Item consists of issue number 4 of the Dalhousie University Bulletin, a special inauguration number celebrating the appointment of Carleton Wellesley Stanley as the new President of Dalhousie University. Includes the text of speeches by The Right Honorable R.B. Bennett (Canadian Prime Minister, and Governor of Dalhousie), G. Fred Pearson (Chairman of the Board of Governors), A. Stanley Mackenzie (President Emeritus), and Carleton W. Stanley (newly-appointed President).
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 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.
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 an offprint containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr to the Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, held in 1948 in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, about the integration of Reformed Church/Calvinist principles into modern educational methods.
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.
