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British Commonwealth, of which Dr L. T. Ride, the Vice-Chancellor, had been elected Chairman for 1960-1, held its annual session at the University in honour of the occasion. This was followed by a domestic celebration in March for graduates and the local commu- nity, and a general celebration in September attended by delegates from fellow members of the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, and other learned and professional societies and foundations. There was a special Congregation in November which was attended by HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent.
The general celebration included a Jubilee Congress attended by almost 300 local participants and about 190 distinguished scholars from overseas. The Congress comprised six separate symposia on muscle-receptors, organized by Professor D. Barker and under the Chairmanship of Professor Ragnar Granit, the Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at Stockholm; phytochemistry, organized by Mr H. R. Arthur and presided over by Professor C. W. Schoppee of the University of Sydney; the design of high buildings, organized by Professor S. Mackey and under the Chairmanship of Professor Sir John Baker of Cambridge University; land use and mineral deposits in Hong Kong and South China, organized by Professor S. G. Davis and conducted by Dr L. Dudley Stamp of London University and Professor E. Sherbon Hills of Melbourne University; economic and social problems of the Far East, organized by Dr E. F. Szczepanik with Professor E. S. Kirby in the Chair; and historical, archaeological and linguis- tic studies on Southern China, south-east Asia, and the Hong Kong region, organized by Professor, Drake and under the Chairmanship of Professor Wolfram Eberhard of the University of California.
Altogether three Jubilee congregations were held during the year, at which 23 honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Science were conferred on distinguished persons, including HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent who was admitted to the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
The visit of Her Royal Highness to the University on 6th November marked the climax of the Jubilee celebrations. On the same day Princess Alexandra opened the new Library and Students Union Building which had been completed a few weeks earlier.
During 1961 the University's. electrical engineering courses (on which degrees were awarded for the first time since the Second
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