Interesting Review of the Progress Made During the Last Twenty-one Years By Pnoreskon C, A. Mionuerox Suir, Twenty-one years ago, on March The estimates Jor 1933 show an ex. 15, 12, the. University of Hongpenditure of $1,025,243.
1912 kong was officially opened by the only. othe Sit' Frederick (now Lora) Luge Twas rather more than. month lectures etc., residence ice alter the Marchu Emperor of China Chancellor and two members of the
sears after, the signing of 1 fad abated, It was" sevent staff: fairly extensive grounds on a hill side, acd the traditions of of Nanking which arrange: old' Hongkong 'College of Me-that the barren island of Hoakong should "become a base for British Church Missionary Society omaerce in' China had provided, outside the Univer-At that date (1842) there were sity grounds," St. John's Hall for inthe Colony, only about 6,000 peo-the residence of about sixty under-Tie. mostly "pirates, and now there graduates. Temporary quarters {na population @f nearly milieu. for other students had been atrang-Originally established solely asa ed in the main building.
tre of trade, it has become well-'We were naturally anxious about Known all over the Far East in the first entry of students,. There. these days for the facilities which were 54 in that first year, ineluit, offers.to those who wish to a avire a liberal: education.
There is, now in Hongkong a com plete educational system, in. the English language available for alt nationalities. A Chinese, Indian or European boy or git! may commence
ud finish as a graduate in Med study, im an elementary school Cine, Engineering or Arts of University.
Yet it must not be assumed that the undergraduates, come exelusively from the schools of Hongkona. hey have been attracted from ull ofthe eighteen provinces of China.
They have come from Java, Malaya, Siam and other parts of Asia, Twenty-one years ago the writer was invited by the University Authorities to Join the staff as the first Frofessor. of Engineering. Si Charles Eliot had accepted the office of, Vice-Chancellor and. was" the
sity for the following five years. thief administrator of the was a chance meeting with the lnje Mr. J. H. Scott, then senior vaviner in Messrs. John Swire and Prof. C. A. Middl
tw neeept the invitation to go Sone Ltd. London, that decided me Hongkong. He had such faith in the ding a fow Licentiates of the Hong. kong College of Medicine which had University idea that he had per-been incorporated in the new Uni-sounded his firm, vervit There was endowment fun ater, in London, a Dr. (afterwards any, There wore lecture-rooms Sir James) Cantho told me all library, but "no rooms designed about the growth of the Hongkony: for engineering experiments and College of Medicine, And, From one very. few books. of his. vivid imagination and his memories of his life in. Horgkong.
-deew "wonderful pictures of tras to help the' development of the new Universit Selentite "work, he thought that An introduction to officials in thy poled Science and Mechanisation Colonial Office in "London nearl bud destroy all that was beet in made me change my mind. 1 was China. "My" own convention "as there "that malaria, "the trying! fnd"is, that Selene wil cure, most Humid heat and the inevitable ills to which the Chinese retution from one's family was 0 have been the heirs. phasised—of course with the best Mary of the local Government Is and nievehants in Hongkons 'The next day Sir Alfred took the earliest of portunity to ime then Director of Naval, Ede Upon nie their belief that provided the antidote. He was ons be" the frst lish professors. ¢3] Hrented' $0 well to Japan said "We were! inthe Far East! i oun views were dameureally rain that we: sare able to return opposite, should have still bet ette MEE Tier the British flag!" The Japa neso- Universities had the finances tion that @ University. was not only of the state behind them, but Here: but wax actually a neces Kong has been dependent on tha} Jong experience with Ori sonorosity of private. benefac ental students in the Univer The poverty of the new centre!
London had taught me the evil re-earning was not discovered sults, that often happens if these Tondon, And so, fired with enthu-young people go abroad when they iam for all hat this. University ave just left. school. The school the ast was supposed boy is submerged, "by the sudden the appointment. was. accepted. transition from Chinese to foreign Perhaps, after all, it was the lure environment if he goes direct 70 of the tin know Europe er Anwerica. "The graduate of travel, that from Hongkowz, after living four or tion. five years in the University grounds, are fal in Hongkong was "learnt enough of European was astounded by the natural beau-ways, and is sufficient mature, to ty of the place which had been take care of himself i he does go) led to believe was a desolate island,
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