Lives Of Dalhousie University Volume 2

Author : P.B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773566732
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 2 written by P.B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of professors and students, deans and presidents, their ideas and idiosyncrasies, their triumphs and failures, provide the driving force of Waite's narrative. Avoiding the details of financing, curriculum, and administration that sometimes dominate institutional histories, Waite focuses on the men and women who were the blood of the university and who established its traditions and ethos. Halifax in peace and war is basic to Dalhousie's history, as is its relations with other colleges and universities in Nova Scotia. Waite sets all this out, placing Dalhousie's development within the larger Nova Scotian context.

Author : P.B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564586
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume 1 written by P.B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-06-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financed by British spoils from eastern Maine in the War of 1812, modelled on the University of Edinburgh, and shaped by Scottish democratic education tradition, Dalhousie was unique among Nova Scotia colleges in being the only liberal, nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Except for a brief flicker of life (1838-43), for the first forty-five years no students or professors entered Dalhousie's halls a reflection in part of the intense religious loyalties embedded in Nova Scotian politics. The college building itself was at different times a cholera hospital and a Halifax community centre. Finally launched in 1863 and by 1890 embracing the disciplines of law and medicine, Dalhousie owed its driving force to the Presbyterians, retaining a double loyalty to their ethos of hard work and devotion to learning and to a board, staff, and student body of mixed denominations. P.B. Waite enlivens his descriptions of the life of the university with evocative portrayals of governors, professors, and students, as well as sketches of the social and economic development of Halifax. A welcome addition to the histories of Canadian universities, this volume and its forthcoming companion, dealing with the years 1925 to 1980, contribute significantly to our knowledge of the sometimes bitter internecine struggles that accompanied the development of higher education in Canada. "Everywhere is evident the deft turn of phrase, the captivating descriptions, the beautifully drawn word pictures that do much to enliven and illuminate the story ... It possesses many strengths, including clarity and liveliness, and tells us much about Dalhousie as an institution of buildings, presidents, and professors." B. Moody, Department of History, Acadia University.

Author : Peter Busby Waite
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Lives of Dalhousie University, Volume Two written by Peter Busby Waite and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital exhibit is designed to complement "The lives of Dalhousie University, Volume Two, 1925-1980: the old college transformed" by Peter B. Waite (Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998). The exhibit contains the complete text of Waite's monograph (from the Dalhousie Libraries Digital Editions Gitbook page), as well as supporting essays containing additional background material on topics that are important to Dalhousie's twentieth century rise to prominence. The exhibit is supplemented by dozens of digitized reproductions of relevant photographs, sketches, articles, and ephemera contained in the Dalhousie University Archives and the Dalhousie University Photographic Collection, and available via the Archives finding aid or Dalspace.

Author : Peter B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773511668
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University written by Peter B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an engaging, often elegant style, this first volume of a two-volume narrative history of Dalhousie University chronicles the years from the founding of the university in 1818 by the ninth Earl of Dalhousie to the movement for university federation in 1921-25.

Author : Peter B. Waite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773511668
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book The Lives of Dalhousie University written by Peter B. Waite and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Cameron
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773513853
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Download or read book For the People written by James Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In For The People James Cameron charts the institutional development of St Francis Xavier University from 1853 to 1970 and illustrates how the college has become an integral part of the region's history and culture through its tradition of service to the people of eastern Nova Scotia on both the mainland and Cape Breton Island.

Author : William Naftel
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 0887807399
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Halifax at War written by William Naftel and published by Formac Publishing Company Limited. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Halifax's extraordinary role in the Second World War.

Author : Barry Cahill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802048424
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Download or read book The Thousandth Man written by Barry Cahill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day. He was also an appellate counsel, venture capitalist, Conservative Party fundraiser, bibliographer of Rudyard Kipling, and sometime university teacher of classics. A leader of the bar in the inter-war period, he was the first Maritimer to serve as president of the Canadian Bar Association. He distinguished himself mainly in constitutional cases before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During his career, Stewart was also head of the leading law firm in eastern Canada (now Stewart McKelvey Stirling Scales), director and vice-president of the Royal Bank of Canada, and senior counsel to the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations. Above all, Stewart was committed to the idea of law as a truly learned profession and to the bar as the most important legal institution. To this day, no lawyer has held such prestige and power both within and outside Atlantic Canada; in his time he was the only Maritime lawyer who gained full acceptance by every branch of the Canadian establishment. Thematic rather that chronological in approach, this fascinating legal biography provides both a history of a uniquely Canadian career and an interpretation of its significance for Stewart's time and ours.

Author : Julia Eastman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802035257
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mergers in Higher Education written by Julia Eastman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a comparative study of two Canadian higher education mergers, Julia Eastman and Daniel Lang examine why and how universities merge and why some mergers succeed while others fail.

Author : Peter B. Waite
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773516441
Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book Lives of Dalhousie University written by Peter B. Waite and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of professors and students, deans and presidents, their ideas and idiosyncrasies, their triumphs and failures, provide the driving force of Waite's narrative. Avoiding the details of financing, curriculum, and administration that sometimes dominate institutional histories, Waite focuses on the men and women who were the blood of the university and who established its traditions and ethos. Halifax in peace and war is basic to Dalhousie's history, as is its relations with other colleges and universities in Nova Scotia. Waite sets all this out, placing Dalhousie's development within the larger Nova Scotian context.