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PAGE PAGE University Sermons: Change of hour llO Class-lists: .ffilection to the Council of the Senate: Notice . . 110 Mechanical Sciences Tripos Qualifying Examination 113 Election of a Borough Councillor: Not ice 111 Geographical Tripos Qualifying Examination . 114 Grant from the Theological Studies Fund 111 Oral Examination in French 114 114 Bell, Abbott, and Barnes Exhibitions: Notice 111 First M.B. Examination, Part I . General Examination for the Ordinary B.A. Degree 115 Caru , Evans, George Williams, and Jeremie Prizes: Mus.B. Examination, Part I . . 115 Notice . 111 Previous Examination, Parts I and II r 115 Registrary's Notice : Matriculation . 111 Address by Dr Venn on his resignation of the office of Notice by the Director of the Observatory 112 Vice-Chancellor 116 Professor J. H. Hutton's Notice 112 Admission of Dr Venn to the office of Vice-Chancellor 120 Seven lectures on eminent economists • 112 Eleetion and admission of Proctors . . 120 Lectures on the History of Science . 112 Admission of Pro-Proctors 120 Lecture-list: Corrections . . 113 Notice to subscribers 113 Bedford College for Women . 120

CALENDAR

Wednesday, Octobe~ 7. Full Term begins. Sunday, October 11. Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. Select Preacher at 2.15 p.m., The Most Reverend and Right Honourable C. F. Garbett, D.D., of Keble College, Oxford, Lord Archbishop of York.

\ - Congregations during the present term x

Friday, October 16, 2 P.M. Saturday, 31, 2 P.M. " Friday, November 20, 2 P.M. Saturday; December 5, 2 P.M.

Matter to be published in the Reporter should be sent to the Registrary (not to the Press). No assurance can be given that items will be published in the next issue which do not reach hi~ by 10 a.m. on the previous day~ I IO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER (7 OCTOBER 1942

University Sermons : Change of hour QUEENS' COLLEGE LODGE. 2 Octobe1· 1942. The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that during the Michaelmas Term 1942 and the Lent Term 1943 the University Sermons will begin at 2.15 P.M., and in the Easter Term 1943 2.30 P.M, at

Election to the Council of the Senate: Notice

QUEENS' COLLEGE LODGE. 6 October 1942. The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that an election of persons to serve on the Council of the Senate for four years from 1 January 1943 will be held in the Senate-I-louse on Saturday, 7 November 1942. Eight members are to be elected in the following classes: (a) two from among the Heads of Colleges, (b) two from among the Professors and Readers, (c) four from among all members of the Regent House alike. The electors are the members of the Regent House. No person will be eligible in any class unless a paper nominating him in been that class has sent to the Vice-Chancellor, on or before October 31, signed by two members Regent House, of the who certify that he has consented to be nominated in that class. No may be nominated person in more than one class. The Vice-Chancellor will publish the nominations forthwith. There will be voting-papers, distinguished by different colours, for each class of persons to be elected. Voting-papers will be obtainable in the Senate-House during the voting. The method of voting and of counting the votes is prescribed in Ordinances, pages 8, 9. The elector will set out or cause to be set out on the appropriate voting-papers the votes which he wishes to record in each class. The elector must hand his voting-papers, folded, to the Vice-Chancellor or his Deputy, who will place them unopened in boxes provided for the purpose and will see that the elector's name is marked on a copy of the Roll of the .Regent House. The hours of polling are from 1 to 3 P .M. No elector will be allowed to record his vote unless he has entered the Senate-House before 3 P.M. The elected members of the Council whose places do not becorrie vacant on 31 1942 are: December in class (a) Mr CAMERON, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Mr THIRKILL, Master of Clare College; in class (b) Dr GUTTERIDGE, Mr HoLLOND; in class (c) Mr Gow, of Trinity College, Mr STEERS, of St Catharine's College, Mr TuNNICLIFFE, of Gonville and Caius College, Mr DEAS, of Gonville and Caius College. It is provided that there shall never be more than two members on the Foundation of the same College among the eight members in class (c). The Vice-Chancellor will cause the votes to be counted without delay, the and will declare result as soon as possible. . 7 OCTOBER 194'2] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER I I I

