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iv ANNUAL REPORT and President of the Centenary Commemoration Committee and His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury Visitor of King's College Guard of Honour was mounted upon His Royal Highness by the University of London Officers' Training Corps After distinguished assembly which included Delegates from the Universities and University Colleges of Great Britain and Ireland had been welcomed by the Principal in the Great Hall the Chairman of the Centenary Com- memoration Committee read an address to which His Royal Highness the Duke of York made the following reply Your Royal Highness your Grace Lord Ullswater my Lords ladies and gentlemen -On behalf of the Duchess of York and myself thank you most sincerely for your welcome of us and for the senti- ments you have expressed about His Majesty the King which will take an early opportunity of conveying to him The Duchess and are very glad indeed to come hero this after- noon on the occasion of the centenary of the College The record of its hundred years of life is one of which the College may indeed be proud Founded at the beginning of new epoch in our national history at time when the opportunities of university education were still denied to all except the privileged members of one sex the College has not merely proved adaptable to changing social conditions but as you have reminded us has given lead in educational policies which have been universally welcomed It has none the less held steadfast to proved ideals and to permanent values The names of your great men in theology in medicine in science and in arts testify to the quality of your services to scholarship and to education in England and the Empire The importance of your work for our national Church perhaps especially valuable at this moment does not require emphasis Not less impressive have been your contributions to scientific discovery with which may claim kind of family association believe that it is true that yours was the first physics laboratory to be equipped in London and this was done through the gift to the College by Queen Victoria of the George III collection of scientific instruments which has since been lent for public exhibition in the Science Museum at South Kensington More- over visits in the past from members of my family have more than once been made the occasion for important scientific experiments These precedents have in fact excited our curiosity as to what Professor Appleton may reveal to us later in the day If the College can be congratulated on the past its recent remark- able progress and the increasing number of its students are of good omen for the future But increased numbers must entail increased responsibility and increased expense New laboratories must be com- pleted and equipped and more teachers will be required earnestly trust that expansion of such work as yours will not be hampered through lack of the necessary funds feel sure that both the citizens of London and Westminster and the great industries of this country will appreciate their obligations to college to which they already