Hongkong, March 10.
Sir John Jordan had a busy dag in Hongkong where he stayed over Sunday on nis way to England as the guest of the Governor at Government House. A luncheon party was given in his honour by Sir Robert Ho Tung to which a number of the leading members of the Chinese community were invited and in the evening the University held a special congregation for the conferment of the degree of LL.D. honors cause upon our distinguished visitor. As the Pro-Vice-Chancellor aptly remarked, when formally introducing Sir John to the Chancellor, "To have such a name as the Rt. Hon. Sir John Jordan on the roll of the honorary graduates of this University is to add dignity and importance to the University throughout China and the Far East, further it gives the hall mark to the University and invests it with Imperial interest.""
Returning thanks for the honour accorded him, Sir John made interesting references to the progress of education in China and contrasted the old system with the modern methods. I wonder what the present-day. schoolboy would' have to say to a course of study occupying 16 hours a day for years, which was a regular routine for the would-be wise men in China long ago; or to a com: mination during the course of which he would be confined to cells for nine days whilst completing his papers cut off from all communication. Imagine coming out of such a torture chamber "more or less haggard and suffering in health" only to find that one had been ploughed.
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