Election of a Borough Councillor : Notice QUEENS' COLLEGE LODGE. 2 Octobe1· 1942. Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the representatives of Colleges for the election of one member of the Council of the Borough of Cambridge will be held in the Syndicate Room, Old Schools, on Monday, October 26, at 10.30 A.M. The Councillor whose term of office expires on November 1 is Mr H. L. Elvin. The Vice-Chancellor invites representatives to send him nominations in writing on or before Tuesday, October 20. Grant from the Theological Studies Fund A grant from the Theological Studies Fund was made on 14 June 1941 to ROBERT SPENCER CANNING BAILY, of Gonville and Caius College. 2 October 1942. Bell, Abbott, and Barnes Exhibitions: Notice QUEENS' COLLEGE LODGE. 2 Octobe1· 1942. The Vice-Chancellor gives notice that Exhibitions of an annual value of between £30 and £45 will be awarded in the present term from the Bell, Abbott, and Barnes Funds to persons needing assistance who have been elected to an Entrance Scholarship of a College or recommended for election to a Scholarship in an Entrance Scholarship Examination of a College or group of Colleges (including Girton College and Newnham College), and who have been approved for admission to a College. Applications for these Exhibitions should be made to the Secretary of the Awarders, J. BURNABY, B.D., of Trinity College, by Tutors, before Monday, November 9, on forms which may be obtained from him. Particulars of these Exhibitions will be found in Ordinances, pages 550 f. Carns, Evans, George Williams, and Jeremie Prizes : Notice UNIVERSITY REGISTRY. 3 October 1942. The Board of Examinations give notice that the examinations for these prizes will be held from 9 to 12 and from 1.30 to 4.30 on each day as follows: Carus Greek Testament Prize: Thursday, November 12; Evans Prize: Friday, November 13; George Williams Prize: Monday, November 16; Jeremie Prizes: Tuesday, November 1 7. The names of candidates must be sent to the Registrary by their Tutors on or before 12 October 1942. The place of examination will be communicated to candidates later. REGISTRARY'S NOTICE Matriculation: Michaelmas Term 1942 The Registrary begs leave to remind Tutors and Praelectors that the name of every candidate for matriculation on the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, November 2, 3, and 4, together with evidence of matriculability (if such evidence has not yet been presented), ·must be sent to the Registry not later than Friday, October 16. The names from each College should be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames, and ·given in full. Forms for the purpose were sent to Praelectors in April 1941. If further copies are needed, they may be obtained from the Registry. 1-2 I 12 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER [7 OCTOBER 194'2

A note of the time at which the students of the several Colleges are to be brought to the Senate-House will be sent to the Praelectors in due course. Copies of this notice will not be sent to Tutors or Praelectors

U IVER ITY REGISTRY, 6 October 1942.

Notice by the Director of the Observatory The Director of the Observatory gives notice that on Saturday evenings, October 17, 24, November 14, 21, between 8 and 10 P.M., if clear, celestial objects will be shown through one of the telescopes to members of the University and friends accompanying them. It is found necessary to restrict these exhibitions to moonlight nights, and the dates have been fixed accordingly.

~ October 1942 . Professor J. H. Hutton's Notice The William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology gives notice that Dr MARGARET MURRAY will give a course of lectures on EGYPT IN THE BRONZE AGE on Thursdays at 3 P.M., beginning on October 15, in the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology. These lectures are open to. the public without fee. 5 October 1942 . Seven lectures on eminent economists The Chairman of the Faculty of Economics and Politics gives notice that the following lectures on EMINENT ECONOMISTS will be delivered by members of the Faculty during the Michaelmas Term : SATURDAY, Oct. 17, at 12. Mr FAY on ADAM SMITH (with introduction by Professor PrGou). ,, ,, 31, ,, Mr CARR-SAUNDERS on MALTHUS. THURSDAY, Nov. 5, at 5. Mr SRAFFA on RICARDO. SATURDAY, ,, 7, at 12. Mr SHOVE on J. S. MILL. ,, ,, 14, ,, Mr DOBB on MARX. ,, ,, 21, ,, Mrs ROBINSON on JEVONS. ,, ,, 28, ,, Mr GuILLEBAUD on MARSHALL. The lectures will be in the Mill Lane Lecture-rooms, and will be open to members of Cambridge and London Universities and of Girton and Newnham Colleges without fee. 2 Septernber 1942. Lectures on the History of Science THE REGISTRY. 1 October 1942. The General Board have approved the following lectures, which are open without fee to all members of Cambridge or London University or of Girton or Newnham College: Friday, October 16. Professor Sir J. BARCROFT, F.R.S.: "The growth of physiology in relation to some techniques of modern civilization.'' . " 30. Lieut. Commander R. T. GouLD, R.N. (Retired): "The quest for " ' the longitude'.'' November 13. Professor Major GREENWOOD, F.R.S.: "Origins of the scientific " study of population.'' ,, ,, 27. Dr H. P. BAYON. "Disease as a determining factor in war." The lectures will be delivered in the lecture theatre at the Arts School at 8.30 P.M. 7 OCTOBER 1941] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER 113

