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...McGill University (Montreal...
Montreal, Que., June 14--Word was received here today from Cambridge, Mass., that Sir Arthur Currie, principal of McGill University, was to be the recipient of an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Harvard University at the annual commencement on June...
...duties were easily and responsibly transferred to Dr. Reid Blair, a Philadelphia-born veterinarian with a McGill University training and a splendid War record as chief "vet" with the Fourth Army Corps, who has been Dr. Hornaday's second-in-command these four years. But the Hornaday personality and reputation are not to be duplicated in every generation...
General Arthur Currie, now President of McGill University, Montreal, arose and presented to Lady Byng, on behalf of the Canadian Corps, a portrait of Baron Byng by the Canadian artist, Major Forberry. Turning to his old commander, whom he succeeded in 1917, General Currie continued: "And will you, sir, in memory of other days, and as a small mark of our deep affection, please accept a motor...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...