Item is a single sheet of paper, folded to form four pages, excerpted from a diary or journal. The excerpt is a sample of shorthand notes taken by Thomas McCulloch relating to sermons. Language on the page is most likely Latin, except for the dates that McCulloch was recording.
Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.
Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.
Item is a notebook used by James Baxter to take notes during lectures on logic delivered by Professor Ross. The lectures took place at the theological seminary in Truro, Nova Scotia between October 15, 1860 and April 10, 1861. The back of the notebook contains the signatures of people who attended the seminary and notes about them added by Baxter.
Item is a ticket for a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter attended the class and is signed by Thomas McCulloch.
Item is a ticket for a logic class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter took the class from October 10th 1860 to April 10th 1861 and is signed by James Ross.
Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended a senior Latin class during the 1860-1861 session. The letter was written in Truro.
Item is a letter written by Prof. James Ross to certify that James Baxter attended a chemistry class at the Presbyterian College. The letter was written in Truro, Nova Scotia on April 12, 1862.
Item is a ticket for the natural philosophy class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, in the 1892-1893 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxkter attended the class from October to April and is signed by Thomas McCulloch. The back of the ticket has a note from McCulloch stating that Baxter also took mathematics classes.
Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended senior Greek and Latin classes during the 1862-1863 session. The letter was written in Halifax on December 18, 1863.
Item is a ticket to an ethics class taught by Professor Ross at Dalhousie College during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket. The ticket is in a white envelope with Baxter's name written on it.
Item is a letter written by Thomas McCulloch to certify that James Baxter attended Latin classes at the seminary in Truro during the past three sessions. The letter was written at Dalhousie College, Halifax, on March 3, 1864.
Item is a ticket to a classics class at Dalhousie College, during the 1863-1864 session. The class was taught by Professor Johnson. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket.
Item is a ticket to a metaphysics, esthetics, and belles-lettres class at Dalhousie College. The class was taught by WIlliam Lyall during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's names is written on the back of the ticket.
Item is a photographic postcard with a class photograph on the front side, and a message addressed to Thomas Head Raddall at 53 Chebucto, Halifax, from his friend George on the reverse side.
Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.
Item is a letter sent to an unidentified person (possibly Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) by James Baxter. The letter was written in Chatham on November 2, 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to photographs of early Dalhousie professors and students sent along with the letter and names the people in the photographs.
Photographs are of the Halifax Manual Training School, Halifax Industrial School, Oxford Street School, St. Patrick's Girls' High School, St. Patrick's Reformatory, and Halifax School for the Deaf.
Item consists of a typescript copy of a speech delivered by Carleton Stanley at the Haliburton Club at King's College on May 3, 1932, discussing what makes Dalhousie's education different.
Item consists of correspondence between Jessie I. Lawson (of the Educational Review) and Carleton Stanley about Stanley's attendance at the New Brunswick Teachers' Association meeting in Fredericton in June 1932.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address delivered at the closing session of the 1931-32 school year at Halifax Academy discussing the growth of civilization throughout history and the role of the younger generations and the varied ways of learning (beyond books).
Item consists of an annotated typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley to the Teachers' Institute in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on June 29, 1932, about the relation between secondary schools and colleges.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the 1933 New Year Edition of the Halifax Herald, about educational reform in Nova Scotia's public schools. Item also contains related correspondence.
Item consists of an annotated typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley at the Ontario Educational Association meeting in Toronto on April 18, 1933, discussing Plato's interpretation of modern civilization, the unwillingness of many teachers to truly have freedom ("they are not free because they are willing robots, they do not have the initiative to assert themselves"), maintaining faith in reason, and the threat posed in all fields by the absence of considerations of impacts on civilization. The speech was delivered in this form twice in 1934 as well.
Item consists of a typescript copy of an article prepared by Carleton Stanley about the creation of a new junior high school in Kentville, Nova Scotia, dated January 12, 1934, and submitted for inclusion in the January 25, 1934 issue of the Kentville Advertiser.
Item is a manuscript copy of Carleton Stanley's article about trends in education in the Maritimes for publication in The Halifax Herald, along with related correspondence.
Item is a manuscript copy of an address given by Carleton Stanley to students and parents at the Halifax Ladies College, Bloomfield School and schools in Glace Bay and Sydney in 1934, and again in 1935 in Truro, Nova Scotia.
Item is an manuscript article about Dalhousie's tuition fees in relation to those elsewhere in Canada for publication in The Sydney Post Record, along with related correspondence.
Item is a manuscript copy of address by Carleton Stanley given at the Lord Nelson Hotel on January 21, 1935 in which he speaks about the importance of teaching poetry to children.
Item is a manuscript, plus correspondence, for an informational article outlining Dalhousie's programs of study, including costs and duration, for publication in New Brunswick's The Educational Review.
Item is manuscript copy of an address given by Carleton Stanley to teachers in Guysborough on September 26/27, 1935 and again in Bridgetown on October 25, 1935.
Item is a manuscript copy of an address made by Carleton Stanley at the Normal College in Truro, on March 22, 1935. The focus of his address is on the value of teaching poetry to children.
Item is a manuscript copy of a speech given by Carleton Stanley in Digby, Nova Scotia, on September 2, 1936. His address focuses on the intersection between municipal government and the universities, including the need for professional education.
Item is a manuscript outlining Dalhousie's efforts in adult or continuing education, including the establishment of the Institute of Public Affairs. Attached is an enclosure letter from Carleton Stanley's secretary to the editor of the Glace Bay Gazette, which published the article.
Item is a manuscript copy of a 400-word article focused on adult education written by Carleton Stanley for the Halifax newspaper at the request of its editor for New Year's updates from the presidents of principal Nova Scotia universities.
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."
Item is a two-page typed letter written by Kenneth Leslie on December 17, 1942. The letter addresses the threat posed by the fascist movement and antisemitism in the United States, both at present during the war, as well as the threats posed "after the war is over", where "this Fascistic movement will let loose with its first barrage, to consist of a wave of terror against the Jew". The letter, which an accompanying index card suggests should be sent "first to Presidents of colleges and then to professors of education, philosophy, psychology, historical and sociological sciences", urges educators join the "Protestant Digest"-supported Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks as a means of warding off fascism and antisemitism "not in the name of any church but in the name of democracy".
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.
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