STEPS TO FAME
GETTING ELECTED TO ROYAL SOCIETY “STOLE MEMBER’S HAT” CSpeciaX to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Before a highly-amused audience at the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, Professor C. Coleridge Farr explained how he came to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. “The first step In getting oneself
elected to the Royal Society Is to make oneself known to the society,” he said. “This I did in two ways. First, I stole a hat. I attended a meeting of the society once and took someone else’s hat, since someone else liad taken mine. Secondly, on one occasion I announced the presidency of the Royal Society four months before it was out. Believe me, when I realised what I had done I had a very bad night.” “Were you right?” inquired a member. “Sure I was,” replied the jovial doctor. “His mother-in-law told me about it herself.” Dr. Farr concluded by asking all members “not to regard it as an honour to be associated in the room with me.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 299, 9 March 1928, Page 8
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