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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1921

Professor Wilson

Professor Wilson.

F. P. Wilson, M.A., F.R.E.S., was one of the first students of Victoria College, when the College opened in 1899. There were then only four professors and 80 students.

In 1904, Prof. Wilson took his B.A. degree, and the following year he took his M.A. degree with Honours in Political Science.

In 1906, he was appointed the Graduates' Representative on the College Council, but resigned this position in 1908, when he was appointed Lecturer in History and Economics, which position he held until the appointment of Professor Murphy to the Chair of Economics, and the foundation this year of the Chair of History, of which he is the first Professor at V.U.C.

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Professor Wilson was the founder of the Glee Club, which was one of the first College clubs, and he has been the conductor since its inception.

He has been a prominent member of the Tennis Club for years. In 1902, he obtained the College championship. He also played in all the tournaments and shield matches up till 1905, when V.U.C. won the Tournament Tennis Shield.

Those attending the Law Lectures during 1920 will be pleased to hear that Mr. S. Goodall recently rendered "distinguished" and valuable services in connection with a fire in Boulcott Chambers. Mr. Goodall, together with a small street urchin, located a fire in a room in the above chambers. P.C. 49 was summoned, who, together with P.C. Goodall, effected an entry by means of fire escapes and window-sills; but we regret to say that on discovering that the fire was an evening party, and that the proprietress of the room was decidedly annoyed at the privacy and sanctity of her rooms being violated by two police-officers without reasonable cause, P.C. Good-all, under cover of the fact that he was at an advantage in being a plain-clothes constable, left his colleague to pacify the aforesaid lady on his own, and departed to ponder over the rights of intrusion on personal privacy by a plain-clothes constable.

Mr. I. L.G. Sutherland, M.A., who was awarded the Post-Graduate Travelling Scholarship for 1920, has been granted a free passage and will be leaving shortly for Great Britain. Mr. Sutherland intends to take up research work at Glasgow University.

Mr. J. A. Allan, M.A., who last year won a senior scholarship in Philosophy, and this year gained his M.A., with 1st Class Honours, has left V.U.C. for Edinburgh University. Prior to his departure, a small farewell gathering was held in the College tea-rooms, at which several members of the staff and representative students wished Mr. Allan success in his new sphere of study.

Notwithstanding our thankfulness that the new buildings are at length under way, we regret that part of our picturesqueness has been lost in the process. We publish a photograph of the College, taken by Mr. R. V. Kay some three or four years ago—in the days when the pine-trees still waved above us, to the delight of spring poets and the chagrin of the tennis club. We trust this will prove an interesting reminder of the fast-vanishing "Old Clay Patch."