Lecture-list: Corrections ENGLISH: Mrs Bennett's lectures on 'SeYenteenth Century Verse' will be given on M. 10. Mr Ryland's lectures on 'Shakespeare, Introduction' will be given on F. 12. ECONOMICS AND POLITICS: The lectures on 'Applied Economics' by Mr Schwartz, Mr Lewis, and others will be given on Tu. 5, Th. 12. 5 October 1942. Notice to subscribers A person resident within the Precincts of the ·university who is either (i) a member of the Senate, or (ii) a University officer, or (iii) a member of Girton College or Newnham College who has received from the University the title of such a degree as qualifies for membership of the Senate, shall be entitled to receive copies of the Reporter for a term and the following vacation on paying at the Enquiry Office of the University Press, not later than the tenth day of Full Term, (a) a shilling if the copies are to be delivered at the Porter's Lodge of a College, of a House of Residence, or of Ridley Hall or Westcott House, or at a University building, or at Girton or Newnham College ; but otherwise (b) three shillings. (Ordinances, p. 437.) The number of the Reporter containing the University accounts, the number containing abstracts of the accounts of the Colleges, the index for the Michaelmas Term, and the index for the Michaelmas and Lent Terms, are to be published as usual in the present academical year ; but copies will not be sent to any subscriber to the Reporter who has not asked for them. Such requests should reach the University Press by the following dates: University accounts . October 31 ; College accounts January 15 ; Index for the Michaelmas Term December 15; Index for the Michaelmas and Lent Terms March 31. 6 October 1942.

Qualifying Examination for the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. September 1942

EXAMINERS: H. A. WEBB, M.A., Trinity College. B. COOPER, M.A., Clare College.

EXAMINED AND APPROVED *Allen, A. H. Christ's *Goddard1 S. J. C. King's *May, 0. A. M. Christ's *Anderson, I. L. Pet. *Goode, A. P. Cai. *Minton, R. C. Down. *Bagshawe, R. W. Cai. *Gregory, R. W. Oath. *Mitchell, A. B. J-oh. Barnett, 0. P. Pemb. *Hamberg, P. Emm. *Morton, W. D. Joh. *Brittain, J ~ Trin. *Harris, D. P. Down. *Nicholl, T. P. Trin. *Brooke, J. I. Pet. *Heath, G. E. Magd. *Nield, R. R. Trin. *Bugler, R Sid. Suss. *Henry, D. L. Queens' *Pegg, R. F. Christ's *Burbidge, R. F. Pet. *Herzberg, 0. F. Sid. Suss. *Phillipps, I. H. Trin. *Byass, J. B. Sid. Suss. *Hindmarch, J. M. Down. *Plaskitt, P. M. Trin. *Oetti, J. 0. Oath. *Hope, J. N. Magd. *Raby, K. F. Joh. *Clapham, M. 0. Pet. *Hurrell, A. Joh. *Richardson, R. Jes. *Cottrell, J. B. Sid. Suss. *Jollans, W. M. Joh. Ritchie, D. S. Corp.Ohr. *Crabtree, R. E. Corp.Ohr. *Jones, P. S. Christ's *Robertshaw, F. H. Corp.Ohr. *Cutts, P. A. Emm. *Joy, .A. H. Pet. *Roseveare, R. W. Joh. *Davies, J. G. King's *Kirtley, J. G. Queens' Salter, P. A. H. Jes. *de Boer, J. R. Cai. *Knight, P. Corp.Ohr. *Saunders, R. W. Corp.Ohr. Douglas, I. K. H. Joh. *Lacy, R. D. Emm. *Seers, S. A. Christ's *Dowson, P. H. M. Cla. *Le Grice, J. C. Emm. *Seville, A. T. Cai. *Duxbury, M. D. A. S. Trin. H. *Lucey, J. A. Trin. *Smith, G. E. Oath. *Fairclough, A. J. Oath. *M°Kay, A. Christ's *Smith, J. C. Ola. *Freeman, R. M. Trin. *Marsh, C. Selw. *Smith, R. G. Magd. 1-3 II4 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER [7 OCTOBER 1942

* mith, V. J. J-oh. *Thornber, C. Emm. *Wat kins, B. L. Emm. *Snell, R. E. Pemb. *Towse, B. C. Oath. *Wauhope, G. D. Trin. * taunton, J. A. Trin. *vValford, ~I. A. H. Cai. *Weber, D. J. Down. *:Sword, J. M. Cai. *·Walker, J. Down. *Whitehouse, D. Christ's *Tatham, J. C. J. Pemb. *\.Vallace, \V. D. Joh. *Withers, R. J. Trin. *Thomas, G. B. Queens' *\Yard, A. H. Ca th. *Wright, W. P. Magd. *Thomas, R. F. Queens' *Ward, F. M. Trin. * Candidates for admission. 3 October 1942.

Qualifying Examination for the Geographical Tripos. Michaelmas Term 1942 EXAMINERS: FRANK DEBENHAM, M.A., Gonville and Caius College. E. E. BENEST, M.A. MARGARET F. HARRIS, B.A. (London).

EXAMINED AND APPROVED

CLASS 1 None CLASS II None CLASS III Brownrigg, W. S. M. Emm. 5 October 1942.

Oral Examination 1n Modern Languages. Michaelmas Term 1942 FRENCH

EXAMINERS: L. C. HARMER, M.A., Fitzwilliam H01JJse. J. DESSEIGNET, Ag. de l'U. (Paris).

