We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

The foundation was instituted in 1946 and awarded the first Leacock Medal in 1947. His first appointment was at Uxbridge High School Ontario but he was soon offered a post at Upper Canada College where he remained from 1889 through 1899. This was confirmed by Nonsense Novels (1911) and probably his best book of humorous sketches Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912).

Stephen Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian teacher political scientist writer and humorist. In the early part of the 20th century he was the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world.