Item is a copy of a manuscript version of an adaptation of "Fill Every Glass" from "The Beggar's Opera" by John Gay (1728). The arrangement was made by "C.B.C." and "J.F.W" for the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and is for solo voice (for the character of Matt of the Mint) and chorus.
Item is the manuscript for a hymn "Rest Christian Calmly," with words by Jessie P. MacKay and music by Addie MacKay. The music is for four-part chorus (soprano, alto, tenor, and bass) and is in F Major with four verses.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1922-3 session of Dalhousie University. The course of instruction, important academic dates, examination papers, degree requirements, fees, and scholarship opportunities are outlined for the Faculties of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Medicine, and Law. The calendar lists the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors as well as the academic staff and students.
Item is the sheet music for a solo voice and piano composition in C Major by Molly MacDonald of the MacDonald Music Co. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She published her music under the pseudonym of "Elza Doun."
Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated October 14, 1923, in Montreal, Quebec, thanking MacMechan for his presentation copy of "Sagas of the Sea", and of visits from family and friends.
Item consists of correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated Good Friday, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, outlining Jones's continued recovery, "chaotic" reading habits, and discussions around French politics.
Item consists of correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated April 3, 1923 from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, discussing Jones's thoughts upon finishing reading Arthur Schnitzler's "The Road to the Open".
Item is a letter from Edna F. Anderson to John Logan describing the success of a series of concerts given by the Boston Symphony Ensemble in venues across the Maritimes with a view to booking two similar concerts in Halifax.
Item consists of correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated July 2, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, where Jones updates on his recovery.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1923-24 session of Dalhousie University. The course of instruction, important academic dates, examination papers, degree requirements, fees, and scholarship opportunities are outlined for the Faculties of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Medicine, and Law. The calendar lists the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors as well as the academic staff and students.
Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated March 7, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, frankly discussing his struggles with his recovery amid fears he is "slowly becoming a wreck; [often] feeling useless and frightened" and angered by not being told his poor prognosis and difficulty of recovery back in 1917.
Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated May 12, 1923 from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, discussing the return of Jones's voracious reading habits, as well as opinions on the League of Nations.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1924-25 session of Dalhousie University. The course of instruction, important academic dates, examination papers, degree requirements, fees, and scholarship opportunities are outlined for the Faculties of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Medicine, and Law. The calendar lists the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors as well as the academic staff and students.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1925-26 session of Dalhousie University. The course of instruction, important academic dates, examination papers, degree requirements, fees, and scholarship opportunities are outlined for the Faculties of Arts and Science, Dentistry, Medicine, and Law. The calendar lists the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors as well as the academic staff and students.
Item is a manuscript of Edith J. Archibald's song for solo voice and piano in C Major entitled "Exiled: A Serbian Lament." A separate author for the lyrics is not indicated, so they are likely also written by Archibald.
Item is a manuscript of diary entries, genealogical notes, lists of idioms, and anecdotes written by Frank Parker Day in preparation for writing his novel Rockbound, which was based on families on East Ironbound Island.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1926-27 session of Dalhousie University. The calendar contains general information related to study at the institution including important academic dates, fee information, scholarship opportunities, degree requirements, admission requirements, and student activities. Faculty and student lists are provided for the faculties of Arts and Science, Law, Dentistry, and Medicine. Diploma programs were offered in pharmacy, household science, engineering, music, geology, and education. A list of the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors are also included.
Item is a triangular dance card (booklet) for a dance put on the Delta Gamma Society in the Dalhousie Gym on February 24, 1926. The dance was chaperoned by Dr and Mrs MacMechan, Professor and Mrs Munro, Miss M. Lowe, and Dr. G.E. Wilson.
Item is a group photograph of Mrs. Harriette Richardson (translator); Lieutenant Governor Tory; Mrs. Tory, Mrs. Taylor; standing; Mr. L.M. Fortier; Mr. Richardson; Chief Justice Harris; and Colonel Almon.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1927-28 session of Dalhousie University. The calendar contains general information related to study at the institution including important academic dates, fee information, scholarship opportunities, degree requirements, admission requirements, and student activities. Faculty and student lists are provided for the faculties of Arts and Science, Law, Dentistry, and Medicine. Diploma programs were offered in pharmacy, household science, engineering, music, geology, and education. A list of the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors are also included.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's first yearbook, published by students in 1927. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. It is dedicated to Jennie Eddy, the benefactor of Shirreff Hall, Dalhousie's first women's residence.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Virginia Lynne Tunstall, Evelyn Tufts, Noel Wilcox and Molly Beresford, as well as notes from Bliss Carmen and Stuart McCawley.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1928-29 session of Dalhousie University. The calendar contains general information related to study at the institution including important academic dates, fee information, scholarship opportunities, degree requirements, admission requirements, and student activities. Faculty and student lists are provided for the faculties of Arts and Science, Law, Dentistry, and Medicine. Diploma programs were offered in pharmacy, engineering, music, geology, and education. A list of the members of the University's Senate and Board of Governors are also included.
