Bulletin Vol. 9 No. 3 Dec 1972

neither by numbers nor by the use of diacritical marks over the word; (3) The Instant Index System, different from bot h the traditional 214 radicals an d the Four Corners system, is a patented invention of Dr . Lin designed for easy location of lead characters; (4) The 180-page English Index, containing some 45,000 entries of polysyllabic words, phrases and idioms, is virtually an incorporated English-Chines e dictionary in itself; (5) Variants and popular forms in Chinese characters are fully indicated. Another asset of the Dictionary is its Appendices, which not only provide invaluable information on sexagenary cycle, solar terms, weights, measures and numerals, dynasties and reigns, but also contain lists of chemical elements, the 214 radicals and simplified characters. This new Dictionary, containing 1,800 pages of Bible paper, with a 7" x 10” format and weighing over 4 lbs., is printed by the well-known publisher Kenkyusha Printing Co. of Japan and the world-wide distribution is in the charge of America's premier publishing house McGraw-Hill Inc. (see also picture in Chinese section) F E L L OWS H IP OF RSA F O R DR . C H O H - M I NG L I & DR . C.T. Y U N G Dr. Choh-Ming Li, Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. C.T. Yung, President of Chung Chi College, hav e both been elected Fellows of The Royal Society of Arts. The Society, founded in 1754 , has a long an d distinguished record of serving as a liaison between the various practical arts and sciences, and it has always been a great honour to be elected to fellowship. The aims of the Society are indicated in its full title of "The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce". P RO F I L ES OF N EW PROFESSORS Professor S.L . Kong, Director of School of Education Professor S.L. Kong received his Ph.D. from the School of Psychology and Education, University of Ottawa, in 1960. He has been engaged in a wide range of activities in the fields of psychology, educatio n and cybernetics: teaching, research, administration, planning, consultation, writing and editing. Based in Toronto in the last ten years, he has travelle d extensively on tours of lectures, committee work and consultations to university, business and governments. Dr. Kong ha s contributed to professional journals, university texts and is author of a series of monograph s and books including the more recent titles of The Use of Computers in Education, Humanistic Psychology and Personalized Teaching and Cognitive Processes Applied to Education, which is now in the press. During the last few years, Professor Kong has been active in the organization of professional associations and symposia including the First World Congress of Comparative and Internationa l Education convened in Ottawa. He is founding Editor of Canadian and International Education and serves on the Editorial Board of Chinese Education. As a generalist, Professor Kong's special interest is man as he is and as he becomes. Professor Chu-Tsing Li, Visiting Professor of Fine Arts Professor Li is a 1943 graduate of the University of Nanking. He obtained his M.A. in English Literature and Ph.D. in Art History in 1949 and 1955 respectively, from the University of Iowa, where h e taught for more than ten years from 1954. He joine d the University of Kansas in 1966 as Professor and became Chairman of the Department of History of Art in 1972. He has been the Research Curator of the Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City since 1966. Professor Li has been a member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society since 1945 , and was Visiting Fellow at Harvard and Princeton Universities in 1959-60, under the Ford Foundation Foreign Are a Training Fellowship Program. He has lectured extensively in many American and Canadian universities and colleges, as well as museums in the United States , Taiwan and Hong Kong. Professor Li is the author of The Autumn Colors on the Ch 'iao and Hua Mountains, a Painting by Chao Meng-fu (1254-1322 ), and A Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines: The Charles A. Drenowatz Collection of Chinese Paintings in Zurich. He has also published numerous monographs and articles in a number of art journals. Professor Clifford H. MacFadden, Director of the University of California Study Centre Professor MacFadden obtained the degrees of B.A. in 1937 , M.A. in 1939 and Ph.D. in 1948 from the University of Michigan. During the Second Worl d War, he served with the War Department as Chief of Staff, M.I.S ., Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1946. He then joined the University of California, Los Angeles, as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography and Dean of Foreign Students. During special leaves from the -3-

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