1961 Fredericton Convocation
Taylor, Alan John Percivale
Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Vengalil Krishna Menon, Lord Beaverbrook, John David Johnson, John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein, Wilbert Harvard Howard, Alan John
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Percivale Taylor Source: UA PC-5 no.4(3); Photo by Harvey Studios
Citation:
(Citations shortened in view of Lord Beaverbrook's health.)
My Lord Chancellor,
It is my prerogative, unhappy only that its compass must be brief, to present to you five men who severally are linked to yourself by ties of Art, Authorship, Industry, Endowment and Statecraft, and universally by the greater tie of Friendship, that it may please you and this University body to admit them to Honorary Degrees in this University and bind them thereby to us as corporate Members and beloved Alumni.
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1961
ALAN JOHN PERCIVALE TAYLOR
to be Doctor of Civil Law
historian by turns histrionic and acute, and Puritan, idol of English television and of Oxford lecture halls, sincerest of Radicals and enfant terrible of the Sunday Express; whose favourite weapon is the paradox -- of which he is himself the living and -- dare we say? -- not unconscious example.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
My Lord Chancellor,
It is my prerogative, unhappy only that its compass must be brief, to present to you five men who severally are linked to yourself by ties of Art, Authorship, Industry, Endowment and Statecraft, and universally by the greater tie of Friendship, that it may please you and this University body to admit them to Honorary Degrees in this University and bind them thereby to us as corporate Members and beloved Alumni.
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1961
ALAN JOHN PERCIVALE TAYLOR
to be Doctor of Civil Law
historian by turns histrionic and acute, and Puritan, idol of English television and of Oxford lecture halls, sincerest of Radicals and enfant terrible of the Sunday Express; whose favourite weapon is the paradox -- of which he is himself the living and -- dare we say? -- not unconscious example.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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