Winter Issue, 2010

HKU has always relied on community support, even before the first brick was laid On the occasion of the University’s Centenary, a thoughtful alumnus presents a unique part of HKU’s history to the University: a donation receipt for the sum of $600, dated 1909. The donor was one of Hong Kong’s first Chinese entrepreneurs. It was so uncertain that the University would be built the receipt includes a promise of repayment should Hong Kong© s first university never be realised. 一張捐款收據的故事 在回顧這一百年的時刻, 最難忘的, 便是社會各界對大學的支持和信任。 像這張捐款收據, 便是一位校友計劃送給大學珍藏的一件很有價值的文物。 一百年前, 港督盧嘉力促在香港興建大學, 但財政非常緊絀, 於是成立不同的籌 款委員會募集捐款。這張收據, 便是向捐款人表明, 「如本大學興建不成, 攜回 此收條將原款送復」, 反映當時一方面籌委會用盡各種方法勸捐, 另一方面, 對 大學終於能否成事, 仍無百分百的把握。 但歷史證明了, 香港、廣東以至東南 亞, 都有很多社會人士支持在香港建立第一所大學, 最終在集腋成裘的情況下, 一起將不可能變成可能。 BUILDING ON A CENTURY OF EXCELLENCE 1887 Hong Kong College of Medicine inaugurated Sun Yat-sen was one of its first students 1910 Foundation Stone of Main Building laid 1911 The University of Hong Kong incorporated by Ordinance 1912 The first cohort of students admitted, with the College of Medicine formally incorporated into the University 2010 Foundation Stone of Centennial Campus laid 2011 Centenary Celebrations commence 2012 Opening of Centennial Campus and implementation of New Curriculum; Conclusion of Centenary Celebrations 里程碑 1887 香港西醫書院成立，孫中山為首屆學生之一 1910 本部大樓奠基 1911 『香港大學條例』生效，大學正式成立 1912 首屆學生入學，香港西醫書院歸併入香港大學 2010 百周年校園奠基 2011 百周年校慶活動展開 2012 百周年校園啟用，新學制開始 百周年慶祝活動幕下