DOCTOR OF LITERATURE.
AWARD MADE TO WOMAN,
SUDAN LANGUAGE RESEARCH
The rare degree of Doctor of Literature has been conferred by the University of New Zealand on Mrs. N. MacDiarmid, M.A., of Heiban, in tho Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. As a member of the field staff qC the Sudan United Mission Mrs. MacDiarmid has for a number of years past made a close study of the Nuba language eventually reducing it to writing and publishing portions of Scripture and elementary school books in it. Mrs. MacDiarmid has been awarded the degree for a thesis on the Nuba language. She was well known as Miss Phoebe Harrington in Otago and • Southland, where she was a teacher in the Southland Girls' High School. She is the second woman to earn the degree of Litt.D. from tho New Zealand University.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 10
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