THE CHAIR OF CLASSICS.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14474, 1 October 1912, Page 10

THE CHAIR OF CLASSICS.

ISEW PROFESSOR AT CANTERBURY COLLEGE. MR HUGH STEWART, 8.A., APPOINTED. Mr Hugh Stewart, 8.A., Cambridge, whose appointment as Professor of Classics at Canterbury College was confirmed at yesterday's meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, takes up his duties at the beginning of next year. Mr Stewart is single, 28 years of age, and lias had - three years and a half experience teaching Latin and Greek, and at the timo he applied he was assistant lecturer in Latin and Greek in. the University of Liverpool. He is a Foundation Scholar, at Fettes College, Edinburgh, a Fettes exhibitioner, and John Welsh classical bursar. Mr Stewart gained a university prize for Latin verse; he is a Foundation Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained first-class honours in classics. 'Mr Stewart's testimonials were from Sir, Alfred Dale, LL.D. (vicechancellor of the Liverpool University), Professor HJ. A. Strong (Liverpool University), Professor J. L. Myers, Professor J. P;..Post-gate, (headmaster of Fettes College, Edinburgh), Professors Ridgeway, J. Duff, It, C. Bosanquot, Campagnac, and Ramsay-Muir. ' Mr Stewart is the eldest son of tho late John Stewart, parish minister of Premany,, Aberdeenshire, and at the time he sent in his application for the Chair of' Classics at Canterbury College he was arranging to take his M.A. degree in September. In addition to the classical languages, Mr Stewart has studied French, German, and Russian. He has published in collaboration with Professor H. A. Strong, "Our Debt to Antiquity," a translation from the Russian of lectures delivered •by Professor Zielinski; and "Outlines of Phonetics," an edition based on the French and German editions of Professor Niedermann's.book on philology. Ho was, at the time he applied for the position at Canterbury College, preparing for tho Oxford University Press an edition of at least tho first threo books of Lucan. ■ Sir Alfred Dale, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, writing regarding Mr Stewart, states 'that he has been a member.of the staff of the' university mentioned for three years, and expresses the opinion that "it would not be easy to find a man- better fitted for the post" of Professor of Classics. "Mr Stewart's scholarship is sound and thorough; he also has the gifts required for success in teaching— clearness, enthusiasm, sympathy. Be is also fitted to undertake responsibility. While our Greek Chair was vacant, much of the Professor's work had to be done by him. He has method, accuracy, and practical sense. His interests are wide. He is a keen student of the Russian language and literature; he is also an active officer in the Territorial forces, understands men and how to handle them, and! cares for many things that are riot to be learned in books."

Professor Strong writes of Mr Stewart: —"As a teacher ho has been singularly successful, as 1 know from the testimony of bis students. Of his capacity as a scholar and of his great industry, I can speak from my own knowledge."