NEW PROFESSOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 2

NEW PROFESSOR.

RETURN TO OLD COLLEGE.

DR. C. MALTHUS ARRIVES.

"We are both delighted to be back; it is twenty years since we have seen much of Cliristchurch," said Dr. C Mai thus, Professor of Modern Languages at Canterbury College, who will succeed Professor Blunt in that chair when the new term begins next month. Both Dr. Malthus and his wife are graduates of Canterbury College, says the "Christchurch Times," and it has long been their hope to be able to live here once again. Dr. Malthus, who is 42 years oi age, was educated at the Timaru Boys' High School, and at Canterbury College, where he graduated B.A. in 1911 and M.A. in the following year with firstclass honours in English and French. He also gained a senior scholarship in English. In 1913 he was a graduate student at the Cliristchurch Training College, and was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship by the Students' Association. Until the outbreak of the war, Dr. .Malthus taught at the Nelson Boys' College. He spent two years on active service, was wounded, and returned to New Zealand in 1917. He was appointed senior French and English master at the Timaru Boys' High School, and in 1920 he won a travelling scholarship in French. He spent a year at Sorbonne and a year at Grenoble, gaining the Diploma de Hautes Etudes with honourable mention. In 1022 Dr. Malthus returned to Timaru, and soon afterwards was appointed lecturer in modern languages (French and German) at the University of Tasmania. In 1930 he was granted a part-time assistant, and in 1932 was given the status of associate professor. He has undertaken considerable examination and administrative work, and shortly before his appointment to Canterbury College he wrote a literarv history—Musset and Shakespeare—as a thesis for his Litt.D. Like her husband, Mrs. Malthus is a former student of Canterbury College, where she was a senior and junior scholar and a graduate (with honours). They have five children.