Martyn Lobb. a.3., F.R.c.8., to the first Hotung professorship of chinical surgery is a notable event in the history of Hongkong University. The University has been able to make the appointment through the generosity of a Chinese, Mr. Ho Tung, who recently contributed to the University's funds two sums of 850,000, the second to be paid in annual instalments of $5,000. It is with part of the income derived from the first gift that the professorship has been founded and the University enriched by a chair which will go a long way towards helping it to jove the aim which it has always kept in view, that, namely, of being an educational centre not of an aloof, academic type, but in close touch with the practical needs of the Chinese. Mr. Ho Tung, is to be warmly thanked for his generosity and his name will be inscribed in the University's annals alongside those of Mr. Luk Yau, recently made a C. M. G., Mr. Cheung Fat-sze, Mr. Cheung Tu-hin and the late Mr. Ng Li-hing, all of whom have set a splendid example of practical patriotism to generations of future Chinese.
March 2.
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