Bulletin Vol. 9 No. 4 Jan 1973

中會待招在長校敏卓李與生先千驥唐 Mr. Jack C. Tang and Dr. Choh-Ming Li at the reception after the opening ceremony practical man. No matter what the various political ideologies might propound, he knew that all men are not born equal. But he sincerely believed that all men should have equal opportunity, and he was ever willing to help those who woul d help themselves, while at the same time always encouraging people in more fortunate circumstances to participate i n all kinds of community projects. In this he himself was carrying on a family tradition: my grandfather before him also showed a deep and practical interest in helping to foster education, and it was in his memory that my Father continued and extended this practice. Next year, 1973 ， our family will be donating the funds for a dormitory building commemorating what would have been Father's 50th Reunion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M.I.T. has, in fact, been the alma mater of succeeding generations in the Tang family, and we are making this gesture in gratitude, not only for our own personal participation in its academic training, but also on behalf of many others like us in the past, and for the benefit of still more i n the years ahead. But of all his many interests, the one that he felt most passionately about was Hong Kong itself: the city that gave him a second chance. Indeed, in the last years of his life, he devoted his energies and much of his fortune to Hong Kong. He fervently believed that the future of this great community, his adopted community, lay with youth. Recognising that Hong Kong's only asset was its people, he constantly hammered away, at all who would listen to him, the theme that Hong Kong's survival would depend to a large extent on how much we as a community were prepared to invest in people in the broadest sense: in mind, in body and in spirit. And, as you have said, Sir Y.K., he practised what he preached, whether it was as Chairman of the Board of Governors of New Asia College; as Founder of South Sea Textiles' own school; as Chairman of the Hong Kong Polytechnic Planning Committee ； o r as a Council Member of this Chinese University of Hong Kong. As Chairman o f one of the founding colleges of this University, my Father was certainly especially interested in its development and expansion. A product of higher education in China and the West himself, he was convinced o f the tremendous advantages to be gained for the world in combining the two cultures of East and West. He saw in this University a golden opportunity for the future - a bridge between China and the West, and in particular the English-speaking peoples of the West. In contributing this Library building to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, it was his hope that it may in some small measure help in achieving this objective. This is a great and important day for the Tang family: Father woul d have been proud to have seen this magnificent building so beautifully designed by his frien d and colleague, Bil l Szeto-Wai. It is indeed, sir, a fitting tribute to Father's memory and all that he stood for. Thank you. The University Library With the opening of the new building of the University Library on 15th December, 1972 ， the Library began a new chapter in its history. Since April 1965 ， when it was located in the On Lee Building on Nathan Road, Kowloon, it has acquired a good basic collection of Chinese and western materials. Through seven and a half years of cramped quarters and inadequate staffing, first in Kowloon and later at the Benjamin Franklin Centre, the planning for this building has culminated in a magnificent structure situated at the opposite end of the University Mall fro m the Science Centre. It is conveniently located, adjacent to the University Administration Building and near the Institute of Chinese Studies. The first impression one gets of the two upper floors of stacks is of wide stretches of space, empty shelving areas, and of attractive carrels and faculty studies. Ultimately there will be 400,000 volumes of books ranged along those shelves and, as the Graduate School of the University increases in enrolment, the carrels and faculty studies will be fully utilized. The lower floors are already a veritable beehive of activity as —3—