The first Chancellor of the new university was Prince Arthur of Connaught and the first Principal ( a position that would be merged with that of Vice-Chancellor in 1948 ) was Professor Jan Hofmeyr Hofmeyr set the tone of the University's subsequent opposition to apartheid when, during his inaugural address as Principal he declared, while discussing the nature of a university and its desired function in a democracy, that universities " should know no distinctions of class, wealth, race or creed ".

In his inaugural lecture, Vaillant discusses the reproduction of plants and floral organ function by making analogies with animal reproduction.

The presiding bishop of the inaugural function was the Rt Revd C. K. Jacob of the Anglican Diocese of Travancore and Cochin.

The colorful aerobatics performance by Sarang-the Indian Air Force's Advanced Light Helicopters, made everyone spell bound during the inaugural function.

He opens his discourse, however, with a review of the Eisenhower inaugural festivities at which a sympathetic press had assembled its massive talents, all primed to catch some revelation of the emerging new age.

Subsequent productions include the Prince of Wales's Theatre's in 1872 and it was also the inaugural play at the new California Theatre in San Francisco in 1869.

As a result, Geelong finished second in the inaugural season, a good start to the new league.

Despite inaugural game festivities at the new ballpark, the Dodgers would spoil the 2000 season opener, with a three HR performance by little-known Kevin Elster.

The Mets ' inaugural season ( 1962 ) was played in the Polo Grounds, with original plans calling for the team to move to a new stadium in 1963.

The groom may be a mere detail: the new editor of Modern Bride began her inaugural column, without irony: " I really did have the wedding of my dreams, the wedding that had been floating around my head for years before I met my husband.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

An inaugural game using the new FA rules was initially scheduled for Battersea Park on 2 January 1864, but enthusiastic members of the FA couldn't wait for the new year and an experimental game was played at Mortlake on 19 December 1863 between Morley's Barnes team and their neighbours Richmond ( who were not members of the FA ), ending in a goalless draw.

The inaugural MSO along with a very large number of games, introduced two new events of their own creation the Pentamind and the Decamentathlon.

In the first season of the new United League in 2006, the Aces won the inaugural ULB championship before pulling off another repeat as they would win the title once again in 2007.

Later the same year, on 21 August, the same opponents, now renamed Real Unión, were invited to play the inaugural game at San Mamés Stadium, and he scored the very first goal at the new ground.

In the 1991 – 92 First Division campaign they finished mid-table in the league and were founder members of the new Premier League, finishing 5th, as top London club, in the 1992 – 93 inaugural season.

It was Walter who would convince Andrew Carnegie that New York needed a first-class concert hall and on May 5, 1891, both Walter and Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of the city's new Music Hall, which in a few years would be renamed for its primary benefactor, Andrew Carnegie.

Branson is a Star Trek fan and named his new spaceship VSS Enterprise in honour of the famous Star Trek ships, and in 2006, reportedly offered actor William Shatner a ride on the inaugural space launch of Virgin Galactic.

The event also saw Melbourne unveil its proposed new logo, which incorporates a trident, the Southern Cross, as well as the inaugural rules of Australian rules football.

In 1983, a new production of Oliver was the first musical produced by Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre as part of its inaugural season as a self-producing theatre.

The sanctuary of the new building, now attached to the house originally on the property, was used for the inaugural Shabbat services of June 1 – 2.

The new ballpark, Franklin Quest Field, opened in 1994 with the renamed Salt Lake Buzz drawing 713, 224 fans to home games during their inaugural season-breaking the PCL single-season attendance record that had stood for 48 years.

In BBC Radio 6 Music's inaugural John Peel Lecture, Townshend urged Apple to use its power to help new bands instead of " bleeding " artists like a " digital vampire ".

The 2005 documentary film Five Days in September: The Rebirth of an Orchestra ( Canada, 2005 ) recorded the first days of the TSO's inaugural season with Oundjian as its new music director.

The inaugural match at the new stadium was a 2 – 1 win over FC Barcelona in a friendly match.

The UFC also made the last WEC Featherweight and Bantamweight Champions, José Aldo and Dominick Cruz respectively, the inaugural UFC Champions of their new weight divisions.

** World Rally Championship for Manufacturers – Won by Alpine Renault ( 1973 is the inaugural season for the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile's new World Rally Championship series )

The Sol folded after the league's inaugural season, and two new teams joined for 2010, bringing WPS to eight teams.

The campus, to be named the Schulich GMR Campus, is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) and the inaugural class began in January 2010.

The Albert A. Robin Campus is home to the Doctor of Pharmacy program, which accepted its inaugural class in July 2011.

However, in 1778 Gluck turned down an offer to compose the inaugural opera for La Scala in Milan ; upon the suggestion of Joseph II and with the approval of Gluck, Salieri was offered the commission, which he gratefully accepted.

In 1701 he was appointed lecturer on the institutes of medicine at Leiden ; in his inaugural discourse, De commendando Hippocratis studio, he recommended to his pupils that great physician as their model.

The inaugural board meeting of the Corporation of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations was held in the Old Colony House in Newport, Rhode Island.

Mare was signed to replace fan favorite John Kasay, the last original Panther from the inaugural 1995 squad who was cut with two years left on his contract.

The inaugural class for the Bengals Hall of Fame, hosted on the Bengals official website, was announced in 2011.

Because of these issues, William Hulbert, the president of the Chicago club, spearheaded the development of the National League, whose inaugural season was 1876.

The inaugural Cricket World Cup was hosted in 1975 by England, the only nation able to put forward the resources to stage an event of such magnitude at that time.

In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

In 2006 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of the Athena Award, given by the Congress for the New Urbanism ( CNU ).

* In 2010, Dale Earnhardt was one of the five inductees in the inaugural class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

His inaugural address as well was exclusively devoted to foreign policy and included this same philosophy as well as a commitment to foreign trade and the U. N.

He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Linnaean Society of New York's inaugural Eisenmann Medal in 1983.

Bhutto was shocked with the results, and threatened his Peoples Party's members if they attended the inaugural session at the National Assembly.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

His first act was to appoint the inaugural Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, since the first federal elections were not held until March.

In 1897, the inaugural season of the VFL, no grand final was played, but instead a round-robin finals system.

He was also the first Scots Makar ( the official national poet ), appointed by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004.

" He was one of 1996's inaugural inductees into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

In 1867 he accompanied the National Base Ball Club of Washington D. C. on their inaugural national tour, as their official scorer, and in 1874 was instrumental in organizing a similar tour of England, which included games of both baseball and cricket.

The inaugural meeting for Task Group 7 was held during January 2009, where it was chartered to write standards for free-space optical communication using visible light.