VICTORIA COLLEGE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 10

VICTORIA COLLEGE

FOUNDATION PROFESSORS

PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS

Arrangements are being completed for the official presentation and unveiling of the oil portraits of the four foundation professors of Victoria University. College. In the case of three of these—Professors J. Eankine Brown, H. Mackenzie, and T. H. Easterfield— the portraits have been subscribed for by past and present members of the College Council, past and present members of the teaching stafi, and past and present students. The fourth portrait, —that of the late Professor E. C. Maelaurin—has been presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a gesture of friendship, and, as the letter from the president of the institute expresses it, '' thus in a small way to reciprocate the great contribution which .Victoria College made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in'the person of Dr. Maelaurin." It-was hoped that his Excellency the Governor-General would be the principal speaker at the official presentation or the portraits on Saturday, May 5, but his Excellency has intimated that he deeply regrets that engagements at Auckland will prevent liis visiting Wellington fit that time. The chairman of the College Council (Mr. P. Levi) stated today that on behalf of the College Council, the Professorial Board, and subscribers generally he had communicated with Mr. A. H. Johnstone, K.C., 8.A., LL.B., of Auckland, a distinguished graduate of the college/inviting him to perform the unveiling ceremony on May 5, and, Mr. Johnstone has today replied thanking those responsible for the invitation and expressing his pleasure in accepting it. . '. . : ■. ' : It is proposed that the ceremony shall be as far as possible of an academic naturi* and fuller details will be advertised/later.