THANKS FOR DOCTORATE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 93, 20 April 1935, Page 14

THANKS FOR DOCTORATE

N.Z. ANTHROPOLOGIST

DR. JENNESS'S GREETINGS

Dr. Diamond Jenness, M.D. (N.Z.), honorary Doctor of Literature, N.Z., formerly of Wellington and 'now chief of the anthropological division of the National Museum of Canada at Ottawa, has written to the Senate of Victoria Universiay College expressing thanks for the honour bestowed upon him.v ; ."Will you please convey to the Senate of the University of New Zealand, and to the Academic Board, my deepest appreciation of its graciousness in awarding me the honorary degree ot Doctor of Literature." said Dr. Jenness. "Such an honour from my own country, from the university where I spent four of the happiest years of. my life, gives me greater pleasure than I can express. "We who have wandered away from our New Zealand homes feel that we carry a double responsibility, for while we owe our best services to the countries that have adopted us, we realise that those services inevitably must reflect credit or discredit on our motherland. Like most men, I live, too close to my work to be able to appraise its true value, yet I can ask for no higher reward than to have it thus recognised and crowned by my own university. • ■ : ■ "IMMENSE PRIDE." . t "I wish that I could absent.'myself from Canada long enoughl to ..attend the graduation ceremony in'iviay,'■ but that is not. possible. May I, however, as a foster-child of Victoria University College, send her a greeting, and express the joy with which I have followed her splendid growth. I can still remember how her first building slowly took- shape, on. the 'Old Clay Patch at Kelburn,'. and,l feel an immense pride that,in so brief a term 6t years .the infant college has becoms one of the great institutions of the Empire." . ~ • .■....' The degree awarded to Dr. Jenness is the first honorary Doctorate in Literature, the University of New Zealand has awarded, and. the third honorary degree. Honorary doctorates in Science were' awarded Lord Rutherford of Nelson, director of the, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, New Zealand's greatest living son, and the late Dr. Leonard Cockayne. . Dr. Jenness: was born in Wellington in 1886 and educated at Victoria University College, where he graduated M.A. with first-class honours in 1908, and at Balliol College, Oxford. He, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He was research student in ethnology at Papua for Oxford University in 1911-12, ethnologist with the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-16, and Canadian Ethnologist from 1916, to 1925, in which year he was ; appointed to his present position.