Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 5 Dec 1966

Dr. Grayson L. Kirk, President, Columbia University Mr. Zelman Cowen, Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne; Vice-Chancellor-designate, New England University Dr. S.L. Chien, President, National Taiwan University Dr. I.H. Qu reshi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Karachi Mr. Charles J. Hitch, Vice President, University for Administration, University of California Dr. J.E. Wallace Sterling, President, Stanford University Mr. Carlos P. Romulo, President, University of the Philippines (concurrently Secretary of Education, Republic of the Philip- pines) EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN ZOOLOGY Dr. George W. Chu, Academic Advisor and Professor of Microbiology and Zoology at the Pacific Biomedical Research Centre, Hawaii, has been invited by the University to be External Examiner in Zoology in the Degree and Diploma Examination for the year 1967. Dr. Chu has recently been elected as President of the Hawaii Branch of American Society for Micro biology. REPORT ON URBAN FAMILY LIFE SURVEY A press conference was given by Dr. Robert E. Mitchell, Director of the Urban Family Life Survey and the University's Social Survey Research Centre, on December 21. Dr. C.T. Yung, President of Chung Chi College and Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Survey, was also present at the conference. In the conference, Dr. Mitchell reviewed the pre parations for the study of present-day living in Hong Kong. He announced that late next spring, more than 1,000 Hong Kong families will be given the op portunity to report on the present-day life in Hong Kong. T h e study, which aims to determine the major social welfare consequences arising from the community's rapid industrialization and urbanization, has the support of the Government. A grant of $1,000,000 from the Lottery Fund has been made to finance the study at the request of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and the Social Welfare Department. Dr. Mitchell pointed out that exploratory studies had already been conducted in connection with the project, and had proved quite fruitful. T h e study is made on a sampling basis. T h e issues include the institutional supports for traditional family life, patterns of authority, living arrangements, hus band-wife relations, the care of children and the aged, family integration, patterns of economic assistance, income and expenditure patterns, major personal and family problems, and other related topics. To aid the surveyors in their work, Dr. Mitchell designed a 162-page interviewing schedule in Chinese. A number of 12-18 hourly interviews in two-hour sessions have been made. Dr. Mitchell and his staff are now analysing the results. Dr. Mitchell revealed that in addition to this major survey, several other studies had been initiated as part of the Centre's research programme. Moreover, an exploratory inquiry focussing on mother-child relations and a major study of secondary school students will be launched next year to find out the aspirations of Hong Kong youth. Dr. Mitchell finally indicated that survey materials are not the only form of evidence. Information provided by intimate field observations will be relied on, available statistical data will be summarized, quantitative analyses of written materials will be made ， and the studies conducted by other students of Chinese and Hong Kong society will be reviewed. T h e quantitative data collected will be processed by the computers as well as by data-processing equip ment installed at the Centre. PROFESSOR FRANK C. HAPPOLD'S PUBLIC LECTURE A public lecture, sponsored by T h e Chinese U n i versity on December 1 ， 1966 at the City Hall, was delivered by Professor Frank C. Happold of the Un i versity of Leeds, He spoke on "T ryptophan since Gowland Hopkins—the story of an amino acid". Professor Happold is Head of the Biochemistry Department of the University of Leeds and a former Chairman of the Biochemical Society and the Federa tion of the European Biochemical Societies. He was visiting the Chinese University to advise on the planning of postgraduate research in the field of Chemistry. In the lecture, Professor Happold gave the conception of a University entertained by Von Humboldts as illustrated through the work of Gowland Hopkins, dis coverer of tryptophan, and the subsequent research on amino acid. T h en he proceeded with a discussion on the study of Vitamins, of nutrition and the pellagra story to genetics and enzymology and to the natural pigments, the melanins and the ommochromes. Final ly, the lecture touched upon the influence of potassium and sodium ion ratios upon amino a d d transport into some living cells. 4