HONORARY DEGREES.
FRANCE’S TRIBUTE TO BRITISHERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Nov. 21, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 20. The ceremony of conferring honorary doctorships on Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Sir James Fraser, a p.-'-ri ; Liverpool University, was in the nature of an international function. The amphitheatre of the Sorbonne was/packed with a multitude, who accorded the British recipients an ovation. Professor Legois. of the University of Paris, and Mr. Kipling won celebrity in the Anglo-Saxon half of the world at the age of 25, and had conquered the rest of the planet at 35. French orators analysed Mr. Kipling's works, and he evoked thunderous applause on indicating that the majority of those present were acquainted with them. Sir James Frazer replied, after which Madame Segondw*eber. of the Comedie Francaise. recited with wonderful dramatic force Kipling's "Ode to France." which moved the audience to tears and cheers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1921, Page 5
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148HONORARY DEGREES. Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1921, Page 5
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