File contains two inaugural addresses delivered by James DeMille at convocation ceremonies of Dalhousie College. The first inaugural address was delivered on November 4, 1873 and printed in Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 6, No. 1 (November 15, 1873). The second inaugural address was delivered at convocation in 1878 and printed in Dalhousie Gazette, New series Vol. 4, No. 1 and No. 2 (November 23, 1878 and December 7, 1878).
File contains the valedictory address delivered by Alexander Howard MacKay at convocation on April 30, 1873. The address was published in the Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 10 on May 3, 1873.
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 draft and final speeches and addresses delivered by Carleton Stanley between 1931 and 1934, early in his tenure as Dalhousie President. File also contains related correspondence.
File contains two copies of a speech, one heavily annotated. A handwritten note indicates that it was given at the Annual Conference of Canadian Passengers Association and Canadian Travellers Association.
File contains the typed manuscript text of an undated address made (presumably in late 1941 or early 1942) by Kenneth Leslie, to "Mr. Chairman, [...] Archbishop Hovsepian, learned doctors, brave Captain [Jim] Chankalian, [and the] Armenian people". File addresses the Armenian cause and the Russian War Relief effort in the months following the Atlantic Charter.
File contains an undated, untitled fragment (lacking the first of seven pages) of a sermon delivered by Kenneth Leslie at Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, New York. The sermon was likely given October 24th, 1943, entitled "God -- Empty Church", a later version of which appeared in the December 1943 issue of The Protestant. File addresses the threat posed by both the Papacy and Martin Luther to the Baptists, stating that Luther was not "for the people" and that "Baptists ... were massacred with the people by both Luther and the Pope". File expresses the notion that since the success of the Russian Revolution and communism, "the opportunity for free religion is here, [...as] religion has not, nor can be free under capitalism". File also addresses the role in Leslie's 'The Protestant' (The pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was serving on the editorial board of 'The Protestant' at this time) in ensuring the opportunity for free religion in a American capitalist socioeconomic system that prevents it.
File includes a program for the Inauguration of Alexander E. Kerr as President of Dalhousie University (November 13, 1945); "Education" (delivered on CBC September 29, 1946); "The Significance of the Reformed Church Tradition for Modern Education" (1948); and other addresses delivered during his Kerr's tenure.
File contains a typed and annotated manuscript copy of an address given to the Halifax Commercial Club in 1946. It also includes newspaper clippings related to the event.
File also includes three drafts of an address made by Charles Bruce at a dinner held on 11 May 1946 in honour of Andrew Merkel's retirement as Atlantic superintendent of The Canadian Press and a copy of the CP Informative Bulletin, which includes an account of the dinner and tributes to Merkel from editors at Halifax Herald and Halifax Chronicle.
File also contains correspondence, newspapers clippings, and a program for the Silver Anniversary Graduation Bridgetown Regional High School closing exercises, held June 21, 1976.
File includes notes for a press conference introducing Donald S. Rickerd, president of the Donner Canadian Foundation; published information about the Donner foundation; notes on the Donner project; terms of the grant to the TUNs Centre for Water Resources; press release; and correspondence.
File consists of handouts, course descriptions, class plans, and correspondence relating to courses given by Anthony Pugh as part of the University of New Brunswick's extended learning program. Pugh's courses included one on Beethoven's piano sonatas and one one Beethoven's concertos.
File includes correspondence, clippings, and a copy of Hicks' speaking outline at the Canadian Association of University Development Officers conference held in Ottawa on 7-9 April 1975.
File consists of records relating to talks that Anthony Pugh gave on sonata form, music in New Brunswick, musical interpretation, Tchaikovsky's fourth symphony, and the performance and style of works by Mozart.
Files contains multiple drafts of Hicks' Canadian Museums Association Fellows Lecture held on 24 June 1978 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The file also includes related correspondence and newspaper clippings.
File includes correspondence from David MacDonald, executive assistant to Gerald Regan, whom Hicks replaced as guest speaker at the dinner held at Kings - Edgehill School, in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
File includes Budge Wilson's handwritten speech and a copy of a speech by Margaret Laurence "On Censorship...A Speech given to Ontario Provincial Judges and their Wives" and "Remarks on Margaret Laurence" by Joan Y. Johnston. The file also contains a letter from the Halifax City Regional Library about her participation in the event.
File contains speeches, addresses, and reports both delivered by and collected by Howard C. Clark during his time as President of Dalhousie University.
File also includes policy and procedure documents; audio-visual library holdings records; GIS organization plan; and transcripts of speeches and papers on policing by S.A. Kinnaird, Chief of Police.
![A national asset : [manuscript]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/8/b/d/8bd382f279cf283148da9eae5ce77c367aafbbb85c2439633f98ad8870fc9a60/3d750911-265e-4337-b5d0-1c5c54e709a4-MS-2-171_1_52_142.jpg)
