Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curator of the department since 1924 has been portly, silver-haired Henry Preston Rossiter, born 52 years ago in Canada, indebted for much of his knowledge of prints to two years' service in France, first as a subaltern and finally as a major, with the Canadian Infantry. Rossiter's way of relieving the monotony of war was to study catalogs from every dealer in Paris and London, buy cheap prints which could be taken up into the line. Apart from this, the best thing he remembers about the War was driving a British tank, whose downslithers gave...
...Montreal last week Sir Edward Beatty, chancellor (chairman of the board of governors) of McGill University, announced the appointment of the first U. S. citizen ever to head that Canadian institution. The new principal, succeeding British Arthur Eustace Morgan, who resigned last spring after a little more than a year in the post, was Lewis Williams Douglas, 43, President Roosevelt's first Director of the Budget. Since his resignation in 1934 in protest against New Deal spending, Mr. Douglas had devoted himself to warnings against his old chief and to his duties as vice president and director of American...
...Treasury in 1933. While his only previous experience as an educator was as a history instructor at Amherst College, his alma mater, in 1920, those who knew the family history were not as surprised by "Lew" Douglas' appointment to McGill last week as most U. S. and Canadian citizens. His grandfather was Quebec-born James Douglas, called "dean of the mining and metallurgical profession," who before he acquired that title had received an honorary degree from McGill and been chancellor of Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Principal Douglas begins his new job January...
Colored slides of climbing in the Canadian Rockies near Lake Louise were shown after the movies, and there was discussion on the club's program for the coming year, including use of the hut on Mt. Washington, and the Sunday climbs nearby to start men out on rock-scaling. The first of these expeditions will be next Sunday...
...undergraduate or graduate student now attending any American or Canadian university or college, or who has attended such an institution at any time since December 1, 1931, whether or not the work for a degree was completed, is eligible to compete for the awards...