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his overseas posting), and family offer a sanitized but beautifully written account of his war experiences. Just prior to entering the theatre of war in France, MacMillan and Brower, herself a graduate of McGill
University, made a brilliant marriage. They shared a love of literature, drama, and the theatre, as well as faith and politics. They had no children.
268:. It was completed in 1909, comprising four volumes in English and in French and more than a thousand pages of text, both in type and, in the case of many of the song lyrics, handwritten. It was the first doctoral thesis approved at Harvard that was not confined to purely American literature. Kittredge was primarily a Shakespearean scholar, known for his
197:, he took a leave from McGill and served with both the 6th and the 7th Canadian Siege Battery, 1916–19. After the war, he resumed his faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor and in 1923 was appointed Chair of the English department. From 1940 to 1947, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, retiring in the latter year.
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