 In 1914, Jack went out to take up the appointment as Professor of Physics at Otago, in 1920 being joined by Bell, appointed Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics.They were to be faculty colleagues until Robert Jack's retirement in 1947, Robert Bell retiring the following year.Both also served as Chairman of the professorial board and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the university that had been built by yet "another" former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Robert Forrest of the firm of McGill and Forrest, contractors, Dunedin.