Student Protest At Pm

Students Threw bags of flour and lavatory paper rolls at the platform when Sir A. Douglas-Home was installed as the first Chancellor of the Heriot-Watt University. Edinburgh, which was formerly Heriot-Watt College.

The degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on Sir Alec.

Sir Alec's name was greeted from the gallery with mingled cheers and bobs, and a roll of lavatory paper thudded on to the platform shortly after his entrance. Just before Dr. Hugh B. Nisbet, the principal and vice-chancellor, reached his place a flour bomb exploded at the base of the lectern.— Prom "The Times." Thursday April 21, 1966.