Bulletin Spring 1976

shelved owing to the lack of required personnel, books and facilities. The situation will change only if the Graduate School becomes more independent and may recruit staff of its own. Only then can we have any long-term planning and talk of the direction of development. But I am afraid this will not happen in the foreseeable future. For the present, we can only expand within the limited resources available, adding divisions and introducing Ph.D. programmes in existing divisions as circumstances permit. Q, The completion of the Postgraduate Hall Complex marks a new phase of development of the Graduate School. What is the main difference between this Complex and other student hostels? A. The completion of the Postgraduate Hall Complex is really a milestone in the history of the Graduate School Graduate students of different divisions hardly had a chance of coming together before, but now, living in the same hostel enables them to know one another well and facilitates discussions and the exchange of ideas. Indeed the layout of the Complex was designed with this end in view. In addition to the seminar rooms and conference rooms, there is a common room on each floor so that each floor is a self-contained unit with 20—22 students, who are thus encouraged to gather together and hold discussions or other social activities. The Hostels have more than ten guest rooms for the use of visiting overseas scholars and teachers of the University. Graduate students naturally welcome such opportunities of personal contact with scholars. All these help to foster an academic atmosphere and we are considering the setting up of academic prizes to encourage active participation in academic activities such as lectures, seminars and debates, etc. I am sure with the establishment of a Hostel Student Association next year, student activities will become more diversified and the facilities will be put to better use. Gifts to the University The University has received the following gifts: 1. From The Asia Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund a donation of US$12,000 to provide assistance to the Centre for Translation Projects for its translation and publication programme in the fields of social sciences and humanities. 2. From The Asia Foundation a grant of HK$4,000 to cover the cost to be incurred by Dr. S.T. Chang of the Department of Biology in editing a collection of some 29 papers on "The Biology and Cultivation of Edible Mushrooms" written by specialists from 12 countries; and an additional grant of US$6,000 to support the Machine Translation Project. 3. From the Lee Foundation of Singapore HK$40,000 for biochemical research on drug addicts treated by electro-acupuncture. 4. From the President of the Phi Lamda Fraternity a donation of HK$ 10,000 to the Department of Extramural Studies for the establishment of a fund for scholarships and prizes in memory of the late Mr. Winston Wu. 5. From the D.H. Chen Foundation a donation of HK$ 10,000 for the publication of the late Professor Kuo Ting-i's book entitled ‘‘A Short History of Modern China". 6. From Mr. Henry H. Hsu a donation of HK$ 10,000 for research purposes. 7. From Mr. B.R. Finny, Commissioner for New Zealand, fifty books by New Zealand authors. 8