Newspaper Article, "Dr. James Naismith, Originator of Basketball", 1952
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This article was written in 1933 by Dr. Tait McKenzie and that was reprinted for the McGill News in 1952. In the article, Dr. McKenzie discusses his boyhood and college friend Dr. James Naismith. McKenzie gives a unique interpretation of who Dr. Naismith was as a person, and being that McKenzie was the best man in Naismith's wedding. For more information on Dr. James Naismith, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/645 For more information on R. Tait Mckenzie, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/720. Due to how the the scrapbook was arranged the article has been split by item 24. They have been put together for the ease of the online researcher. The original article was written in 1933, but this is the reprinted version that appeared in the McGill News in 1952.
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Is part of a scrapbook of Naismith materials, collector unknown, that has been taken out of its binding and the pages separated by archival paper. It is the 23rd & the 25th item in the scrapbook.
