STUDENTS' SUCCESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 4

STUDENTS' SUCCESSES

A GOOD RECORD,

The anual report of the Victoria University College contains a record of the scholastic; achievements of some of the past students which makes very interesting reading. Mr. G. S. Troup, M.A., holder of a University French Travelling Scholarship for 1924, is attached to tho University of Poitiers (France), where he has completed half of the sections for licence en lettres. Mr. H. Espinor, M.A., is at work in tho Bibliotheque Natioualo, Paris, having completed his license at Poitiers. Ho is bringing out an edition of the sixteenth-century antiquarian, Claude Fauchot, and writing a thesis on Fauchet's life and works for presentation to tho Sorbonno for the Doctorate. Mr. J. S. Yeates, M.Sc, Ph.D., holder of the University Post-graduate scholarship in science, began his work at Trinity College, Cambridge, late in 1925. He was awarded a research scholarship in science at Cambridge. Very satisfactory reports as to his progress are received. Mr. J. G. Myers, M.Sc, holder of the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, is now completing his second year at the Bussey Institute, Harvard University, where ho has been working especially at applied Entomology. The New Zealand Agricultural Department arranged for him to visit Europo last year as a delegate to the International Entomological Congress, and the authorities of tho Bussey Institute sent him as a member of an entomological expedition to Cuba. Mr. D. J'enncss, M.A., has been appointed chairman of the Department of Ethnology in the Dominion of Canada. Mr. H. L. Richardson, M.Sc, holder of the Imperial College Scholarship, ia presenting this year his thesis for the degree of Ph.D. Miss A. Pope, M.Sc, M.A., after spending three years studying in England and America as holder of tho Sarah Anne Rhodes Scholarship, has returned to New Zealand. The council has awarded her the fellowship, aud by arrangement with the Health Department and hospital boards she is now engaged in touring New Zealand hospitals in order to prepare a report on the culinary and dietary arrangements.

Miss Vera B. Reader, M.Sc, who was awarded a Sarah Anne Rhodes Scholarship in 1922, has been studying under Professor Druininond at University College, London. He has spoken in terms of high praise of her research work on "Bichemieal Aspects of Metabolism of Micro-organisms. " She has now gone to Oxford, whero she has been given the use of one o£ tho now Rockefeller laboratories for the prosecution of her research.

Miss Miriam Hcrrick, M.Sc, is still pursuing a course in home science at the University of Otago, where the professors are very satisfied with the work she is doing.