ABSTRACT
The University of Queensland occupied Queensland’s Government House beside the botanical gardens of the state capital, Brisbane. Montpelier was George Elton Mayo’s home during his early years in Brisbane. Mayo examined the candidates’ English papers for competence in language, grammar, composition, and knowledge of Shakespeare, and nineteenth-century poets and novelists. Early in 1912 a young economist, E. O. G. Shann, who shared Mayo’s study, accepted a professorship in West Australia, and teaching economics became Mayo’s responsibility, together with logic, ethics, metaphysics, and psychology. Mayo was interested in adult education outside the university. Mayo enjoyed participating in the student life and addressing groups outside the university. Through strenuous work, public speaking, and publications, Mayo was advancing his academic career. Among students Mayo’s reputation was enhanced in 1912 when he gave much energy to the production of Sheridan’s St. Patrick’s Day by the dramatic society.
