UNIVERSITY NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 18

UNIVERSITY NEWS

STUDENTS AT HOME

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th October.

It is estimated that there aro 1500 men and women freshers at Oxford and more than 1000 at Cambridge.

During the long vacation there have been changes in Oxford. One of the most rombarkable is at Magdalen College, where a whole new quadrangle is coining into existence. It abuts mi Long Wall street, and the liucly proportioned hall of Magdalen College School —which has now been moved to another site—occupies one sido of it. Fortunately it has not been necessary to make any serious encroachment on the Deer Park. The now buildings will help to solve the problem of accommodation.

Many gifts and bequests have materialised during the vacation. Mr. Allcock, Senior Fellow of Emmanuel College, who died last January, has, after a few small bequests, left the residue of his estate of 1-10,000 to liia college. Tlie Empire Marketing Board lias sanctioned a grant to the School of Agriculture for the provision of buildings, and the Drapers' Company has made a further grant of £1000 ;i year for ten years for the Chair of Agriculture, besides renewing for a further ten years their contribution to the Drapers' Chair of French.

During the coming term the Oxford Preservation Trust will address :. letter to the Hebdomadal Council asking for the preservation of the beauties of Broad street, and expressing the hope that the Bodleian extension scheme will not involve the destruction of a largo number of the old houses there. The trust is still engaged in improving the mound which it recently purchased on Boar's Hill.

OXFORD-NEW ZEALANDERS.

The New Zealand Rhodes scholars. Messrs. W. E. Henley (Otago) and E. E. Bailey (Auckland University ColCollege) have gone to Oxford, the former to New College, the latter to Magdalen. The one will take medicine, the other D.Phil, in law. Mr. Henley travelled via America and attended the second Imperial Conference of Students as New Zealand delegate. A second New Zealander at Magdalen is Mr. K. A. Clark (Christ's College), who is taking natural science. Mr. H. M. Scott (Wanganui Collegiate) is expected at the College in Hilary Term, 1930, to take law.

Messrs. C. O. Brasch and C. A. Sharp, B.A. (Dunedin) are still at St. John's. The former is reading modern history, and the latter is taking philosophy, politics, and economics ("Modern Greats.").

Oriel College has Messrs. A. L. Haslam, LL.M. (Christchureh), Rhodes scholar, and D. R. Balcombe Brown (Upper Hutt, from Christ's College). The former, in his third year, is reading for a D.Phil, in law; the latter is reading for a medical degree in B.A. honours in physiology. At Lincoln two New Zealanders are Messrs. G. H. Ormoml Wilson and Quentin Ormond Wilson (Bulls), the one taking modern history, the other agriculture.

At Brasnose, Mr. E. S. Gerard (Christchurch) is reading for the English Literature School.

Dr. S. P. M'Callum is Fellow in Physics at New College. Miss M. A. M'Nair (Wellington) is at St. Hugh's. A former pupil of Chilton House School and Wellington Diocesan School for Girls, she matriculated in 1928, and arrived at Oxford a year ago. Miss M'Nair is reading for honours in English, 1931. Mr. W. J. Harris, who went to' University College in 1926, came down last June. He was formerly a master at Christ's College and came to Oxford to read modern history, in which he gained honours this year.

AT CAMBRIDGE.

There seem to be more New Zealanders at Jesus College than at any of the other colleges in Cambridge. They are Messrs. G. H. Williams, 8.A.: X E Hill and D. G. Young (Wellington) in their third year; V. D. Hill (engineerlng); M. Williams (Masterton) PH T Williams, T. P. C. Tapper, in their second year; D. G. M'Hardy, T. W. Reed, and T. H. F. Sugden (Christ's College) all freshers.

Emmanuel lias seven of our men, Messrs. R. S. Allan (taking geology) C J. Crofts (New Plymouth), architecture; i.'. L. Kay, M.A. (Canterbury College), classics; J. B. Nanson (Christchureh) moral sciences; L. D. Nathan (history) • J. -It. Oliver (economics); and E D Townsend (moral sciences) At Gonville and Caiua there arc six m residence, three being research students. They are: .Wallace. A. Maeky P W ga)>, taking Physi =s; Leicester O Webb, who came into residence in October this year for the first time, and who will take history; R. O. Whytc who completed his course and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1 s t June, and who is studying plant path °l°vf y p - r- T£° ° + ther three as r y if G\ r K™tlsh Mayfield (forestry) Godfrey. M. Mayfield (engineering), and George E Walker (medicine). These three are. third-year men. At Olaro there are four Messrs George N. Francis (economics), John E Hardwick-Smith (Wellington), medij cine; Thomas C. Mailingf law Harold ,M U Taylor (mathematics). Two in residence at Trinity Hall are fe-p^; ot N^ athaa ' ~^ StMCatLL' S °hnStolle <ChriStS > is at At Newnham, Miss S. M. V. Sadlier takmg natural sciences and medicine.

STUDENTS IN LONDON.

■ At the medical schools one usually GuvVth 6ntS fr°m the Domimoh. & ?n? ? .^ ere are: Messrs. J. T. Irvins? (Chnstchurch), Cambridge N.B • J f ?r? n' OS aOn M- B" E. Gill-Carey At St. Bartholomew's the two New Zealand men are Messrs. D. B. M'Gavin ffikffi 0 7 d H" E- W- E°benJon finaTstS. "ll° are com Ploti«g their T M kSS/wT,-. R- Vernon a°d »avid M College of Science and Technoloev South Kensington. The former i s dofng plant pathology research; the latter is a third year student in electrical engineer!n!) a ConegeCity

Miss M. W. Young, scholar and graduate of Canterbury College, finished her three years' course at the Royal Hollo™yC°UeSe> Egham, in June, and gained the Ph.D. in chemistry.