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Sample of short hand notes by President Thomas McCulloch

MS-2-40, SF Box 16, Folder 14, Item 2
Item
June 14, 1801 - June 18, 1801

Item is a single sheet of paper, folded to form four pages, excerpted from a diary or journal. The excerpt is a sample of shorthand notes taken by Thomas McCulloch relating to sermons. Language on the page is most likely Latin, except for the dates that McCulloch was recording.

Letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch

MS-2-40, SF Box 16, Folder 11
Item
September 7, 1815

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Letter from Thomas McCulloch to the Senate of the University of Edinburgh

MS-2-40, SF Box 15, Folder 9
Item
[18--?]

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.

Notebook from lectures on logic delivered by Prof. Ross

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 9
Item
1860-1861

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a notebook used by James Baxter to take notes during lectures on logic delivered by Professor Ross. The lectures took place at the theological seminary in Truro, Nova Scotia between October 15, 1860 and April 10, 1861. The back of the notebook contains the signatures of people who attended the seminary and notes about them added by Baxter.

Ticket to a mathematics class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 5
Item
1861

Part of James Baxter fonds

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.

Ticket to a logic class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 6
Item
1861

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a ticket for a logic class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, during the 1860-1861 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxter took the class from October 10th 1860 to April 10th 1861 and is signed by James Ross.

Letter from Mr. Lyall certifying that James Baxter attended a Latin class

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 11
Item
April 10, 1861

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a letter written by Willam Lyall to certify that James Baxter attended a senior Latin class during the 1860-1861 session. The letter was written in Truro.

Letter from James Ross certifying that James Baxter attended a chemistry class

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 12
Item
April 12, 1862

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a letter written by Prof. James Ross to certify that James Baxter attended a chemistry class at the Presbyterian College. The letter was written in Truro, Nova Scotia on April 12, 1862.

Ticket to a natural philosophy class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 2
Item
1863

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a ticket for the natural philosophy class at the theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia, in the 1892-1893 session. The ticket certifies that James Baxkter attended the class from October to April and is signed by Thomas McCulloch. The back of the ticket has a note from McCulloch stating that Baxter also took mathematics classes.

Letter from Mr. Lyall certifying that James Baxter attended Greek and Latin classes

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 13
Item
December 18, 1863

Part of James Baxter fonds

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.

Ticket to an ethics class at Dalhousie College

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
[between 1863 and 1864]

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a ticket to an ethics class taught by Professor Ross at Dalhousie College during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket. The ticket is in a white envelope with Baxter's name written on it.

Letter from Thomas McCulloch certifying that James Baxter attended Latin classes

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 14
Item
March 3, 1864

Part of James Baxter fonds

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.

Ticket to a classics class at Dalhousie College

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 7
Item
[between 1863 and 1864]

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a ticket to a classics class at Dalhousie College, during the 1863-1864 session. The class was taught by Professor Johnson. James Baxter's name is written on the back of the ticket.

Ticket to a metaphysics, esthetics, and belles-lettres class at Dalhousie College

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 8
Item
[between 1863 and 1864]

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a ticket to a metaphysics, esthetics, and belles-lettres class at Dalhousie College. The class was taught by WIlliam Lyall during the 1863-1864 session. James Baxter's names is written on the back of the ticket.

Photograph of schoolchildren taught by Harold Edwin Killam

MS-2-646.2017-044, Box 17, Folder 2
File
[1894?]

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains one mounted photograph of schoolchildren taught by H.E. (Harold Edwin) Killam (1878-1957) when he was 16 years old. Killam is seated in the centre of the photograph. The children of varying ages are posed for a group shot, and the photograph is taken outside.

Howard Murray fonds

MS-2-180
Fonds
1878-1906

Fonds comprises an early teaching contract (1878), handwritten notes on Nova Scotia high school curriculum revisions, and a published pamphlet of opinions on proposed provincial curriculum reform (ca. 1906).

Murray, Howard

Letter from James Baxter to Dalhousie's President MacKenzie

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 15
Item
November 2, 1917

Part of James Baxter fonds

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.

Directory of graduates and former students of the University

MS-1-Ref, Box 117, Folder 8
File
1925

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in 1925. The volume contains a bookplate for Archibald McKellar MacMechan.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Programs from the School for the Blind

MS-5-1, Box 4, Folder 4
File
[1900 - 1925]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains programs for the following recitals presented at the Halifax School for the Blind: Michel Sciapiro (violin), presented by the Halifax Ladies' Musical Club; Mildred Dilling (harp), with Rose E. Seguin (soprano) and orchestra (conducted by L. Dorothea Webb); and an organ and vocal recital with unknown performers.

Photograph of Harry Dean

MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 37
File
[1915-1927]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a photograph of Harry Dean, a Canadian conductor, pianist, organist, and music educator. He is known for founding the Maritime Academy of Music and the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Carleton Stanley's address at the 1932 Haliburton Club Dinner, King's College

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 21
Item
3 May 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of a speech delivered by Carleton Stanley at the Haliburton Club at King's College on May 3, 1932, discussing what makes Dalhousie's education different.

Correspondence between Jessie Lawson and Carleton Stanley about the New Brunswick Teachers Association meeting

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 25
Item
June 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of correspondence between Jessie I. Lawson (of the Educational Review) and Carleton Stanley about Stanley's attendance at the New Brunswick Teachers' Association meeting in Fredericton in June 1932.

Carleton Stanley's address at the closing of the 1932 session at Halifax Academy

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 27
Item
24 June 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address delivered at the closing session of the 1931-32 school year at Halifax Academy discussing the growth of civilization throughout history and the role of the younger generations and the varied ways of learning (beyond books).

