File contains the valedictory address delivered by Alexander Howard MacKay at convocation on April 30, 1873. The address was published in the Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 10 on May 3, 1873.
File contains a triangular piece of yellow cardboard with a 'character study' of Dalhousie student Mary Caroline Hawkins. There are two Greek letters printed at the top of the card: Delta Gamma. This card is presumed to be related to the Delta Gamma Society, a women's society at Dalhousie University.
File contains a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in 1925. The volume contains a bookplate for Archibald McKellar MacMechan.
Series comprises Dalhousie University yearbooks, including Pharos; the College of Pharmacy's Mortar & Pestle and Modo Opimum; Faculty of Law yearbooks; the School of Physiotherapy's Amicus Curia; Dalhousie's former Department of Education yearbooks; and the yearbooks of Nova Scotia Technical College and the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
Subseries contains yearbooks published by Dalhousie University students between 1927 and 1998. From 1929 until the 1990s, the yearbooks were largely printed under the title Pharos, a reference to the destroyed lighthouse in ancient Alexandria.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's first yearbook, published by students in 1927. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. It is dedicated to Jennie Eddy, the benefactor of Shirreff Hall, Dalhousie's first women's residence.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's second yearbook, published by students in 1928. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's third yearbook, the first to be called Pharos, a reference to the destroyed lighthouse in ancient Alexandria. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. The title page is illustrated by D.C MacKay and the issue is dedicated to John Stewart, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's fourth yearbook. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. The volume is dedicated to Dr. Archibald MacMechan, Dalhousie professor of English language and literature from 1889-1931.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's fifth yearbook, which features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. The volume is dedicated to Arthur Stanley MacKenzie during the year of his retirement after two decades as university president.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's sixth yearbook, which features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. This volume is dedicated to "youth in its pilgrimage, inspired, enlightened, awakened to the possibilities embodied in the future."
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 is an article about George Urquhart Hill published in the Carleton Place Canadian on December 11, 1958. Hill was a decorated fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two and enrolled in medicine at Dalhousie University after the war. He graduated in 1950 and practiced family medicine in Ontario.
Subseries contains the yearbooks for the Nova Scotia Technical College / Technical University of Nova Scotia : Tech Flash; Artifacts ; and The Quill, for the years 1959 to 1998.