Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990)

1 Mar 2018

By the time Hugh MacLennan joined McGill's faculty as a part-time English professor in 1951, he had already been honoured with three Governor General's awards, Canada's highest literary prize. When...

Sir Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)

1 Mar 2018

When Ernest Rutherford was told, while working on his family's farm in New Zealand, that he had won a scholarship to Cambridge University, his reaction was to stand straight and declare, "I've just...

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