Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 12 Jun 1965

T h i s one-hour lecture to be delivered in Ma n d a r in by Professor Ch o u Fa-kao of Chinese Language and L i t e r a t u re is entitled "Past, Presen t and F u t u re of Chinese L i n g u i s t i c s ". Prof. Ch o u, whose address w i l l be the last in the series of I n a u g u r al Addresses for th e academic year 1964/65, was f o rme r ly w i t h Yale Un i v e r s i ty as a Visiting Professor. He is a Fellow of the Academic Sinica and has w r i t t en in b o th English and Chinese ma ny scholarly studies on Chinese Linguistics. H i s lecture, as are al l others, is open to the p u b l i c GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AT BERKELEY T h e Graduat e School of Business A dm i n i s t r a t i on at the Berkeley Campus o f the Un i v e r s i ty of California has made available a t e rm of not more than US$5,000 a year for one or more fellowships to our graduates or faculty members to stud y at the Berkeley Camp us for the M . B . A . or P h . D . degrees. T h e fellowship w i ll be effectiv e in the c om i ng academic year 1965-66 and is fo r a period of three years. T h e offer was made t o the Un i v e r s i ty by Dean John W. Cowee d u r i ng his visit here in A p r i l this year as an advisor to the Vice-Chancello r in helping the Chinese Un i v e r s i ty to develop it s teaching staff in the field of business administration. Candidates for the fellowship w i l l be subject to the approval of the Vice-Chancellor and the Dean of the Graduate School of Business A dm i n i s t r a t i o n at Berkeley, and to admission of th e Un i v e r s i ty of California. SECOND MEET I NG W I TH SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES T h e second i n f o r mal meeting w i t h local secondary and m i d d le school representatives wa s held at C h u ng C h i College on M a r c h 24, 1965. D r . C . T . Y u n g, President of the College, was host to M r . C . Y. Cheng, Principal of T a k M i n g M i d d le School; M i ss B . M . Ko t ewa l l, Principal of St. Paul's Co-ed School ； M o t h er Virginia, St. Ma r y 's Canossian College ; and M r . W o n g S i u - m i n g, Principal of d e m e n t i M i d d l e School, Mr.R . N . Rayne, Vice-President of C h u ng Chi, and ma ny heads of departments , were also present. D u r i n g the meeting, D r . Y u n g i n f o r med the representatives that the Ma t r i c u l a t i on Boar d of the Chinese Un i v e r s i ty had agreed that, in principle, the standard of the examination syllabuses o f various subjects should be comparable to those o f the O r d i n a ry L e v el of the H o n g K o n g Un i v e r s i ty Ma t r i c u l a t i on Examination , w i t h the exception that th e level in the Chinese Language w o u l d be higher, and i n the English Language w o u ld be lower. T h e panels concerne d are to bear this in m i n d wh en setting question papers . " Howe v e r, new subject matters such as mo d e rn physics and sets in mathematic s wo u ld be added f r om time to t i me as the panel concerned deemed t h em necessary. T h e Un i v e r s i ty wo u l d be glad to offer its service in helping the schools in teaching such materials," said D r . Y u n g. T h e C h u ng C h i Physics De p a r t me n t had prepared a paper, s h ow i ng set-up for demonstrating experiments to help in teaching physic s to the secondary school students in H o n g K o n g, T h e representatives were also i n f o r me d that the E x t r a - M u r al De p a r t me nt of the Un i v e r s i ty w i ll offer a course on mo d e rn mathematics . M i ss K o t ewa ll suggested that the School of Education of the Chinese Un i v e r s i ty give preference t o the t r a i n i ng of teachers of the f o l l ow i ng subjects: religious knowledge, domestic science, physical and health education, fine arts and music. A t present, the schools have to i mp o r t teachers of the above subjects f r om other regions. D r . Y u n g r em i n d ed the representatives that N ew Asia College already offered Fine Arts, and that his college, w h i ch already had De p a r t me nt of Religious Kn ow l e d g e, was p l a n n i ng to establis h a De p a r t me nt of Mu s ic next September. A f t e r the meeting the entir e g r o up t o u r ed the campus and spent some time i n the physics laboratories where set-ups for demonstrating experiments were explained by members of the Physic s De p a r t me n t. SENIOR LECTURERS In the order of the availability of their biographies Dr. P.H. Chang, New Asia College, English Literature D r . P . H. Chang, Senior L e c t u r er and He ad of the De p a r t me nt of English, N e w Asia College, graduated f r om T s i ng H u a College, Peking , in 1926 and later we nt to the U n i t ed States for f u r t h er studies. I n 1927 he obtained his B . A. degree f r om Stanford University and in 1930 a degree o f Do c t or of L a w f r om the Un i v e r s i ty of Chicago. D r . Chang taught at the Na t i o n al Ch i - n an Un i v e r s i ty and the Na t i o n al Sun Yat-sen Un i v e r s i ty for many years before c om i ng south to teach in the Ev e n i ng School of H i g h er Studies i n H o n g K o n g. He joined N e w Asia College in 1955 . I n periods between 1943 and 1949, D r . Chang was the D i r e c t or of the Bureau of Economic Research of the K w a n g t u ng Provincial Bank , the Adviser and the Chief of the First Secretariat of the Chinese Delegation to the U n i t e d Nations M i l i t a ry Staff Committee. F r om 1959 to 1960, he studied methods of teaching En g l i sh in the U n i t ed States under the Leaders and Specialists Programme of the Ame r i c a n State Department. 3