PASSED WITH DISTINCTION

7 God win, \\ • H. Joh.

PASSED Copeman, D. B. Pernb. Leechman, G. B. King's Spafford, D. H. Joh. Dickson, J. H. D. Tr. H. Mellish, R. H. Tr. H. Waters, D. H. Tr. H.

PASSED WITH DISTINCTION (WOMEN) None

PASSED (WOMEN) Bristow, E. A. Newn. Maskew, W. Girton Ullstein, G. Newn. Maskew, K. Newn. Perry-Walker, E. St J. Girton Womersley, R. G. Girton 5 October 1942. First M.B. Examination. October 1942

PART I. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

ExA~HNERS: W. G. PALMER, Sc.D., St John's College. A. J. BERRY, M.A., Downing College.

EXAMINED AND APPROVED *Bodkin, P. E. Cai. *Osmond, T. G. Emm. *Russell, A. J. Cai. *Cooke, E. P. Cai. Portelly, J. E. Jes. *Stanley-Smith, G. Qu. *Knight, R. V. Cai. *Rolfe, M. G. Cai. *Williams,· R. A. Ola. *MacLeod, J. W. Joh. *Cohen, K. H. Newn. * Accepted for admission, or candidates for admission. 5 October 1942. 7 OCTOBER 1942] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER ll5

General Examination for the Ordinary B.A. Degree. Michaelmas Term 1942

EXAMINERS:

G. B. PERRETT, M.A., Selwyn College. \V. S. THATCHER, M.A., Fitzwilliarn Hous~.

EXAMINED. AND APPROVED CLASS I None . CLASS II Prescott, M. C. Fitzw . CLASS III None

WO~MEN CLASS I None CLASS II None CLASS III Jones, L. M. H. Girton

2 October 1942.

Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Music. Michaelmas Term 1942 Part I

EXAMINERS: PAT RICK HADLEY, Mus.D., Gonville and Cains College. ALEX. WOOD, M.A., Emmani1.,el College. G. DYSON, D.Mus. (Oxford). H. C. C. MOULE, ~LA., ~ius.B., Trinity College.

EXAMINED AND .APPROVED

CLASS I None CLASS II Fyson, L. J. King's W01lf EN

CLASS I None CLASS II Proudlock-Dunhar, S. R. Girton

3 October 1942.

Previous Examination. October 1942 PART I • EXAMINERS:

HENRY JOHN CH_AYTOR, Litt.D., St Catharz'ne's College. WILLIAM HENRY SAMUEL JONES, Litt.D., St Catharine's College. HENRY THOMSON DEAS, M.A., Gonville and Caius College.

Candidates were examined in Latin and French except where otherwise stated (l =Latin, e =English).

EXAMINED AND APPROVED Acton, P. T. R. Emm. Hayward, P. R. Cath. Llewelyn, J. H. N. Down. Blackhurst, J. C. Qu. Knight, J. F. L. Trin. Michaelson, H. M. Ca th. Boston, E. R. Jes. Lane, H. R. Tr. H. Whitfi eld, S. G. Pemb. Clarke-Williams,_A. F. J. Tr. H. Lilley, G. H. Emm. Wiseman, R. W. L. Fitzw. (l, e) Cole, E. S. A. W. Tr. H. Satisfied the Examiners in Latin: Armitage, H. St J. B. Trin. Filmer-Sankey, P. H. Trin. Kehoe, H.J. DowB. Barker, G. K. Trin. Fisher, F. J. Qu. Kirkbride, A. B. Cath. Barkley, H. Pemb. Fox, D. L. Corp. Lloyd, W. F. Down. Baynes, C. C. R. Trin. Gamble, F. C. Magd. Lockwood, P.A. Emm. Bennett, G. A. Ca th. Giles, S. H. Joh. Low, E. D. Joh. Briggs, D. W. Magd. Gillott, E. King's MacGillivray, A. F. Cla. Brown, F. G. Down. Gough, D. Pemb. McMinn, G. R. Qu. Bunting; C. E. Chr. Gunn-Russell, C. Chr. Mayor, S. D. Pemb. Carr, R. P. Pemb. Halliwell, V. T. H. Chr. Mytum, E. Selw. Channon, C. E. Down. Hampson, G. N. Cath. Neill, A. E. Qu. Cheetham, H. C. Ca th. Heald, G. E. Cai. Parker, M. C. Pemb. Chote, M. V. W. Emm. Hicks, J. Trin. Phillips, J. W. Joh. Coates, G. Trin. Holmes, R. M. Jes. Platts, M. G. G. Tr. H. Corbett, G. E. Joh. Howard, W. W. W. Selw. Quenouille, M. H. Jes. Cowlin, C. R. Jes. Hudson, P. Jes. Ravenscroft, J. E. Joh. Deutsch, A. S. Down. Hughes, G. F. Cai. Robinson, G. M. Cla. Dickinson, J. C. Cai. Hulme, H. W. Cla. Rollo, C. Pemb. Edsall, J. R. Down. Jones, D.R. Emm. Smith, H. Emm. Farrar, R. H. Joh. Jones, P. A. Pemb. Smith, K. F. Sid. Fasey, A.H. Cath. Jordan, J. C. C. Sid. Smith, L. E. W. Pemb. II6 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER [7 OCTOBER r9.p

