"SCIENCE OF DEATH."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14052, 24 July 1916, Page 9

"SCIENCE OF DEATH."

BRITAIN'S RALLY TO "FRANCE. - "LONDON, July 7. - '"Youwill see," said -Sir Alfred Pearce , Gould, Vice-Chancellor of the University 'of ; London, m welcoming 1 ' a deputation of French professors' to, England, "that our universities, like yours, have not hesitated to sacrifice for the future the flower of their youth. Like you, today we confer ' degrees' on, the dead. Like /you, :. we are confident that these ypung martyrs are the ( forerunners 'of vic£ory.--•'ln gui' empty treasury, our deplete t class-room, and our laboratories devoted to the pursuit of the science of death yon will see a proof of the reality of our effort to use the whole of our power m the greatest of all wars." M. Joubin, Recteur de l'Academie de Lyons, replying, said that he was pleased to answer a speech made by a. vice-chancellor who N wore military uniform under Ivis university robes. It was a symbol of the alliance of science and the army. It was marvellous how England had rallied to the succor of France. Whatever. Germany* might have hoped for. Avhen she defied the world with , her. insulting motto "Deutschland über Alles," that hope was defeated when France and Britain stppd together, as they would, y\{\tpry cfrnve. '\