AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 42, 18 February 1908, Page 2

AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY.

- CHAIS OF CLASSICS. FILLED.-

EroJessqr Brown, of the Auckland TJniVeisity, reported to the meeting of the College Council yesterday afternoon on the results of his recent visit to England, as regards an appointment to the Chair of Classics at the University. , Thirty-five applications had been received through iae Higfn €onnnisaoners Office at london. After considerable "discussion in committee, the Council decided in favour, of the selection _for_the ppsition of one of she nine Colonial applicants, Mr. H. S. Dettniann. BX. Syd.. 1897. 8.A., Oxon-, 190 L M.A., B.CI. Oxon., 1906, Hon. 2iA. Adelaide, 1807. Born in 1575, Mr. Dettmann. in each, of his three years in arts gained a first class in four subjects. In ISO 7he obtained the only- first-classes awarded that year in modern languages, and carried off the JiaeCallum English Prize in each of the three years. In April,-1599, he was elected to the Wolley Travelling Scholarship, and proceeded to Oxford, where he enter-! Ed in October at Balliol College. At Bal-j Hoi he gained a second- class in the Final B.A. School of Literae Humaniores in ISOI. During, this time he had been iworking under the late Master of Balliol 4 Dr. Caird), the late Mr. Evelyn Abbott, «jid 2Vtr. J. L. Strachan-Davidson, nowMaster of Balloil. In June, 1902. he sat for the degree of Bachelor of Civic Law, and. gained: one of the three Second Classes of the year, no First being swarded. " On returning to Sydney he .•was appointed to. an assistant mastership at the Sydney Grammar School. In 1906, during a "classical interregnum" at" Adelaide, he acted a≤ Professor of Classics, and delivered a course of Extension Lectures on the Classical Drama. At the end' of the year the University awarded iriTP an honorary ad eundem de°ree. Laier he has been sole Public- Examiner to the University of Adelaide in the -Higher Classics.