This fonds consists of photographs; audiovisual materials; newspaper clippings; pamphlets and posters; Dalhousie publications and other printed material; student and personnel files; correspondence; manuscripts; reports created by or reviewed by senior administration; financial materials including accounts payable and receivable documents, budgets, and ledgers; legal documents, including deeds and leases; diaries; scrapbooks; meeting minutes and agendas; academic plans; speeches; and other documents related to the senior administration’s sphere of responsibility.
Item is a copy of the address given by Tom Traves at the first convocation following the April 1 amalgamation of Dalhousie and the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
Item is a copy of an address given by Tom Traves on behalf of the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada with reference to Atlantic Canadian universities' research infrastructure and funding.
Item consists of a handwritten Memorandum of Agreement between the Reverend William McCulloch of Truro, Doctor of Divinity, of the one part, and The Board of Governors of Dalhousie College and University, of the other part, October 1st, 1887, as well as a typed transcription of the handwritten document. The Agreement outlines Dr McCulloch's aiding in establishing a natural history museum at Dalhousie College in the name of Thomas McCulloch.
Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President Henry Hicks and several other stakeholders between 1964 and 1968, regarding the potential loaning of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada. Includes correspondence between President Hicks and L.B. Macpherson, Eric Mercer, A.W.F. Banfield, Waldemar Fries, Sylvia Fullerton, John E. McInerny, R.A. Cluney, T.A. Russell, J. Lynton Martin, Elisabeth A. Christian, D.H. McNeill, K.E. von Maltzhan, and W. Earl Godfrey.
File contains draft and final speeches and addresses delivered by Carleton Stanley between 1931 and 1934, early in his tenure as Dalhousie President. File also contains related correspondence.
Item consists of a typescript text of the inaugural speech delivered by Carleton Stanley to the Freshman class of Dalhousie University, September 24, 1931. Includes a few inked annotations.
Item consists of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley, submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star in October 1931, about a gift of books from Francis McLennan to the Library at Dalhousie University. Includes correspondence.
Item consists of the text of a submission drafted by Carleton Stanley about the state of education in Nova Scotia, submitted to the Halifax Herald for their 1932 New Year Edition. Item also includes related correspondence.
Item consists of typescript of Carleton Stanley's address to future graduates at the Dalhousie Alumni dinner at the Lord Nelson Hotel on May 9, 1932, discussing the curiosities of professors.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley to accompany a photograph of the new Dalhousie gymnasium (photograph not present).
Item consists of a short commentary written by Carleton Stanley in response to a $9,000 donation from the Carnegie Corporation to the Dalhousie Library in October 1932, "solely for the purchase of books and current periodicals for general undergraduate reading in liberal arts".
Item consists of an annotated typescript of Carleton Stanley's address at the naming of the inaugural Russell Chair (in honour of former professor Benjamin Russell) at Dalhousie Law School, October 21, 1932.
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 a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's greeting to incoming students, submitted to the 1933 Dalhousie Freshman Handbook, dated September 23, 1933. Item also contains related correspondence between the President's Office and Howard C. Oxley.
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 a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's submission to the Halifax Chronicle, dated October 16, 1933, outlining the completion of the registration process at Dalhousie University for the 1933-34 session, and a rejection of the rumours of a substantial drop in student registration. Item contains related correspondence.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's submission to the Dalhousie Gazette, dated November 25, 1933, discussing the passing of Mr. W.H. Chase, one of Dalhousie's Board of Governors.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of a speech delivered by Carleton Stanley before the British Empire Club in Providence, R.I., on December 13, 1933, under the title "The Political Scene in Canada", discussing fundamental social ideas and rights, problems in parliamentary governments, and the threat posed to human institutions through wilful ignorance and the rejection of attempts to improve aspects of civilization for the betterment of all.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's submission for the 1934 New Year Edition of the Halifax Chronicle, prepared in December 1933. Item discusses the up-and-down economic welfare of the Maritime Provinces in the years since 1929, and the economic potential of the region's forest lands. Item contains related correspondence.
Item consists of correspondence between Carleton Stanley and the Saint John Telegraph-Journal from December 1933 about the President's inability to supply an editorial to the Christmas Edition of the Telegraph-Journal this year.
Item consists of an offprint of an article title "The Universities and the International Outlook", written by Carleton Stanley, and reprinted from the University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. V, No. 2, January, 1936. Speech was originally delivered before the American Association of Colleges in May 1934.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of a speech delivered by Carleton Stanley before the American Assocation of Colleges in May 1934, under the title "The Universities and the International Outlook". A version of this speech later appeared in the January 1936 issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly.
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.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at the Haliburton Club Dinner at the Unviersity of King's College, May 8, 1934, responding to the toast to Dalhousie.
Item consists of a draft of the opening remarks delivered by Howard Clark at the Sustainable Development Conference, held at Dalhousie University, December 9, 1991.
Item consists of the text of a speech delivered by Howard Clark in July 1991, in response to the April 1991 Report of the Task Force on Ocean Studies at Dalhousie University.
Item consists of the text of a speech delivered by Howard Clark on March 18, 1991, titled "Business Schools and the Future of Nova Scotia's Universities".
Item consists of the text of a report prepared by the Economic Analysis Policy and Planning Division of the Department of Development, about Dalhousie's economic impacts, released May, 1984, and collected by Howard Clark in 1986.
Item consists of research notes prepared by Fred Wien for Howard Clark in preparation for Clark's 1990 Treaty Day speech. Item also includes an early draft of the speech.
Item consists of a collection of comments, likely compiled by R.A. Cluney in 1965, stemming from a staff report to Halifax City Council related to an application from Dalhousie University to rezone some areas of its South End holdings as part of the Campus Development Plan.
Item consists of an unattributed hand-drawn, colour map of the Dalhousie University campus, drawn in December 1962, titled "Ground Plan of Dalhousie University".
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