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Cullpden ; the Duke of Cumberland had received in recognition of his services the degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Glasgow ; and Clive was laying the foundation of the British Empire in India. The seventh Jubilee occurred when the storm and agitation of the French Revolution had not sunk to rest, when the momentous career of Napoleon was becoming a menace to Europe, when Great Britain and Ireland were united. . . .The eighth Jubilee was contemporary with the first great International Exhibition. . . .And now the ninth Jubilee finds us at the completion of the glorious Victorian era, mourning the departure of our beloved Queen, yet hailing with enthusiastic loyalty the accession of our new King."

Reception in In the afternoon there was a reception of delegates in the the Bute Hall Bute Hall, and The Glasgow Herald does full justice to the splendour of the spectacle. In the absence on account of age of the vener- able Chancellor (Lord Stair), the Vice-Chancellor (the Very Rev. Principal Story) delivered the address and received the delegates, among whom were two native professors from the University of Tokyo, in Japan, while the youngest British University, Birming- ham, was represented by Prof. Oliver Lodge.

Dr. Muir in affectionate terms well described Glasgow Uni- versity as fulfilling the ideal of a University sketched by Newman nearly half a century ago :

" a place which attracts the affections of the young by its fame, wins the judgment of the middle-aged by its beauty, and rivets the memory of the old by its associations ; a seat of wisdom, a light of the world, a minister of the faith, an alma mater of the rising generation."

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