we wish him and mnasium as could be built for the

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