File contains two copies of "Mater Coronata," a poem written by John Daniel Logan "commemorating the founder, preceptors, scholars, and heroes of the University of Dalhousie College." It was recited at the reunion of the alumni on August 21, 1924 and published by the Alumni Association. One of the copies is inscribed to "Captain John S. Roper, B.A., M.A., LL.B., M.C." with a poem from Logan.
File contains handwritten notes from speeches delivered by a Dalhousie sophomore student (probably Avis Marshall) during the hazing of "freshettes" (first-year female students). Some are written on the back of unrelated typed notes.
File contains the sheet music for a piece for solo voice and piano accompaniment in C Major with words by Neil Herman of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and music by Forsyth de Fronsac of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The sheet music was self-published by Herman and Fronsac. The file also includes a note to Dr. Logan from "W.H.D." to review the sheet music enclosed.
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.
File contains five invitations to events at Dalhousie sent to Avis Marshall, including a dance by the junior class of the Faculty of Arts and Science; a sale of gifts and novelties from the Hwaiking Shop; an "at home" at the Pine Hill residence; a dance at Kings College; and an "at home" at the Waegwoltic Club.
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.
Item is a copy of issue number nine 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 Ethel H. Butler, Bob Leslie, Noel H. Wilcox, Alexander Louis Fraser, Charles Bruce, "Willie," "A.C.H.," King Hazen, Grace and Joe Wallace, and Stuart McCauley, and notes from and about readers and contributors.
File contains an envelope addressed to Mr. John E. Bigelow of Canning, Nova Scotia and a letter from his granddaughter Caroline Button (Bigelow) from Evanston, Illinois.
Item consists of the academic calendar for the 1930-31 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 program for a luncheon at the Halifax Hotel at which Vincent MacDonald was the guest speaker, giving an address on the St. Lawrence waterway.
Item consists of brewing logs for A. Keith and Son from April 1, 1930 to January 14, 1931. Item contains logs for 200 batches of standard Ale, Sparkling Ale, and Stout.
Item is a copy of Dalhousie's fourth yearbook. It features photographs, drawings and information about Dalhousie graduates, faculty, campus buildings, student societies and athletics. The volume is dedicated to Dr. Archibald MacMechan, Dalhousie professor of English language and literature from 1889-1931.
Item is a copy of issue number 16 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 a letter from J.D. Gillis recounting his first visit to Halifax since 1916 in order to attend the Song Fishermen's picnic, and poems by R.V. Bannon, E. Chesley Allen, John Mosher, and Stuart McCawley.
Item consists of brewing logs for A. Keith and Son from January 15, 1930 to April 21, 1931. Item contains logs for 72 batches of standard Ale, Sparkling Ale, and Stout.
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![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)
