GREAT IMAGINATION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1929, Page 10

GREAT IMAGINATION

LATE PROFESSOR BICKERTON

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNJDDIN, This Day

Keference to the death in England of Professor Bickertou was made B at a meeting of the New Zealand University Council by 'the Chancellor (Professor J. MacMillan Brown).'. The Chancellor said that three or four weeks ago he had received from Professor Bickerton a short note in which ho had stated that ho Ivas not well and was confined to his bed. As a matter of fact he had written nothing for six months. The speaker went on to say that ho had known Professor Bickerton for Jiftyfour years, and ho thought that the late professor had one of the most enthusiastic temperaments he had ever come across, for whenever he took up an idea he ran it for all it was worth.

Having referred to his great imagination . and his energy, Professor MacMillan Brown added that the resolution passed by tlie Canterbury College Board of Governors was largely duo to Professor Bickerton 's tendency towards the use of propaganda, which had prejudiced a great number of his best friends. It was no use preaching scientific hypotheses as a gospel, and if he had lost the gospel side of his nature he- would have been a lesser man perhaps, but a more successful man.