Series contains photographs, documents, flyers, scripts, and audio recordings of special events, celebrations, and workshops at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Records relate to Founders day, anniversaries, exhibitions, dramas, open houses, commencements, etc. between 1928-2006.
Item consists of W.J. Alexander's convocation address at the October 28, 1884 ceremonies. Alexander was "Munro Professor of English Language and Literature, Sometime Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University"
Item consists of an offprint containing the text of a speech delivered by President John Forrest on April 25, 1893 at the Dalhousie College Convocation ceremonies.
Item consists of an offprint containing the text of a speech delivered by President Arthur Stanley Mackenzie at the September 1905 Dalhousie University Convocation ceremonies.
Item consists of a facsimile of the text of an address delivered by President Carleton Stanley at a Special Convocation ceremony at a Dalhousie University Reunion event, August 17, 1938. Item originally appeared in Volume 2, Number 1 of the Second Series of The Alumni News, pages 9 and 16.
Item consists of a facsimile of the text of an address delivered by President Carleton Stanley at May 16, 1939 Dalhousie University Convocation ceremonies.
Item consists of the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr at the May 6, 1963 Dalhousie University Convocation ceremonies, about Dalhousie's growth and development in the post-war years (coinciding with Kerr's tenure as President). Item also contains reports submitted by individual faculties about their developments under Kerr's presidency. Includes reports submitted by H.B.S. Cooke (Dean, Faculty of Arts), H.E. Read (Dean, Faculty of Law), C.B. Stewart (Dean, Faculty of Medicine), J.D. McLean (Dean, Faculty of Dentistry), W.R. Trost (Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies), F.R. Hayes (Director, Institute of Oceanography), E.A. Electa MacLennan (Director, Faculty of Health Professions), J.G. Duff (Director, College of Pharmacy), Arthur H. Shears (Director) and Robert M. MacDonald (Dean-elect, School of Physiotherapy), Guy Henson (Director, Institute of Public Affairs), J.P. Wilkinson (University Librarian), K.D. Gowie (Director, Physical Education), and Bruce G. Irwin (Director, Alumni Association).
Item consists of the text of Lord Beaverbrook's commencement address on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the Sir James Dunn Science Building on October 29, 1958.
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).
Item consists of an annotated draft address delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the Encoenia ceremonies at King's College, May 9, 1912, upon receiving a Doctor of Civil Law degree.
Item consists of a handwritten addresses delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the 75th anniversary celebration of Acadia University, as well as the Alumni Dinner, both on May 28, 1913.
Item consists of a handwritten address delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the closing exercises for the graduates of the Halifax School for the Blind, June 9, 1913.
Item consists of a handwritten address delivered by Arthur Stanley MacKenzie at the closing exercises for the graduating nurses at the Nova Scotia Hospital, July 4, 1913.
Item consists of an annotated typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's address to Dalhousie alumni (present and future) at the Lord Nelson Hotel, Halifax, May 14, 1934.
Item consists of an annotated draft of Alexander Enoch Kerr's speech to be delivered at the October 4, 1960 Dalhousie Fall Convocation ceremonies. Includes additions and elaborations in Kerr's hand to verso of several pages.
File contains speeches delivered by Tom Traves in the first few months of his term as President of Dalhousie University, Summer-Fall 1995. File also contains a speech delivered by George Cooper on the retirement of Howard Clark as President of Dalhousie, May 31,1995.
Item is a set of two pages of Tom Traves' handwritten notes first introducing Professor Emeritus Peter Waite and then thanking him for addressing convocation.
Item is a copy of the address given by Tom Traves at the first convocation following the April 1 amalgamation of Dalhousie and the Technical University of Nova Scotia.