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IN NATUBE of October 10, 1936 (p. 610), reference was made to the appeal for £250,000 being made by the University of Sheffield for urgently needed extensions and for endowments. The first list of subscriptions was headed by a gift of £10,000 from Sir Robert Hadfield, to whom the University was already indebted for valuable donations and much support. It is now announced that Sir Robert has increased his donation to £20,000, this being the largest individual gift so far received in answer to the appeal. The announcement was made in the course of his address at the annual meeting last month of Messrs. Hadfields, Ltd., and Sir Robert added that he was moved to add to his original donation by the noteworthy address delivered early last March by General Smuts on “The University in Oivic Training”, when he was installed as Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. General Smuts believes that the university is the hope of civilization, the one place where fact is exalted above sectional loyalties and ideologies. Sir Robert has given substantial proofs that he, likewise, has faith in the university as an institution of vital significance for the future of humanity. It is to be hoped that his great benefactions to the University of Sheffield will stimulate other industrialists to play their part in supporting more liberally, if not universities in general, at least the particular university to which they must look for development and progress in their own field. Sir Robert Hadfield, it may be noted, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his election to the Institution of Civil Engineers on March 1, when he received a congratulatory address from the president, and on March 23 was elected an honorary member of the Institution, for his “long and conspicuous service in the advancement of metallurgical science”.
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University of Sheffield and Sir Robert Hadfield. Nature 139, 831–832 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139831d0
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