Item consists of the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr at the May 6, 1963 Dalhousie University Convocation ceremonies, about Dalhousie's growth and development in the post-war years (coinciding with Kerr's tenure as President). Item also contains reports submitted by individual faculties about their developments under Kerr's presidency. Includes reports submitted by H.B.S. Cooke (Dean, Faculty of Arts), H.E. Read (Dean, Faculty of Law), C.B. Stewart (Dean, Faculty of Medicine), J.D. McLean (Dean, Faculty of Dentistry), W.R. Trost (Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies), F.R. Hayes (Director, Institute of Oceanography), E.A. Electa MacLennan (Director, Faculty of Health Professions), J.G. Duff (Director, College of Pharmacy), Arthur H. Shears (Director) and Robert M. MacDonald (Dean-elect, School of Physiotherapy), Guy Henson (Director, Institute of Public Affairs), J.P. Wilkinson (University Librarian), K.D. Gowie (Director, Physical Education), and Bruce G. Irwin (Director, Alumni Association).
File includes transcripts of Ronald St. John Macdonald's convocation addresses given on different occasions and institutions, including at McGill University, Dalhousie University, and Carleton University.
Item consists of a facsimile of the text of an address delivered by President Carleton Stanley at a Special Convocation ceremony at a Dalhousie University Reunion event, August 17, 1938. Item originally appeared in Volume 2, Number 1 of the Second Series of The Alumni News, pages 9 and 16.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address to Dalhousie alumni (present and future) at the Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, May 14, 1934.
File contains primarily administrative correspondence regarding invitations to address societies or other groups, including university convocations; there are some manuscript copies of address included with the related correspondence.
Item consists of the text of Lord Beaverbrook's commencement address on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the Sir James Dunn Science Building on October 29, 1958.
Item consists of W.J. Alexander's convocation address at the October 28, 1884 ceremonies. Alexander was "Munro Professor of English Language and Literature, Sometime Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University"
Item consists of an annotated draft of Alexander Enoch Kerr's speech to be delivered at the October 4, 1960 Dalhousie Fall Convocation ceremonies. Includes additions and elaborations in Kerr's hand to verso of several pages.
File contains manuscript copies of Stanley's 1938 addresses at the closing exercises at New Glasgow High School and annual banquet of the Alumni Association of the Conservatory of Music; book suggestions for teenage boys; New Year 1938 musings; and a letter to a newspaper editor regarding the decline and fall of Classics in higher education.