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...present these six colleges,--Dalhousie, King's. Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, New Brunswick and Mt. Allison,--are hard pressed to keep their means up to their standards. According to Dr. Sills of Bowdoin they are doing identically the same work and effectually "dissipating their energies, sacrificing the chief opportunity for contributing to the life of the Dominion...
...prize for graduation theses in the Business School has been granted to Owen Winchester Graves, A.B., Acadia College, 1914, M.B.A., Harvard University 1920, for his thesis on "Prerequisites and Factors to the Most Effective Use of Works Committees." The 2nd prize has been awarded to Howard Scott Noble, A.B., Simpson College, 1914, M.B.A., Harvard University, 1920, for his thesis on "Methods of Determining Cost of Sales in Distribution of Automobiles...
...University of Nebraska, in history; Arthur Bauman, of Cleveland, O., from Adelbert College, in English; Edward Henry Berger, of Lancaster, Pa., from Franklin and Marshall College, in biology; Edwin Berry Burgum, of Concord, N. H., from Dartmouth College, in government; Alden Benjamin Dawson, of Uigg, P. E. I., from Acadia University, in biology; Percy Thomas Fenn, Jr., of Wichita, Kan., from Hobart College, in history; Clarence James Green, of Stockton, Kan., from Washburn College, in zoology; Albert Parsons Leurn, of Newark, N. J., from New York University, in English; Marvin Marx Lowenthal, of Bradford, Pa., from the University of Wisconsin...
Professor MacVane was born on Prince Edward Island in 1842. He received the degree of A.B. from Acadia College, Nova Scolia, in 1865, as well as from the University. He was also awarded the honorary degree of A.M. by Acadia College...
...began with the meeting of de la Tour and Governor Winthrop, whom he mentioned as Harvard's civil founder, and then traced the part played by Harvard graduates in winning possession of the continent from the French. He then spoke of the early New England migration to Acadia, with its large accompaniment of Harvard clergymen and of other graduates who became prominent in the contest for responsible government. The contribution of Harvard to the Loyalist cause was next described. In conclusion. Dr. Rand mentioned the large influence in Canadian affairs exercised by Canadian graduates from Harvard throughout the past century...