y. The Chancellor then read and presented an address to
the Prince, offering a respectful welcome and homage to His Royal
Highness and his august consort. It also referred to the success of the
University.

The degrees having been conferred, the Prince rose and said:--

"My Lord Duke, my Lords, and Gentlemen of the Senate of the
Royal University,--I am very grateful to you for the manner in
which you have received us in this hall, and on behalf of the
Princess of Wales and myself I thank you for the kind welcome
with which you have greeted us. The higher education of the
people is a subject in which I learnt from my lamented father to
take a great interest. It is a question to the solution of which
your labours, I am happy to think, have contributed much. Though
no considerable time has elapsed since the foundation of the
Royal University, it has already had a marked effect among those
people of this country who are especially open to the influence
of a University career. I shall value the degree which you have
conferred upon me, and I am proud to rank myself among the
graduates of a University, the advantages of which I am happy to
hear from you that all classes of the community avail themselves
of.

"By the admission of women to your degrees you have supported
the view that the gentler sex are capable, not only of severe
competition in science, but of enjoying the benefits and using
the power which a well-considered scientific education bestows.
It gratified me to learn that you were willing to confer upon
the Princess of Wales the degree of Doctor of Music, which, Her
Royal Highness wishes me to state on her behalf, she has
received with pleasure not only because she felt that it was an
honour to herself, but because she wished to show her approval
of her action of the ladies of Ireland in accepting the
facilities and advantages which you have offered to them. In Her
Royal Highness's name and in my own, I thank you for the honour
you have done me, and for the kindness with which you have
received us to-day."

The Prince's speech was received with great cheering. The proceedings
concluded with the National Anthem. The Royal and Viceregal parties
returned to Dublin Castle amid renewed greetings from the citizens who
still waited in the streets to see them.

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