CANTERBURY COLLEGE STAFF.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16048, 1 October 1912, Page 8

CANTERBURY COLLEGE STAFF.

NKAY PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS. APPOINTMENT OF AIR HUGH BTEAVAKT. B.A. A'csterdoy the Board of Governors appointed Mr Hugh Stewart, 8.A., professor of classics at Canterbury College in accordance with the recommendation of the Commissioners, the acting-Tligh Commissioner of New Zealand, Mr J AV. Joynt and Professor Sale. Mi Stewart had arranged to take his ALA. degree in September. Ho has had three and a- half years’ experience teaching Latin and Greek nnd is atpresent assistant lecturer in Latin and Greek at the University of Liverpool. Mr Stewart received his primary education at a .Dublie school in Aberdeenshire. Ho was a foundation scholar at Fettes College, Edinburgh (1898-1903), a Fettes exhibitioner and John Welsh classical bursar. He gained the University prize for Latin verse. Tic was a foundation scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge (1904-7), and lie gained 'first-class honours in classics, lie is twenty-eight years of ago. In 1907, after taking his degree, Mr Stewart went to Russia, and on his return ho went- to Ilugby as an assistant teacher. In 1909 he joined the stuff of the Liverpool University. The testimonials accompanying Air Stewart’s application were forwarded by Sir Alfred Dale (vice-chancellor of the Liverpool University), Professor Vi. A. Strong (Liverpool University), Professor J. L. Myers, Professor J. P. Postgate (headmaster of Fettes College, Edinburgh), Professor:. Ridgeway. J. Duff, R. 0. Bosanquot, Campagnac and Ramsay-Muir. In Liverpool he was an enthusiastic Territorial officer. He has published, in collaboration with Professor H. A. Strong, ” Our Debt- to Antiquity ” (a translation from the Russian lectures delivered by Professor Zielinski), 1908; ‘‘Outlines of Phonetus ” (based on the French sad German edition of Professor A'ildermarin’s book on philology), 1910. Ho is engaged in preparing l’or the Oxford University Press an edition of at least the first three books of Lucan. There were fourteen applicants, two of them from Australia.