[2] In 1882 he and his brothers emigrated to the United States via Halifax, Nova Scotia, settling in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

[3] From there the family split up, and Craven ended up in New Hampshire as a student at Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1896.

[4] After becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States on May 2, 1896,[5] he became Assistant Professor of Oratory by 1900.

[6] Laycock's classmates later commissioned artist Nancy Cox-McCormack to create a bust in his honor.

By 1934, it had become the tradition of Dartmouth students to rub the nose of the bust for good luck before exams.