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Author Frost, Stanley Brice

Title The man in the ivory tower : F. Cyril James of McGill / Stanley Brice Frost
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1991

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The Early Influences -- 2 The Young Philadelphian -- 3 The Rising Star -- 4 North to Canada -- 5 The Committee on Reconstruction -- 6 Contributing to War -- 7 Preparing for Peace -- 8 Instant College and Personal Relationships -- 9 Wider Horizons -- 10 Irresistible Logic and Immovable Opposition -- 11 Many Distractions -- 12 Achievement for McGill -- 13 Achievement beyond McGill -- 14 Resignation and Retirement -- 15 The After Years -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H
Ij -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z
Summary Tracing the course of a serendipitous career -- from a working-class home in London, England, where he was born shortly after the turn of the century, to his death there in 1973 -- the James story sheds light on student and professional life at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s, on economic and political changes in the US during the turbulent thirties, and on the development of the US banking industry in one of its most critical periods. James was invited to McGill to direct the School of Commerce but was almost immediately appointed Principal. He guided the university through the constricting years of war and, as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reconstruction, made a major contribution to the ground-plan of Canada's national welfare system. During the post-war years he inspired McGill's response to the knowledge explosion of the forties and fifties and to the huge growth in demand for higher education. He also masterminded the successful endeavour of the National Conference to secure federal funding for all Canadian universities. A great traveller, James played a major role in the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, as well as in the International Association of Universities, of which he was elected President in 1960. As James' literary executor, Stanley Frost had privileged access to his private papers and has made full use of the opportunity to reveal the complexity of James' personality: his brilliance of mind, high ideals, and acute self-knowledge, as well as his deep-rooted sense of insecurity and his strange inhibitions in personal relationships. The privileged person in the Ivory Tower emerges in these pages as a very human one
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject James, F. Cyril (Frank Cyril), 1903-1973.
SUBJECT James, F. Cyril (Frank Cyril), 1903-1973 fast
James, Frank Cyril. swd
Subject McGill University -- Presidents -- Biography
SUBJECT McGill University fast
McGill University gnd
Subject College presidents -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College presidents
Presidents
Québec -- Montréal
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562691
0773562699