Centenary Celebrations of the University of London

Abstract

THE hundredth anniversary of the University of London was celebrated during the week June 29-July 3 with a full programme of functions. The proceedings were inaugurated at an afternoon reception on Monday, June 29, in the Great Hall of the University at South Kensington. Here nearly two hundred representatives of universities and learned societies in every corner of the globe assembled to present addresses of congratulation and goodwill. The Chancellor, Lord Athlone, in welcoming the delegates, said that this great convention was a healthy reminder that learning recognized no national frontiers, that the whole band of great teachers, the whole band of eager students, were truly citizens of the wide world, and their influence for good was incalculable and illimitable. Jlonorary degrees were conferred on the following distinguished men, who were presented by the Public Orator: The Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. J. W. Mackail, Sir Charles Peers, Prof. G. M. Trevelyan, Mr. H. G. Wells, Senor Don Ramon Perez de Ayala (Doctors of Literature); Mr. S. A. Courtauld, Mr. P. M. Evans, Sir Joseph Larmor, Sir George Newman, Lord Snell, Lord Wright (Doctors of Law); Dr. R. Vaughan Williams (Doctor of Music); and Sir William Bragg and Prof. Max Planck (Doctors of Science). Degrees were also conferred in absentia on Dr. Emile Legouis (Doctor of Literature); Mr. Justice Cardozo (Doctor of Laws); Prof. Albert Einstein and Prof. Johan Hjort (Doctors of Science).