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CHAPTER 11 – 1887 – MORE NEW PROFESSORS
69. Page 119, para. 3 – “and a disciplinary direction”: Murray, Working in English at 17.
70. Page 119, para. 3 – “to literary studies”: Ibid. As his student and successor as head, A.S.P. Woodhouse, stated in a
memorial tribute, “He had to rescue the teaching of literature from the dead hand of linguistic analysis, to free it
from the mere cramming of irrelevant information and unattached literary history, and to show how the subject
could be presented as a thing of ideas, of beauty and of power”: University of Toronto Quarterly (October 1944) at
9.
71. Page 119, para. 3 – “according to Woodhouse”: University of Toronto Quarterly (October 1944) at 8-9.
72. Page 119, para. 3 – “and more sensitively”: Claude Bissell, Halfway up Parnassus: A Personal Account of the
University of Toronto 1932-1971 (University of Toronto Press, 1974) at 5.
73. Page 120, para. 1 – “William Houston applied for the chair”: Murray, Working in English at 29.
74. Page 120, para. 1 – “our foremost littérateur”: Murray, Working in English at 33, citing Varsity of November 17,
1888.
75. Page 120, para. 1 – “would later become Manchester University”: “Wilson Journal” at 145 (January 21, 1889);
Murray, Working in English at 24 and 37.
76. Page 120, para. 1 – “or to persons personally contacted”: “Wilson Journal” at 145 (January 21, 1889); Hoff, “The
Controversial Appointment” at 60.
77. Page 120, para. 1 – “three men are thought necessary”: Murray, Working in English at 28.
78. Page 120, para. 1 – “especially for Keys”: “Wilson Journal” at 146 (January 30, 1889); see Averill and Keith, “Sir
Daniel Wilson” at 184.
79. Page 120, para. 1 – “would succeed Wilson as president”: “Wilson Journal” at 142 and 149 (November 12, 1886
and March 12, 1889). As Wilson points out in the 1889 entry, he considered Schurman equally qualified to hold
the chair in English.
80. Page 120, para. 1 – “Schurman became president of Cornell a few years later”: Morris Bishop has summed up
Schurman’s contribution to Cornell in the following terms: “His success was the success of Cornell … In his time,
Cornell became one of the great universities of America, indeed, of the world”: see Morris Bishop, A History of
Cornell (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962) at 442. Schurman, after the end of his Presidency of Cornell in
1920, went on to a distinguished diplomatic career, culminating in the Ambassadorship to Germany from 1925-
1930: see www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~g30/Engischurman.html.
81. Page 120, para. 2 – “the American Journal of Philology”: University of Toronto Quarterly, October 1944 at 3;
Murray, Working in English at 18.
82. Page 120, para. 2 – “before making his choice”: Murray, Working in English at 26-27.
83. Page 120, para. 2 – “in the Dominion Illustrated magazine”: Ibid. at 26.
84. Page 121, para. 1 – “what they were doing”: World of February 14, 1889, as quoted in Hoff, “The Controversial
Appointment” at 63.
85. Page 121, para. 1 – “so I believe we have got the best man available”: “Wilson Journal” at 146 (January 30,
1889).
86. Page 121, para. 1 – “chosen the best man available”: Varsity, February 2, 1889.