COLLEGE LECTURER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 853, 29 August 1933, Page 11

COLLEGE LECTURER.

Successor to Professor Blunt Appointed. Professor C. Malthus, lecturer in modern languages at the University of Tasmania, has been appointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at Canterbury College in succession to Professor T. G. R. Blunt. The appointment was confirmed by the Board of Governors of the college at its meeting yesterday. Professor Malthus, who is forty-two years of age, was educated at the Timaru Boys’ High School, where he won a Junior University and Somes scholarship, gaining first class passes in all college subjects. He graduated B.A. in 1911 and M.A. in the following year with first-class honours in English and French. He also gained a senior scholarship in English. In 1913 he was a graduate student at the Christchurch Training College and was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship by the Students’ Association. War Service. Professor Malthus taught at Nelson Boys’ College till the outbreak of the war. He spent two years on active service, and was wounded and returned to New Zealand in 1917. He was appointed senior French and English Master at Timaru Boys’ High School, and in 1920 won a travelling scholarship in French. He spent a year at Sorbonne and a year at Grenoble, gaining the Diploma de Hautes Etudes with honourable mention. He returned to Timaru in 1922 and was then appointed lecturer in modern languages (French and German) at th e University of Tasmania. In 1930 he was granted a part time assistant and in 1932 w,as given the status of associate professor. He has undertaken considerable examination and administrative work, and recently wrote a literary history—Musett and Shakespeare—as a thesis for his Litt.D. Mrs Malthus is a senior and junior scholar and a graduate (with honours) of Canterbury College.