Award Of Orford Studentship
King’s College, Cambridge, has awarded the Orford studentship for 1957 to Mr G. J. Halligan, a graduate of Canterbury University College. The two-year studentship is awarded biennially on the nominations of the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand and is. valued at £350 a year.
Mr Halligan, who is 22, enrolled at Canterbury College in 1953 and gained first class honours in French in the 1956 examinations.
He studied mathematics for three years and also English and Latin. After five years at St. Andrew’s College, where he was dux in 1952, he won a University National Scholarship, and a Senior Scholarship when hp graduated bachelor of arts in French in 1956. Mr Halligan is co-author of this year’s students’ rgvue, played hockey for Canterbury College, was vice-president of the college French Club and a member of the Christchurch French 'Circle.
At King’s College he proposes to study medieval French drama. He expects to leave New Zealand in August for the beginning of the Cambridge academic year in October.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 17
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173Award Of Orford Studentship Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28266, 2 May 1957, Page 17
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