Spector, W. Qu. Tew, G. H. Pet. Williamson, A. G. Jes. Stockley, T. E. Jes. Vafidis, P. S. Ca th. Willmot, L. G. Jes. Stocks, A. Cla. Vir, R. V. Fitzw. Wood, J. L. j es. Swan, A. H.B. Corp. Wallington, J. E. Qu. Wood, R. T. J. K. Trin. Taylor, J. H. A. Trin. Watkinson, R. G. Joh. Woodin, A. M. Tr. H.

Anstey, M. L. K. Newn. Lewin, D. E. Newn. Plahn, H. M.-A. Girton Butlin, D. H. Newn. Moon, C. M. Newn. Santer, B. C. Girton Cooper, M. Girton Parnell, M. V. Newn. Veldhuyzen, E. Girton Harvey, M. Girton 5 October 1942. Previous Examination. October 1942 PART II

EXAMINERS: PHILIP WO.l

The sign t before a name ,ienotes that the c::i.n

5 October 1942. ACTA Thursday, I October 1942.

A Congregation of the Senate was held this day at 9.30 A.M. Dr VENN, President of Queens' College, resigned the office of Vice-Chancellor. He made the following address to the Senate:

''Death'', that, in the words of a Cam bridge Elizabethan dramatist, "hath so many doors to let 1 out life' , took during the past year a yet heavier toll of our younger members serving their country at sea, on land, and in the air. Owing to the di verse character of present-day "National Service", and in view of the world-wide operations of our forces, it is much more difficult than it was a quarter of a century ago to obtain full and accurate information concerning these losses; but I hope that, with the aid of the Colleges, there may eventually be compiled a second complete roll of those who will be for ever remembered with affection and with gratitude in the halls and groves which-many of them before their time-they had quitted. I much regret that with them must now be included another senior, John Devitt Stringfellow Pendlebury, of Pembroke College, whose reputation as an archaeologist and as an excavator at Tel-el-Amarna and in Crete was firmly established; at first reported "missing" in that island, he is now known to have been killed in the spring of 1941. In the person of John Holland Rose, Fellow of Christ's College, first Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval History, there passed away at a ripe age one whose scholarship ranged beyond the ambit of France and even of the Mediterranean, with which his published works are in the main associa~ed. During his lifetime he founded here a Studentship for British Empire studies. Herbert Leonard Offiey Garrett, of St John's College, after many years of valuable service to education in India, had, for all too short a time, fully maintained the traditions and the dignity of the office of Esquire Bedell whilst acting also as Secretary of the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies. One of the most successful and beloved of College Tutors during the last twenty years has been taken from us by the death of Bernard Lord Manning, Fellow of Jesus College, formerly Bye-Fellow of Magdalene College. Leonard Whibley, senior Fellow of Pembroke College, and formerly University Lecturer in Ancient History, will be remembered by all of us, not only as biographer of the poet Gray, but for the profound general knowledge of the late eighteenth century which he was always ready to place at our disposal. Amongst those who had been called far afield I have to record the passing, in America, of Frederick John Foakes-Jackson, senior Fellow of Jesu8 College, who in the country of his adoption won for himself as a theological teacher a reputation as great as that he had left with us; and, in Australia, of Frederick Waldegrave Head, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel College, who 7 OCTOBER 1941] CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER I I7

