 From the late 1940s until the mid-1980s, he taught in the Department of Classics at Dalhousie University in Halifax.He was himself educated at Dalhousie as well as at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.In 2003, the University of Toronto Press published a substantial volume containing a number of his works together with commentary provided by former colleagues and students.