A COLONIAL SCHOLAR.

Evening Star, Issue 4649, 24 January 1878, Page 4

A COLONIAL SCHOLAR.

Mr Alexander, who recently took a Baliol scholarship at Oxford, is the first colonially educated man, who has attained that high honor. The ‘Argus’ gives the following particulars of his career “He joined the Wesleyan College in 1871, and passed the matriculation examination—that awful terror to our schoolboys—with credit before he was thirteen. In the same year (1871) he was elected Draper scholar, beating his seniors, Irving and Johnsten, who after distinguished themselves at the University, and after an uninterrupted career of success at the school, including the gaining of the ‘Argus’ prize, quitted it in 1874 as Walter Powell scholar. In the beginning of 1875 he obtained all the three exhibitions at entrance. At the end of that year, he was placed in the first class in the arts honor list, and had awarded to him both the classical and the mathematical exhibition. At the end of 18/6 his name appears again in the first class, and he gained no fewer than three exhibitions for classics, for mathematics, and for natural science.”