DUKE AT UNIVERSITY.
ACCEPTANCE OF DEGREE.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 7
There was an impressive ceremony when the degree of doctor of laws was conferred on the Duke of Gloucester at Melbourne University to-day. The Duko is the fifth member of the Royal family so honoured. The University Rifles formed a guard of honour. The Duke was robed in the gown of a doctor of laws of Cambridge. An extraordinarily strong police guard was present, apparently to prevent “ragging” such as occurred when a degree was similarly conferred on the Duke of York in 1927, when he was lifted shoulder-high, placed on a table, and induced to make a speech. After the degree had been conferred, the Duke said that apart from the stores of knowledge which the University offered it pointed the way and guided the footsteps of many who halted uncertainly on the threshold of life Such training bred not only deep thinkers but broad-minded men of the world. Of such the Empire was never in more need.
The Duke also attended an Empire blinded soldiers congress, when for the first time during the tour lie posed for a special photograph.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 7
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