THE CHAIR OF CLASSICS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1564, 7 October 1912, Page 4

THE CHAIR OF CLASSICS.

NEW PROFESSOR AT CANTERBURY COLLEGE. Mr. Hugh Stewart, 8.A., Cambridge,., whose appointment ae Professor of Classics at Canterbury' College was announced in The Dominion recently, takes up his duties at tlio beginning of next year. Mr. Stewart is single, 28 years of age, and has had three years and a half experience teaching Latin and Greek, and at thr • lime lie applied ho was assistant lecturer in Latin and Greek in the University of Liverpool. Ho ie a Foundation Scholar at Fettos College, Edinburgh, a l'ettes exhibitioner, and John Welsh classical bursar. Mr. Stewart gained a university prize, for Latin versoj lie is a Foundation Scholar at Trinity College, , Cambridge,. where ho obtained first-class honours in. classics. Mr. Stewart's testimonials wer» from Sir Alfred Dale, LL.D. (vice-chan-cellor of the Liverpool University), Pro* fessor 11. A. Strong (Liverpool Univeraity), Professor J. L. Myers, Professor J, P. Postdate (headmaster of Fcttcs Collego, Edinburgh), Professors Ridgeway, /J. Duff, R. C. Bosanquot, Campagnac, and R«rasay-Muir. Mr. Stewart is the eldest son of th» late (John Stewart, parish minister of Premauy, Abordecnshire, and nt the time, he sent in his application for tho Chair of Classics at Canterbury CollcßO ■ lie was arranging to tnlte his M.A. degree in September. Tn addition to the claesical languages, Mr. Slowart has studied French. German, and Russian. He has published in collaboration with Professor 11. A. Strong, "Our Debt to Antiquity," a translation from the Russian of lectures (Vlivered by Professor Ziclfriski; and "Outlines of Phonetics." nn edition based nn the French and German editions of Professor Niedermann's book 6n philolngy. Hn was at the timo he applied for the position at Canterbury Colle&e, preparine for the Oxford University Press nn edition of at least tho first three books of Lucan.