THE NEW COLLEGE FOR AUCKLAND.

Otago Witness, Issue 1584, 1 April 1882, Page 14

THE NEW COLLEGE FOR AUCKLAND.

Wellington, March 29th.

By the Home mail on Sunday & letter was despatched from the Minister of Education requesting the Agent-general to take immediate measures to secure two professors for the proposed college at Auckland. Along witli Sir Dillon Bell are to be .associated tho following gentlemen, all of whom arc well known for classical and scientific attainments, viz. :— Dr Jowctt, master of Balliol, Oxford; Profossor Sedgwick, of Cambridge; Professor Tait, of Edinburgh University ; and the Rev. Mr Jcllott, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. These live are appointed as a commission to select and appoint tlio.se candidates who are deemed most fit for the respective offices. The chairs to be established are— (l) Classics and English; (2) Mathematics and mathematical physics. The emoluments are £700 a year and fees, and the term of engagement is for five years. It will be stipulated that the professors shall be in the Colony by the Ist of January, 1883, so as to have time to arrange for entering successfully on their duties. They will act as agents of the Government until such time as the college is fully established, when other terms and arrangements may be made with them, provided always that these are not worse then the Government terms under which they will be engaged.