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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

Vice Chancellor <strong>of</strong> Oxford <strong>University</strong><br />

Visits<br />

By Wang Mingliang<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS Thursday 2005—09—20<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=127270298<br />

By Wang Titian<br />

Beijing, <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Sept.20th, 2005: Dr. Hood, Vice Chancellor <strong>of</strong> Oxford<br />

<strong>University</strong>, addresses the Yingjie exchange center with his <strong>of</strong>ficial delegation in his<br />

ceremony <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong> Honorary Ph.D Recipient.<br />

The ceremony begins with President Xu‘s warm opening remarks. Dr. Hood, in his<br />

round, expresses his heart-felt appreciation to <strong>PKU</strong>, shares with all his own opinion<br />

<strong>of</strong> a university‘ values and purposes, the importance <strong>of</strong> fund-raising for a university<br />

and the heavy responsibility <strong>of</strong> a university towards local communities, even towards<br />

the whole country. With a pride, he highly values the contribution <strong>of</strong> Oxford who has<br />

witnessed the improvement <strong>of</strong> human civilization over 800 years as a world leading<br />

university. Dr. Hood also expects more Chinese students to go to Oxford.<br />

In 20mins Q&A session, when asked <strong>of</strong> how Oxford assures the poor students with a<br />

dignified life, Dr. Hood showed his own experience who is also a relatively poor<br />

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