AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 54, 5 March 1901, Page 3

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

The first term of the session of the Auckland University College was 'opened last evening, when Professor H. A. Xai-boJ-Tubbs delivered an open lecture on "The England of the Ancient World — Phoenicia and Carthage." There was a large attendance of students, and a good many of the general public were also present. The lecture dealt with the trade of Phoenicia, and pointed out its influence on the spread of civilization, and in fostering the bronze age of Northern Europe. The Phoenician genius for colonization was also touched on, and the Phoenician advances In science and art. Modern civilization was among other things indebted to the Phoenicians for the alphabet, the discovery of glass, filtration reservoirs, artificial harbours, bridges and canals, paved roads, and hydraulic engineering. Their supremacy in mining and naval architecture was unchallenged, and they were distinguished for boldness of enterprise and shrewd commonsense. Professor Tubbs, before beginning his lecture, mentioned that one of the students who had le£t the college had presented to the college a fine photoeraphic replica of one of the masternieces of classical art, Praxltyles' ' Hermes " to be hung in the classics lecture room. He hoped that others would follow this student's example, and that the room would, before long, contain sSme of tho choicest relics of ancient life.