File includes a detailed course training standard for the Police Technology Course and correspondence regarding a proposed certificate program at Dalhousie University in Liberal Studies for Police Officers.
This course analyzed how words and sentences convey meaning in language. Students learn how lexical items can be represented in terms of their semantic components and how interrelated groups of words form semantic fields. At the sentence level, grammatical, pragmatic and logical aspects of meaning are introduced. The course also explored idiomatic expressions and the ubiquity of metaphor.
File includes correspondence with Dean Graham Taylor, Roberta Mazzanati, Tony Farrell (SMU), J. E. Holloway (Spanish), Giulio Molinaro (U of Toronto), Ruba Afani, Suzanne Garnier, Silvia Giuliani regarding the launching of Italian studies at Dalhousie University. Also included are minutes from the French department and a course evaluation for ASSC 1010 - Italian for beginners.
Item is a ticket to an electro-biology class at an unidentified school. The ticket is printed on thick blue card and Jame Baxter's name is written on the back.
Item is a ticket for a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter attended the class and is signed by Thomas McCulloch.
Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended senior Greek and Latin classes during the 1862-1863 session. The letter was written in Halifax on December 18, 1863.
Item is a letter written by Thomas McCulloch to certify that James Baxter attended Latin classes at the seminary in Truro during the past three sessions. The letter was written at Dalhousie College, Halifax, on March 3, 1864.
Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.
Item is a letter sent to an unidentified person (possibly Arthur Stanley MacKenzie) by James Baxter. The letter was written in Chatham on November 2, 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to photographs of early Dalhousie professors and students sent along with the letter and names the people in the photographs.
File contains eleven harmony workbooks used by Ellen Ballon, including notes and exercises. Two books are labelled "Mr. Goldmark Harmony Book," in reference to her harmony teacher in New York, Rubin Goldmark. Another book includes an inserted repertoire list of piano compositions, composers, and times, presumably related to her piano lessons with Rafael Joseffy.
Fonds includes papers pertaining to an arbitration between the Civil Service Commission of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia Government Employees Association, including correspondence, research materials, research notes, and submissions to the arbitration board. Fonds also contains general files regarding the Canadian Association for Adult Education, Canadian Labour Congress, and the Institute of Public Affairs.
File contains annotated copies of the set designs for Neptune Theatre's school tour productions of "Blue Horses" and "Class Project," directed by Jennette White and designed by D'Arcy Morris-Poultney.
