LECTURER IN LANGUAGES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19846, 15 January 1920, Page 5

LECTURER IN LANGUAGES.

CANTERBURY BOY Appointed. MrE. J. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc., of the L myersity of Perth, Western Australia, who has been appointed lecturer •in modern languages at Victoria College, was born in Canterbury and is the con of Air E. G. Wilson, late of the .liaihr;n- Dcpartmcu t, and now residing Hb. Milton Street. Sprevdon. Mr Wilson, while at the Nelson Boys’ College, gamed a university scholarship, and attended classes at Canterbury College from 1905 to 1909, winning in rapid succession bis B.A. and the place of university senior scholars in I’jcnch, his M.A, with first class lionours m English and French, and his B.oc. In 1910 bo was selected to represent the college for the Rhodes scholarship of New Zealand, the result of his candidature being "proximo accessit/’ From 1910 to 1912 ho was a student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, getting Fi rs t class in the Medieval and Modern Languages Tnpos. He is now eligible, unon application, for the degree of M.A. (Cantab). Mr Wilson studied in France or three months in toll, and duriim the following two years he was in Antwerp on the staff of the Allgcmeino Deutsche fechule. Air Wilson was always a keen Rugby football player Ho was a member of the CanteVburv L-ollcgo first fifteen from 1905 to 1909' and in 1908 represented the province of Canterbury and the University of Now Zealand in important matches. Sub Eoquenlly, while at Cambridge, bo played regularly with the first fißeon of Emmanuel College. - 'je Air Wilson has had varied experience as a lecturer. In 1909 he was assistant lecturer m English and French at Canterbury College; from 1912 to 1914 ] )e was Obcrlebrcr in charge of the English at the Allgemeine Deutsche Schule Antwerp, a_ secondary school of 800 pupils, subsidised by the German Gov vernment; in 1915 he was assistant master in Frencn and Gorman, at the Sydney Boys’ High School, New South Wales; and m 1916 ho was for a time master directing the teaching of modern languages at the Sydney Bovs’ High School. * fa

In Perth. Air Wilson, who is thirtythree years of age, i s vice-president and chief examiner of tho Alliance f rancaise, a body which seeks to dif. fuse the knowledge and loro of tho trench language.