PROFESSOR HIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 120, 25 May 1927, Page 5

PROFESSOR HIGHT

| : LfeCTURES AT HOME

SOME OF HIS IMPRESSIONS

(From Our" Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, 9th April. Professor, James Hight, of Canterbury j College, who has exchanged places for ! a year with Professor Grant, 'of the Leeds University History Department, has been giving several lectures in the North of England. Last week he addressed the Sheffield Historical Association on.the historical interest of New ■Zealand. Professor Hight said that the simplicity of the organisation and life of New Zealand offered specially favourable conditions for the study of the connection \ botween the geographical conditions and the physical environment, and the effect on the social outlook and industry.- ■■ .-..■- •■' : ■ .■• ■ ■•■■.•■■ . : : The "Leeds Mercury" makes some editorial comments on the New Zealand professor. . "He finds us geod-natured, cheerful, courteous,-and kindly, and to use his own words: 'English'people take more trouble in England to do a willing service to a stranger than thoso of other countries in the Old World.' "The colonies, according to the professor, are tending towards the hustling spirit of America, and he finds in English life a certain repose or leisureliness that is generally refreshing. - "When his colleagues in. New. Zea-* land heard that he was coining, to Leeds, Professor Hight was, tho .object of a good deal of pity and commiseration from many one-time Leeds residents and Yorkshiremeri. If such thoughts arc no tribute to our city thcy;at least .testify to the attractions and adyan-: tages of New Zealand. .: : ' ' However, Professbr Hight is pleased to be able to disagree with them, and although stating that our ..congested suburbs have no comparison with the garden cities <>f his homo, ho thinks the progress in a city like Leeds, handicapped by a lack of town-planning in the .past, is truly, wonderful.. Ho is particularly struck with the civic spirit of the citizens and. their pride and faith in Leeds." ' '„■'..■