1955 Fredericton Convocation
Bracken, Brendan
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Lord Beaverbrook, Brendan Bracken
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Source: UA PC-4 no.5w
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1955
BRENDAN BRACKEN
to be Doctor of Laws
We are proud, as we are privileged, to have with us, together in this Hall and upon this dais, two men whom History and a grateful nation have already ennobled with their laurels.
Both were members of the Churchillian cabinet during the fateful war years; both are that great man's intimate friends, and both own to a deep and abiding friendship with one another.
They share two other puissant bonds. For whereas both are men of piercing business acumen, the devotion of our own beloved Chancellor, Lord Beaverbrook, to Art in Canada -- and blessed is Fredericton to be its present Mecca -- is matched by that of Viscount Bracken in England.
Talents as sterling and as various as these are the stuff that genius is made of. But these diamonds have countless other facets. The Right Honourable Brendan Viscount Bracken, as will shortly, if it has not already, become apparent, is a man of prodigious memory, an authority on Literature as he is on Art, and, in the tradition now, alas, so fading of the XVIIIth Century, a brilliant conversationalist.
Such in bleak outline is the candidate I shall now present. Est enim in illo (to borrow from Tully) ingenium, ratio, memoria, litterae, cura, cogitatio, diligentra.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
BRENDAN BRACKEN
to be Doctor of Laws
We are proud, as we are privileged, to have with us, together in this Hall and upon this dais, two men whom History and a grateful nation have already ennobled with their laurels.
Both were members of the Churchillian cabinet during the fateful war years; both are that great man's intimate friends, and both own to a deep and abiding friendship with one another.
They share two other puissant bonds. For whereas both are men of piercing business acumen, the devotion of our own beloved Chancellor, Lord Beaverbrook, to Art in Canada -- and blessed is Fredericton to be its present Mecca -- is matched by that of Viscount Bracken in England.
Talents as sterling and as various as these are the stuff that genius is made of. But these diamonds have countless other facets. The Right Honourable Brendan Viscount Bracken, as will shortly, if it has not already, become apparent, is a man of prodigious memory, an authority on Literature as he is on Art, and, in the tradition now, alas, so fading of the XVIIIth Century, a brilliant conversationalist.
Such in bleak outline is the candidate I shall now present. Est enim in illo (to borrow from Tully) ingenium, ratio, memoria, litterae, cura, cogitatio, diligentra.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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