Word: leacock
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Stephen Leacock will be the second of the November speakers at the Union, coming on the 28th. Mr. Leacock is Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, but is undoubtedly better known for his humorous books, among them being "Behind the Beyond" and "Nonsense Novels...
...activities in many ways. Notable among the latter are the frequent addresses held by the management in the Living Room. These have given the student body an opportunity to hear such men as Commander Read, and Walter Hampden ' 00. Hugh Walpoie, the British novelist, comes tonight, and Professor Stephen Leacock, the humorist and economist, Viscount Grey, the new British Ambassador, and Donald MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, have all promised to address the club some time in the near future...
Among the speakers who are scheduled to appear at the Union this month are several authors of international reputation. On the evening of November 13 Hugh Walpole will be at the Union, and on November 28 Stephen Leacock will be the speaker...
...life of General Edwards which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography which seem destined to appear in defiance of sweet reasonableness. The Book Page is weak; but the Churchman Afield, particularly its notes, would not be despised by Mr. Leacock. The account of the War is in the Transcript's best manner, though it probably shows rather more historical knowledge than the Transcript is wont to display...
Besides the delegation from England a large number of men of letters will be present from Canada. Among them are Mr. Stephen Leacock, the humorist, Mr. Duncan Campbell Scott, the poet, and Sir Robert Alexander Falconer, President of the University of Toronto. The meeting is intended both as a memorial of the birth of James Russell Lowell, and as a celebration of the realization of his hopes for the Anglo-American entente cordiale...