Though having already earned his B.A. and M.A. in Manitoba, Cambridge required him to enrol as an undergraduate "affiliated" student, with one year's credit towards a three-year bachelor's degree, before entering any doctoral studies. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1934, where he studied under I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis, and was influenced by New Criticism.Marchand, pp. 33–34 Years afterward, upon reflection, he credited the faculty there with influencing the direction of his later work because of their emphasis on the  training of perception  , as well as such concepts as Richards' notion of feedforward .Marchand, pp. 37–47. These studies formed an important precursor to his later ideas on technological forms."Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan." Collections Canada. Government of Canada. [1998] 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. He received the required bachelor's degree from Cambridge in 1936 and entered their graduate program. From 1967 to 1968, McLuhan was named the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx. While at Fordham, he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumour , which was treated successfully. He returned to Toronto where he taught at the University of Toronto for the rest of his life and lived in Wychwood Park, a bucolic enclave on a hill overlooking the downtown where Anatol Rapoport was his neighbour.
Though having already earned his B.A. and M.A. in Manitoba, Cambridge required him to enrol as an undergraduate "affiliated" student, with one year's credit towards a three-year bachelor's degree, before entering any doctoral studies. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1934, where he studied under I. A. Richards and F. R. Leavis, and was influenced by New Criticism.Marchand, pp. 33–34 Years afterward, upon reflection, he credited the faculty there with influencing the direction of his later work because of their emphasis on the " training of perception " , as well as such concepts as Richards' notion of "feedforward" .Marchand, pp. 37–47. These studies formed an important precursor to his later ideas on technological forms."Old Messengers, New Media: The Legacy of Innis and McLuhan." Collections Canada. Government of Canada. [1998] 2008. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. He received the required bachelor's degree from Cambridge in 1936 and entered their graduate program. From 1967 to 1968, McLuhan was named the Albert Schweitzer Chair in Humanities at Fordham University in the Bronx. While at Fordham, he was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor , which was treated successfully. He returned to Toronto where he taught at the University of Toronto for the rest of his life and lived in Wychwood Park, a bucolic enclave on a hill overlooking the downtown where Anatol Rapoport was his neighbour.
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