LEADER 03749nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910780685903321 005 20230912141825.0 010 $a1-283-22623-5 010 $a9786613226235 010 $a0-7748-5689-0 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774856898 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000366 035 $a(EBL)3255837 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000376966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256163 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000376966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10336689 035 $a(PQKB)10812033 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00602876 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412503 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10227135 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322623 035 $a(OCoLC)923446065 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/jb7878 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/406895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255837 035 $a(DE-B1597)661602 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774856898 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000366 100 $a19870929d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLord of Point Grey $eLarry MacKenzie of U.B.C. /$fP.B. Waite 210 1$aVancouver :$cUniversity of British Columbia Press,$d1987. 215 $a1 online resource (277 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-7748-0285-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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, 1959-1962 327 $a13 Elder Statesman of Canada and Academe, 1963-198614 A Greatness of Spirit; Notes; Index 330 $aFew 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. 606 $aCollege presidents$zBritish Columbia$vBiography 606 $aLegislators$zCanada$vBiography 615 0$aCollege presidents 615 0$aLegislators 676 $a378/.111 700 $aWaite$b Peter B$0137123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780685903321 996 $aLord of Point Grey$93850380 997 $aUNINA