Bulletin Offprints (I) Printed with No. 1, 2013

he had to give first consideration to the drastic need for more primary and secondary schools, he also showed a special concern for Chinese higher education, hitherto unavailable to most of the graduates of Chinese secondary schools. It was with his sympathetic hacking that the three Post- Secondary Grant Colleges, which arc now the Foundation Colleges of the University, were given the necessary assistance to enable them to achieve university status. He also made it possible for the University to acquire the huge and beautiful university site at Ma Liu Shui. Finally, only five months after Sir John Fulton and his Commission had provided the guidelines, Sir Robert gave the ultimate impetus to bring the University into being Indeed, but for Sir Robert's support at this stage, we might not he here today. His own words at the Inauguration Ceremony last October, spoken with acknowledged emotion, summed up the spirit with which he devoted himself to the creation of our institution. ‘I am seeing now,’ he said, 'the con­ summation of hopes and dreams and plans, and the out- come of visitations, conferences and commissions, all in pursuit of the idea to which I myself have long been wedded.' Thus, as is altogether fitting, a most grateful university now proudly confers on Sir Robert Black the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. S i r J o h n S c o tt F u lto n Though an Oxford Don, firmly rooted in the traditional disciplines of logic and philosophy, Sir John Fulton has been notably in the forefront of what has been called Britain’s educational revolution, designed to offer broader university opportunity to more of the young men and women of the United Kingdom. In the process he has created a new university, the University of Sussex, which he now serves as its distinguished Vice-Chancellor. If his role at the University of Sussex can be described as paternal, then here at our University it has been avuncular; certainly no uncle could have given more time or wiser guidance. He took a month out of his extremely busy schedule to visit Hong Kong in October 1959 to advise the Post-SecondaryGrant Colleges on their develop­ ment, summing up his views in an admirable report. Again in 1962 he chaired the Commission that bears his name. He and the other members investigated our three Colleges that summer and declared them ready for university status. More than anyone else he contributed to the Commission's impressive report, outlining the framework of the University, its purposes and potential, and providing us with a draft constitution so thorough in its preparation that it was adopted almost precisely as it had been written. Further, through all these years he has never failed to answer our request for advice and counsel though the imposition on his time has been a heavy one. And so the Chinese University, in recognition of the great assistance given to it by Sir John, now confers upon Sir John Fulton the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. D r . C la r k K e r r President Clark Kerr is a distinguished scholar, ad- ministrator, arbitrator in labour disputes, Government servant and author. In addition, in his capable hands lies the destiny of some 65,000 students and the well-being 7