ACTA I October 1942 at the time of his fatal accident had for twelve years been Archbishop of Melbourne, where he leaves a record of devoted work ably performed. Sir William Henry Bragg, Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, died last March. His r arch s in physical science led to his receiving jointly with his son, who is now our Cavendish Profi ssor, a Nobel Prize and many other high awards. As the result of a riding accident there died Sir Arthur William Hm, past Fellow and Honorary Fellow of King's College. Of a lovable nature and endued with great organizing ability, his Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew had been outstandingly successful. Sir Joseph Larmor, Fellow of St John's College, sometime Lucasian Professor of Mathematic and for eleven years one of our Burgesses, died in County Do,~m, whither he had retired some years ago. In him were harmoniously combined the detached outlook of a philosopher and the unswerving political views of his race. · Andrew Russell Forsyth, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Senior Wrangler in 1881, and William Henry Young, Fellow of Peterhouse (who died in Switzerland), were both men whose work in the field of mathematical studies will long be remembered here. Sir Allen Mawer, past Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, died suddenly in July; perhaps future generations alone will be able fully to assess the debt owed to him as a pioneer in the study of English place-names. Sir Daniel Hall, sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, soil and horticultural expert, upon whom we had conferred an Honorary Doctorate, would, in the old days, rightly have been designated one of the greatest "Improvers in Husbandry'', for he possessed a rare capacity for administration which had enabled him virtually to reconstitute our national system of agricultural education and research. With the de?ith of Lord Eltisley, of Trinity College, the State loses another great agriculturalist, the Borough of Cambridge its High Steward, and the University a friendly neighbour. The name of Sir Jeremiah Colman, of St John's College, will always be associated with the School of Biochemistry, for its library was established through his generosity. . The following have also closed their last dayR: Gustavus Adolphus Schutt Schneider, for many years Librarian of Gonville and Caius College and sometime Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall, an antiquary and a man of most courtly address; James Henry Chesshyre Dalton, of Trinity College, who for the greater part of a long life had devoted himself to the improvement of the Public Health services of the town, of which he had also been Mayor; Ralph Hare Griffin, of St John's College, who as an Honorary Keeper of the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology had made its collection of monumental brass-rubbings probably the most complete in this country; John Aldren Wright, of Sidney Sussex College, and Ernest Lloyd Jones, of Downing College, e~ch of whom had practised successfully in Cambridge as a physician for many years; George Richards Christie, of Magdalene College, who will be well remembered as a former Rector of Fen Ditton; Hugh Harold Porter, of Christ's College, held in high esteem by many in addition to those who had come under his influence as a teacher of history; Effraim Alfred Nahum, B.A. and former Scholar of Pembroke College, a young physicist of promise, killed recently in a local air-raid. The following occupants of Chairs have retired under the age limit, and we thank them all for their contributions to learning and their services to the University: Dr H. D. Hazeltine, Downing Professor of the Laws of England; Mr G. H. Hardy, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics; Mr W. B. Anderson, Kennedy Professor of Latin; Mr . R. S. Hutton, Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy; and Dr C. W. Previte-Orton, Professor of Medieval History. Mr T. Dalling resigned from the Chair of Animal Pathology on accepting appointment as Director of the veterinary laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture. There are now vacant sixteen Professorships, though fortunately in several instances the former holders have consented to remain in charge of their Departments for the time being. I would mention with particular gratitude Professor Inglis, who, despite his Presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers, has been able to direct for a further period the wholly abnormal activities of the Department .of Engineering, and Mr Dalling, who has contiriued to pay frequent visits to the Field ·Laboratories; Professor Hutton, too, has kindly consented to look after the Goldsmiths' Laboratory whilst also acting as Chairman of the Committee for the general administration of the Department of Chemjstry. Our best wishes follow Mis·s Wodehouse and Miss Strachey into retirement from the headships of their Colleges; in their place we welcome, as Mistress of Girton, a well-known resident Fellow and University Lecturer in the person of Miss Butler, and, as Principal of Newnham, Miss Curtis, a former student of the College, possessed of great administrative experience gained in the Civil Service. 118 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER [ 7 OCTOBER 1942

ACTA 1 October 1942 I have pleasure in recording the following bequests received during the past year: Charle Pendlebury, M.A., of St John's College, left us £3000 as an additional endowment for the collection of music given to the University by his brother Richard Pendlebury.

