Logan Lane is named after Harry Tremaine Logan (1887-1971), a
professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia. Logan
began his studies at McGill University, and during 1908-11 he was a
British Columbia Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Studies of
Theology at New College Edinburgh (1912-13) followed. Logan received a
Master's degree from Oxford in 1919 and began teaching at UBC in 1920
as an Instructor. His career took him from the ranks of Assistant
Professor, to Associate Professor, and to Professor of Classics and
Head of the Department of Classics until 1952. Logan's many activities
with the University include his senate membership (1930-48); Member of
the Board of Governors (1941-46); Trustee of the B.C. Canteen Fund;
Editor, UBC Alumni Chronicle; and, notably, author of the history of
the university, Tuum Est (1958). In 1965 Logan was presented with an
honorary doctorate in Law by UBC, and he was lauded as "a wise and
affectionately regarded teacher whose obvious humanity has been for
more than half a century a source of vital inspiration for hundreds of
students". During World War I Logan served as a trooper in the King's
Colonial Cavalry. He was later with the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of
Canada and Canadian Machine Gun Corps (1915-18) as, successively,
Lieutenant, Captain, and Major. He was mentioned in dispatches and won
the Military Cross. In 1919 he prepared the official history of the
Canadian Machine Gun Corps. He later commanded the 12th Canadian
Machine Gun Brigade, Vancouver (1924-27), and the UBC Contingent,
Canadian Officers Training Corps (1928-30), as Lieutenant
Colonel. He was in later years always known as "Colonel Logan,"
or simply "the Colonel."
[adapted from the UBC Archive]
Credit: UBC Archives record 5.1/1788
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UBC awarded Logan an honorary degree in 1965
Credit: UBC Archives record 1.1/4450
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