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On his retirement he became the thirteenth Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and remained the head of the university from March 1967 until March 1972.

Much earlier, in 1942, he had received the first honorary degree of Doctor of Laws of Melbourne University.

His responsibility for the revival and growth of university life in Australia was widely acknowledged by the award of honorary degrees in the Universities of Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmania, New South Wales, and the Australian National University and by thirteen universities in Canada, the United States and Britain, including Oxford and Cambridge.

Many learned institutions, including the Royal College of Surgeons ( Hon.

FRCS ) and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians ( Hon.

FRACP ), elected him to Honorary Fellowships, and the Australian Academy of Science, for which he supported its establishment in 1954, made him a fellow ( FAAS ) in 1958.