Frank Parker Day (1881-1950) was a celebrated Nova Scotia author and educationalist. Born May 9, 1881 at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Day had a distinguished academic career which saw him earn degrees from both Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (1903) and Oxford University (1907, 1909), where he had gone as a Rhodes Scholar in 1905. Upon completion of his first degree from Oxford and successful seasons on the rowing team, Day decided to spend the next two semesters at the University of Berlin where he worked as an assistant to Prof. Brandel and studied Beowulf. Returning to England in 1908, he taught at the University of Bristol, took classes at Oxford, and engaged (as he had during his undergraduate years) in athletics. This time he distinguished himself in academically by taking a Master of Arts degree and in boxing by winning the Oxford heavy weight championship and later the combined Oxford and Cambridge championship.
From the description of Frank Parker Day fonds. 1899-1957. (Dalhousie University, Killam Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 229204596
