London, Oct. 22.
The King, accompanied by the Queen, opened the magnificent new Cambridge University library to-
It is probably the most up-to-date, brary in the world and has cost more than £800,000. The library. possesses 1,500,000 books in addition, fo innumerable magazines and papers, as all publications are sent there! under the Copyright Law. The 43 miles of book shelving are already fled, has been possible to open the' library to-day owing largely to the munificence of the International 'Education Board, founded Py Mer John D. Rockefeller, Jr. An appeal For funds was staried when' this foundation offered £250,000. if a ike sum were collected in a given time. The money was duly raised. The Rockefeller foundation—also made an offer of £450,000 for the advancement of biological research at Cambridge under similar conditions, and the magnificent new. laboratories were "publicly opened The King's Speech Their Majesties were received by Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord Presideat of the Council and Chancellor of tne University, and other scholastic heads academic robes.
'The King, in his address, referred: to the generous American assistance which enabled the provision of the library. "In the. long history of your university." he said, "there have been many notable gifts, but the tradition of the past has' been equalled or excelled by the generosand public spirit manifested in our own day. The magnificent gift from. the International Educs Board reminds us not only that there are special ties of friendship and kinship' between this country and the United States, but also that education Knows no national front-Jers. The pursuit of knowledge Graws together the peoples of the world in a fellowship of ce-operative effort'
Continuing, the King said that Ubrary "such as this is. both a. Power-house and a testing station of educational activities. It inspires and helps the work of specialists in every Meld of research, and it provides from generation to. generation standards of truth and sound learn Ing by which fresh products of science and scholarship are tried. It is workshop of new knowledge and a storehouse of wisdom."
Several honorary degrees were conferred before the close of the ceremony, including one to the US. Ambassador in London, Mr. Robert W. Bingham.—Wireless and Reuter.
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