CANTERBURY COLLEGE.
Degree day will be celebrated at Canterbury College to-day. At 3 p.m., Sir James Hector, Chancellor of the University, will present diplomas to successful students in the College hall. The public will be admitted, no tickets being required. ■ The students will carry out a musical programme, In the evening a conversazione will b'C held at the College. Special, preparations have been made; and -every scientific department ■ will be thrown open for inspection. The students of the School of Engineering have fitted up a complete electrical installation, with the latest appliances for the transmission of power, and an electric searchlight will be worked-from the tower of the biological laboratory. The light is the one used on the Cathedral spire on Jubilee night in 1897. A successful trial of the apparatus was held on Saturday night. In the chemical lecture theatre a series of limelight lecturettes will he given, and a display of'electric discharges in vacuo will also be made. In the great hall wireless and ordinary telegraphy will be explained, with experiments, and in the biological laboratory tuatara lizards will be bn view, and the development of the chick in the egg will be explained find shown. An excellent musical programme has also been arranged. < .
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11921, 19 June 1899, Page 6
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