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CAMBRIDGE.-The Rev. T. C. Fitzpatrick, president of Queens' College, who has held the office of Vice-.Chancellor during the past two years, made, in accordance with the usual custom, an address to the Senate on vacating this office on the first day of the Michaelmas term. He referred to the loss which the University had sustained during the past academic year through the death of, amongst others, Mr. Charles Smith, master of Sidney Sussex College; Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, who had held the Woodwardian professorship since 1873; Dr. W. H. Besant, the oldest living Senior Wrangler; Dr. Keith Lucas, who lost his life by an aeroplane accident; and Mr. W. E. Hartley, first assistant at the Observatory, who was killed in the explosion on H.M.S. Vanguard. He reported that the work of all the departments of the University had been maintained during the past year, though the number of students had again decreased. There were in residence in the Michaelmas term of 1916 444 undergraduates, as against 825 in the Michaelmas term of 1915. The number of Cambridge men on service had increased to 14,450. The list of killed now numbered 1872, of wounded and missing 2622. The honours won numbered 2855, and included eight V.C.'s, 210 D.S.O.'s, and 729 M.C.'s. Besides those serving with the forces, many members of the electoral roll were engaged on war service of various kinds.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 100, 118–120 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100118a0
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