1960 Fredericton Convocation
Lussier, Irenee
Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)
Orator: Cattley, Robert E.D.
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L to R: Lord Beaverbrook, Phyllis Gregory Ross, Louis Joseph Robichaud, Irenee Lussier, Alfred Leslie Rowse
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Source: UA PC-5 no.3b(4)
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1960
IRENEE LUSSIER
to be Doctor of Laws
In Monsignor Lussier its Rector, we pay tribute to the University of Montreal, over whose destinies he has presided for a notable half-decade. He is the Minos of that lemon-brick labyrinth on Mount Royal, whose single roof shelters such a paradoxical complex of industry and research.
A classical University, which offers no Bachelor's degree in Arts, its reputation rests equally on such professional schools as Dentistry, Pharmacy and Mining, and on its discoveries at the frontiers of experimental Medicine and sub-atomic radiation. A zealot for academic freedom, it has added a Rabbi to its Faculty of Mediaeval studies; and its carabins, to whom "college boy" is a term of opprobrium, vehemently relax the severity of their studies by embracing le ski, les Beaux Arts, le fun -- and les carabines!
The tone may be Gallic, but the vision is cosmopolitan. The Rector's policy -- next to his institution's immediate survival -- is to endow the University of Montreal with not only a national but an international stature. It shall be the founding partner, Canadian and thus unimpeachable, of an association of French Language universities throughout the world; not least, of those French-speaking peoples now emerging to nationhood and looking for tutelage to the North American continent.
It is a noble dream, but, like many a noble dream, it is expensive. "Ours is a strange industry," the Rector himself has mused, not without a sigh. "The more customers we get, the poorer we become." This is the less surprising when one learns that the University of Montreal operates under two distinct charters -- of the Vatican and of the Province of Quebec -- neither of which, in the past at least, has held itself responsible for balancing the budget.
No one, however, noting the muscular frame, determined eye and dedicated spirit of its valiant Rector, will doubt of his dream's ultimate consummation.
Monseigneur le Recteur:
La concurrence pour les intellects de nos deux peuples est le seul défi que nous acceptons volontiers. En beau joueur nous vous disons: Que le succès, mais point la victoire d'un seul, couronne vos efforts. Puissiez-vous aussi être gratifié de l'appui de votre Province, comme cette Université-ci a été soutenu par la nôtre.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
IRENEE LUSSIER
to be Doctor of Laws
In Monsignor Lussier its Rector, we pay tribute to the University of Montreal, over whose destinies he has presided for a notable half-decade. He is the Minos of that lemon-brick labyrinth on Mount Royal, whose single roof shelters such a paradoxical complex of industry and research.
A classical University, which offers no Bachelor's degree in Arts, its reputation rests equally on such professional schools as Dentistry, Pharmacy and Mining, and on its discoveries at the frontiers of experimental Medicine and sub-atomic radiation. A zealot for academic freedom, it has added a Rabbi to its Faculty of Mediaeval studies; and its carabins, to whom "college boy" is a term of opprobrium, vehemently relax the severity of their studies by embracing le ski, les Beaux Arts, le fun -- and les carabines!
The tone may be Gallic, but the vision is cosmopolitan. The Rector's policy -- next to his institution's immediate survival -- is to endow the University of Montreal with not only a national but an international stature. It shall be the founding partner, Canadian and thus unimpeachable, of an association of French Language universities throughout the world; not least, of those French-speaking peoples now emerging to nationhood and looking for tutelage to the North American continent.
It is a noble dream, but, like many a noble dream, it is expensive. "Ours is a strange industry," the Rector himself has mused, not without a sigh. "The more customers we get, the poorer we become." This is the less surprising when one learns that the University of Montreal operates under two distinct charters -- of the Vatican and of the Province of Quebec -- neither of which, in the past at least, has held itself responsible for balancing the budget.
No one, however, noting the muscular frame, determined eye and dedicated spirit of its valiant Rector, will doubt of his dream's ultimate consummation.
Monseigneur le Recteur:
La concurrence pour les intellects de nos deux peuples est le seul défi que nous acceptons volontiers. En beau joueur nous vous disons: Que le succès, mais point la victoire d'un seul, couronne vos efforts. Puissiez-vous aussi être gratifié de l'appui de votre Province, comme cette Université-ci a été soutenu par la nôtre.
From:
Cattley, Robert E.D. Honoris causa: the effervescences of a university orator. Fredericton: UNB Associated Alumnae, 1968.
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