Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03
UN|vE RS|T|ES IN
CHINA No RIVALS
Large Fields for That at Hong
Kong and for Lord Will
lam Cecil's Project.
THE SAME GENERAL. AIM
tsrrclAL coRrrsroynrycE.)

! IEkiS, NOV. !, 1911.
THAT there is. and should be. no clashlng
! OF interests between the new Hong Eon;
F! University, of which he is the founder. and
the United Universities scheme for great
university for China. OF which Lord Will
lam Cecil is special spouser, is the convic.
ton of Sir Frederick Lugard. Governor OF
| Hong Kong, who is in Pciin on his way
back to his post from England. where he
has been spending some months.
The two projects" explained Sir Fred.
erick in discussing the subject at the Brit
isl Legation. where he is the guest of Hon.
NV. G. Max Muller, the British Charge
d'Aiiaircs. ARE separate ana distinct, b,i;
they have the same general aIm--to con
tribute to the cause OF higher education III
China. There is room for both. need for
both
While much has been done and IS being
done TO promote Western education in this
great empire, with its vast multitude of
people. there has us yet been established
no institution deserving the TILE of Uni
vcrsiy' in It's highest sense. The time
has come when the excellent work done
by the educational institutions now in
existence should he supplemented by the
establishment of real universities which
viii enable Chinese students to obtain
here n.theIr own land that higher educ,,-
ton which only the few are now able to
obtain-by spending number Of years
abroad. TOO often at the questionable cost
Of becoming dcnationalized,
1T Is the aim Of the Hong Kong UNIVERSE
" to I'LL this need at the south, and the
same desire is the inspiration of Lord Will
lam Cecil's project for tho Wu-lIan sec
ton. the centre of China.
The two projects though having the
same general aims differ In some very
material respects. Lord Williams project
is essentially missionary in its character,
while the Hong Kong University may be
called secular In contradist!nction to a re-
liSlous institution Ours will. however,
aim as distinctly at r!iaracter building. she
difference being more in methods of admin
istratlou than In the principles underlying
the education TO be given. for these. as
see 1t. are essentially sho same,
''Wo have IN the great southern section
naturally tributary to Hong Kong many
millions of people. and It Is for these pr-
marty tina, we nrn building. With the
present methods ~ communication Han.
kow Is further away from Hong Kong
than London IL from New York and the
Institution projected for !lankow has a
i;r,y,t field Of It's own,
las you doubtless know, We have al
ready made substantial beginning at tIon;,
Kong To Sir HorInusji Mody. one of our
foremost l'arsec merchants. we Az
dcbted for the buildings which he is co,,"
struct!ng at his own cost The rnundalic-
stone vas laid last March.
I'VE have received most substantial siIp-
from, tltp 'hinpA, The NiTprpV pP
Cantor subscribed .GI$OO0 ANA issued a
which has brought us cuntrIbu-
lions from other Chinese running to Il total
of hundreds of thousands OF tacls. The
British firm OF Buucrilcld & Swirr. with
it's allied lir,ns, has contributed EitGCO,"