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132 CHAPTER 19 – 1907 – ROBERT FALCONER CHOSEN
18. Page 212, para. 4 – “(the Canadian secretary of the Rhodes Trust)”: George Parkin: see Greenlee, Sir Robert
Falconer at114.
19. Page 212, para. 4 – “a non-Canadian teaching at the University of Michigan”: Mark Wenley was born in Scotland
in 1861, educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh, and came to the University of Michigan in 1896, where he was
professor and department head of philosophy until his death in 1929: Who was Who in America, Vol. 1, 1897-
1942 (Chicago: A.N. Maquis, 1943) at 1322; King to White of the Board, Sept 6, 1906, “Greenlee Cards,” card
40.
20. Page 213, para. 1 – “Osler said he would think about it”: Macdonald, “Memoirs” at 8.
21. Page 213, para. 1 – “neither by training nor disposition am I adapted to it”: Osler to Hoskin, December 31,
1906, “Greenlee Cards,” card 46; Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 114.
22. Page 213, para. 2 – “in danger of losing our power of choice”: Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 114; Smith to
Walker, January 10, 1907, Walker Papers, box 7, file 22.
23. Page 213, para. 2 – “full board of governors met on February 7, 1907”: UTA/A73-0015/041(05), Office of the
Secretary of the Board of Governors.
24. Page 213, para. 2 – “a report on the candidates”: UTA/A73-0015/041/(06).
25. Page 213, para. 2 – “had met on earlier occasions”: Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 115; J.A. Macdonald to
Walker, January 23, 1907, UTA/A73-0015/51(14).
26. Page 213, para. 2 – “and had just seen in Halifax”: Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 102. Both Falconer and
Macdonald were interested in church union (between Presbyterians and Methodists).
27. Page 214, para. 1 – “Falconer, then just under 40”: Falconer was born February 10, 1867 and would have been
39 years, 362 days old when the Board first considered his name: see Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 5.
28. Page 214, para. 1 – “Flavelle’s paper, the News”: Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 95.
29. Page 214, para. 1 – “the chair of New Testament literature by Knox College”: Ibid. at 103.
30. Page 214, para. 1 – “received his divinity degree in 1892”: Ibid. at 11, 19, 29, and 46.
31. Page 214, para. 1 – “several summers studying in Germany”: Ibid. at 40-41.
32. Page 214, para. 1 – “the great biblical dictionaries then being prepared”: Ibid. at 50, 65, and 67.
33. Page 214, para. 1 – “based on his scholarship”: Ibid. at 67.
34. Page 214, para. 1 – “unanimously endorsed as principal of Pine Hill”: Ibid. at 76.
35. Page 214, para. 2 – “contained only four names”: UTA/A73-0015/041(06), Office of the Secretary of the Board
of Governors.
36. Page 214, para. 2 – “dean of the teachers’ college of the University of Missouri”: “Greenlee Cards”, card 5;
Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 114.
37. Page 214, para. 2 – “a British educational reformer at Manchester”: Greenlee, Sir Robert Falconer at 114; Sir
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