Contents
2 . Changing the Guard, 1929-1933
3 . Carleton Stanley’s Kingdom: Dalhousie 1933-1938
4 . Dalhousie, the Second World War, and the Philosopher-King, 1939-1943
5 . Firing Carleton Stanley, 1943-1945
6 . A.E. Kerr and the Veterans, 1945-1951
7 . The Ways of the Fifties, 1951-1957
8 . In the Fast Lane: C.D. Howe, Lady Dunn, and Others, 1957-1963
9 . Dalhousie Being Transformed: The First Years of Henry Hicks, 1963-1968
10 . Testing Limits: The Cohn, the Killam, the Life Sciences, the Radicals, 1968-1972
11 . Coming to the Plateau, 1972-1976
12 . Shifting Power: The End of the Hicks Regime, 1976-1980
List of Illustrations
Professor Archibald MacMechan’s book plate
Herbert Leslie Stewart, Professor of Philosophy, 1913-47
A group of Dalhousie students and alumnae, late 1920s
Dalhousie Gazette cartoon and poem, January 1925
Convocation procession, May 1931
Carleton Stanley, President of Dalhousie, 1931-45
Murray Macneill, Professor of Mathematics, 1907-42, Registrar, 1908-36
At the Convocation Ball, May 1939
Colonel K.C. Laurie, Chairman of the Board, 1943-55
Student convocation committee outside Shirreff Hall, 1942
Professor R.A. MacKay and his son, W.A. MacKay
A.E. Kerr, President of Dalhousie, 1945-63, about 1948
George Earle Wilson, Professor of History, 1919-69
Veterans at Burns Martin’s class in English, about 1947
A class in biology in 1948, with the usual segregation
The Dalhousie Gazette office and its staff, 1947
J.H. Aitchison, Eric Dennis Professor of Political Science, 1949-74
Rugby on a wet day in November 1948
A visit from Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, November 1951
The Dalhousie Senate’s first meeting in the new Arts and Administration Building, January 1952
R.L. deC. H. Saunders, Professor of Anatomy, 1937-74
Horace Read, Dean of Law, 1950-64, Vice-President, 1964-9
The Sudley campus from the air, August 1957
Dalhousie’s first chancellor, C.D. Howe
Howe laying the cornerstone of the men’s residence, October 1959
Donald McInnes, Chairman of the Board, 1958-80
Lady Dunn presenting Donald McInnes with the key of the Sir James Dunn Science Building, 1960
George Grant, Professor of Philosophy, 1947-60 and Killam Professor of Religion, 1980-4
A succession of physicists, about 1960
A low temperature physics experiment in the Sir James Dunn Building
Robert Chambers cartoon on the wit of Henry Hicks
Hicks on a bulldozer breaking ground for the new Law Building
Hicks addressing convocation, 1968
Dorothy Johnston Killam, about 1964
Looking west from above the partly finished Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 1967
The Queen Mother at the opening of the Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building, 1967
The first graduates of the new Bachelor of Nursing program, July 1967
Lady Beaverbrook at opening of the Sir James Dunn Law Library, March 1967
Hoisting the new IBM 1620 into the Dunn Building, March 1964
H.B.S. Cooke returns to paleontology after 1968
President Tito and Sir Fitzroy Maclean receive Dalhousie honorary degrees, November 1971
L.G. Vagianos, University Librarian, 1966-9, and later Vice-President Administration
Four doctors in 1978: R.C. Dickson, C.B. Weld, Sir Peter Medawar, and Chester Stewart
Kraft von Maltzahn, Chairman of Biology, and Gordon Riley, Director of Oceanography
Arnold Tingley, Professor of Mathematics, Dalhousie Registrar, 1973-85
A peripatetic president, cartoon from University News 325
Looking at examination results, 1976
Beatrice R.E. Smith, Registrar, 1952-68
K.T. Leffek, Professor of Chemistry, Dean of Graduate Studies, 1972-90
Honorary degree recipients, May 1974
L.B. Macpherson, Dean of Medicine, 1971-6
A learnedness of lawyers, 1973
Chambers in Halifax Herald, 1971, on property taxation
Three successful female athletes in 1972
Hicks as art critic in 1967, photograph, painting
Hicks as art critic in 1967, cartoon
Eric Perth, Cohn Auditorium impresario, and assistants
John F. Graham, Professor of Economics, 1949-89, as Royal Commission chairman, 1973
Michael Power, President of Students’ Council, 1978-9
W.A. MacKay, Vice-President, 1969-80, President, 1980-6
Nova Scotia and university expansion: a Chambers cartoon of 1974