1950 Saint John Special Convocation (March)
Inches, Cyrus Fiske
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
Citation:
CONVOCATION, MARCH, 1950
CYRUS FISKE INCHES
to be Doctor of Laws
Illustrious Mr. President and this whole University body, I present to you Cyrus Fiske Inches, formerly an athlete of
prowess and an officer of renown; now an advocate of outstanding legal acumen and forensic skill.
In politics -- for good or ill -- a Conservative, he has indulged no ambition for candidacy or the fruits of office. A
staunch champion of friends in legal straits, he has given himself wholeheartedly to the liberalizing of the statutes
themselves, notably the harsher laws for debt.
Famous as a corporation lawyer, he is well known to besiege the House and to bully or charm the sitting
representatives with such regularity and persistence that he has been nicknamed "the fifty-third member."
It is to this legal protagonist, this champion of his clients, and Dean by honest right of the legal profession of this
Province, that I beg you, gentlemen, freely to grant -- before he batter his invincible way thereto himself -- 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.
CYRUS FISKE INCHES
to be Doctor of Laws
Illustrious Mr. President and this whole University body, I present to you Cyrus Fiske Inches, formerly an athlete of
prowess and an officer of renown; now an advocate of outstanding legal acumen and forensic skill.
In politics -- for good or ill -- a Conservative, he has indulged no ambition for candidacy or the fruits of office. A
staunch champion of friends in legal straits, he has given himself wholeheartedly to the liberalizing of the statutes
themselves, notably the harsher laws for debt.
Famous as a corporation lawyer, he is well known to besiege the House and to bully or charm the sitting
representatives with such regularity and persistence that he has been nicknamed "the fifty-third member."
It is to this legal protagonist, this champion of his clients, and Dean by honest right of the legal profession of this
Province, that I beg you, gentlemen, freely to grant -- before he batter his invincible way thereto himself -- 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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