PROFESSOR HASLAM’S RESIGNATION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15901, 12 April 1912, Page 6

PROFESSOR HASLAM’S RESIGNATION.

The retirement of Professor Haslam from the teaching staff of Canterbury College has a peculiar significance, since it apparently necessitates the severance of tho last personal tie that binds the professors and lecturers of to-day to the very ‘’early years of university education in the province. Professor Macmillan Brown, Professor Bickerton and the late Professor Cook began tho work of Canterbury College in 1875, and five years only had elapsed when Professor Haslam came from England to share in the difficult task of shaping the destinies of the new seat of learning. He Was already a veteran in the service of the College when the oldest of his present colleagues was appointed, and they will feel very keenly the loss of his experienced counsel and sound judgment. The present-day students also and the numbers of men and women whose wider experience has taught them to appreciate the training they received at Professor Hoslam’s hands will regret very sincerely the necessity that has compelled him to relinquish tho duties which, he has discharged with conspicuous ability for more than thirty years. They will sympathise with him, as we all can do, in the pain that his decision must have cost him, and tho graduates and undergraduates will find additional cause for regret in the removal from their midst of a professor who has spent his time and his energies freely in tho interests of their physical as well as thoir mental advancement. Professor Haslam’s services to the College have not been limited to the exercise of his scholarship in tho classroom, and many incidents in his long career have demonstrated his unfailing concern for the welfare of the institution. Wo hope ourselves that hie resignation does not imply his entire dissociation from the work to which ho has given tho best years of his life. His past and present students and his colleagues, we are sure, would be glad to think that his connection with the College could be maintained, and we hope that the authorities will be able to devise some moans for meeting their wishes. Otago University recently marked its appreciation of Professor Sale’s services by creating him Emeritus Professor of Classics on his retirement from the chair which he had held for many years. Th© adoption of that precedent would enable Canterbury College to honour one of its most distinguished servants.