Bulletin Vol. 9 No. 2 Nov 1972

English Text of Dr. Choh-Ming Li's Speech After you have left thi s Concert Hall today, upon being asked to identify yourselves, eac h of you would respond as a matter of course: ‘‘I am a graduate of The Chinese University!" That would be an accurate and all but self-evident statement , alike from the lips of the utterer and to the ears of his inquirer. However, nine years ago such would not have been the case. At that time —or even four years thereafter — should you have introduced yourselves as students or graduates of The Chinese University i t would have required further explanation. You would have had t o add that you were a student of United College or Chung Chi College or New Asia College, as the case may be, before you could ring a bell with your listener . Today there is no longer this necessity: The Chinese University ha s come into its own as an entity. What has made this possible? There is no question in my mind that underlying al l that has transpired in the last nine years is the all-out effort to pool together, as far as possible, all human, financial and material resources within the whole University so as to maximize the end-results with the given means. We all should appreciate that this would not hav e been possible without the team work of our entire faculty and student body. The campus of The Chinese University is being rapidly built, and will be complete d in another two or three years. This development, external as it is, has caught everybody's attention. But what ha s happened in the internal development of Th e Chinese University? Perhaps even many of our graduates today do not have a clear idea, not to mention the people outside the University. For this reason, I feel there is a need to give you an explanation. In th e matter of teaching, the various Boards of Studies have made significant contributions, vertically to faculty-student relation s and horizontally to the relations among the several Colleges. A Board of Studies is composed of all the teaching staff of a given department in all three Foundations 迓迎士爵强悅簡及長校敏卓李，堂會大達抵士爵 ��� 督監 � 大 H . E. the Chancellor Sir Murray MacLehose greeted by Vice-Chancellor Choh-Ming Li and Dr. the Hon. Sir Yuet-keung Kan on his arrival at the City Hall - 2 —