Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Oct 1965

in their imaginative and sophisticated labors in b r i ng i ng this center and its first occupants, both students and faculty, to H o n g K o n g. I t really is hard to comprehen d fully h ow mu ch planning and logistical detail are involved in getting a p r o g r am of this nature on the road—or should we say in the water, since each of our centers is overseas. I t is pleasant to pat my colleagues o n the back. I n passing out these accolades, I deem it a privilege indeed to speak for all of the Un i v e r s i ty of California in extending our thanks and good wishes to all. N o w let me r em i nd y ou that the Un i v e r s i ty of California is a mu l t i c amp us university and, accordingly a university of great size. I n spite of its great size, or perhaps because of it, our university has been able t o become a highly respected one, w i t h a reputation for intellectual achievemen t acknowledged, I think, around the wo r l d. I t was a little strange, then, it seems to me, that our Un i v e r s i ty was so slow in recognizing the advantages of developing an education abroad program. But now we have leaped in and w i t h in less tha n four years have more than got our feet wet, we hav e splashed ourselves all over. We have a center at Bordeaux, France w i t h ninety- one students this fall; one at Padua, Italy w i t h t we n t y- two students; the Goettingen, Germany center has sixty-six the Ma d r i d, Spain center w i ll have f o r t y- six; the B i r m i n g h am, England center w i ll have eight ； Sussex, Eng l and twelve ； Bogota, Colombia has five; T o k y o, Japan w i ll have t we n t y; and here we have nine. I should say that even though we do not have a f o rmal center in E d i n b u r g h, Scotland, we do have eight students there and one at St. An d r ews in Scotlan d under our supervision. So we have exploded 一 as the pundits love to say—into nine centers and have others under study. A characteristic of our p r o g r am i n general i s that the students take their subjects in the language of th e country and in classes taught by professors in the host universities. Here and in T o k yo we are not able t o exact this requirement for the languages are not so easily mastered. But still we want our students to learn something of the difficulties and rewards in recognizing enough of the rudiments of these language s to give t h em insights otherwise unobtainable. We l l, enormous energy is spent on our overseas program. What ar e we t r y i ng to do and is it wo r th the effort? I suppose that those who enjoy travelling as such, who derive immense satisfaction f r om going to other countries, who feel moved by a sense of communication w i t h other humans not often seen, who recognize c ommon problems and tensions and joys everywhere need no t ask such questions. I myself cannot understand ho w anyone could deny the advantages of a p r o g r am the nature of ours, b ut then I suppose I am no longer able to be objective about it. I n my particular scholarly pursuit, I f i nd professionals all over th e w o r ld in comparable fields very mu ch Student Representatives of University of California and The Chinese U n i v e r s i t y , Mr. Ronald Rizzo and Mr. Kwok Yau- Yee, after the ceremony 3