Moses Osbourne Morgan, (August 28, 1917 – April 24, 1995) was a

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academic and president of Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1973 to 1981. Born in

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, Trinity Bay,

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, Morgan was educated at

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and

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. Then he received a bachelor's degree from

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus in Saint John, New Brunswick. Dalhousie offer ...

and was elected a

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for 1938. He did not attend the

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until after the

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. From 1940 to 1942, he taught at King's College School in

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. In 1942, he enlisted in the Canadian Army and saw service in Europe as a platoon commander. He completed a master's degree in Classics at Dalhousie before taking up his

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. Returning from his studies at

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, he taught at Dalhousie from 1948 until 1950 when he joined Memorial University of Newfoundland, initially as a professor of

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. He was president, pro tem from 1966 until 1967 and was appointed president in 1973. In 1973, he was made a Companion of the

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. He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a Canadian primarily undergraduate liberal arts university located in Sackville, New Brunswick, founded in 1839. Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not par ...

, Dalhousie University,

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, Queen's University, the

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and Memorial University of Newfoundland.

References

Memorial University biography
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