1954 Saint John Convocation
Cronkite, Frederick Clinton
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Frederick Clinton Cronkite, Lord Beaverbrook
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Source: UA PC-4 no.5t
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1954
FREDERICK CLINTON CRONKITE
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Frederick Clinton Cronkite is a graduate in Arts of this University and in Law of Harvard, where he was reckoned the finest Canadian student of that famous school. Called to the New Brunswick Bar, he practised in partnership with our own Attorney-General until he accepted the Professorship of Law at the University of Saskatchewan.
Subsequently he there became Dean of Law; and while on occasions like these dates are to be eschewed, it is in all honour that we rehearse before this company his unofficial title, the Doyen of the Law Deans of Canada.
For many years adviser on Constitutional problems to the Government of Saskatchewan, he has been, and is, Chairman of so many important committees that to list them would be tedious. Let me instead assure you that brilliant legalist though he is, he is more popular than he is brilliant and more unpretentious than he is popular.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
FREDERICK CLINTON CRONKITE
to be Doctor of Civil Law
Frederick Clinton Cronkite is a graduate in Arts of this University and in Law of Harvard, where he was reckoned the finest Canadian student of that famous school. Called to the New Brunswick Bar, he practised in partnership with our own Attorney-General until he accepted the Professorship of Law at the University of Saskatchewan.
Subsequently he there became Dean of Law; and while on occasions like these dates are to be eschewed, it is in all honour that we rehearse before this company his unofficial title, the Doyen of the Law Deans of Canada.
For many years adviser on Constitutional problems to the Government of Saskatchewan, he has been, and is, Chairman of so many important committees that to list them would be tedious. Let me instead assure you that brilliant legalist though he is, he is more popular than he is brilliant and more unpretentious than he is popular.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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