This clipping is a comprehensive recruitment advertisement for the University of Hong Kong (香港大學招生廣告) targeting mainland Chinese students. It expanding significantly on the shorter ad you provided earlier.
It reveals the full tuition breakdown, campus policies, and explicitly repeats the same geopolitical marketing narrative regarding the United States government.
📰 Key Information Revealed in the Text
1. The Geopolitical Partnership (Repeated Narrative)
The ad states that the University of Hong Kong is "established with joint investments from the Chinese, British governments, gentry, and merchants" (為中國、英國政府紳商合資建立).
- The Strategic Shift: Unlike the shorter ad, this version explicitly lists Britain along with China and the US, trying to paint HKU as a unique, multi-national educational superpower backed by the world's leading global authorities.
2. Detailed Fee Structure & Financial Comparison
The text breaks down the exact annual costs of attending HKU, making a direct economic argument to wealthy parents:
- Tuition Fees: 300 Dollars (學費三百元).
- Room and Board (Dormitory) Fees: 240 Dollars (膳宿費二百四十元).
- Total Annual Cost: 540 Dollars (共五百四十元).
- The Cost-Benefit Argument: The ad explains that electing options or extras might bring the total to around 560 or 600 Dollars. It emphasizes that this is vastly more affordable than traveling to Europe or America, which typically cost 2,000 to 3,000 Dollars per year at the time. Parents could save thousands of dollars while their sons received an identical, fully recognized British/Western degree right on their doorstep in Hong Kong.
3. Strict On-Campus Living and Disciplinary Rules
The advertisement outlines highly conservative and paternalistic campus management policies designed to reassure traditional mainland parents:
- Mandatory Boarding: All enrolled students are required to live inside the official university dormitories (均須在內居住). No off-campus housing was allowed.
- Strict Supervision: The university guarantees total management over the students' daily conduct, health, and academic progress (隨時親歷照管).
- Isolation from "Vices": The text explicitly promises parents that the campus infrastructure protects students from the "vices, corrupt habits, and temptations of the commercial treaty ports" (不至受染於外間繁華、賭博、以及不軌之風).
4. Curriculum and Faculties
It outlines the founding academic structure of the university:
- The Three Faculties: Medicine (醫科), Engineering (工科), and Arts/Literature (文科).
- Duration: Five years for Medicine, and four years for Engineering and Arts.
- The Standard: All courses are conducted entirely in English, utilizing modern Western laboratories and experimental equipment to ensure degrees are globally competitive.
5. Examination and Registration Hubs
To capture elite candidates from across China, the university set up temporary testing locations through British merchant channels:
- Shanghai Hub: Held at the Xiangtai Yanghang (祥泰洋行) on Beijing Road.
- Hong Kong Hub: Enquiries could be made directly at the Main Campus or via the Registrar's office.
Date picture taken
20 May 1914