The Days of a Man 1907 



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. 



Sir 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 

 Zed* t ^ ie ^ our sect ^ ons mto 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. 



