UNIVERSITY LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 8

UNIVERSITY LIFE

RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES

BENEFIT TO STUDENTS.

Among the passengers who arrived by the Marama from Sydney to-day was Dr. C. E. Weatherburn, formerly lecturer in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Ormond and Trinity Colleges, Melbourne. Dr. Weatherburn has come to New Zealand to accept the appointment of Professor of Mathematics at Canterbury College, and .is accompanied by his wife and three small sons.

Born in Sydney, Dr. Weatherburn graduated at Sydney University, and there obtained a travelling scholarship to Cambridge University. On his return to Australia he was for four years on the staff of the Sydney High School ,and subsequently he went to Melbourne University, where he was Lecturer in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy for thirteen years. Dr. Weatherburn's degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on him by Sydney University in 1916 for his work in mathematical research. He has published much original work in mathematics, and has written two volumes on vector analysis.

In the course of a conversation with

a representative of " The Post " this morning, Dr. Weatherburn mentioned that after the war there was a big influx of students to the University Colleges in Australia, but in more recent years the numbers had dropped a good deal, especially in the Medical School. The profession of medicine had attracted a rush of students during the war, but the numbers of those whs were now pursuing medical studies had fallen to normal.

" I think students gain a lot by being in residence. at remarked Dr. Weatherburn, when asked to express his views on this particular aspect of college, life. "In this respect Melbourne is something like Cambridge. Ormond, Trinity, Queen's, and Newman Colleges, in Melbourne, are all residential. ; Ormond College is conducted by the Presbyterian Church, Trinity by the Church of England, Queen's, by the Methodist Church, and Newman by the Raman Catholic Church. There are over 100 students in residence at Ormond'Cqllege. Where students are in residence we find that there is a steadier application to work on their part. In this connection Melbourne is ahead of Sydney." '

Dr. Weatherburn added that the colleges in Melbourne! had (not benefited very greatly so far as endowments were concerned, and there was now a tendency for the State to exact more fram the institutions in the matter of providing facilities for students to extend their education.