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.
File contains Carleton Stanley's correspondence with colleagues and editors, and included some manuscript drafts and offprints of articles or addresses by Stanley or others.
File contains manuscripts of articles, press releases and addresses delivered by Carleton Stanley between 1931 and 1934. Some items include related correspondence.
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 address to Queen's University on January 9, 1933, under the title "Knowledge in a Vacuum", discussing Keynesian economics and the tumultuous situation since the Treaty of Versailles.
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 a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at the graduation ceremonies at Sussex High School, Sussex, New Brunswick, on June 25, 1934, musing on high school class loads and Greek poetry.
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 Carleton Stanley's address introducing Lothar Richter at his first public lecture, held in the Chemistry Theatre on January 11, 1935. Appended are announcements and related correspondence regarding this and other lectures in the series.
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 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 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 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.
File contains Carleton Stanley's correspondence, including copies of his outgoing letters, regarding invitations to speak to groups or associations. Copies of his addresses are often included with the correspondence.
File contains correspondence and contracts related to the loaning of Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada.
Item consists of a typescript copy of the short address delivered by Carleton Stanley on the occasion of the laying of the corner at the new Dalhousie Gymnasium, November 10, 1931, after the loss of the previous gymnasium to fire in May 1931.
Item consists of an early annotated draft of the short address delivered by Carleton Stanley on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of the new Dalhousie gymnasium, on November 10, 1931.
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the Christmas Edition of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, dated December 9, 1931, discussing the importance of the humanities in education. Item also includes related correspondence.
Item consists of a typescript copy of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley at the first Glee Club performance at the new Dalhousie gymnasium on March 1, 1932, discussing the importance of the new gym for the health and well-being of Dalhousie students.
Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent by Fred Wigmore, editor of the Dalhousie Yearbook, to Carleton Stanley discussing the theme of the 1932 Dalhousie Yearbook of "Pilgrim's Progress".
Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address at Pictou Academy in June 1932, about older Pictonians "passing the torch" to the younger generation.
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