Under the will of the late J. F. P. Rawlinson 1 K.C., of Trinity College, formerly our Deputy High Steward, the fund bearing his name has received £1523 as its moiety of a trust. Dr C. G. Lamb, of Clare College, bequeathed £500 to establish a prize in electrical engineering. A valuable collection of lepidoptera coming to us under the terms of the will of the late W. H. B. Fletch r, of t ,John's College, will form a most welcome addition to the Museum of Zoology. Friends and members of the family of the late Oliver Gatty, of St John's College, who died on war-service last year, have undertaken to endow in his memory, on a most generous scale, a Studentship (with special reference to Biology), tenable in the Laboratory of Colloid Science. Dr S. A. Cook, of Gonville and Caius College, has given in memory of his wife £250 to the Fitzwilliam Museum and the same sum to the University Botanic Garden. The Rockefeller Foundation has again continued its grant of £1200 for research in Cellular Physiology at the Molteno Institute, and is also providing £450 a year as a research grant for Dr Needham. The Iron and Steel Institute has augmented to £1850 its financial aid to the investigation of corrosion problems which is being carried out by Dr U. R. Evans, and the Iron and Steel Industrial Research Council is providing £1350 annually for similar work upon alloy structure under the supervision of Professor Sir Lawrence Bragg. This is a suitable occasion upon which to announce that, under the "Lease-Lend" scheme, and through the good offices of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Cavendish Laboratory has been most fortunate in having placed at its disposal one of the very few electron microscopes available in this country. · The most important gift received by the Fitzwilliam Museum was £900 from the National Arts-Collection Fund, which made possible the purchase of five superb miniatures from the Duke of Buccleuch's Collection. Under the will of the late Mrs Ambrose Harding, of Madingley Hall, a fine collection of Leeds pottery will shortly reach the Museum, which has also received a number of prints, including a rare Diirer, from the Reverend Francis and Miss A. Palgrave. I have nothing of importance to add to what was said so fully last year by my predecessor upon the subject of finance in genera], for the policy he then described has been continued and no significant change has occurred either in the income or in the expenditure of the University. The War Emergency Fund has received further augmentation. The barony.conferred upon Mr J.M. Keynes in the birthday honours gave us all great pleasure, for it was both a recognition of the outstanding position he personally occupies as an economist and an indication of the reputation attaching to his Faculty. The bestowal of the Order of Merit upon Professor E. D. Adrian and of a knighthood upon Professor R. H. Fowler also reflects the importance of the work that each of them has recently undertaken for the nation. I may now, without indiscretion, make public reference to the fact that King Peter of Yugoslavia was in residence as an undergraduate at Clare College during the past academical year. He entered fully into all phases of the life and activities of his contemporaries and at the same time bore upon his shoulders the heavy burden of government. We hope that in happier days to come he may revisit the University, which will constantly have him and his gallant country in mind. Exceptionally, in war-time, an Honorary Degree was conferred when in November His Majesty the King of the Hellenes honoured the University with a visit and received a Doctorate of Laws. rrhe Congregation ·was presided over by the Chancellor, whom we were delighted to have with us again, and subsequently an address on behalf of the newly formed Society of the Friends of Greece in Cambridge was read by the Provost of•King's, to whom His Majesty replied. The Prime Minister of Greece and the Master of Trinity also addressed the large gathering. An unofficial celebration of the Tercentenary of Comenius was held early in the Michaelmas Term in this building and afforded an opportunity to welcome Dr Benes, President of Czechoslovakia, together with representatives of nearly all the Allied Nations. The Rede Lecture was delivered during the Long Vacation, at extremely short notice, by Dr Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, who crossed the Atlantic by air for this purpose. His exposition of the change in American outlook upon the war was warmly received. 7 OCTOBER 19 p J CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER II9

ACTA 1 October 1942 I am sure that the Master of St John's, to whose zealous advocacy the project is in great part due, will join in welcoming Mr Commager, of Columbia University, who is arriving very sh rtly t take up his duties as Lecturer in United States History. Most appropriately, at the invitation of the Master and Fellows, he will be residing in Emmanuel College. The Faculty Board of History have also arranged to include this subject in both Parts of their Tripos in 1943. I am confident that I am voicing the wishes of all residents when I offer our congratulations to the Master of Pembroke on his re- -- nomination to the Mayoralty for a second term; the co-operation between Borough and University, so essential in many a problem raised by the war, has been greatly facilitated by his intimate knowledge of both bodies as well as by his ready tact. We must congratulate him, too, upon his remarkable recovery from a serious accident. Whatever views we may, as individuals, hold upon the future of regional government, th re will, I think, be general agreement that, under present conditions, the University and the Colleges have on numerous occasions derived great benefit from the help and friendly advice that has always been forthcoming from the Commissioner for Eastern England. This term will see the establishment of a University Naval Division, analogous to the Senior Training Corps and to the Air Squadron; thus all three Services will in future provide equal opportunities for pre-entry training, and a former happy association with the senior branch will be renewed. Although, fortunately, no University or College building has received more than superficial damage in air attacks, the Union Society, as has been already announced in the Press, suffered heavily on a recent occasion. I would offer our deepest sympathy to the relatives of those College servants and of the Licensed Lodging-House Keepers who have lost their lives in raids at various times during the last two years; the latter are representative of a body having a close and unbroken association with the University since the Peace of 1815 released its flood of new entrants. Few alterations in curricula or in courses fall to be recorded. On the initiative of the Faculty Jt Board of Law a Department of Criminal Science has been set up, which, through a research com- { mittee, has already been actively pursuing its functions and at the same time making contact with the legal representatives of the United Nations. Under war conditions it has been found advisable to introduce into the Natural Sciences Tripos two new half-subjects, namely Electronics and Metallurgy, as well as to make it possible for candidates to offer Botany, Geology and Mineralogy as half-subjects. The allowances made to certain candidates for commissions have been extended, and the privileges available for ex-service men-a few of whom are already with us-have been enlarged and simplified. At the'.beginning of the fourth year of war it is inevitable that our thoughts should turn back to the lesser conflict of 1914-18, when it will be seen how favourably the present-day measures of control and directjon of man-power, displacing haphazard enlistment, have reacted upon our numbers, for, compared with a pre-war average matriculation of a little over 1800, the last three academical years have yielded results as follows: 1939-40, 1923; 1940-1, 1513; 1941-2, 17 59. If these figures are placed beside the corresponding entries of twenty-fl ve years ago, we find that there was then a precipitate fall from a norm of approximately 1200 to 727 in 1914-15, to 344 in 1915-16, and to no more than 235 in 1916-17. Even if the basis of comparison is shifted from that of new entrants to the total of men in residence, the picture shown is still far brighter, for in October 1917 these were actually reduced to 444-viz. . one-eighth, whereas now their successors have remained above 2750, or slightly more than half the pre-war number. There has, however, been a great re-distri bution in the proportions reading different subjects, and one of our main problems has been to provide accommodation in certain of the laboratories and lecture-rooms for a quite abnormal influx of students. The financial repercussions of this unexpected situation upon the University and, to a lesser extent, the Colleges are self-evident, but the serious position facing the teaching staffs will . be appreciated when I state that, in addition to the sixteen vacant Chairs, there are now sixteen Professors, together with three Readers, absent on National Service, and that out of 370 University Lecturers and Demonstrators only 143 remain in Cambridge. In view of the unforeseen demands being made for the provision of teaching, and because at the beginning of the war it was virtually impossible to restrain individuals from offering their services, there are now marked disparities in the teachers available in the several subjects, and it would seem that a prolongation of hostilities may necessitate steps to recover certain "key'~ persons. Civil Defence duties, added to Home Guard obligations, also make ever-growing demands upon seniors and juniors alike, and it is clear that, for both classes, the point is rapidly approaching when neither their little unappropriated time nor their physical endurance should be subjected to further demands. In time of peace the expression of thanks rendered by successive Vice-Chancellors to the principal University Officers is anything but perfunctory or formal. Under war conditions, therefore, how 120 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY REPORTER (7 OCTOBER 1942

