unsympathetic colleagues and mediocre students.

The Coach House

In 1944 he left St. Louis to join the faculty of Assumption College—now part of the University of Windsor—where he stayed for two years until he arrived at his permanent home, St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. There, too, he found students unsatisfactory, and his colleagues often unsympathetic. The foremost English professor in the University at the time, A. S. P. Woodhouse, detested the New Criticism, the Catholic Church, and Marshall McLuhan personally. Throughout his career, a large percentage of McLuhan’s colleagues at the university regarded him as academically unsound—he rarely “substantiated” his points, and was cavalier about facts.