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UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT.
HOME OF NEW IDEAS.
Speech by State Governor.
Commencement Day at the University has become a sombre function, of interest only to graduates and their friends. On Satur- day afternoon when the candidates for degrees were presented to the Chancellor (Sir John Madden) the hall, although fairly well filled, contained none of the high- spirited element which was wont to con- tribute variety and diversion to the pro- ceedings. But this year there was an im- pressive and a thrilling interval when the names of four graduates were presented- students who had completed their course, and had died, while engaged in war service, before their degrees had been conferred upon them. The students were Edward Courtney Thomas, M.A., William Major Olive, B.E., Eric Craven Jowett, B.E., and Walter Alan Leckie, B.E. As the deans of the two faculties announced their names spectators rose in their places in honour of the men who had made the supreme sacrifice in the defence of their country.
After the candidates had been presented the State Governor (Sir Arthur Stanley) delivered an address. He said that on such an occasion it was well to look back upon the part the University had played in the civic life of the community. The war had taught one great lesson. It had shown that no man and no woman could live so remote from society, could abstract himself or her- self so completely, as not to recognise that each had a duty to the State and to the Empire. The University in the past had done great service to the State, which had no doubt fostered and encouraged it, al- though perhaps not quite so liberally as the governing body of the University would have liked. It would be the duty of the graduates to see how far they could throw themselves into the communal work of the State. The functions of the University should not be confused with the functions of a technical school-(applause)-or with the functions of a commercial and scienti- fic institution. It was beyond the function of the University to see that the standard of milk was maintained, but it was the duty of the professors to turn out men and women who could see that the routine work of public services could be carried out. It would be a waste of time to have a univer- sity which would be a teaching place where men and women should be taught "prac- tical" work. The University should be the home of exact knowledge. We were told that this war, so far as Germany was concerned, would be the triumph of science, but perhaps Germany had excluded from her universities the humanist studies which our University taught. (Cheers.) He would be sorry to see the University a mere training ground for scientists. It was the boast of Oxford that it was the home of lost causes. The Melbourne University should be the home of new ideas und high ideals of serving the State. At the present time it was a rare thing for a university student to enter the public service, but it was a narrow idea which looked upon the civil service as the only place in which to serve the State. He hoped the Univer- sity would never give way to the senseless clamour of the moment, but would continue to hold high the torch of learning.
Sir John Madden, in proposing a vote of thanks to Sir Arthur Stanley, said that we could no more mix up our University with technical education than one could make porridge out of that German ingredient sawdust, and such other materials that might be to hand. (Cheers and laugh- ter.)
The following degrees were conferred:
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS.
Bachelor of Arts.-Alice Priscilla Cook, Nora Helen Crawford. Hilda Elspeth Drummond, Con- stance Glass, Mary Irene Hare, Alison Harris, Bessie Margery Godwin Harris, Hilda Florence Har- ris, Henrietta Emilie Hornemann. Mary Louisa Lane, Phyllis Cardin Lewis, Kathleen Mary Macansh, Gwendoline Ellery Madder, Edith Shaw Mason, Ethel Thorpe McComas, Harriet Jessie Constance McLennan, Nelly Jessie Morrison, Doris Ferguson Pater, Vera Annie Rosenblum, Mona Ve- ronica Wood, Otto Janssen Albers, William Leslie Brumley, Harold Edwin Carter, Charles Griffith Swallow Daff, Leslie John Eddy, Simon William Fraser, James Raymond George, Henry Stiles Heath, William Judd, Rudolph Ernest Luher, William Crozier Magee, Joseph Edgar Newnham, Michael John Noonan, George Lewis Owens, Wil- liam Richards, Robert Tait Smith, Clarence McClel- land Thompson Stafford, John Michael Joseph Tev- lin, Henry Lycett Tonkin, Frank Alfred Treyvaud, Ludwig Joseph August van Raer, James William Waters. In Absentia--Harriett Ellen Louisa Hunt, Leslie Stuart Macdougall, Hubert Hedeley Trigge.
Bachelor of Science.-Laura Margaret White, Joseph Howard Dare, Albert Victor George James, Alec Armstrong Rosenblum, Thomas Worley Winn. In Absentia-John Benjamin Oswald Hosking.
Bachelor of Laws.-Richard Edward Ballard, John
Peter Hannan.
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. - Hilda Burn Kershaw, Joseph Ringland Anderson, Francis Gerald Donovan, Leslie Everton Hurley, John Joseph Kelly, Albert Robert Thorne.
Bachelor of Surgery.--In Absentia-William Wat- kin Winn Chaplin.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering.-Roy James Ben-
nie. Harold Wrixon.
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering.-Francis
Crawford Martin.
Bachelor of Music.-Ada Elizabeth Freeman, Winifred May Lloyd, Vida Alice Lugg, Irene Hetty Osborne, Alice Margaret Slater, Agnes Alice Stan- brook. In Absentia-Julia Burn Scott.
Bachelor of Dental Science.-William Charles Knight, Mendel Mendelsohn, George Wilfred Nat- trass, Leslie Norman Roebuck. Cedric Sicklemore, Claude Raymond Whitby. In Absentia-Hugh Dob-
son Podger.
Bachelor of Agricultural Science.-Patrick Gal- lagher. Mortimer John Woodhouse.
Bachelor of Veterinary Science.-Henry Tucker.
Master of Arts.-Lilian Mary Foley, Irene Ince Hutton, Hilda Marion Robinson, Dorothy Scantle- bury, Isabella Mary Sutton, Gwendolen Hamer Swinburne, Alice Edith Wheat, Samuel Arthur Gordon Adamson, Frank Herbert Geach, Henry John Ham, Harry Robert Potter, Clive Guilfoyle Waters. In Absentia-Rosina Burns, Patrick Mac- farlan Hamilton, Agnes Wheen.
Master of Science-Jean Logan Alexander. In Absentia-Cyril Percy Callister, Essie Lindsay Mol-
lison, Elizabeth Winter Preston.
Master of Laws.-Irene Therese McFarlane, Allen
Hope Southey.
Master of Surgery.-Joseph Ivan Connor.
Doctor of Science.-Charles Albert Edward Fen-
ner.
Doctor of Medicine.-In Absentia-Neil Hamilton
Fairley.
Doctor of Dental Science.-Raymond Valentine Hennessy. In Absentia-Frederick George Hard-
Diploma of Education.-Samuel Arthur Gordon Adamson, Ernest William Blenkiron, James Cald- well, Reginald George Clayton, John Beggs Cooke, Ethel Grace Dean, Hilda Elspeth Drummond, Al- fred William Thomas Edwards, Lillian Mary Foley, Mary Irene Hare, Alison Harris, Mary Elsie Hep- burn, Wilfred Melville Hobbs, Mary Ethel Hutch- inson, Lily Sandner, Robert Tait Smith, Edith Ermyn Willielma Stafford, Gwendolen Hamer Swin- burne, Samuel John Tong Way, Ida Nellie Wil-
Diploma in Music.-Ellis Mary Lamperd, Ruth Mitchell, Ethel Beatrice Piercey.
License in Veterinary Science.-John Thomas
Reynolds.