STUDY OF LANGUAGES
PROFESSOR'S HOBBY
English language and literature are the profession of Professor I. A. Gordon, Ph.D. (Edinburgh), who arrived' by the Awatea today to occupy the Chair of English Language and Literature at Victoria University College, but other languages, both ancient and modern, are his hobby.
Professor Gordon has been a-lecturer in Edinburgh University for six or seven years, but he has found time for
a considerable amount of travel on the Continent, where he studied languages. "Languages are my hobby," he said when interviewed. "I started.off with dead languages and studied Latin, Greek, and old English, and then I studied modern languages. I know French, German, and Italian and recently I have been studying Russian." His most recent specialised work. Professor Gordon said, was the study of English poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries and he had written a biography on John Skelton, Poet Laureate to Henry VIII. On the sporting side, Professor Gordon likes tramping and hockey.
Mrs. Gordon, who accompanies her husband, is also a graduate of Edinburgh University, holding the same degree as the Professor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 10
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