ACTA I October 1942 inadequate do words seem as a recognition of the almost unbearable burden falling in particu~ar upon the Registrary and the Secretary General of the Faculties l They, indeed, together with Mr Sartain, have to act as tactful intermediaries between the University and Government Depart ments, to assist College officials in their interpretation of a constant flow of regulations and instructions, and to prepare, at the request of extraneous bodies, and often at the shortest notice and at the most inconvenient times of the year, statistical data and even nominal rolls; this, too, with staffs reduced to but a fraction of their ordinary size. Indeed, I believe that none but Tutors and those of us who are responsible for admissions to our Colleges can have any conception of what is now demanded of these three officers, who, together with the Treasurer and all others, can never theless still g-ive us every form of help and counsel. In another important field Professor Thomas and Mr Braithwaite are doing the University exceptional service by giving up so much of their time to organizing our now highly efficient A.R.P. Services. Mr Harrison, who has for nearly seventeen years perforIT?ed the exacting duties of his office, was due to retire under the age limit yesterday. Such an occurrence, in the present circumstances, would have been little short of a disaster, and at the unanimous request of the Council he consented . to continue in office for, in the first instance, the coming year. To my Deputies and those other seniors who have relieved me of numerous duties I tender my warmest thanks; I owe a particular debt to the Master of Gonville and Caius for acting on my behalf during a part of the Long Vacation, and to the Master of Clare for much help rendered in connexion with military service matters and problems raised by the emergence of "technical subjects". The University Marshal, who next week celebrates his jubilee in our service, has been not only a valuable mentor but in a host of other ways indispensable. The support spontaneously accorded an incoming Vice-Chancellor by ev~ry member of the University and of its Staff is truly remarkable, quickly dispelling whatever previous apprehensions he may have had and making his task not only much lighter but even enjoyable. May I, in conclusion, repeat verbatim what my predecessor, Dr Fitzpatrick, said on this occasion in 1917? "We have passed through anxious days, but I believe that our successors will have no reason to be ashamed of the record of service of the University during the period of the present war, of which we may hope that these two years [1915-17] have been the central portion." 'rhat was a remarkably accurate forecast.. Dare I venture to hope that the year 1941-2 may eventually be revealed as not only the median of this far more terrible conflict but also as its turning-point? Dr VENN, President of Queens' College, was admitted to the office of Vice-Chancellor for the year 1942-43. After the Congregation of the Senate a Congregation of the Regent House was held. EVELYN ANSELL, M.A., of Peterhouse, and HUGH CHRISTOPHER LEMPRIERE HEYWOOD, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, were elected and admitted to the office of Proctor for the year 1942-43. BERNARD CHARLES SAUNDERS, Ph.D., M.A., of Magdalene·College, and GORDON BRIMS BLACK M0 IvoR SUTHERLAND, Ph.D., of Pembroke College, were admitted to the office of Pro-Proctor for the year 1942-43. E. HARRISON, Registrary. (End of the official part- ·°'f the lleporter) Bedford College for Women Two public lectures will be delivered in Mill Lane Lecture-rooms. On Wednesday, 28 October 1942, at 5.15 P.M., Sir JOHN RussELL, D.Sc., F.R.S., will lecture on SCIENCE I~ THE CHANGING COUNTRYSIDE (Stevenson Lecture). On Wednesday, 4 November 1942, at 5.15 P.M., Miss J. P. STRACHEY, M.A., will lecture on THE WOMAN'S MOVEMENT IN FRANCE (Fawcett Lecture). 2 October 1942.