Sir F. D. Lugard, Hongkong University: Objects, History, Present Position, and Prospects (1910).
Three advantages of HKU suggested, one of which was to avoid denationalisation (the other two rather commonplace). Sir Lugard said that a student studying overseas "must inevitably become greatly changed, and imbibing the manners and customs of his adopted country, be become denationalised. He often learns to look down on and despise the social customs and political institutions of his native coutnry, and his patrioism is often misguided by revolutionary ideas." By establishing HKU, he further elaborated, he hoped that Chinese youths "will establish for themselves a reputation as patriotic and loyal citizens, whether of a British Colony or of China."
In Sir Lugard's point of view, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who acknowledged "Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong are the birth place of my knowledge" was a misfortune to British Hong Kong, HKU and China; thus, unfortunately and even worse, today HKU's self-calimed connection with Dr. Sun is like a joke.
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