1968 Fredericton Encaenia
Morgan, Moses Osborne
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Lt.-Gov. Wallace Bird, James Russel Mallory, Helen Kathleen Mussallem, Colin B. Mackay, Robert E. D. Cattley, Alan James Earp, Moses Osborn Morgan
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1968 (#7577A)
Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1968
MOSES OSBORNE MORGAN
to be Doctor of Laws
Dear scholar, dearest friend,
How glad a task is mine, to have you to present for this honorary degree! How happy am I that one day sees us both enrolled as Alumni of this University!
After our single year together at Dalhousie, the Country claimed us for her separate Services. But, begun in the lecture-room, our friendship has never faltered. Strengthened by our rare meetings, it has remained that gentlest of bonds, the affection between pupil and teacher.
Your destiny -- and how beneficial it has proved! -- was to return to your native Newfoundland, there to become an elemental force, physical, spiritual and intellectual, in the shaping of Memorial University. Its student when it was yet a College, you rose from Assistant Professor to hold the Chair of Economics and Political Science when it became a University. For one year you were pro tempore President, and from that eminence you could watch --
proudly, but that pride was never in you -- the sturdy growth of that academic grove of which you had planted so many seedlings.
It was, truly, as Dean of Arts and Science that your most memorable work was done. Decisive where decisions were called for, rigid only where it would have been craven to bend, rock-like, far-sighted and kind, you virtually earned in that office the document which testifies so warmly to your later acting-Presidency. That was signed by representatives of Students, Faculty, Senate, and Board of Regents. But your wider testimonial abides, written on the heart of every Newfoundlander, who knew you, and will always know you, as "Dean Morgan".
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
MOSES OSBORNE MORGAN
to be Doctor of Laws
Dear scholar, dearest friend,
How glad a task is mine, to have you to present for this honorary degree! How happy am I that one day sees us both enrolled as Alumni of this University!
After our single year together at Dalhousie, the Country claimed us for her separate Services. But, begun in the lecture-room, our friendship has never faltered. Strengthened by our rare meetings, it has remained that gentlest of bonds, the affection between pupil and teacher.
Your destiny -- and how beneficial it has proved! -- was to return to your native Newfoundland, there to become an elemental force, physical, spiritual and intellectual, in the shaping of Memorial University. Its student when it was yet a College, you rose from Assistant Professor to hold the Chair of Economics and Political Science when it became a University. For one year you were pro tempore President, and from that eminence you could watch --
proudly, but that pride was never in you -- the sturdy growth of that academic grove of which you had planted so many seedlings.
It was, truly, as Dean of Arts and Science that your most memorable work was done. Decisive where decisions were called for, rigid only where it would have been craven to bend, rock-like, far-sighted and kind, you virtually earned in that office the document which testifies so warmly to your later acting-Presidency. That was signed by representatives of Students, Faculty, Senate, and Board of Regents. But your wider testimonial abides, written on the heart of every Newfoundlander, who knew you, and will always know you, as "Dean Morgan".
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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