Mr Alan Macdougall, of Victoria College, has been nominated by the Professorial Board aa the Wellington candidate for the Rhodes scholarship. -Manawatu Standard, 4/11/1908.
THE RHODES SCHOLAR.
This year's selected candidate is Alan Macdougall, of Victoria, College, Wellington, whose nomination was approved yesterday. Mr Macdougall is twenty-three years of age, and is an M.A. of the New Zealand University, with first class honors m English and French. He received his primary education at the Terrace School Wellington, and entered Wellington College in 1900. He had a successful career at that institution, carrying off various scholarships and special prizes, including the junior and senior "Turnbull'' scholarships, the "Liverton" history prize in 1902, bracketed in 1905 for the " Barmcoat Memorial" prize in English literature, and the following year successfully competed for that coveted distinction. In 1904 he matriculated as a. student, of Victoria College, graduated B.A. in 1907, and the following year took his M.A. with first class honors in English and French. This year he was awarded a research scholarship. In athletics Mr Macdougall has taken a very prominent part. He is an enthusiast in cricket and hockey, secretary of the college cricket club, a member of the Hockey Committee, and a vice-president of the Students' Association. -Press, 1/8/1910.
NOTES FROM LONDON
Mr Alan Macdougall, the Rhodes Scholar from Wellington, has formed some interesting impressions of men and things at Oxford during his year's sojourn there. Of the Rhodes Scholars as a body he hesitates to speak with any decision. So widely do the paths of men in the different colleges lead them that he rarely sees even his own countrymen. One of them he has only met about thrice in the whole of his stay at Oxford. The South African men who do not enjoy the advantages of a university, naturally come to Oxford somewhat handicapped as compared with those from other States, and they can hardly be expected to show the same results as men who bring their own degrees to Oxford. The influence of the American students on Oxford life is not nearly so marked as Mr Macdougall expected. Though the United States is entitled to send almost a hundred men to Oxford each year, the influence of this great influx is remarkably limited. The explanation is, he thinks, that the Americans, having their own clubs and houses, clan together and do not mingle to a great extent with, the other students. -Evening Star, 27/2/1909.
PERSONAL ITEMS FROM LONDON
Mr. Alan MacDougall, 1909 New Zealand Rhodes scholar (New College) was admitted last year to read for the advanced degree of B.Litt (English literature). -NZ Herald, 5/3/1912.
A DISTINGUISHED STUDENT.
MR. ALAN MACDOUGALL: RHODES SCHOLAR.
Mr. Alan Macdougall, New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1909, has been awarded first-class honours in English and literature (states a Press Association message from London). Mr. Macdougall, who is a nephew of Mrs. Alexander Macdougall, of Wellington, was selected New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and went Home te Oxford in 1909.
In view of his achievements in English and literature, it is interesting to know Hint Mr. Macdougall, when he came to Wellington as a small boy, could not speak English, Gaelic being his mother tongue. A private tutor was engaged to teach the boy his English. Later he was sent to the Terrace School — the Terrace produced another renowned Rhodes Scholar in Mr. P. W. Robertson — and passed thence to Wellington College, completing his studies at Victoria College, where his studies in English classics earned him high distinction. It was expected, when he was selected, that Mr. Macdougall would specialise in English when he went Home. Professor Mackenzie (English language and literature) regarded him as the ablest student in English since the foundation of the College. "He is undoubtedly the best all-round candidate that Victoria College has yet produced," observed Professor Brown (classics); "Mr. Macdougall," stated Professor Von Zedlitz (modern languages), "won the Jacob Joseph Scholarship, involving a course of original post-graduate work, and I have advised him to undertake a subject — the history of the chanson in French pronunciation in the nineteenth century — beyond the range of the average honours student, which, when completed, should constitute a valuable help to teachers of French, on lines which have not so far been attempted. . . . he is the only student of French who, without any special advantages of training or fortuitous circumstances, has learnt to write French not recognisable as the handiwork of a foreigner." -Dominion, 4/7/1912.
THE DOMINION'S TROOPS
ENGLISH CONTINGENT.
JOINING MAIN FORCE
"CREDIT TO THE COUNTRY.''
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] (excerpt)
Mr. Alan MacDougall, ex-Rhodes scholar, has been given a commission in the King's Royal Rifles. -NZ Herald, 215/1/1915.
ON SERVICE
Lieutenant Alan MacDougall, 22nd Royal Fusiliers (Kensington), has been promoted captain. He is thus the first New Zealander to have attained this honour in the course of a few months. -Otago Daily Times, 11/8/1915.
RHODES SCHOLAR KILLED
CAPTAIN ALAN MACDOUGALL
Mrs. Mackenzie, wife of Professor Mackenzie, of Victoria College, has received a letter from England, in which reference is made to the recent death in action in France of Capt. Alan Macdougall, one of the early Rhodes scholars from New Zealand. He was killed instantly by a bomb from a trench mortar on the night of 3rd August. His body was recovered and buried with full military honours in the Delville Wood.
Alan Macdougall spent the best part' of his life in Wellington. He was educated at the Terrace School, Wellington College, and Victoria College, and was a brilliant scholar. On going to New College, Oxford, he took first-class honours in modern languages, and on leaving Oxford he was appointed assistant Professor of English at Nottingham University. He subsequently filled a similar position at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was when war broke out. Then he obtained his commission in the 22nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, and he was in England with them until October of last year, being promoted captain in June, 1915. On going to the front after the Battle of Loos, his battalion was for a long while in the trenches near La Bassee, and afterwards they were allotted the celebrated Souchez front.
Captain Macdougall was in London several times on leave, last time in June, when, for the first time, the effects of the trench life were apparent. In a recent letter he said: "The trench mortars make our days one continual palpitation. The Boches are horribly accurate, and the bally things plough downwards for fifteen feet; few dug-outs are proof against them." -Evening Post, 19/9/1916.
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