PROFEESSOR'S ROMANCE.
A FORM KB BASKETMAKEB
The new professorship of Italian at Cambridge University has been filled by Mr Thomas Okcy, aged 67 years, who was apprenticed to the basketmaking trade in 1865.
About 40 years ago he began to
travel on the Continent, working at his trade as he went, and in this way he journeyed in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, learning the languages with great, thoroughness as he passed through the towns and villages of the various countries. He continued to work as a basket-maker for several years after'his return, but in time he was able to give it up and become a teacher of languages. Fired by his success, Mr Okey instituted a travellers' club, by means of which trips on the Continent were arranged for otht-r working men, who showed themselves capable of profiting by them.
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Taihape Daily Times, 20 May 1919, Page 8
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141PROFEESSOR'S ROMANCE. Taihape Daily Times, 20 May 1919, Page 8
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