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Address to Commercial Club, Hx, Jan. 1937

Item is a manuscript copy of an address made to members of the Halifax Commercial Club in which Carleton Stanley appeals to their social and political consciences to address the slums and improve the schools of Halifax.

Address to students, March 12, 1935

Item is a manuscript copy of an address given by Carleton Stanley to the male students at Dalhousie University. Appended is an unrelated announcement for publication in The Halifax Herald about a public lecture by J.E. Barton, Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School.

Addresses by President Carleton Stanley

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.

An appeal to the heads of the Maritime colleges

Item is a manuscript copy of an appeal made to the heads of the Maritime colleges to pay heed to the 1921 Learned-Sills Report, which called for a merger of Maritime universities at Halifax. A handwritten note on the first page indicates that the appeal "resulted in unanimous support of [sending?] an appeal to local governments [and] Med/Dental schools."

Carleton Stanley's address at the luncheon meeting of the Community Chest

Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at the Community Chest luncheon meeting, held at the Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, on October 30, 1933, discussing the problems faced by charitable organizations since 1929 -- "[though] I am not advising any of you to take a pair of thumbscrews along with you on your canvass [for charitable contributions]" -- and the growth of the Halifax Public Health Clinic.

Carleton Stanley's address before Dalhousie graduates at a Boston Alumni event

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address Boston-based alumni from Dalhousie University, at the Hotel Westminster on April 12, 1934, addressing the difficulties of constructing a university budget during times of economic upheaval, what programs grants and alumni donations have aided at Dalhousie, as well as the threats posed by wars which "pend and threaten".

Carleton Stanley's address in Sussex, New Brunswick

Item consists of a typescript copy of a speech delivered by Carleton Stanley in Sussex, New Brunswick, on June 25, 1934, praising the quality of New Brunswick students at Dalhousie, a toast to the "dullest of all dull subjects" -- the state of education -- in the Maritime Provinces.

Carleton Stanley's address to New York Dalhousie alumni

Item consists of a typescript copy of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley before Dalhousie University alumni at an event in New York, May 4, 1934, discussing the financial situation at Dalhousie during a period of worldwide economic tumult. Speech was initially prepared May 2, 1934.
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