Item is a photograph taken at the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Sir James Dunn Science Building at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows President A. E. Kerr, C. D. Howe, Lord Adrian, an unidentified man, Sir Edward Appleton, and Dean W. J. Archibald in sitting in a row on a small stage. Kerr is speaking at a microphone.
Item is a photograph taken at the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Sir James Dunn Science Building at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows A. E. Kerr giving an address at the ceremony. R. L. Stanfield, Lord Beaverbrook, and other men are seated on the stage behind him.
Item is a photograph of a crowd of older, unidentified people (likely scientists, guests or honorary degree recipients) on stage. Chancellor C.D. Howe, Dr. A. E. Kerr, and Lady Dunn are visible in the background.
File consists of two copies of a photograph and a photographic negative of the Dalhousie University Senate members, present at the first Senate meeting held in the new Arts and Administration Building, in January 1952. The photograph shows Dixie Pelluet; Dean Horace Read (Law); Dean J.H.L. Johnstone (Graduate Studies); C.L. Bennet; President A.E. Kerr; Dean George Wilson (Arts and Science); Dean J.S. Bagnall (Dentistry); Dr. H.L. Scammell (Registrar); Dean H.G. Grant (Medicine); H.P. Bell; C.B. Weld; D.J. Tonning; C.H. Mercer; W.J. Chute; H.R. Theakston; W.R. Lederman; R.S. Cumming; J.H. Aitchison; John A. Aldous; George Grant; A.S. Mowat; G.V. Douglas; R.S. Hayes; C. Lamberston; Burns Martin; A.K. Griffin; J.A. McCarter; and Charles Walmsley. The photograph was selected for inclusion in the publication "The Lives of Dalhousie University, Vol. 2" by Peter B. Waite (page 183).
File includes a program for the Inauguration of Alexander E. Kerr as President of Dalhousie University (November 13, 1945); "Education" (delivered on CBC September 29, 1946); "The Significance of the Reformed Church Tradition for Modern Education" (1948); and other addresses delivered during his Kerr's tenure.
Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered on C.B.C. by President Alexander Enoch Kerr on Sunday, September 29th, 1946, discussing the importance of making available post-secondary education opportunities for service men and women returning from the Second World War.
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).
Item is a copy of Dalhousie Alumni News (Volume 31, Number 1), a magazine published by the Dalhousie Alumni Association. Numbering for this new series restarted in 1943. Issue includes an article on the passing of former president Alexander Kerr.
Collection contains seventy-seven glass plate lantern slides created by Byron Ulric Hatfield in Nova Scotia during the early twentieth century. Hatfield took photographs of coastal landscapes, churches and other buildings, and people working and in social settings. He also photographed published illustrations of Acadian life, including several illustrations of scenes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie." Hatfield developed his own photographs and created "magic lantern" slides to use in an illustrated lecture titled "The Land of Evangeline: The Land of Romance, Legend, and Picturesque Beauty." He gave lectures in various locations throughout the eastern United States.
Item consists of an offprint from the Summer 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review (pages [208]-218), containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr about the the recent celebration of three different anniversaries related to the life and activities of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland in the sixteenth century.
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.