The Days of a Man 



ingly situated on the southern point of North Island, 

 occupying a sort of amphitheater overlooking Cook 

 Straits. On the invitation of Mr. T. W. Hislop, the 

 excellent mayor, whose personal guest I was for a 

 week, I gave a course of three lectures in the munici- 

 pal hall. These were well attended and seemed to be 

 appreciated. The last of them happening to coincide 

 with Miss Hall's first concert, by beginning early I 

 made it possible for my audience, as well as myself, to 

 hear much of her exquisite recital. 



Si> Robert The most prominent citizen of Wellington, the best 

 stout known and apparently most respected man in New 

 Zealand, is Sir Robert Stout, chief justice, and chan- 

 cellor of the University, a scholar of wide and varied 

 interests with whom I had for some years main- 

 tained a correspondence concerning educational mat- 

 ters. But his persistent reference to "home" seemed 

 a bit incongruous, as he had then not returned to Eng- 

 land since he left as a boy. 



University Wellington is the seat of Victoria College, one of 

 z N , ew d the four sections into which the University of New 

 Zealand is divided, the others being University Col- 

 lege at Auckland in the far north, and, in South 

 Island, Canterbury College at Christchurch and 

 Otago College at Dunedin. Among these four has 

 grown up a sort of division of effort; Mining and 

 Music take the lead at Auckland, Mathematics and 

 Law at Wellington, Engineering and Biology at Christ- 

 church, and Literature, Philosophy, and Medicine at 

 Dunedin. 1 After visiting and lecturing at three of these 

 institutions, at Sir Robert's request I prepared a 

 formal report on the University of New Zealand, with 

 suggestions looking toward its greater effectiveness. 



1 In Australasia, Modern History is little taught and Economics not at all. 



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