Word: conway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles P. Snow, well-known English novelist, physicist, and Civil Service Commissioner, will visit Leverett House for several weeks this winter, John J. Conway, Master of the House, announced yesterday...
...Conway, who still thinks of himself as a Canadian, is now writing a book on the Commonwealth theory of sovereignty, which will be largely based on Canada's "constitution," the British North America Act. He has worked for the Progressive-Conservative Party, and his good friend and former canoeing partner, Davie Fulton, is Canadian Minister of Finance in the present Tory Cabinet...
Much of John Conway's personality can be understood in terms of his great love for the "emptiness" of the great Canadian Northwest. This area, where he has lived--canoeing, camping, and working at logging camps during the summer--is famed for its natural grandeur. But its quiet, vast peacefulness is nonetheless instinct with a sometimes awesome vitality...
Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
...Although Conway will say that "I can't hear myself think in the modern world," and condemns too much "activism" in the University, his detachment has no inherent element of apathy. Conway's "dynamic quiet" insists upon an eloquent voice...