1953 Fredericton Convocation
Boylen, Matthew James
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Hugh John Flemming, Matthew James Boylen
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Source: UA PC-2 no.2b
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CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1953
MATTHEW JAMES BOYLEN
to be Doctor of Civil Law
It is no bookish scholar whom we are about to honour.
Matthew James Boylen turned his back on orthodox schooling at the mature age of fourteen; and with no other matriculation than phlegm and a prospector's instincts (strong subjects with him) he entered as a Freshman the harsher academics of our Northland.
In this granite school, where the chief pre-requisite is grit, his major subject was mining, his professor Nature, his laboratory the bush, his dormitory a tent, and his Doctor's hood (should he survive the course) of coarser stuff than the scarlet and pink satin that is to be put over his head today.
Certain tougher elements in that stony Faculty had, however, been known to smile on an adventurer -- and they smiled on him. He graduated; and, growing as rich in experience as he was lavish of substance, he was led last year to Bathurst in New Brunswick, there to sink shafts, capital, and reputation into the ores which we count already among the major resources of our Province.
May they, and we, and Matthew James Boylen prosper!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
MATTHEW JAMES BOYLEN
to be Doctor of Civil Law
It is no bookish scholar whom we are about to honour.
Matthew James Boylen turned his back on orthodox schooling at the mature age of fourteen; and with no other matriculation than phlegm and a prospector's instincts (strong subjects with him) he entered as a Freshman the harsher academics of our Northland.
In this granite school, where the chief pre-requisite is grit, his major subject was mining, his professor Nature, his laboratory the bush, his dormitory a tent, and his Doctor's hood (should he survive the course) of coarser stuff than the scarlet and pink satin that is to be put over his head today.
Certain tougher elements in that stony Faculty had, however, been known to smile on an adventurer -- and they smiled on him. He graduated; and, growing as rich in experience as he was lavish of substance, he was led last year to Bathurst in New Brunswick, there to sink shafts, capital, and reputation into the ores which we count already among the major resources of our Province.
May they, and we, and Matthew James Boylen prosper!
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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