Item is a copy of The Alumni News (Volume 19, Number 3), a quarterly publication of the Dalhousie Alumni Association. Numbering for this new series restarted in 1943. Issue includes the article "Dr Archibald MacMechan: An article abridged from a lecture given to Homecoming Alumni in May 1962" by Prof. C.L. Bennet.
Item is three sheets of paper. The first sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter is Archibald MacMechan's recommendation to Edwin Laftus, that Daniel Harvey should receive the position of lecturer in History at Dalhousie University. A P.S. note by MacMechan also recommends an article that Harvey wrote for the Rhodes Foundation.
Item is one sheet of paper. Sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter, sent from Halifax, is Archibald McKellar MacMechan's congratulating Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey for his recent successes and completion of his apprenticeship.
Item is a composite photograph of the Dalhousie University Arts and Science faculty and class of 1907. The photograph consists of portraits of J. Forrest; R. C. Weldon; W. Murray; J. E. Woodman; H. Murray; E. MacKay; A. MacMechan; J. Liechti; E. B. Jack; D. A. Murray; F. H. Sexton; R. A Watson; F. G. Knight; R. E. Dickie; W. P. Grant; G. F. Murphy; M. Payson; F. M. Cunningham; C. I. Gourley; J. T. Archibald; J. B. Gilliott; R. J. Bethune; A. Rettie; A. G. Macaulay; E. Fraser; J. H. Prowse; A. S. McKenzie; H. P. Jones; F. T. McLeod; A. F. Matthews; G. D. Finlayson; S. Rettie; J. MacKinnon; J. R. Miller; M. G. Burris; J. J. Macritchie; C. H. Patterson; M. E. Kerr; W. H. Sweet; H. F. McRae; B. L. Mackay; C. L. Blois; R. W. Maclellan; and D. S. Wickwire arranged in several rows around a photograph of the Forrest Building.
Item is a composite photograph of the 1912 faculty and class of the Dalhousie University faculties of Arts, Science, and Engineering. The photograph consists of portraits of A. S. MacKenzie (President); H. Murray; C. L. Moore; D. S. McIntosh; H. P. Jones; E. MacKay; A. MacMechan; John Forrest (Ex-president); R. Magill; J. A. Estey; M. Macneill; C. D. Howe; H. L. Bronson; R. C. Weldon; D. C. Mackenzie; A. P. MacIver; E. Kerr; D. A. MacMillan; H. P. Smeltzer; W. J. MacLeod; H. A. Bligh; G. L. Keeler; M. R. MacGregor; D. K. Munnis; S. M. Dennis; H. L. Garrett; J. C. Stairs; D. S. Cox; F. H. Toomey; A. L. Murray; N. T. Ashkins; C. G. Marsters; J. M. MacCabe; M. I. Davidson; F. H. Palmer; J. A. MacDonald; J. Messervey; L. M. McKittrick; Georgene Faulkner; E. A. Chisholm; Nora Lantz; M. P. Irving; J. P. McQueen (Class President); A. L. MacLean (Class Secretary); A. I. Rettie; A. K. Dickie (Class Vice President); B. E. Mumford; Fillis Boar; Mabel Magee; F. Collier; W. H. Noonan; D. S. MacIntosh; E. V. Ackhurst; F. E. Heisler; R. E. Day; L. B. MacCurdy; M. B. Henderson; E. M. Blackie; H. W. Doane; G. W. Grant; D. R. Fraser; R. B. Carson; G. K. King; E. S. Smith; W. K. Mackay; Jean Henry; J. K. Murchison; W. R. MacAskill; L. P. Archibald; H. W. Jones; L. W. Colquhoun; R. J. MacKinnon; and J. E. Henry arranged in several rows around a photograph of the Forrest Building.
