If one gives serious thought to jibe matter, surely the fact of the Hongkong University being under the necessity of appealing for funds should strike one as an extraordiaary state of affairs. It is in Hongkong—British territory—but-it is of China and it is the greatest educ tional institution in the country. It would seem impossible for it to be in want of money. Yet it is and an earnest appeal is now in circulation The Rockefeller Foundation has offered Hk. $500,000 for endowing Chairs of Surgery and Medicine, conditionally only upon the Faculty being brought into harmony in other respects with the modern standard of efficiency, with the prospect of a further grant of $250,000 for a Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It is estimated that from $400,000 to $500,000 is required to take full advantage of the Rockefeller grant. We sometimes wonder if people out here are rather scared by high-sounding figures in millions. Half a million dollars in pounds sterling would be covered easily by a dozen men in any Londory subscription for a good cause. Why not in China? We have several very rich men here—scores of them; buy a lakh of dollars in a day as a gamble on exchange—and that half million ought not to be so very dificult te-obtain
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