| Main Performers | Rt. Hon. H A L Fisher (President of the Board of Education) - speaker,
Dr. C W Pearce - organ |
| Set List | Organ Solo: 'Grand March in B Flat', E Silas (Dr. C W Pearce),
Overture: 'Di Ballo', Sullivan,
March: 'Le Prophete', Meyerbeer,
'Symphony No. 1 in D (1st Movement), Svendsden,
'Four Spanish Dances', Moszkowski,
March: 'Cornelius', Mendelssohn,
Suite:'Americana', Thurban,
Rhapsody: 'Espana', Chabrier,
Address (Rt. Hon. H A L Fisher) |
| Performance Notes | 'MR FISHER ON THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
Presentation Day of the University of London, which has been in abeyance on account of the war since 1916, was celebrated yesterday at the Albert Hall, which was crowded. In the absense of the Chancellor (Lord Rosebery), the Vice-Chancellor (Sir Cooper Perry) presided.
The Vice Chancellor, who reported on the work of the past year, said that most of the teaching staff had now returned and were doing their utmost to meet the needs of those students who had returned, also in great numbers, and were anxious to resume again the education interrupted by war. For such students, the university had made appropriate arrangements, in which they were cooperating with the Board of Education and the Ministry of Labour. Since his last report three more medical schools, the London, the King's College and the University College Hospitals had opened their doors to women students. The Senate hoped soon to be able to give a very favourable account of the progress that had been made in the matter of degrees in commerce.
Mr Fisher, President of the Board of Education, in an address after the presentation, said the universities of this country had never been so full of students as now. University life afforded the first opportunity which most young people received of coming into contact with real learning and with the process of discovering new truth. They were brought into the workshop of knowledge itself, and experienced something of the exhilaration of discovery. The appetite for truth was not very widely diffused. There were far fewer people than was generally imagined who were spending their lives in the pursuit of truth, and far fewer who were strong enough to resist all the sweet vanities of authorship and all the attractions of appreciation. One of the great advantages to be derived from university life was the acquisition of a habit of exact and careful thinking - a corrective to the slip-shod ways of thought which were encouraged in every democratic civilisation. His advice to graduates as a whole was to adopt the calling which in their view was likely to contribute most effectually to the formation of their own character. He advised them to risk everything for that, and not to be tempted by the snug little post and the safe little income.
The following graduates were yesterday appointed by Convocation as members of the Senate:- Rev. J A Douglas BD BA; Miss E C Higgins BA; Rev H B Workman DLit; Dr T D Lister MD BS; Dr M C Forster Dsc FRS; Dr C W Kimmins DSc; and Dr S Russell Wells MD BSc.' (The Times 10 May 1919) |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1919/31) |