 In 1926 Havelock took his first academic job at Acadia University in Nova Scotia , Canada . He married Ellen Parkinson in 1927 , and moved on to Victoria College at the University of Toronto in 1929 . Havelock 's scholarly work during this period focused on Latin poetry , particularly Catullus , far from the early Greek philosophy he had worked on at Cambridge . While in Canada Havelock became increasingly involved in politics . With his fellow academics Frank Underhill and Eugene Forsey , Havelock was a cofounder of the League for Social Reconstruction , an organisation of politically active socialist intellectuals . He and Underhill were also the most outspoken of a group of dissident faculty members at the University . 
