1950 Saint John Special Convocation (March)
Carter, Arthur Norwood
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
Citation:
CONVOCATION, MARCH, 1950
ARTHUR NORWOOD CARTER
to be Doctor of Laws
Illustrious Mr. President and this whole University body, I present to you Arthur Norwood Carter, alumnus, veteran, King's Counsel, and scholar.
To praise him, as my present duty is, under all four heads offers only one difficulty -- that of deciding in which phase of his career he has the more excelled.
He is an alumnus of our own University and of Oxford. A veteran soldier of the first world war, he served, and served with glory, for its long duration, in no less than three famous regiments.
When it comes to his civil career, I find it an invidious task to decide whether his services to the public are more valuably employed in supporting or presiding over organizations whose name is legion, than in defending his clients who are even more numerous.
What, however, my masters, should recommend him dearly to you is his regard for scholarship. Not only has he been from boyhood a devotee of the Greek tongue but, like Cato of old, he has seen to it that his two sons should be as zealously devoted to that discipline.
I deem, therefore, that our good friend, Arthur Norwood Carter, should be admitted to the honorary degree in this University of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
ARTHUR NORWOOD CARTER
to be Doctor of Laws
Illustrious Mr. President and this whole University body, I present to you Arthur Norwood Carter, alumnus, veteran, King's Counsel, and scholar.
To praise him, as my present duty is, under all four heads offers only one difficulty -- that of deciding in which phase of his career he has the more excelled.
He is an alumnus of our own University and of Oxford. A veteran soldier of the first world war, he served, and served with glory, for its long duration, in no less than three famous regiments.
When it comes to his civil career, I find it an invidious task to decide whether his services to the public are more valuably employed in supporting or presiding over organizations whose name is legion, than in defending his clients who are even more numerous.
What, however, my masters, should recommend him dearly to you is his regard for scholarship. Not only has he been from boyhood a devotee of the Greek tongue but, like Cato of old, he has seen to it that his two sons should be as zealously devoted to that discipline.
I deem, therefore, that our good friend, Arthur Norwood Carter, should be admitted to the honorary degree in this University of Doctor of Laws.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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