Our Professor

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 6

Our Professor

UYTE'RE lete! Ye're lete!"— and the ■1 unworthy student at whom these few kind words were hurled murmurs an excuse about his watch having stopped; then he creeps to his desk feeling 1 that — for all time — the ■ sun has gone out of his life. ' ' For Dr. Jack, Caledonian Professor of Physics at Otago University, has an appreciation of the value of punctuality, which, though admirable, is oft embarrassing. Dr. Jack is, perhaps, one of the most popular lecturers at Otago University. True, he is apt to "fly off the handle" when his love of punctuality is slighted, but then he certainly knows all about physics, and his fussiness, if so it may be termed, covers a very human heart. The worthy professor, for relaxation, keeps a few tame variometers, valves and coils. In other words, there's no one m New .Zealand ,who knows more about wireless than "our Bobby."' In those dark days when the radio was lisping' but a few stuttery words, Dr. Jack was among the Dominion's pioneer experimenters.