03749nam 2200661Ia 450 991078068590332120230912141825.01-283-22623-597866132262350-7748-5689-010.59962/9780774856898(CKB)2430000000000366(EBL)3255837(SSID)ssj0000376966(PQKBManifestationID)11256163(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376966(PQKBWorkID)10336689(PQKB)10812033(CaBNvSL)thg00602876(Au-PeEL)EBL3412503(CaPaEBR)ebr10227135(CaONFJC)MIL322623(OCoLC)923446065(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jb7878(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406895(MiAaPQ)EBC3412503(MiAaPQ)EBC3255837(DE-B1597)661602(DE-B1597)9780774856898(EXLCZ)99243000000000036619870929d1987 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLord of Point Grey Larry MacKenzie of U.B.C. /P.B. WaiteVancouver :University of British Columbia Press,1987.1 online resource (277 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-7748-0285-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Growing Up, 1894-1913; 2 Dalhousie and the First World War, 1913-1919; 3 Returning Veteran, the S.C.M., and Harvard, 1919-1924; 4 St. John's, Cambridge and Geneva, 1924-1926; 5 To the University of Toronto, 1926-1930; 6 Professor of International Law, 1930-1939; 7 President of the University of New Brunswick, 1940-1944; 8 Coming to the University of British Columbia, 1944; 9 U.B.C.: the Years of Expansion, 1945-1948; 10 Consolidation and the Massey Commission, 1949-1952; 11 Lord of Point Grey, 1953-1959; 12 Not Going Gently, 1959-196213 Elder Statesman of Canada and Academe, 1963-198614 A Greatness of Spirit; Notes; IndexFew university presidents could be considered 'to the manner born.' Larry MacKenzie was the exception. He discovered this talent when president of the University of New Brunswick from 1940 to 1944. He became president of the University of British Columbia in 1944 and served for eighteen years. Although UBC's present eminence owes much to many people, as biographer P.B. Waite points out, 'it is basically Larry MacKenzie's creation.' His importance to UBC is inestimable. No doubt demography alone enjoined UBC's considerable expansion, but Larry gave it force and focus. He established the Faculty of Graduate Studies and introduced professional faculties such as law and medicine. He was a marvellous doer; but more important, he could recognize talent in others, like his 'chief expediter,' Gordon Shrum, UBC's redoubtable head of physics and dean of graduate studies. Larry's big archive at UBC has enabled Waite to essay the life of a marvellously adept and humane president who loved his work and his students, a vital and great-hearted Canadian who had lived and worked, as one could say, a mari usque ad mare.College presidentsBritish ColumbiaBiographyLegislatorsCanadaBiographyCollege presidentsLegislators378/.111Waite Peter B137123MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780685903321Lord of Point Grey3850380UNINA