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PRINCE OF “ WALES; AND, that the university should think me
worthy to have my name enrolled amongst OXFORD'S INFLUENCE.
its illustrious graduatea. I thank you. Mr. Vice Chancellor, very sincerely for.
·HISTORIC CONVOQATION.
what you called the simple gift but which 1 regard as an honour which I shall HARPY DAYS RECALLED.
prize all my life. (Chrers) You have At a session which will assuredly attain done more than confer on me a high facadèmic distinction You have 0 a distinction of its own in the records of bound me closer to a plnes which in two the University, Convocation, on February happy years I learned to love, as all 8th, honoured the Prince of Wales, and there is a saying about Oxford: Epow good Oxford en love Oxford. (Cheers) in no less manner itself, by conferring you her secret, nond can utter. We all upon him the Degree of Doctor of Civil of us know that secret, but we cannot Law. To receive the diploma in person put it into words, and few of us could from the hands of the Vice-Chancellor, his ever forget it. But a good deal has hap Royal Highness paid his first formal pened since I went down. There has
visit to the city and to the University veraal changes.
been a great war, and consequent uni-
since he left Magdalen College," after two years' residence in 19141 He.returned to the beloved bounts of early manhood
Even Oxford, s supposed to be proof innovations (laughter) has changed both externally and internally, sgainst under circumstances' overwhelmingly sug gestive of the inherent, mutability of one important matter at least she has things. In the fcoting years that have shown herself more progressive thau her passed since he bade! fazewell to Oxford, sister university. (Loud cheers.) I mean the reverberations of Armageddon have the inclusion of women as members of I am very glad to see the university. disturbed the rocklike face of even this so many here to-day (Cheers) These ancient citadel of intellect and learning and similar changes are all for the better. The admission to membership of the
University of women is a departure more But there are other changes which are obtrusive in the eyes of older generations sad, and in the form of irreparable losseR, than perhaps it will be to those who, like Several of the older members, distinguish the Heir Apparent, look backward with ed men whom J. personally hold in grate the less sensitised vision of youth. Its ful remembrance, are with us no more effects are conspicnous enough for all that Sir William Anson, Warden of All More definite, doubtless, in the mind of Souls, who was my tutor; Sir John Rhys, the Prince to day was that sense of who was the Principal of Jesus College, and elosaly connected with the Frin dessolated comradeship of which he was cipality: Sir William Osler, that eminent reminded by part of the ceremonial Professor of Medicine. But also of my associated with his visit. How great own generation and I include some of proportion alas of the youth of his Oxford years has thus early been forfeit the younger fellows as well as those who in the great reckoning of the sword. It were undergraduotes with me in the years. was, perhaps, as saddening an experience 1012-14-all too many of their names are,
written on the college war memorials. sa any, he may be called upon to undergo These memorials-are-ead but, glorious in his lifetime, for the Prince to uncover; additions to the beauty of Oxford, and ns. he did at fagdalen College, in the will be a lasting proof that in a time, afternoon. the deathless hames of those of great crisis this university gave of her, who were his own associates in the und secing, boyish joys of yesterday. best and gave ungrudgingly. I make no special mention of any of these names as But there was much in the proceed they are all written in the University ings to make all Oxford righteously glad Roll of Honour, but there is one name The Prince, who had left her much as many thousands of her young men leave which is not on that roll because it was her came back tried soldier, in the of sinan who was not actually connected with this university. „refer to Major garb of Colonel of the Guards, William Cadogan, of the 10th Hussars, voyager whose name has echoed among our kingmen in all quarters of the globe, was with me during my residence His Royal Highness's progress from her. He was a well-known and popular. station to the University was therefore figure in Oxford, and was killed very early in the war. Oxford has always in the nature of a triumph, so warmly offered a splendid training for soldiers did the crowds acknowledge the slim-Lord Haig was at Brasenose New Col- youthful figure with which they were more lege, and many other distinguished com- familiar before the era of universal khaki mandors. I am very gind that the Off-
INSPIRING PRINCE.
