Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Arthur has announced that he will leave Montreal on Monday for Middlebury College, where he will deliver the Commencement address. Following a trip to New York, there to address the New York Bankers' Association on June 22, Sir Arthur will journey to Cambridge, where after the degree has been conferred, he will address the Harvard alumni...
...that William Pitt commissioned Jeffrey Amherst, already a seasoned campaigner of 41, as major general with the British colonial forces in America. After the taking of Louisburg that July, Amherst was promoted to full command of all these forces. After the fall of Montreal he was made Governor General of British North America. If indeed he "looked around for more when he was through," he found all he sought, for the Indians under Pontiac gave him more trouble than all his other campaigns put together, in fact had much the best of it. He was made governor of Virginia...
...England sermon, delivered in thanksgiving for the fall of Montreal, says of Amherst that "the renowned general is worthy of that most honorable of titles, the Christian hero; for he loves his enemies and while he subdues them he makes them happy. He acts the general, the Briton, the conqueror and the Christian." From his own correspondence, however, it appears that the Indians were not among the enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets...
...Sacred Heart), Brussels, Lourdes (the city of Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular procession of the Blessed Sacrament), Rome, Metz (where the Germans suspended the law of 1870 to permit the procession), London.** The XXI Eucharistic Congress was held in 1910 at Montreal close to the faith-healing shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre. This was a stupendous meeting of 750,000 pilgrims. But it was too far from the great centres of U. S. Catholicism to spread the full effects of its potentialities...