A SELF-MADE MAN.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6537, 30 December 1887, Page 4

A SELF- MADE MAN.

'Tlje foMowing interesting account of the life his'ory of Mr William Lowrip, M.A., B. Sc, (E linburgb), who ha* beca appointed Professor o( Agricultureat the Rjaeworthy AgriculuralFarm, South Ausra11$, Si exr?oted Irom his applio»non paper*: " I began life as a farm servant on one of the largest farms inßoxbur^behire, and oontioued thereat for upwnrds of two years. Thereafter I went back to school, and thence to the University of Edinburgh, in 1878, wbere I maintained myself by teaching and otherwise until I bad completed the arfs curriculum and graduated M.A. io 1883. In 1884 I gained one of the Highland and Agricultural Society's bursaries, tenable at tbe university, and studied there the priucip'es of agriculture nnd the physical andna'ur&l Bciencea which hal any relaiion then to. I was first medalist ia the class of agriculture in 1885 nnd •pined afc the came li.ne the S even Schoiarshio Rvalue L 75) in agriculture, in connec 'on with winch I had to visit and furnish to the Professor of Agricu'ure a report on tho following phowsof f!evoftrlßßs, v : z , the Il>ya! Apricului'nl Sod;ty ol England's s'iow, the Bath J.nd W^st of Ea^laud Soci ty's show, tho Hishlaud and Agricultural Society of Irelnnd's show, aad thellojal ApricuVtirel Society o( ScaUand's show. Iti" 1885 I aUo took the Highland _an 1 A Ticul'iir-jl Society's diploma, F H S.A , btid in July ISBtS, I giaduifed B. Sc. (Eli; .) in ihe department oi '.he ua'uiai pctenccr. As to the p^rticuhrs of my universi y e> urge, I will mention only tb-jse vfhich more dircc ly qualify for the appo'ntm?n» for which I desire hu.ubly to bt-come a candidate, in the arts coarse I obtaied, as rry testimoni tls will show, first c ass honors «nd a prizs in the chsaei of mathen-etics, ruitnral pnilos -phy and physicc, and political economy and mcrcuntile law. In the ecieuce course 1 had in all tboclasscp which are r/qui-ed^ bj cen lidatos desiring to graduate as bac'. elors oi rcionce, viz, second cla«s honors in ro'h theoretical aud pracical botany, in gology and mineralogy, and in eeuioi theoretical physiology, and first class htnorsau'l mcd,,l.° in natural history (z iology) and in ptac'ic-.l phyMolog). I a>so worked eve scßHion iv tfce gßulopy labura tojy, and \wo s c 3»io"6 cacti m ihe n« utal history and botany laboratories. As to practical tra ; ning, I havi merely to men' ion tbat I hf,ve be>n brought up on a large farm (1100 acres), na r,e)j, C arilan, St B-.9.T61I 1 . Roxhurgrsbtre, wl.ich is farimd by Mr E:lliuga!l, mil wbeie my father h:.p for eixteen years been shepherd; (bat I worked on that farm as a farm eerv-.ni foi upwards of two years; and that 1 spent thereon more or less actively tbe various intervals between nniveisiiy seaaioos. At preseot 1 am encased aß)ecur?r on natural science and agriculture iv Gordou's College Aberdeen."