1951 Fredericton Encaenia
Law, Richard
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Jack Weldon Humphrey, Richard Law, Frank Ernest Gannett, William Josiah Wright
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Citation:
ENCAENIA, MAY, 1951
RICHARD LAW
to be Doctor of Laws
He who stands before you needs no orator's introduction. Long ere last Tuesday his virtues had gone in print before him accompanied by his one apparent, and very pardonable, shortcoming, a certain boyish distaste for horseflesh.
Our good Chancellor has brought him very close to us by naming his Library after your candidate's illustrious father and by enshrining therein that father's memorabilia. These gracious gifts he has crowned by inviting the son to cross the seas to be present at the library's re-dedication.
Richard Law has given you his own message. Therein he has left with us not the smallest doubt which of the great English parties he supports nor what are his views on Empire. In these days of confused politics and confusing loyalties, it has been a warming experience to hear so shrewd and so definite a defence of that one great institution in which we all believe and which he has made it his life's ambition to serve and to protect.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
RICHARD LAW
to be Doctor of Laws
He who stands before you needs no orator's introduction. Long ere last Tuesday his virtues had gone in print before him accompanied by his one apparent, and very pardonable, shortcoming, a certain boyish distaste for horseflesh.
Our good Chancellor has brought him very close to us by naming his Library after your candidate's illustrious father and by enshrining therein that father's memorabilia. These gracious gifts he has crowned by inviting the son to cross the seas to be present at the library's re-dedication.
Richard Law has given you his own message. Therein he has left with us not the smallest doubt which of the great English parties he supports nor what are his views on Empire. In these days of confused politics and confusing loyalties, it has been a warming experience to hear so shrewd and so definite a defence of that one great institution in which we all believe and which he has made it his life's ambition to serve and to protect.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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