Bulletin Offprints(II) Printed with No. 2, 2013

many a famous liberal arts college abroad has done exactly that, but this is because its faculties and students have easy and ready access to first-rate universities; and we must not forget that such a college, famous as it is, is not a university. Especially in a place like Hong Kong so far away from other academic centres, if the faculties and advanced students are not urged to engage in research, undergraduate teaching could very easily drop further and further behind the world current of intellectual development － to the lasting disadvantage to our students and to the local community. Worse still, without research we do not even have proper teaching materials for the undergraduates in many fields of study. Thus, research serves to develop good teachers and to produce good teaching materials. We should, of course, guard against the danger of carrying this emphasis on research too fan In many first-rate universities abroad there has been a tendency for the faculty members to devote full attention to research and publication at the expense of teaching and for the university administration to evaluate them according to their publication. This so-called "Publish or Perish" policy, of course, defeats a major purpose of the university, which is to teach students. That is why we have been so intent on adopting new teaching methods and implementing them step by step beginn- ing in this current semester. We expect that in due time the whole plan will be in practice and we will improve on it through experience. If is most likely that our experiment will attract more and more world- wide attention as time goes on. Research is Crucial But the fact remains that "Teach without Publica- tion" is disastrous and fatal to a university. Research is crucial to good teaching, and a good teaching system will allow the faculty members to have sufficient time for research. You may recall that about six months ago the University established two Institutes for faculty research, the Institute of Social Studies and the Hu- manities and the Institute of Science and Technology. Now in this current year we arc prepared to push faculty research forward in earnest and to prepare the ground for establishing the Graduate School for the whole University in the fall of 1966, This is a vital part of the University's development and the University cannot exist without it. It is most heartening for me to be able to announce that the Ford Foundation has finally put Hong Kong on its map, giving The Chinese University a grant of HK$1,700,000 for developing research activities through sending faculty members overseas for advanced training, through inviting visiting research scholars and pro- fessors, and through the purchase of research equip- ment and books. The grant is for a period of two years. It is made entirely as a vote of confidence in the University. I hope that at the end of the two years the Ford Foundation will find that we have fully lived up to their expectations. Support for similar purposes is under discussion with two other foundations in the United States, one in the United Kingdom, and one in Germany. All these foundations, with impeccable international reputations, have yet to initiate any programme in Hong Kong, and their as- sistance to this University should be an inspiration to all of us. Graduates' Performance While we are making every effort to raise the standard of the University, the local community and in fact the world at large are judging us by your performance as graduates of The Chinese University. I am very interested to find out what our graduates have been doing and what you are doing now. Your class today, representing the second group of Chinese University graduates, totals 297 students as compared to 180 last year. To date, 2 per cent of those who graduated last year have failed to file any return as to their present activities, as compared to 15 per cent of your own class today who have not decided what to do. The in- teresting comparison arises from those who have already committed themselves. Bearing in mind that there were 180 graduates last year against 297 graduates this year, I find it significant that the group going into advanced studies has risen from 16 per cent of the class in 1964 to 28 per cent in 1965. This represents an almost threefold increase from 29 students last year to 81 this year. With all the inter-university arrangements that The Chinese University has entered into with many foreign universities, the number of graduates that will go abroad for further studies will certainly increase more and more in the future. For this group of students pursuing advanced studies either here or abroad, it is very important to demon- 4