 Stewart spent the next two years working in Russia as a tutor , teaching English . He learned the Russian language and wrote a book describing his experiences and the country , Provincial Russia . Returning to England , he took up an appointment as Assistant Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool . In 1912 , he accepted a professorship teaching classics at Canterbury College , in Christchurch , New Zealand . At the college , later to become the University of Canterbury , he acquired a reputation for his energy and wit . In his leisure time , he often went climbing in the Southern Alps . 