Academic Oxford, too, was not unaffecters Training Corps is going so strong, I should like to congratulate those cadets ed by the spirit that was abroad. who formed the guard of honour for me, Oxford, for once, was not the Oxford of literature and tradition. Convocation and who are in this theatre, on their very smart appearance-I am very proud to was not quite the convocation of ordinary have served in the corps myself, and, days. It relaxed its austerity, as many although some of you might not believe another gathering has done under the
influence of the Prince's presence. As ait, I actually attained the rank of car spectacle it was as richly impressive asporal. (Cheers-and laughter.) ever. The picture of this freah, anassum- UNDERGRADUATES FROM DOMINIONS. ing young man, surrounded by grave, and Mr. Godley has alluded to my wonder: roverend professors in their robes, was a ful visits to the Dominions and the happy reflection of the genius of the Crown Colonies. He has incurred some whole celebration. Convocation made a what of a risk by doing that, as it is unique departure in that, but for insignia very favourite topic of mine, and one ficant preliminarios, it banned the classic, upon which I am apt to be rather long- tongue from its transactions. It was a winded. (Laughter.) I introduce it. breaking with immemorial tradition, and, this morning for one reason only. Of as such, must be approached with con-all my many and varied experiences in sumate delicacy. Wherefore the Publin Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and in Orator was moved to ask, Licethe Anglice many of the Crown Colonies, I think the Toque and the undergraduates in the happiest and most lasting are the wonder- dizzy heights in, the caves cheered triumpful welcomes which they gave me every- battly and irreverently. Licet, came the where I owe a very great debt through response of the Vice Chancellor, and the out the Empire, and I feel that I have. gathering settled down to hear the praises here an opportunity of repaying a frac of the Royal visitor sung, not in somördus but in terms of every-day speech, singularly beautified for their special
tion of it. And so, as an Oxford man; and as one who has visited, at any rate, some of their homes, I welcome all those undergraduates from the Dominions and The greatest good humour prevailed the Colonies. I welcome them very throughout, but it had none of those less heartily, and, assure them how delighted excusable ébullitions on the part of the I am to know that their numbers are undergraduates which sometimes have increasing, and I hope that when they go marked similar occasions. There was a down and return to their homes they will roar of incredulous laughter when the tell the prospective freshmen out there Vice-Chancellor ventured to suggest that what a good place Oxford is, and they the Prince had learned much from his can be certain that Oxford will not fail studies at Oxford The joke, however, them. (Choers)
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was acquiesced in by the Vice Chancellor I am now addressing all undergra himself and all his fellow dignitaries, not duates University life is as full and Tess so when the Princo was seen to be as many-sided as any man or woman can shaking heavily with laughter beneath his want; more so perhaps than most of us averted chin. The Prince's reply was realise until we go down. I can testify. well to the liking of the undergraduates, to that myself. But, whatever one may while his tilt at a sister university or may not get out of life up here, there and his appreciation of the presence of is one thing that Oxford always gives. the girl undergraduates were eagerly one, and that is character. (Cheers.) In applauded by all The function had the this very theatre fifty-seven years ago, I Happiest ending imaginable when the think it was, one of our greatest Prime. gathering rose and sang the National Ministers, Lord Beaconsfield, declared Anthem right through.
that our Empire was maintained by our
The Prince, who had donned over his character. (Cheers) It has been a very uniform the scarlet and crimson robes of great pleasure to me to revisit not only a Doctor of Civil Law, was preceded by the university but the town of Oxford, the University Marshal and the Bedels, of which I have the happiest recollections. and was immediately escorted by the There is a period which is now commonly Regius Professors of Divinity and Civil known de pro-war. Oxford is the Inst Law (Dr. A. C. Headlam of Christ prowar thing that I can remember. In Church, and Dr. F. d'Zulueta, of All thanking the university, again for the Houls). He entered the theatre to the high honour they have conferred on me, strains of “See the Conquering Hero I thank you, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, and Comes, led by Dr. Ley; the cathedral Mr. Godley for your far too kuid organist, and his progrcas to the dais was addresses, and all of you in this theatre, accompanied by resounding cheers, which and the people of Oxford, for the very were taken up again and again in all kind welcaine that you have given me this parts of the theatre. The Prince, was don-morning (Loud cheers) Daily Tele ducted to a chair, which was surmounted graph-
by the Prince of Wales's feathers, to the
Fight of the Vice-Chancellor. Following
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him in the procession came the doctor REPORTED DISCOVERY OF RARE headed by the Doctors of Divinity, the varied colours of whose robes quite dominated the scene when they had finally According to the Post a workman of ranged themselves upon the lower levels Vienna-Neustadt, while going over some of the tiers of seats about the place of old letters, ne across the Blue Mauri- honour
Pia Mia tins. The name of the workman is not The Vice-Chancellor, having opened given, but from the context the stamp Convocation in Latin. readily acquiesced is aid to be one of the well-known two- in the plea of the Public Orator Dr. penny blue Mauritius.
A. D. Godley, of Magdalen) to be allow The twopenny blue, Mauritius of 1847, in the Engprinted from a copperplate prepared by Mr. W. Barnard watch-maker in the
ed to address the
The Prince of Wales, in acknowledging. island, is one of the Post Office Mauri- the conforming of the degroo, said: I have tiux." It is believed that less than:30 been told that the honour that has justment of the ld. and 2d of thie been conferred on me is the highest that issue, Bred existence. Single copies, un, the university can give This knowledge, used, of wach value from Sir William and the fact tast not so very long a Avery sicqllection were sold in 1804 (for I was an undergraduate myself and I
£3,500 for the two, and a little later in seem to remember that. I' sometimes wore
much shorter gown than this one which the same year a particularly fine unused I have not quite got used to make it specimen of the 2d. blue, now in his rather difficult for me to speak though Majesty's collection, fetched £1,150. Easier than if it had been in Latin. Used specimens have fetched £1,000 for (Laughter.) For the last seven years the id, and £1,200 for the 2d, equivalent have been proud of being an Oxford man-to-1,800,000-kration at the present rate
(cheers) and I am still prouder to day of the Austrian exclungs.
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