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.
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.
File contains the manuscript for Alberto Jonàs' "Novelette" for piano, which he wrote for Ellen Ballon. Ballon was one of his students in New York from c. 1916 until 1925.
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.
File contains two tickets and 13 dance cards from dances at Dalhousie University, the Waegwoltic Club, and Pine Hill. Most of the dance cards have been filled in with the names of her dance partners.
Item is a manuscript of Edith J. Archibald's song for solo voice and piano in F Major entitled "A Nocturne," including the score and a separate typed sheet with the poem in English and French, also written by Archibald.
Item is a manuscript of Edith J. Archibald's song for solo voice and piano in G Major entitled "Going West." The text for the song was written by Rev. Mrs. Ross(?) of Hamilton, Ontario.
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 the lyrics for a song by Edith J. Archibald entitled "Lover's Meeting," which was written at her house on Inglis Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The music is not included. The lyrics are typed with edits added in pen.
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 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 one sheet of paper. The item is folded to create two additional pages, with only the right page having any text. The letter is from Edith MacMechan, Archibald MacMechan's wife, to Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey.
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 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.
![Song of the Maritimes : [sheet music]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/3/5/9/359ea720aef7100f4bcf6cf0f7d8404d2db53931cf37359f6fd77d5c4efed4ca/MS-5-1_3_60_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)
![A Nocturne : [manuscript vocal score]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/7/6/f/76fa51dc161e2f73a223727beb13a6af3c4e6c6280b43fdb69bddd5d83d10d95/MS-5-1_2_7_access_142.jpg)
![Going West : [manuscript vocal score]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/8/9/b/89b92756d27cd4c81d3d8cfcd561b5f273bb0da0b2d64ba7a91a673b9cd9891d/MS-5-1_2_9_access_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)
![Lover's meeting : [lyrics]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/a/7/8/a7887b9b3517eab8998602de06831987c5359b43d0cba1dd55ee63ab509721c3/MS-5-1_3_57_access_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)
