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73 Pol. Sci. Q. [i] (1958)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry73 and id is 1 raw text is: JOHN BARTLET BREBNER The Editors of the POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY with great sorrow record the death of their colleague, John Bartlet Brebner, in New York on November 10, 1957. John Bartlet Brebner, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History in Columbia University, was born in a Canadian academic family on May 12, 1895. His father was Registrar of the Univer- sity of Toronto and in that city Bartlet Brebner had his early schooling, finishing the equivalent of high school work at the age of fifteen. His father insisting that the boy be at least eighteen before entering the university, young Brebner spent three years acquir- ing experience and reading. He took odd jobs, worked at a corundum mill, and devoured whatever printed matter he could lay his hands on. Finally at eighteen he matriculated at Toronto and read classics. Then the war came and he joined the Cana- dian Army; he rose to be a staff sergeant, after which he trans- ferred to the Royal Artillery of the British Army and served to the end of the war as a second lieutenant. His experiences in the Near East sharpened his nascent his- torical sense and increased his eagerness for learning. He entered St. John's College (Oxford) on demobilization and took his B.A. in 1920; then a B. Litt. in 1925 and an M.A. in 1926. From 1921 to 1925 he was lecturer in modern history at the University of Toronto, and in the latter year came to Columbia as an instructor in Columbia College. His purpose being to obtain the doctorate, he joined the seminars of Robert Livingston Schuyler and Carlton J. H. Hayes, and in keeping with the native breadth of his mind followed courses in nearly all the branches of history offered by the Department-Intellectual, British, American, and European. Within two years he had passed his orals and published his dissertation, New England's Outpost, which is a study of Acadia before the conquest of Canada. Dr. Brebner was immediately promoted to Assistant Professor. As such he took part in several of the important educational

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