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 Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Morgan was educated at

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and Memorial University College. Then he received a bachelor's degree from Dalhousie University and was elected a Rhodes Scholar 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 Rhodes Scholarship. 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, 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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