He worked incredibly hard there but only reached second-class. Frances had no interest in these subjects, but Hugh did well in them, first at Dalhousie University, winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. Both Frances and Hugh were pushed hard in their schooling by their father, especially in the Classics. He became good at sports, winning the men's N.S. 1917, which Hugh later wrote about in his first published novel, Barometer Rising. When they returned to Canada, they settled briefly in Sydney, before moving permanently to Halifax where they experienced the Explosion in Dec. In 1913 they went to London where Samuel took courses for a medical specialty. His father was a stern Calvinist his mother, creative, warm and dreamy. John Hugh MacLennan was born to Dr.Samuel MacLennan, a physician, and Katherine MacQuarrie in Glace Bay he had an older sister named Frances.
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