Bulletin Number One 1985

Twenty-Eighth Congregation The Twenty-Eighth Congregation for the Conferment of First Degrees was held on 6th December, 1984 at the University Mall In the absence of His Excellency the Chancellor, Sir Edward Youde, who was away from Hong Kong, Sir Yuet-keung Kan, the Pro-Chancellor ， officiated at the ceremony. This Congregation is significant in that it saw the graduation of the first batch of Part-time Degree undergraduates, all six of whom were in Social Work. This year, a total of 1,039 graduates received their bachelor's degree: 248 the Bachelor of Arts, 212 the Bachelor of Business Administration ， 254 the Bachelor of Science and 325 the Bachelor of Social Science. In his address to the congregation of over 4,000 graduates, parents and guests, Dr. Ma Lin, the Vice-Chancellor, exhorted the graduates to ‘choose to adopt a longer view and wider perspective of the world around them and reaslize they too have responsibilities beyond the advancement of their personal careers'. He also urged that as the future of Hong Kong and its people becomes closely intertwined with the destiny of China, it is important that Chinese intellectuals in Hong Kong should carefully re-examine their attitude and reassess their responsibility to Hong Kong and China, as well as keep in close touch with events and changes throughout China. NEWS 1