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.
The President's Address to the Freshman Class, Session 1931-32 (September 24, 1931); The Inauguration of Carleton W. Stanley as President of Dalhousie University (October 9, 1931); various President's addresses opening of sessions (1933-34, 1937-38, &c.) and Convocation ceremonies.
File contains correspondence between J. Gordon Duff and Dr. A. Whitney Matthews, as well as correspondence between Duff and Dr. A. Tingley, Alice Morre, and other series of letters between Matthews and Dean G.A. Burbidge of the Maritime of College of Pharmacy. File also contains convocation addresses by Matthews, as well as newspaper articles.
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 two copies of a transcript of General Paton's speech to the Third Army on the eve of the Allied Invasion of France. The source is not provided—Paton's speeches were extemporaneous and there were several versions based on reports at the time.
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 correspondence with or about John C. Whitehorn. Also includes a lecture titled "Changing concepts of psychoneurosis in relation to military psychiatry" and pages from a book about Whitehorn.
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 contains an assortment of scripts for lectures between 1943 and 1988. Also contains newspaper clippings, schedules, and a list of titles included in the file.
File contains information and outlines for the morale division of the strategic bombing survey. Also includes speech scripts, lists of variables and hypotheses, survey result analysis, group interview proposals, memoranda, and schedules.
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 contains correspondence with or about Edmund Ezra Day. Also includes "Social responsibilities of business education: a convocation address commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the school of administration," by Edmund Ezra Day.
File also includes two off prints of a speech by George Nowlan, Member for Digby-Annapolis-Kings on The Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne, delivered in the House of Commons on February 4, 1949.
File also contains correspondence, newspapers clippings, and a program for the Silver Anniversary Graduation Bridgetown Regional High School closing exercises, held June 21, 1976.
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