1907] Faculty of Sydney University 



Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide, as well as 

 at the different University Colleges of New Zealand. 

 In these particular addresses I often quoted the 

 following from Alfred Moseley of London: 



What strikes me most is that your workshops are filled with 

 college men. At home a "varsity man" is graduated in frock 

 coat and kid gloves. Here he is graduated into overalls. The 

 keynote of American education is efficiency. 



Edgeworth David is the most notable member of David 

 the University of Sydney in some ways, also, the 

 most broad-minded, well-beloved, and influential 

 representative of higher education in Australia. As 

 already explained, it was through his interest in edu- 

 cational advancement and in the adoption of elective 

 courses and other features prevailing in America that 

 I was led to go to Australia at this time. 



Other notable members of the Sydney faculty were 

 Dr. William A. Haswell, professor of Zoology, Dr. 

 Anderson Stuart, dean of the Medical School, both 

 now deceased, and Dr. Ernest R. Holme, professor of Holme 

 English, who later visited Stanford as war-time repre- 

 sentative of Australian universities, and who was, 

 so far as I remember, the only native-born alumnus 

 whom the directors of the University had ever hon- 

 ored with a professorship. This seems strange to 

 Americans, for in our country the list of available 

 graduates is the first to be scanned. In Australasia, 

 on the contrary, an institution rarely ventures to call 

 a man not trained in Great Britain. Thus chairs are Filling 

 usually filled by competition, vacancies being adver- 



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tised in British universities and applications solicited. tra u a 



Appointments as a rule then go to candidates hav- 

 ing the highest academic record. Salaries are high, 



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