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56 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.The name of Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,Governor of Hongkong (1907- ) will be noteworthyin the annals of Hongkong on account of his successfullabours to secure the establishment of a University.Queen s College has had a long and honorable history,but the new University is to be a far more ambitiousundertaking. Mr. H. N. Mody, one of the oldest Parseeresidents in the Colony, generously offered to providebuildings at an estimated cost of $280,000, and an Endowment Fund of nearly $1,250,000 was raised in 1909,of which Chinese in the Colony and in Canton subscribedlarge sums. A site in Bonham Road has been selectedand building begun.The authorities, assuming that Hongkong shouldone day be an educational centre for all South China,think that the site should be able to provide quartersfor 500 students and also buildings for lecture rooms,laboratories, and all their accessories for 1,000 students.The buildings to be erected now are designed to containaccommodation to give 500 students a full course inArts, Medicine, and Engineering, and to house from 150to 1 80 students.The sum subscribed on the 2Oth of January, 1910,was $1,279,064. Additional funds are to be raised forstudents quarters and for the anatomical laboratorywhich are not included in those to be erected by Mr.ModyȮn the i6th of March, 1910, the foundation stone ofthe University was laid by the Governor. In the courseof proceedings, Sir Frederick Lugard announced thatthe King had conferred a Knight Bachelorhood uponMr. Mody, who is providing the cost of the building,$285,000, which is much more than the original estimate."From a purely missionary standpoint we fear that thisscheme promises no great help to the work of regenerating China,and while we may be pleased to hear of its success, it does notlessen the need of the establishment of a thoroughly Christian