BRILLANT LINGUISTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 5

BRILLANT LINGUISTS.

HONOURS FOR KEW ZEAWNDERS. j By Telegraph—Prces Aesociattaa—CosytlKltt j Lori'd.gn, June la. Mr. Broadhead, Qiaw iSeijitUia) obtained a first-class, au4 Jliss itnaggs (Vcl-lingt-on) a second-cfess in the iMederri 1 and Medieval. Languages Tripos at Caiti*' : bridge.' ' 'V'' ' 'ii MR. BROADHEAO'S CAREER, -. •'; A' LONG STORY OP SUCCESSES. ,Jly ' lole£tTO.Dh .--vtsff.? 'i\!?sQi>S(!..':uii.', . ' •; • -. Chrislchuscfi, Juni;. 10. Mr. Henry D. Bivtidheaci, wfw) is u»iy twenty-four years of u»e, is the eldest son of Mr. Henry Broiifcul, 0 { Christ- : c'hureh. He receiveit lids' primary education at several ,Chrjflsl)u!xl( .public schools, ' including .fest Cti : nstehu.r?li ■ School.- At the age of. thWeen hffl wMtt to. tho Boys' High SahaDfi ivkere lis worn a fres place every year, and secured tiwny form prizes for languages. In. IBflS M.i\ Broadhead . won the junior UntVßrsity Scholarship,, being fifth "oh the list of places. "This was a notables ssit-ecss, as h« took ' nothing but lajigiva^s—English, French) Germa;>, Latin, and his five subjects. At tie .same tlni.e as he sat for his B.A, /degree, Br. B'rte'lhead w«a the Senior ■ New. Zealand University Scholarship in Latin and fireefc After a short but brilliant career a*' 1 Canterbury College, Mr. Broadhead west to England in January, 1911, and .ifi&iji ft.'fere'days after landing won tlie'oipen eXlVibiton at Trinity College, Cambridge.. H'is studies at Cambridge 'earned, for hiui a Senior Foundation ScholaMMp ill Match, 19Kf, and three months, Itfer he .scfiiiScd firstclass honours in t]ie second' d'iviskm of Classical' Tripos, at the ,«aiaje t.im,e taking his B.A. degree. During t'm 6n.n>.frier viacn,tion last year ho speiit 50ine td.iMor in the North of France iijj.proving his kiloiVledge of the French Iwigmige.. Octoher he went back to Trinity College, taking up the study of medwßfni aiifl. jiiodern French. ' ' ',