CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15901, 12 April 1912, Page 4

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

THE CHAIR OF CLASSICS. PROFESSOR HASLAM’S RESIGNS* TION. Professor F. W. Haslam, who ha# occupied tho Chair of Classics at Can- : terbury College for thirty-two years,! forwarded his resignation to tho' Board of Governors of the College yea-' terday. Professor Haslam has been in poor health for scfme time. It is understood that lie finds it impossible to continue his work at the College, and has therefore sent in his resignation. Professor Haslam is a native of Ceylon, but ho was educated in England and received his scholastic training in that country. He, attended Rugby, where he became head of tho school and obtained an exhibition. On. going to St John’s College, Cambridge, 1 he won an open exhibition and founda-' tion scholarship, and graduated as 8.A., with a first class in the classical tripos, in 1871. After -that he was appointed composition master at Tunbridge School, and later on head of the classical department in the United Service College, Westward Ho. When it was decided to establish a'Chair of Classics at Canterbury College he was selected for the position at the end of 1879. He arrived in Christchurch to take up his duties early in 1880. During his long term of service many Sils have passed through his hands a number of them have distinguish* ed themselves in other countries. Professor Haslam has always been very enthusiastic in his work. Evidence of this is shown by the ‘fact that, when he went to the Old Country on leave a few years ago, he succeeded in obtaining a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, available only to students of Canterbury College.