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The Spike: or, Victoria College Review, June 1909

Alan MacDougall

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Alan MacDougall.

Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
Such solemnity too ! One could see he was wise,
The moment one looked in his face !"

Lewis Carroll.

Alan Macdougall of ours. M. A., is the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1909 : we are proud.

MacDougall received his earlier education at wellington College, where he went to the top of the school : he twice won the Barnicoat Memorial Literature Prize whilst there. He was also a prominent cricketer and won his cap in the school eleven.

MacDougall entered Victoria College in 1904 and took an Arts course. He graduated B. A. in 1906, and in the following year look his M.A. with first-class honours in Languages and Literature (English and French). He was awarded a Jacob Boseph Scholarship in 1908.

On the athletic field MacDougall has won his way into the Hockey Senior Eleven and has been a member of the First Cricket Team since the earliest days for the Cricket Club. He was elected treasurer of the cricket club on its foundation, and has been secretary since 1907 when it first commenced its active career. MacDougall was a sub-editor of The Spike in 1906, served on the Students' Association Committee in 1907, and in 1908 was Vice-President of the Association. He has also taken a prominent part in the management of the Hockey Club.

As a scholar, MacDougall has won the highest encomiums from his Professors. As a man he has always been popular amongst the general body of the students : his work has been done quietly and thoroughly. It is to his enthusiasm that the Cricket Club owes no little of his success.

MacDougall is at present engaged in research work in French pronunciation, and intends continuing this at Home, where he will be breaking practically new ground. He leaves New Zealand about the middle of July.

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Alan Macdougall, M.A.

Alan Macdougall, M.A.