Sir william peterson, k. C. M. G

Sir william peterson, k. C. M. G

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ABSTRACT NOT only his own university, but also the university world at large, has suffered a great loss by the regretted death, on January 4, of Sir William Peterson at the comparatively early age of sixty-four. Among university presidents Peterson's range of college experience and activities was exceptional and probably unrivalled. A Scottish education at the High School and University of Edinburgh was followed by a course at the University of Göttingen, from which he went with high classical distinction to Oxford as a scholar of Corpus. After Oxford an assistant mastership at Harrow introduced him to the life of an English public school, and as assistant professor of classics at Edinburgh he strengthened his association with that ancient university. From that post he was selected at an unusually early age for the principalship of the newly established University College of Dundee, over the growth of which he watched for thirteen years. Its affiliation with St. Andrews gave him intimate acquaintance with that ancient institution. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE * Get immediate access to this article * Also access the latest journalism from Nature's award winning team Access through your institution or Sign in or create an account Continue with Google Continue with ORCiD Authors * G. R. P. View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE P., G. Sir William Peterson, K.C.M.G. _Nature_ 106, 668 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106668a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 20 January 1921 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106668a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT NOT only his own university, but also the university world at large, has suffered a great loss by the regretted death, on January 4, of Sir William Peterson at the comparatively


early age of sixty-four. Among university presidents Peterson's range of college experience and activities was exceptional and probably unrivalled. A Scottish education at the High


School and University of Edinburgh was followed by a course at the University of Göttingen, from which he went with high classical distinction to Oxford as a scholar of Corpus. After Oxford


an assistant mastership at Harrow introduced him to the life of an English public school, and as assistant professor of classics at Edinburgh he strengthened his association with that


ancient university. From that post he was selected at an unusually early age for the principalship of the newly established University College of Dundee, over the growth of which he watched


for thirteen years. Its affiliation with St. Andrews gave him intimate acquaintance with that ancient institution. ARTICLE PDF ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO


CONTINUE * Get immediate access to this article * Also access the latest journalism from Nature's award winning team Access through your institution or Sign in or create an account


Continue with Google Continue with ORCiD Authors * G. R. P. View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and


permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE P., G. Sir William Peterson, K.C.M.G. _Nature_ 106, 668 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106668a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 20 January


1921 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106668a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not


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