Lord of Point Grey : Larry MacKenzie of U.B.C. / P.B. Waite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waite, Peter B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College presidents--British Columbia--Biography.

College presidents.

Legislators--Canada--Biography.

Legislators.

University of British Columbia--History.

University of British Columbia.

University of British Columbia--Presidents--Biography.

MacKenzie, Norman, 1894-1986.

MacKenzie, Norman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few university presidents could be considered 'to the manner born.' Larry MacKenzie was the exception. He discovered this talent when president of the University of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1944. He became president of the University of British Columbia in 1944 and served for eighteen years. Although UBC's present eminence owes much to many people, as biographer P.B. Waite points out, 'it is basically Larry MacKenzie's creation.' His importance to UBC is inestimable. No doubt demography alone enjoined UBC's considerable expansion, but Larry gave it force and focus. He established the Faculty of Graduate Studies and introduced professional faculties such as law and medicine. He was a marvellous doer; but more important, he could recognize talent in others, like his 'chief expediter,' Gordon Shrum, UBC's redoubtable head of physics and dean of graduate studies. Larry's big archive at UBC has enabled Waite to essay the life of a marvellously adept and humane president who loved his work and his students, a vital and great-hearted Canadian who had lived and worked, as one could say, a mari usque ad mare.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Growing Up, 1894-1913; 2 Dalhousie and the First World War, 1913-1919; 3 Returning Veteran, the S.C.M., and Harvard, 1919-1924; 4 St. John's, Cambridge and Geneva, 1924-1926; 5 To the University of Toronto, 1926-1930; 6 Professor of International Law, 1930-1939; 7 President of the University of New Brunswick, 1940-1944; 8 Coming to the University of British Columbia, 1944; 9 U.B.C.: the Years of Expansion, 1945-1948; 10 Consolidation and the Massey Commission, 1949-1952; 11 Lord of Point Grey, 1953-1959; 12 Not Going Gently, 1959-1962

13 Elder Statesman of Canada and Academe, 1963-198614 A Greatness of Spirit; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22623-5

9786613226235

0-7748-5689-0

OCLC:

923446065