CAPPING CEREMONY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2126, 8 July 1907, Page 1

CAPPING CEREMONY.

Press Association. DUNEDIN, Saturday. The ceremony of presenting University diplomas took place oii -Friday afternoon. The liall was crowded. The undergraduates mustered ill great force at the back of the hall and kept up a running fire of playful badinage. Professor Sale, who was deputed to present the diplomas in the absence of the Chancellor, referred chiefly to the relations existing between the New Zealand University and Otago University, and ho also gave a short history of how affiliation was brought about, and the advantage of union. The Rev. Hr. ITewitson referred to the fact that Professor Sale was terminating his long service as a Prolessor of the "University, and said they all hoped lie might be long spared to enjoy a time of leisure, filled with the rich and satisfactory interests of the scholar. It must be a source, of satisfaction as he was (putting his work to know that ho laid been a strong inspirational force in the intellectual life of able students like Mr. Adams and Mr. Gilray, and that students ot mi earlier generation gratefully acknowledged a similar debt to him (Applause.) In Ids capacity as Senator and Councillor ho had claimed the respect of those wlio had long known him by tho keen and wide interest in the affairs of. the University. He was delighted that Professor Dllray was Chairman of the Professorial Board at the time when his son had been chosen as the Rhodes scholar, ft was a matter for thankfulness that tho father’s zeal for the University, his student tastes, his blameless liio, • and his athletic powers, had been transmitted to lus son. They all wished for Colin Gilray a brilliant

and useful life spent' in the service oi God and men-and books. Might bo never bo oilier than that he was in the fundamental elements of Ins character. (Applause.) Mr. Hcwfltson went on to advocate a closer union between tlie primary schools, secondary schools, and the University. Ml-; . Col'in Gilrny- in an intorestinr speech, referred, to the social side of University life, and appealed for assistance in building- a. much-needed

social hall. The sUuloitts celebrated the occasion by a procession in tho ' morning, and a carnival in the evening-