The Telegraph Wed 3 Nov 1920 Page 7

Professor F. P. Sandes.
Appointed Sydney University
The announcement In yesterday's Telegraph
that Dr. F. Sandes had been appointed
to the newly established chair of
surgery at the Sydney University, has a
special interest for Brisbane. Dr. Sandes
was a Brisbane boy, and passed to Sydney
University from the Brisbane Grammar
School. He had a distinguished record as a
scholar.
Young Francis Percival Sandes attended
the Normal School and winning a State
scholarship, went to the Grammar School
at the beginning of 1889. Those were
the days before the founding of the Queens
land University and the Sydney examinations
were the .passport to higher things.
Sandes sat for the Sydney junior in
1891 and passed with seven A passes.
The senior followed two years later, when
he gained one of the three exhibition
university scholarships then offered by
the Queensland Government to enable
Queensland students to attend a University.