NEW PROFESSORS FOR N.Z.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 3

NEW PROFESSORS FOR N.Z.

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY (HA IKS OF CLASSIC'S AND MATHEMATICS ■T?MU OL'P. OWN CORMSPONiJr.JtI.' LONDON. November 24. Mr C. Gordon Cooper, M.A., has been chosen professor of classics for Auckland University, and Mr H. G. Forder for the chair of mathematics. The former is now at the University of Liverpool and the latter is head of the mathematical department of Hymor's College, Hull. Mr Cooper, aged 29, is a graduate of the? University of St. Andrews (MA., first-class honours in classics), where he was Spence bursar in classics i 921-24, and tutor in Latin. 1923-24. He was elected to the Guthrie scholarship in classics in 1924, and travelled in Italy, France. Germany, and North Africa. Mr Cooper studied at the Universities of Kiel, Heidelberg, and Algiers. He took part in the archaeological work of the British School at Rome, and collected material for a piece of research on North African Latin. ReturniflL' to Scotland, he lectured for the University of St. Andrews for part of the session 1927-28. In 1928 he was appointed to the University of Western Ontario as instructor in classics. He returned from Canada to the University of Liverpool in 1930 as lecturer in Latin, and this position he' still holds. During the last two years Mr Cooper has acted as examiner in classics to the Civil Service Commission, and as an examiner in Latin to the Northern Universities' Joint Matriculation Board. He is married and has a small son. Both Mr and Mrs Cooper are very keen on sport, especially lawn tennis, goff, and swimming, and walking is one of their recreations. They are both musical, and are much interested in the theatre and in books. It is anticipated that they will leave for Auckland about the end of December, probably by the lonic, but this has not been definitely decided.

Chair of Mathematics.

Mr Forder was educated at Paston School, North Walsham, a town in East Anglia, in the centre of an agricultural community. He the«n went to Sydney-Sussex College, Cambridge, 1907-10, took first-class, part 1, mathematical tripos, and then wrangler, part 11., mathematical tripos. Ever since he has been engaged in teaching. Mr Forder has done research work on the axiomatic foundations of geometry, and is at present engaged in developing some new geometric methods. Books written by him and published by the Cambridge University Press include a treatise entitled "The Foundations of Euclidean Geometry," and books for schools and universities entitled "School Geometry" and "Higher Course Geometry." Mr Forder is married, and he expects to leave for New Zealand by the ionic on December 29. His principal recreation is walking.

Exchange of Lectureships,

An exchange of lectureships in economics has been arranged between Mr H. R. Rod well, M.A., of Auckland University College, and Mr H. D. Dickinson, M.A., of the University of Leeds. Mr Dickinson, who is 34, was educated at King's College School, and after homo service with the Royal Engineers from January, 1918, to January, 1919, went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the latter month. lie took part I. cf the mathematical tripos in 1919, part 11. of the economics trinos in .1921, and part 11. of the history tripos in 1922. He was awarded a research studentship at the London School of Economics, and worked there from October, 1922, until 1924. when he was appointed assistant lecturer in the department of economics at the University of Leeds. He was appointed lecturer in 1931. Mr Dickinson's publications include articles in "Economics," the "Political Quarterly," the "Economic Journal." and the journal, of the Institute of Transport, and a work entitled Institutional Revenue, a study of the influence of social institutions on the dls-

| Iributions o£ wealth, which was pubj lished by Williams and Norgale in ; 1932. The arrangements for the ex- | change of lectureships were made by I Dr. A. J. Harrop, representative in I London of the University of New Zealand, and Sir James Baillie, vice-chan-cellor of the University of Leeds.