Item is a composite photograph of the Dalhousie University Arts and Science faculty and class of 1923. The photograph consists of portraits of Miss J. S. Schmidt; H. P. Jones; H. Murray; A. S. MacKenzie (President); A. MacMechan (Life Honorary President); M. Macneill; C. Kenty; D. S. Thompson; W. E. Moseley; Miss O. V. Atley; M. M. MacOdrum; Miss E. I. Crichton; H. L. Stewart; H. L. Bronson; Miss H. M. O'Brien; L. W. Fraser; W. F. Proctor; Miss H. A. Sandford; M. B. Emeneau; Miss M. Marshall; Miss F. C. Holland; J. Chew; J. A. Forbes; R. MacG. Dawson; H. F. Munro; D. M. Grant; Miss M. McKay; Miss D. J. Graham; H. D. O'Brien; C. C. Ives; Miss G. L. MacLean; F. F. Archibald; Miss E. E. Geddes; B. C. Hunt; J. A. Dawson; Miss M. G. Crandall; P. T. Hickey; C. P. Bethune; W. B. MacOdrum; H. Robertson; Miss M. J. O'Connor; Miss A. G. Harvey; Miss H. E. Pugsley; Miss M. I. Kuhn; C. B. Nickerson; D. S. McIntosh; E. W. Nichols; G. F. Wilson; Miss A. F. Hunter (Life Vice President); C. F. Grant (Life President); G. M. Morrison (Life Secretary); G. E. Misener; Miss M. G. Wambolt; Miss M. J. Smith; Miss K. S. Foster; Miss M. I. Clark; H. C. Muir; N. B. MacLeod; R. B. Taylor; Miss A. W. MacNeil; T. R. Goudge; Miss E. A. Killan; Miss M. C. Hawkins; Miss M. F. McCurdy; D. S. MacLeod; Miss M. J. Moase; H. C. Glube; Miss R. E. Cluney; A. E. Murray; and R. Kerr arranged around photographs of three buildings.
Item is a composite photograph of the 1916 faculty and class of the Dalhousie University faculties of Arts, Science, and Engineering. The photograph consists of portraits of Martin Henry Dawson; N. E. McDonald; J. A. Nicholson; R. C. MacDonald; J. M. Fraser; F. C. Lantz; C. L. Moore; J. E. Todd; H. Murray; A. S. MacKenzie (President); H. L. Stewart; H. P. Jones; A. MacMechan; J. N. Finlayson; M. Macneill; H. R. Theakston; G. L. Stairs; G. P. Brookfield; H. A. McCleave; S. MacDonald; R. B. Mooney; E. MacKay; D. A. MacRae; D. S. MacIntosh; P. L. Whitman; W. B. Musgrave; M. A. Rogers; C. W. Holland; F. H. M. Jones; J. P. Matin; J. E. Webster; C. P. Blakeley; D. F. Marshall; C. H. Crosby; Dr. F. Harris; H. L. Bronson; J .R. Lawley; E. B. McLatchey; R. F. B. Campbell; H. Allum; P. L. Wright; F. L. Moseley; E. F. Whyte; H. A. Wilson; J. H. McLeod; Howard Charles Dawson; F. P. Malcolm; M. L. Power; U. Blois; G. L. Palmer; H. Mowat; J. M. Wyte; D. Nicholson; M. A. Ross; U. F. Shreve; L. S. Creighton; B. Hall; A. J. McInnes; E. M. Montgomery; L. J. Bayne; C. W. Ritchie; W. Pallen; A. G. Meloin; P. Freeman; G. R. Holmes; R. D. MacNutt; M. C. Fraser (Life Vice President); C. A. Pugsley (Life President); C. F. MacLennan (Life Secretary Treasurer); C. E. B. Smith; W. A. Wood; M. F. Johnstone; A. Ross; J. H. Ryan; and N. L. Chipman arranged in several rows along with photographs of the Forrest building and three other buildings.
Item is a photograph of some of Archibald MacMechan's family members visiting Dalhousie University. The photograph shows Mrs. C. R. E. Willetts (daughter); Mrs. Vlademir Ceruin (granddaughter); Mrs. John Campbell (granddaughter, daughter of Mrs. Willetts); and Gregor Campbell (great grandson). The family members visited a display about MacMechan which was organized by Ms. S. Rogers-Bell of the Killam Library Special Collections.
Item is a photograph of some of Archibald MacMechan's family members visiting Dalhousie University. The photograph shows Mrs. C. R. E. Willetts (daughter); Mrs. Vlademir Ceruin (granddaughter); Mrs. John Campbell (granddaughter, daughter of Mrs. Willetts); and Gregor Campbell (great grandson).
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's 1933-34 Opening Session address to the Dalhousie commuity, delivered on October 5, 1933. Item discussing the recent passing of Archibald MacMechan, outlining goals for the freshman class, and warning of the "terrible situation that has overtaken academic life in Germany" and the threat to "intellectual freedom everywhere" posed by rise of the Nazis, and the need to ward off "selfish apathy and indifference", before encouraging all in attendance to go to Professor [Alfred Eckhard] Zimmern's forthcoming lecture series.
Item consists of an offprint of Carleton Stanley's address at the opening session of the 1933-34 Dalhousie academic year, delivered on October 5, 1933. Item discussing the recent passing of Archibald MacMechan, outlining goals for the freshman class, and warning of the "terrible situation that has overtaken academic life in Germany" and the threat to "intellectual freedom everywhere" posed by rise of the Nazis, and the need to ward off "selfish apathy and indifference", before encouraging all in attendance to go to Professor [Alfred Eckhard] Zimmern's forthcoming lecture series.
