Bulletin Special Supplement Bidding Farewell to Prof. and Mrs. Charles K. Kao

(一）在學生宿舍方面，中大提供宿位三千九 百八十二個，數目爲本港院校之冠；居 第二位者提供二千五百八十二個。 (二）去年聯合招生，有九千四百五十七名申 請人以中大爲第一選擇，佔全部申請人 的三分之一 ，在七所大學中居首位；第 二位者有六千零五十八人。 (三）全港大學獲研究資助局評爲「卓越」的研 究項目共廿七項，中大佔其十二項，居 於首位；而居次位者有七項。 (四）一九九五至九六年度，本地大學畢業生 獲政府聘任爲政務主任者共廿六人，其 中中大佔十五人，名列第一。 高校長爲人謙謙藹藹 ，光華內蕴，一派 儒者風範，充分表現其德行修養的高深。老 子有言：「上德若谷」、「廣德若不足」，正 是高校長的最佳寫照。因此，高校長在社會 上能夠廣結人緣，深受各方的支持，帶領中 大邁向成功。今後，高校長爲自己定立了更 高的目標，爲中國與本港的科技發展，以及 爲促進科技轉移，建立更鞏固和更深厚的基 礎 。我深信高校長日後仍會爲本校、香港、 中國，以及亞太地區，貢獻他的專長。我希 望他與高夫人經常回來與我們聚舊。 最後，我謹代表校董會與大學全體同人 向高校長敬致衷心的謝意，並祝高校長伉儷 來日事事如意，身心康樂。□ Prof. Kao, fe llo w members o f the U n ive rsity Council, colleagues, This is the last council meeting Prof. Charles K. Kao is attending as vice-chancellor o f the U nive rsity. H a ving w o rk e d w ith h im fo r so m any years, we canno t b u t feel a great sense o f loss over his retirement. N ine years ago, Prof. Kao, the w o rld famous 'father o f fibre optics' made a decision to come to H ong Kong to head The Chinese University. To be the vice-chancellor o f a m ode rn un ive rsity w ith 13,000 students, 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget o f over HK$2,000 m illio n is indeed a ta ll order, pa rticu la rly so d u ring a p e rio d o f socio- p o litic a l tra n s itio n in H o n g Kong. We s till rem em be r h o w P rof. Kao de linea ted the lo fty goals he set fo r the U n ive rsity in his firs t open le tte r to staff and students ： The objectives and directions o f this university fo r the ne xt few crucial years can dearly be summarized as fo llow s ： The Chinese University o f Hong Kong is a bilingual, comprehensive university. Its missions are (1) to produce graduates, in increasing numbers, w ith first and higher degrees o f a quality comparable to the best in the w o rld ； (2) to serve as a knowledge pool for Hong Kong ； and (3) to bu ild selected infrastructures for Hong Kong in order to facilitate the grow th o f intellect, commerce and industry. 中 文 大 學校刊．特刊 —Chinese Univer sity Bulletin . Special Supplement — 2 0