A NOTED SCHOLAR FROM ENGLAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18545, 20 August 1928, Page 5

A NOTED SCHOLAR FROM ENGLAND.

PROFESSOR CONWAY WILL GIVE WILDING LECTURE TO-NIGHT.

Professor R. S. Conway, Litt. D., F.8.A.. of the University of Manchester, who arrived in Christchurch on Saturday, is a distinguished English scholar who is not unknown to New Zealanders. Professor Conway, besides having relatives living in the Dominion, has had as colleagues in the scholastic world several noted New Zealanders, among whom are Sir Ernest Rutherford, Professor Hugh Stew r art and the Professor Flamstead Walters. The visitor is touring Australia and New Zealand under the auspices of the Classical Association, of which body he is a past president. This association is a very strong one, and has branches all over the world, including four at the University centres in New Zealand. Professor Conway, who lias already lectured in Dunedin, will deliver the Wilding Memorial Lecture at Canterbury College this evening. His subject will be “ The Chivalry of Virgil.” lie will speak on the place of athletics in learning and on the place of women in the social life of education. For five years he was external examiner for the University of New Zealand. With the late Professor Walters, a New Zealander who occupied the chair of Classics at the London University, he was preparing a long and arduous classical work—a Text of Livy. Two volumes have been published, and Professor Conway hopes to have most of the work completed during his lifetime. Tie has a brother, Mr Harry Conway, deputation secretary for New Zealand of the China Inland Mission, residing in Auckland. The Professor’s son is well known on the sports field, being G. S. Conway, who played for England against the 1924 All Blacks. The international Rugby footballer is also an ex-captain of the Cambridge University fifteen. The lecture tour is under the direction of the Melbourne Classical Association. After giving four lectures at Melbourne, he will lecture to the Classical Associations of the Universities at Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Tasmania. He will leave Wellington for Sydney on Friday. He will give lectures at Wellington on Wednesday and Thursday.

Professor Conway, while expressing himself charmed with the country and delighted with the hospitality of New Zealanders, declined to comment on the Dominion before he had made further acquaintance with it.