AN APPOINTMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1908, Page 7

AN APPOINTMENT.

«. _ PROFESSOR OF GREEK AT OXFORD. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 17th October. Mr. George Gilbert Aime Murray has been appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. Mr. Murray, M.A. Oxford, LL.D. Glasgow, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1866, being third son of the late Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, one time President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. He left Australia at the age of 11, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and St. John's College, Oxford. He became a Fellow of New College, Oxford, in 1888, and was Professor of Greek at Glasgow University from 1889 to 1899. His publications include " History of Ancient Greek Literature," " Carlyon Sahib," and "Andromache" (both plays, published and acted), "Liberalism and the Empire" (part author), "Euripides Fabulas," "Euripides" (verse translations), " Hippoiytus," "Trojan Women," "Rise of the Greek Epic," etc. He was married in 1889 to Mary, eldest daughter ol the Earl of Carlisle. An argument in favour of the Saturday afternoon holiday for grocers whs urged by a witness at the hearing >,i the grocers' dispute before the Conciliation Board this morning. He said that almost all business in grocery wa« done in the morning now, with the improvement of the tram service. Only stray persons came in between 1 o'clock and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and un Saturday evening a few people came in for biscuits and a pound of butter or so for Sunday. There would be no lose at all by closing on Saturday afternoon and evening «nd abolishing fa* Iftto pight altogether