Auckland's Success.

We have to congratulate Solomon N. Ziman and his College, Auckland University College, on gaining the 1908 Rhodes Scholarship, for New Zealand. Such success will undoubtedly give added interest and enthusiasm to all the institutions and societies of Auckland University College.

Ziman has had a brilliant scholastic career. He gained a Junior Scholarship at the Auckland Grammar School in 1904, after a school record of exceptional merit. He then attended the University and went right through his B.Sc. course. He won the Sir George Grey Scholarship in 1905, and in 1906, the year in which he completed his B.Sc. degree, he gained two Senior Scholarship, Pure Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, the latter being awarded him. In 1907 he sat for his M.Sc. degree and passed with first-class honours in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, and second-class honours in Physical Science.

Ziman's athletic career has not been marked by such brilliancy as his scholarship, but it is nevertheless good. He gained many successes at school, representing A.U.C. both at Hockey and at Football, and has been a University Tornament representative of his College. He was champion rifle shot at the Auckland Grammar School and was also a most enthusiastic yachtsman. As a College man, he held offices in various College Clubs, including the Football Club, the Men's Common Room Club and the Students' Association, and in 1907 he was elected to the position of President of the Students' Association. His musical talents, which are of no mean order, were always at the service of his College.

Ziman is about five feet nine in height, is well liked by all who know him, and the New Zealand University has every reason to congratulate itself on its fifth representative amongst the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford.

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