Calendar of Dalhousie College and University

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The University, 1907
 

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Page 102 - Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (Ch.B.), Doctor of Medicine (MD), and Master of Surgery (Ch.M.). The Degree of Bachelor of Surgery shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine, and the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine shall not be conferred on any person who does not at the same time obtain the Degree of Bachelor of Surgery.
Page 1 - The building was begun in 1819, and on the 22nd of May, in the year 1820, the corner stone was laid by the Earl of Dalhousie. On the 13th of January 1821 an " Act to incorporate the Governors of Dalhousie College at Halifax " became law. The original Board consisted of the GovernorGeneral of British North America, the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, the Bishop, the Chief Justice, the President of...
Page 1 - open to all occupations and sects of religion, restricted to such branches only as are applicable to our present state, and having the power to expand with the growth and improvement of our society,
Page 1 - for the education of youth in the higher branches of science and literature." The original endowment was derived from funds collected at the port of Castine, Maine, during its occupation in 1814 by Sir John Sherbrooke, then Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia.
Page 44 - Candidates may elect whether they will apply for the scholarship of the State or Territory in which they have acquired any large part of their educational qualification, or for that of the State or Territory in which they have their ordinary private domicile, home, or residence. They may pass the qualifying examination at any...
Page 44 - Scholarships are intended, not to facilitate attendance on ordinary collegiate studies, but to enable Students who have passed through a College curriculum and have given distinct evidence of capacity for original research, to continue the prosecution of Science with the view of aiding its advance, or its application to the industries of the country.
Page 2 - President McCulloch died, and in 1845 the College was closed, the Governors considering it "advisable to allow the funds of the institution to accumulate." From 1849 to 1859 the College funds were employed to support a High School. Toward the end of this period, in 1856, the Arts department of Gorham College, Liverpool, supported by the Congregationalists, was transferred to Dalhousie, " with a view to the furthojance of the establishment of a Provincial University...
Page 1 - Council, proposed that £9,750 of these funds be devoted to the " founding: of a College or Academy on the same plan and principle as that in Edinburgh," "open to all occupations and sects of religion, restricted to such branches only...
Page 114 - Medica titulo iam donandus sancte coram Deo cordium Scrutatore spondeo, me in omni grati animi officio erga Universitatem Academicam Edinburgensem ad extremum vitse halitum perseveraturum.
Page 46 - Every Scholar will, in the absence of special circumstances, be required to proceed to an institution other than that by which he is nominated.

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