Bulletin Number Four 1986

and years o f lonely fight now tired him and dampened his enthusiasm, and by the late fifties the brilliance w ith which he shone began to dim. In August 1961 Wu, who was then in the middle o f the first meijin title tournament, wash it by amotorcycle during a traffic accident, which caused considerable injury and le ft the problem o f periodic attacks o f migraine and psychosis, bringing to a premature end o f his pro fessional life as the reigning weiqi master. While Wu dominated the weiqi world for almost two decades during the forties and fifties, somehow he was destined not to win even a single title o f the many major open tournaments such as the honinbo which started in the late thirties, and the meijin, the Oza and the Jindan which started in the sixties; and even the rank o f the N inth Dan was not awarded to him un til after long delays. How utterly capricious and unjust can fate be at times when it comes to distribute rewards among men! His student Lin Hai-feng whom he discovered as a young boy was by comparison far more fortunate: during the mid-sixties Lin in his early twenties was able to win the titles o f both meijin and honinbo, and became the very first o f the post-War generation which has since dominated the weiqi world. While weiqi is but a peaceful match o f in te lli gence, yet for the professional players who constantly have to struggle for hair-thin victory and can never relax the slightest in his calculation at the board, weiqi could wreck havoc on one's nerves much the same as war would ravage the countryside. To gain balance in life , Wu has from his early days been very much drawn towards religion, from which he seeks peace and balm o f the mind, and his religious fervour was such that he had, for a few years, even totally given up weiqi in devout pursuit o f a different world. For him weiqi belongs to the warrior's world o f victory and defeat, whereas religion belongs to the gentle world o f peace. Even though weiqi has brought him fame and success, whereas religion once led him into painful experience, he is nevertheless equally devoted to both. His strong commitment to either o f these two pursuits is charac teristic o f the Japanese soul, while his ability to harbour and balance the opposite worlds o f war and peace w ithin one mind perhaps is amanifestation that after his long stay in Japan he nevertheless remains deeply affected by traditional Chinese culture. To be sure, the game board is very much like the political stage, on both o f which victory and defeat, gains and losses are both fleeting. Perhaps even the art o f weiqi itself is but a milestone, albeit an important one, in the long history o f human pro gress: it is well known that the computer is already an almost unbeatable checker player and also an excellent chess player. Even though the computer is s till an extremely poor weiqi player at the moment, yet w ith the appearance o f large-scale integration o f parallel processing units which function much as the brain does, it is now totally impossible to predict what the computer is eventually capable of. S till, wherever science and technology may lead us, the unceasing search o f Wu for the ultimate in life remains a manifestation o f the very best in human spirit, and it is also the driving force which brings progress, and as such can never fail to draw deep admiration and respect. Mr. Chancellor, in recognition o fWu Qingyuan's immense contributions to weiqi during the past sixty years, in recognition o f the dignity and high moral standard w ith which he withstood abuse and pain, and o f the harmony he has been able to bring among different peoples, and also in recognition o f his life long search for the ultimate meaning in life , may I request Your Excellency to confer upon Mr. Wu Qingyuan the Degree o f Doctor o f Literature, honoris causa. Professor Sir Andrew Patrick McEwen Forrest, MD, ChM, PRCS, FRS ， Hon FACS, Hon DSc, Hon FRACS Almost exactly one century ago a young surgeon trained at Aberdeen by the name o f Cantlie set sail for this part o f the world, and right upon arrival joined two other doctors to start a new College o f Medicine, which as one knows then grew into what is now our sister University. Six decades later his footsteps were followed by yet another young surgeon, this time trained at St. Andrews, who unfor tunately stopped short o f Hong Kong at Singapore, and after a brief stint as Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy went back to the United Kingdom. Looking back at this then little noticed episode one surely would be excused for speculating what might have happened to the course o f development o f this University had the young Dr. Patrick Forrest then come all the way. In any case, we are undoubtedly grateful that Dr. Forrest ， or rather Professor Forrest, did finally come, albeit a few decades late, and once here did so generously give o f his invaluable time and advice in helping to found our new Medical Faculty, which w ill proudly present its first class o f graduates 6 NEWS