NEW PROFESSORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 268, 13 November 1933, Page 3

NEW PROFESSORS.

SELECTION LIKELY TO-NIGHT.

SPECIAL MEETINGS CALLED.

Finality is expected to be reached -to-night at a special meeting of the council of the Auckland University College in regard to the appointment of the four new professors. The four chairs concerned are those of English, Latin, History and Mathematics. Since the appointments were advertised both in London and in the Dominion at the beginning of June last, the matter has been in the hands of a special committee of the council, and the first report to open council will be made at the special meeting to-night. The applications, which were received both in Auckland and in London, were sent to both places. In London the Universities Bureau of the British Empire acted as agents for the college, and special advisory committees were set up for each subject. Worthy candidates who were sufficiently near at hand were interviewed by these committees, and confidential inquiries were made as to qualifications and personality. These committees have reported in detail, and the college council is in possession of all the facts. •

In the four chairs, vacancies were caused by three retirements and one death. Professors C. W. Egerton and H. W. Segar are soon to retire from the chairs of English and Mathematics respectively, while Mr. W. T. G. Airey has been acting-Professor of History since Professor J. Grossmann vacated that post. The death of Professor A. C. Paterson caused the vacancy in the chair of Classics.