Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Companion of the Order of Canada. Along with the Examiner newspaper they owned the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper CHEX-AM CKWS-AM CHEX-TV and CKWS-TV. He also participated in theatrical productions as a child when he developed a lifelong interest in drama.

William Robertson Davies CC OOnt FRSC FRSL (August 28 1913 – December 2 1995) was a Canadian novelist playwright critic journalist and professor. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.