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ACADIA BlJLLETlN VOL. XLII WOLFVILLE N. S .. OCTOBER, 1956 NO.4 THE NEW HEATING PLANT The new heating plantequipped for either coal or oil will soon go into operation. Cost of construction and laying pipes has been about $300,000. ACADIA BULLETIN VOL. XUI WOLFVILLE N. S., OCTOBER, 1956 NO.4 BY WAY OF INTRODUCING TWO ARTICLES: Money is always an important facror in maintaining an educational insti tution, and in the maintenance of a more or less privately supported university such as Acadia is, the gerting and dispensing of this necessary wherewithal can become at rimes a hair-greying procedure. Therefore the editor without any qualms of conscience is reprinting two papers in this issue of the Bulletin thar have to deal with facets of this perennial problem. He beseeches the most careful attention of every alumni to the said articles. Both have a special relevancy ro the situation at our alma mater. (See pp. 16-24) . BY WAY OF SOME FURTHER INFORMATION: At the annual meeting of the United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces held at Wolfville, August 30 and 31, the resolution to amend the constitution of the Board of Governors was considered (See Acadia Bulletin, June 1956, pp. 7, 8). This resolution with a slight amendmenr was adopted, raising the number of Governors from twenty-four to thirty and allowing the alumni to choose fourteen of these without geographical restrictions so long as they are members in good standing of a church of some Protestant communion. BY WAY OF AN ANNOUNCEMENT: FOUNDERS' DAY, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 11 a.m. -Service in University Hall Audirorium. Speaker : Mr. A. R. Lusby, B.A., LL.B., M.P., Amherst, N. S. Afternoon-Football Game on Raymond Field followed by tea. Evening -Banquet in Dining Hall. Speaker: Mr. R. Byrns Curry, B.A., LL.B., Ottawa. Student Reception in the Gymnasium open to Founders' Day visitors. Watch the Press for further details. 1 ACADIA BULLETIN The Summer School, 1956 The summer session at Acadia extended who gave it an international complexion. from Tuesday, July 3, registration day, Of the total enrollment, seventy-two to Tuesday, August 14, the day of Con teachers were working towards a higher vocation. The registration showed a grade of license. Acadia, by the way, has small yet very gratifying increase. In all, the only summer session in the province there were one hundred and thirty-one where teachers can receive credit for work students in attendance. Of these, one done in furthering their qualifications for hundred and ten came from Nova Scotia. a higher grade of license. Six other Canadian provinces were also re Apart from the general run of Arts and presented; New Brunswick with five; Science subjects given there we re two Prince Edward Island, Qu~bec, Ontario special courses. One of these was an and Saskatchewan, each with one, and education work shop and supervisors' Newfoundland with five. Of the six course provided by the School oi Educa other students, the New England States, tion at the university. The other was a Colombia, and Hong Kong, each contri course in Pastoral Clinical Training con buted two. While the school was in the ducted at the Nova Scotia Sanatorium at main Canadian, there were the few others Kentville by Rev. Charles Taylor, a mem- AWARDED HONORARY DEGC'EES Mr. A. G. G. Hirtle lind Profftsor Carl A. Dawson 2 ACADIA BULLETIN ber of the Faculty in Theology at the nell university. on Main was held 14 in were as follows: Wolfville United BACHELOR OF much as interior decorating contract MacClusky, Roy on auditorium of University had Edward Wolfville, N. S. not yet been completed. Degrees and dip lomas or as the case may MacConnell, Charles were to sixteen students, seven Yarmouth, N. S. these in absentia. MacIntosh, were conferred on two Middleton, N. S. university who went out from Acadia early Orr, Leonard in the second of century, Pro N.S. A. Dawson of McGill Uni. BACHELOR OF Montreal, and Mr. A. G. G. Bridgewater, N.S. Cheung, Shiu the Convocation, Hang Wantsai, Kong was very well attended. Moss, Raymond Douglas Amherst, N. S. academic part of Stambuli, Jorge mer School, THE DEGREE WINNERS WHO WERE PRESENT Front row, left to right: Catherine E. Patterson, Roberta E. Sarty, Dorothy M. R, Gow, Gtrtrude Irene Macintosh. Back row; Raymond D. Moss, Shiu Hang Cheung, Leonard H. Orr, Charles F. MacConnell. 