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...Immediately popular with the Faculty and the student body, he soon became a full professor, and in 1917 was named Gurney Professor of English, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Although he was given a plethora of honorary degrees (from Harvard, Oxford, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Brown, Trinity, Union and Colby), he never received a Ph.D. "Who," he replied when someone asked why not, "could examine...
Dawson, a Roman Catholic historian and author, will be the first Charles Chauncey Stillman Guest Professor of Systematic Theology and principal of the Montreal Diocesan Theological College at McGill University will hold a newly established Professorship of World Religions...
...Amateur. In Norfolk, Mass., two lifers on the state prison debating team continued a three-year undefeated record-against such opponents as Oxford, Cambridge, M.I.T., Harvard-when they took the affirmative on the question "Bank Robbing Is Too Easy," downed the debating team of McGill University...
John C. Cooper, Professor at the Institute of International Air Law at McGill University, suggests a strip of national air space within which all conventional aircraft fly. This follows the present system where nations can fly over each other's land only after negotiating agreements. Above this territorial space would be a zone up to three hundred miles high of "contiguous" air space. Haley points out that nations would have partial sovereignty over this area, since most future flights through this zone would be ground to ground rocket flights. Since transportation would have to use the landing facilities...
...under constant pressure to achieve economic and social gains, they cannot realistically hope to match in a few years the living standards built up by Western nations over the centuries. In Mexico, for example, noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have doubled−Mexico would have...