UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS.
"SEARCH FOR THE BEST ' ' 1 TEACHERS." ! | At a meeting of the council of the Mel- k bourne University on October 28 the ques- X tion of- outstanding public intefest. wag Y that which related to the appointment of A professors of history j economics, and so- ■ $ ciologj-. In regard to the iuiniguratioa of y a Chair of .Economics nnil Sociology, tho J Government recently offered a grunt, on ® conditio]! that the appointment should be V restricted to Australians. • J The vice-chancellor said that in-the © event of not receiving the. money from tiie § Government it should not-be supposed J that no provision would be mads for the A teaching of these subjects. X Dr. Leeper.said that any" amount of Y money tho Government could give Wdikt k not l>e sufficient compensation for eaorific- S i;ng tho right to search for the best teach- ? ers, wherover they were to be found. He 5 moved; "That the council instruct, the V Agent-General by cable to proceed with V the appointment of n,prol'es4or of history,' I and to allow the arrangements for eari'V- §? ins ?n lectures in political economy to ik> ©f continued." f f. The motion was carried. t | |,|
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 11
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