UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS.
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir, Dt Stn-art Mooro "writes to you complaining of the method of appointment of the Professor of English Literature at the University. I understand the Presbyterian Church pays the piper—l mean the professor or very largely so. Well, Dr Stuart Moore, 1 li.Tve looked up the personnel of the University Council and also that of tho Presbytery, and I don't think the latter compare so badly in tho matter of a Selection Board for the vacant professorship. But Sir I am a little afraid of the possibilities of an extension of this system. I do hop© lire ivool growers won't oome along with £10.000 and want to appoint a Professor of Political Economy. Or perhaps the Bolshevists with a few thousands and a grim determination to possess a professorship of operative surgery. But, Sir, it is a way we faavo ift tho 'Varsity! I am, etc., E^ualitas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18007, 6 August 1920, Page 6
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