Personal affairs and Hong Kong University

Title

Personal affairs and Hong Kong University

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 94

Summary

File 1: Pages from a diary recording engagements, Aug-Sep 1907, with an inventory of household goods, and letter, 1930, to Mrs Southorn about Lady Lugard's former servants.

File 2, items 1-3: Memoranda by Lugard, 1912-1931, comprising "The Problem of Universities in the East in regard to their influence on Character and Moral Ideals", "Chinese Education, the Position of Hong Kong University" and "Hong Kong University, origin and aims and relations with China, America and Britain".

File 3, fols. 1-16 and items 1-6: Cuttings from journals and Hansard and articles by several authors, with a brochure to mark the 21st anniversary of the University's foundation, 1912-1937.

File 4, fols. 1-92: Correspondence, reports, memoranda and manuscript notes by Lugard on development of Chinese education in Hong Kong and devoting the Boxer Indemnity Fund to financing the University, 1921-1922.

File 5, fols. 1-72: Correspondence, reports and Lugard's notes on financing the University from the remnant of the British portion of the Boxer Indemnity, the position of the vice-chancellor and internal troubles there, 1923-1924.

File 6, fols. 1-61: Correspondence about the use of the Boxer Indemnity, the students' boycott of the University, the political situation, the inquiry by Lord Willingdon and his report to the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies, with Lugard's manuscript notes, 1925-1926.

File 7, fols. 1-93: Correspondence and related papers concerning the financial difficulties of the University, the misapplication of funds from the Boxer Indemnity and an objection by one of the trustees; also about Lugard's action with the Universities' China Committee in London and the Universities' Bureau of the Empire (he was an executive committee member of both) and the action he took in the House of Lords briefed by Lionel Curtis, 1929-1933.

File 8, fols. 1-110: Correspondence about the spending of the Boxer Indemnity, the visit by Strickland to inquire into the education of engineering undergraduates at the University and the graduates' dislike of undertaking the manual work entailed in pursuing their profession; also about the 25th anniversary of the University and its general adminstration and relations with China, with memoranda and notes by Lugard, 1934-1937.

Date

1907-1937

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box