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For my part I want it to serve two causes, that of learning and

that of Hong Kong.

Learning because learning and knowledge for its own sake is what

gives a university inspiration, authority, and repute, and gives it the

ability to command the respect of those who learn in it.

Hong Kong because to turn it into the place we want it to be,

Hong Kong desperately needs people of all ages with the wisdom that only

true learning and true education tempered by practical experience can confer -

the sort of learning and education that can be acquired here.

I am sure that these new hostels will provide an environment that

will promote these ends, and thus fulfil the hopes of the donors, the

University, and community it serves.

It is thus with the greatest pleasure that I now declare open the

Ho Sin Hang Hostel of Chung Chi College.