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...foremost, Edel is a Jamesian--and he was a Jamesian before it was considered fashionable. Born in Pittsburgh, he was whisked off to Canada by his parents, and he completed the major part of his education there. After receiving an M.A. from McGill in 1928, he studied for the "difficult" degree at the Sorbonne, the State Doctorate. "There were two dissertions required," he explains, "and I gave mine on James." He also explored his interest in psychology, "becoming one of the Adler entourage...
...this summer's 75 instructors-most of them greenhorn college students-to take grueling jobs in remote mines, lumber camps, construction and railroad gangs. "They arrive at the camps as soft as colleges can make them," says Frontier's muscular principal, Eric Robinson, 33. a onetime McGill University football player. "Most of them are filled with ivory-tower idealism. It's apt to be a traumatic experience...
Montreal, alas, has no poet laureate, no clarion voice to rise above the Commerce Chamber cackle. Hugh MacLennan, a witty essayist and novelist who picks up bread-money teaching at Montreal's McGill University, comes closest to doing the job. Although his interest is confined to only a small and often uninteresting segment of the varied populace, he understands it and explains it very well indeed...
Benjamin H. Heckscher '57, former Crimson squash captain, won the national amateur squash championship yesterday in Hemenway. Playing before a quiet, crowded gallery of Boston squash enthusiasts, Heckscher disposed of McGill's John Smith-Chapman, 15-13, 12-15, 18-15 and 18-14, to become the first Harvard graduate in the 20 year history of the tournament to win the title...
Smith-Chapman, a 21-year-old McGill student and an excellent player, was definitely not of Salaum's caliber, and Heckscher's win was expected. In fact, Heckscher almost found himself up against another Harvard graduate in the finals. Playing in the quarter round, Smith-Chapman just managed to get past Charlie Ufford '53, a third year Law School student...