Carleton Stanley's address to the Teachers' Institute, Fredericton, N.B.

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 24
Item
29 June 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of an annotated typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley to the Teachers' Institute in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on June 29, 1932, about the relation between secondary schools and colleges.

Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the 1933 New Year Edition of the Halifax Herald

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 39
Item
1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the 1933 New Year Edition of the Halifax Herald, about educational reform in Nova Scotia's public schools. Item also contains related correspondence.

Personal papers of George Frederick Pearson

MS-2-291, SF Box 31, Folder 22
File
1920,1932

File comprises letters from Marshall Saunders, enclosing a sermon, "The Value of Higher Education from a Woman's Point of View," and his own "Report of a committee headed by G. Fred Pearson regarding dissatisfaction with Carleton Stanley, made to the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University, May 21, 1932."

Pearson, George Frederick

Carleton Stanley's address to the Ontario Educational Association

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 51
Item
18 April 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of an annotated typescript of an address delivered by Carleton Stanley at the Ontario Educational Association meeting in Toronto on April 18, 1933, discussing Plato's interpretation of modern civilization, the unwillingness of many teachers to truly have freedom ("they are not free because they are willing robots, they do not have the initiative to assert themselves"), maintaining faith in reason, and the threat posed in all fields by the absence of considerations of impacts on civilization. The speech was delivered in this form twice in 1934 as well.

Excerpts from Carleton Stanley's address to the Ontario Educational Association

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 52
Item
April 1933

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript abridgement of the key points in Carleton Stanley's speech before the Ontario Educational Association, April 1933.

Public Schools of Nova Scotia teacher's licenses

MS-2-646.2017-044, OS Box 9, Folder 7
File
1932-1933

Part of Joyce Barkhouse fonds

File contains two teaching licenses for Joyce Carman Killam for receiving professional diplomas to teach Grade 11 and Grade 12 classes, respectively.

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 5 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

Carleton Stanley's submission to the Kentville Advertiser about the establishment of a new junior high school

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 74
Item
12 January 1934

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of an article prepared by Carleton Stanley about the creation of a new junior high school in Kentville, Nova Scotia, dated January 12, 1934, and submitted for inclusion in the January 25, 1934 issue of the Kentville Advertiser.

Directory of graduates and former students of the University : corrected to September, 1937

MS-1-Ref, Box 27, Folder 19
File
September 1937

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

File contains 2 copies of a directory of graduates and former students of Dalhousie University published in September 1937. The directory is an update of a similar directory published by the Dalhousie Alumni Association in 1925.

Dalhousie Alumni Association

Community Development / William Saxby Blair

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1912-1938

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

File contains a report titled "Community development" by William Saxby Blair. Blair was the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.

Alexander Ross fonds

MS-2-231, SF Box 31, Folders 4-11; SF Box 33, Folders 3-26
Fonds
1831-1938

Fonds comprises family correspondence (including that of his father, Hugh Ross), matriculation records, testimonial letters, personal account books, a diary, school inspectors' reports and other papers and bonds.

Ross, Alexander

Notes by John Geoffrey Adshead regarding the The Dalhousie Course of First Year Mathematics

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1939

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 29
File
Sept. 1940

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Attendance registers for Wentworth Centre School

MS-2-198, OS Box 23, Folder 2
File
1928 ; 1941

Part of The Reverend William R. Tratt fonds

The curriculum and the rural schools of Nova Scotia / Alexander Laidlaw

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 7
File
1942

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandum by the [Nova Scotia] Interdepartmental Committee on Agricultural Education on adult education in the field of agriculture in 1943

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Meeting minutes from 1943 from the Committee on Co-operation and Co-ordination

UA-43, Box 2, Folder 5
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Memorandums and correspondence and various records from 1943 related to the Canadian Legion War Services Inc. Educational Services

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1943

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Lecture notes regarding mathematics 1 at Dalhousie University

MS-2-521, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1932 - 1944; (predominant 1940 - 1944)

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

Meeting minutes, memorandums, and various records related to agricultural education

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1942-1944

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Education : an address delivered over CBC on Sunday, September 29th, 1946

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 4
Item
1946 September 29

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered on C.B.C. by President Alexander Enoch Kerr on Sunday, September 29th, 1946, discussing the importance of making available post-secondary education opportunities for service men and women returning from the Second World War.

Manual of the first year of the Dalhousie course of mathematics

MS-2-521, SF Box 93, Folder 21
File
1947

Part of Charles Walmsley fonds

File contains a manual written by Charles Walmsley and John Geoffrey Adshead.

Report of an address by Henry D. Hicks at the Nova Scotia Federation of Home and School Association convention in Antigonish, Nova Scotia

MS-2-511, Box 29, Folder 4
Item
1948

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a two-page precis of an address given by Hicks.

The significance of the Reformed Church tradition for modern education

MS-1-Ref, Box 1, Folder 20, Item 5
Item
1948

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of an offprint containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr to the Annual Meeting of the Western Section of the Alliance of Reformed Churches, held in 1948 in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania, about the integration of Reformed Church/Calvinist principles into modern educational methods.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall giving a speech after receiving an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the special convocation of Dalhousie University on Munro Day

MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
4 February 1949

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, includes President Alexander Enoch Kerr; Colonel K.C. Laurie, the Chairman of the Board; Raddall; Dr. J.H.L. Johnstone, the Secretary of the Senate; and Reverend Harvey Denton.

Letter from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 15, Item 1
Item
October 26, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Halifax Symphonette essay concert

MS-2-511, Box 28, Folder 1
Item
1953

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a news release for the March Gazette announcing the winners of the student essay contest held in connection with a concert series held in Nova Scotia schools.

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