 In 1920 Robert Jack was joined on the university's faculty by another former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Scotland, and near contemporary, Robert Bell who had also graduated M.A.with Honours in mathematics and natural philosophy from Glasgow and who had arrived at Otago to take up the appointment as Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics.Robert Jack and Robert Bell were to serve out the rest of their careers at the University of Otago which had been built by "another" former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Robert Forrest of McGill and Forrest, contractors, Dunedin.