Bulletin Special Supplement Nov 1973

D r . M ic h a e l A l e x a n d e r R o b e r t YOUNG-HERRIES ' A d d r es s It is indeed a privilege to have been asked to address this distinguished company today, and to thank you on behalf o f Professor Lin and myself for the honorary degrees bestowed upon us. Professor Lin is ， as you are aware, a scholar o f world renown —some thing which I myself cannot in any sense o f the word claim. I was however flattered to be described as a visiting academic when I was here for the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee visitation last February, and I can only assume that close association over the past eight years w ith my scholarly colleagues in the Committee has produced fo r me some vestige o f academic respectability. In this context I feel that in honouring me you have today paid tribute to the work o f all the members o f my committee. Without their com bined and unfailing help and sage advice we could not have achieved anything at all. It is good that they are all w ith us today to jo in in this congregation. Ten years have passed since the Ordinance setting up The Chinese University o f Hong Kong was enacted ， and ten exciting years they have been. I feel myself fortunate to have been associated w ith your achievements in a small way throughout that time - first as a Board member o f one o f your constituent colleges, Chung Chi, and since October 1965 as Chairman o f the University Grants Committee. Consequently it is an enormous pleasure to be accepted today into the fam ily o f your University. The achievements o f the past decade speak fo r themselves. The Chinese University under the inspiring leadership o f your Vice-Chancellor is already well known and well regarded throughout the world. The number o f students has grown rapidly during the period, and w ill continue to grow in the next few years. The University is now fu lly established on its new campus at Shatin ， which must be one o f the most beautiful sites o f any university in the world. It has been provided w ith first-class university and college buildings by the generosity o f a far sighted government, and also by benefactors from home and abroad. It is particularly pleasing that the commencement o f the present academic year sees at last all three constituent colleges together on the campus. In the true sense o f the word The Chinese University has arrived and I congratulate you all on reaching this great milestone in your evolution. I have had the privilege o f addressing your Council on three occasions during the past eight years, and as my term o f office is drawing to a close as Chairman o f the UPGC I read again what I had said on each occasion, to see if there was any theme I might touch on today - I came away w ith one word 一 COOPERATION. Resources are by nature lim ited — be they o f men, o f materials or o f money. In Hong Kong they are even more lim ited than elsewhere because we live and prosper by the enterprise, hard work and skills o f our people alone. Looking ahead, the demands on Government's inevitably lim ited resources fo r this 6r for that project w ill grow inexorably over the next decade. Your Chancellor has already given us a blue-print fo r the 1970s and the great tasks which have to be accomplished. - 7 -