Bulletin Vol. 8 No. 12 Sep–Aug 1972

and the taxpayer who are paying the entire cost of the five major buildings to be built here. As a hardened Civil Servant I have a weakness for making lists. One of my lists is of things in Hong Kong which are not only fairly good, but which are absolutely good and can stand up to comparisons with anywhere in the world. High on this list is the construction and the concept of this Chinese University of Hong Kong. A magnificent idea, a magnificent site, and splendidly executed under Dr . Li's leadership. What purpose do we want it to serve? For my part 1 want it to serve two causes: that of Learning and that of Hong Kong. Hong Kong desperately needs learned people of all ages. We have already plenty of enthusiasm, plenty of enterprise, plenty of hard work, commercial instinct, even compassion. But to turn Hong Kong into the place we want it to be, and to obtain the resources to do this, we need the help, at all levels, of people with the skills and knowledge and comprehension that can only be acquired from a basis of learning: the sort of learning that can be acquired here. And what a lot there is for such people to do in Hong Kong and how short we are of them, whether in industry, the professions, business, the places of teaching or Government. But learning must also be an end in itself. I reject the sausage machine concept of a University whose only object is to turn out types in short supply. Learning and knowledge for its own sake i s what gives a university inspiration, authority and repute and gives it the ability to command the respect of those who learn in it. And i f the pursuit of learning for its own sake involves some people wanting to push doors marked “ pu l l” or walk up escalators that are going down, I suggest that this may be regarded with a benevolent eye - within reason. In laying this foundation stone I initiate the final event of the construction and consolidation of this University. The arrival of New Asia College on the Campus will enable it to make its own creative and distinctive contribution. Bu t it will also facilitate the necessary pooling o f resources within the whole University, including the coordination of administrative functions, and the integration of academic programmes. Both as Chancellor and Governor it is of this University — completed by the arrival of New Asia College - that I think today, of the great contribution it can make to the world of letters, and of the contribution it can make to our Hong Kong where so much has been accomplished against such odds, and where so much remains t o be done — and can be done with the help of the learning and the wisdom that only higher education can give. PROF. S S. HSUEH ACCEPTS VICE-CHANCELLORSHIP OF NANYANG UNIVERSITY Dr. S.S. Hsueh, Professor of Government and Public Administration of the University, has been invited by Nanyang University in Singapore to accept an appointment as Vice-Chancellor to succeed Dr. Rayson L. Huang, who is assuming duty as Vice-Chancellor of the University o f Hong Kong in September this year. The services of Prof. Hsueh are being seconded as an expression of co-operation between this University and Nanyang University, thus strengthening the academic relations between Hong Kong and Singapore. Prof. Hsueh obtained his B.A. honours degree from Yenching University in Peking and a doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University o f Geneva, and conducted post-doctoral research at Oxfor d University. He was a member of the Department of Economics and Political Science at the University of Hong Kong from 1956 to 1963 before leaving for the Philippines to be Assistant Secretary General of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA) and Visiting Professorial Lecture r at the Graduate School of Public Administration o f the State University of the Philippines from 1963 to 1966. He returned to Hong Kong in 1966 to take up a new appointment as Reader in Public Administration at United College. In 1968 he became the first Chair in Government and Public Administration of the University, concurrently serving as Associate Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science from 1969 to early 1972. Prof. Hsueh has written and edited several books and seminar reports and is author of numerous research articles published in Asia, Europe and the U.S.A. -3-