OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 5 June 1909, Page 2

OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

CHAlll OF DOMESTIC SCIKXCE. i lly Telegraph.—l'ress Association. Dunedin, Last Night. At a meeting of tlie t'niveroity Coun- . cil to-day. it was resolved to confer the status of professor tin the following gentlemen at, present engaged as lecturers at the University:—lll'. K. ]). White (education); Dr. Cohpihoun (medicine); J)r. JJarnett (surgery); Dr. Rubens (pathology); Dr. Ogston (medical jurisprudence and public health); Dr. l\ C. Matchclor (midwifery and gvnealogy); Dr. Undo l-'crguson (opthalmolo"v|; Air. I) .1!. Waters (metallurnv and assaying). •Mr. John Sludholine, of CohNtreani. wrote to the Council ollViing Chilli a year for three veal's to endow a chair of domestic .science in tlie Otag.j Vsiivei'isity. the lirst payment 10 be made as soon as a professor had actually taken up the position, 'lhe stipulations 1 he makes are that the chair of domeslic science, and nut a ' mere lectureship, be ' established; that a fully oualilicd professor lie appointed, ami'thai the Council use the best endeavor* to get a couive, in domestic science admitted 1> Y the Senate of the Xew Zealand I niverSonic time since a similar oiler was made to ihe Canlerimn Collce, lull the authorities, after giving the matter lengthy consideration and entering into negotiations will. Miss Cilclnist ol Tennessee I'uivcrsjty. decided ,iot ,o' entertain the proposal. The Council, spoke very favorably of the oiler, ibut as lie did not seek „ filial answer till '-Mnemher it was decided that a ~nbcomuiitlee be appointed to consider the proposal.