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SIR HECTOR HETHERINGTON, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool, who has been appointed principal of the University of Glasgow in succession to the late Sir Robert Rait, has many associations with Glasgow, in that he is a graduate of that University, and was lecturer (1910-14) and professor (1924-27) of moral philosophy there. In the intervening years he held academic posts of importance elsewhere, being lecturer in the University of Sheffield in 1914-15, then professor of logic and philosophy in University College, Cardiff in 1915-20, after which he was invited to become principal and professor of philosophy in the University College of the South-West of England, Exeter. During the Great War he worked in the Intelligence Division of the Ministry of Labour and was chosen for work in connexion with the Treaty of Versailles. Following its signature, he went to Washington as one of the British assistant secretaries of the International Conference of the League of Nations. Sir Hector thus went to Liverpool with an outstanding record as a scholar and administrator, and for the past nine years he has been indefatigable in his service for the University in particular and for the general cause of education and social progress, and for hospital co-ordination. Among numerous other offices, he was elected in 1930 to serve on the Unemployment Insurance Commission. His knighthood this year was a just acknowledgment of his fine academic work and public service.
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Sir Hector Hetherington. Nature 137, 896 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137896b0
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