Item is a copy of issue number two of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Bob Leslie and Jerry Murphy, an announcement of poetry recitals by Bliss Carman, and a list of those receiving the song sheet.
Item is a copy of issue number six of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Martha Ann, Mollie Beresford, W.K. Carew, Nathanial A. Benson, Stuart McCawley, Charles Bruce, Bob Leslie and Joe Wallace, and notes about the whereabouts and doings of some members.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's second yearbook, published by students in 1928. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics.
Item is a copy of issue number one of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an appeal for submissions and a poem by Charles T. Bruce.
Item is a copy of issue number four of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Kenneth Leslie, R.V. Bannon, J.P.P. Llwyd, and Molly Beresford.
Item is a copy of issue number five of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Annie Campbell Huestis, Charles Bruce, Ellen Hemmeon, Ethel H. Butler, A.L. Fraser and Stuart McCawley, and comments from Jerry Murphy, Joe Wallace, and C.D.G.R.
Item consists of an offprint from the July 1928 Dalhousie University Bulletin's Munro Day number, containing the text of a speech delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie on the history of Munro Day on March 9, 1928.
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 copy of issue number 14 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the winner of the MacAskill-inspired poetry contest and remarks by James Gillis on each entry, which included poems by Robert Leslie, Stuart McCawley (the winner), Joe Wallace, Andrew Merkel, Ethel H. Butler, Michael D, Currie, M. Campbell, Effie MacD Barnes, Katherine F. MacDonald, and Mollie Beresford.
Item is a copy of issue number six of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by W.B., Charles D.G. Roberts, Ellen Hemmeon, Ethel H. Butler and W.J. Carew, and a page of editorial notes and readers comments.
Item is a copy of issue number 11 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Seumas O'Brien, "Mike," Kenneth Leslie, Estelle Fox, Constance L. Coleman, C. MacRae, Nathaniel A. Benson, H.G. McGrath, Alexander Louis Fraser, Pauline B. Barrington, Frank Graham, Ethel Butler, and Bliss Carman; letters from Stuart McCawley and Ross Macaulay; and an announcement regarding the call for poems celebrating Angus McAskill.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's third yearbook, the first to be called Pharos, a reference to the destroyed lighthouse in ancient Alexandria. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. The title page is illustrated by D.C MacKay and the issue is dedicated to John Stewart, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
Item is a copy of issue number ten of the Song Fishermens' Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains verses by Charles Bruce, Alexander Louis Fraser, E.H.B., Andrew Merkel, Kenneth Leslie, Joe Wallace and Stewart McCawley, and letters from James D. Gillis, Robert Norwood, Bliss Carman, Martha Ann, J.A. MacGlashen and Seamus O'Brien.
Item is a copy of issue number 15 of the Song Fishermen's Song Sheet, a poetry newsletter issued "every so often" and published by Andrew Merkel on behalf of the Song Fishermen. This issue contains an announcement of the song sheet's upcoming first year anniversary, an essay on the rewards of living in Nova Scotia and having the leisure to think and write, and poems by Robert Leslie and Joe Wallace.
![Rest Christian calmly : [choral score]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/a/6/1/a61ff1cf48ec64a284d75801184dfe855defc0a279a263da9dbcccac802a3a8f/MS-5-1_3_63_access_142.jpg)
![Father in heaven : a prayer : [sheet music]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/6/6/c/66c7b9e1eceb7450be6ec3bd21d97a53ba9f2b1df2c6d63438245361937a9e4c/MS-5-1_2_12_access_142.jpg)
![The Arts and Letters Club Constitution : [choral score]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/8/a/f/8af9fd817504101e051f7a4b9edb69de5b3a7bebdc7dcdbb4c7cdae989962cfd/MS-5-1_2_18_access_142.jpg)
![Exiled : a Serbian lament : [manuscript vocal score]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/c/b/e/cbe9cb32fd7301c510063926c9ba579fcdc1e63175d635e72b1b38ff11883268/MS-5-1_2_8_access_142.jpg)
![Ironbound, July 30, 1926 : [manuscript]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/1/4/9/14998b1e22e0191461934b683049d42d4e08d74d2621e88326bc351165c7e5b0/9dd83bcc-4e3f-4b5d-a2e4-47ea2f64a35d-MS-2-288_9_8_142.jpg)
![The islanders / by Frank Parker Day : [manuscript]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/4/2/a/42a3e1654259357fa361f2e0490034aa8b00ad32492ee031a5a2313bbf45fcc6/451945fe-aea2-4943-a60a-b31c4047218e-MS-2-288_9_1_142.jpg)
![Dalhousie University yearbook MCMXXVIII [1928]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/0/2/8/02845ad861dcb4636f448aa0fcffd75ef75831dfbd92f563005a50c09a313aeb/f4977b5b-c078-4889-aa41-faee1a086cbe-MS-1-Ref_194_1928_Yearbook_142.jpg)
![Munro Day, March 9, 1928 : [offprint]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/b/3/d/b3d6511ec3d29baef089fdfe67b5be07f2dfed2ee2b06c45f51e7723f03c9f52/14ac886d-8dcd-4203-82e7-274174b48633-MS-2-43_1_3_13_142.jpg)
