List Of Mc Gill University People
The following is a list of chancellors, principals, and noted alumni and professors of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Sheathey call him Scholar Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
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