3 ACADIA BULLETIN BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN Wessman, Emma Louise HOME ECONOMICS Mack _Liverpool, N. S. Gow, Dorothy APPLIED SCIENCE CERTIFICATE Muriel Roberts Greenwich, N. S. Gonzales, Santiago _ _Barranquilla, Columbia BACHELOR OF EDUCATION Haack, Ralph Edward Anderson, Rodrick __ Glace Bay, N. S. Chester __ Bridgewater, N. S. Levy, Charlton Beverly.__Melanson, N_ S. SECRETARIAL SCIENCE DIPLOMA Morrison, Earl Stanley __ .___ Moncton, R.R. 1, N. B. Patterson, Catherine Edna Halifax, N. S. Sarty, Roberta MacIntosh, Gertrude Eulalie __ __ ____ Pleasantville, N. S. Irene __ _______ __ _____ Middleton, N. S. The Citation for Professor Dawson Mr. President: ment of Sociology and was its director I am authorized by the Senate of Acadia for twenty-nine years_ In addition to his University to present to you for the de teaching and administrative du ties, he gree of Doctor of Civil Laws, honoris found time for many outside activities causa, Carl Addington Dawson, PhD., connected with the field of Sociology, in Emeritus Professor of Sociology, McGill cluding study and research. An active University. member of the Canadian Political Science A native of Prince Edward Island, Association, he has served it as a member of committees and as president. He was Dr. Dawson received his early education early associated with the Canadian Social in the schools of that province, and at Prince of Wales College. After teaching Science Research Council as chairman, 1941-42, and as a member of the reading . for three years in the Island schools, he panel. In both capacities he was able to entered the Sophomore class at Acadia encourage a number of younger social University, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1912. On scientists for whom the Council provided graduation, he served for several years in funds to assist in the publication of their books. In 1941 he was elected a Fellow the Baptist pastorate, and in the chap laincy service during W orld War 1. At of the Royal Society of Canada. the close of the war he entered the Gradu For his special field of study and re·· ate School of the University of Chicago search, Dr. Dawson chose Canadian im· to study Theology and Sociology. He reo migration with particular attention to the ceived rhe degree of Bachelor of Divinity ethnic communities of the western fron in 1921, and the degree of Doctor of Phil tler. Some of the results of ,his study osophy in 1922. were published in three books of the nine· In 1922 Dr. Dawson accepted an ap volume series known as the Can adian pointment at McGill University. Here he Frontiers of Settlement, edited by W. A. remained until his retirement thirty years MacIntosh and W. L. G. Joerg. D r. later. He initiated the McGill Depart. Dawson, assisted by R. W. Murchie, wrote 4 ACADIA BULLETIN The Settlement reviews. as Volume VI of author Volume VII Settlement: Communities in We.ft- em Canada; and with E. R. Volume VIII, (The ment Texas W. E. Gettys States, and at McMaster a textbook now in its third Canada. In 1947 he as editor and collahorator twelve studies Cana dian social scientists were published The New Northwest. you, for work was Carl Addington Daw Alaska, Yukon and Mackenzie. To Doctor publications could be added numerous at- The Citation for J\;lr. Hirtle President: and 1918 the authority of the I present to you to gree of Doctor Civil he was CaUSd, Grenville Garfield Hirtle, pupils. continued was born at Mahone Bay, other institutions on Nova Scotia's scenic sOllth shore. He and many other was educated in of to the thinking time to team won in champion- and many individual awards. \X!hile was not in they were Mr. Hirtle 5 ACADIA BULLETIN and his rich tenor voice has been used in Because of his long and faithful service the church choir, quartettes, and when to the cause of secondary education in this ever he could gather people together to province, the wholesome and inspirational sing and to enjoy music He is at present influence he has exerted over the young chairman of the Bridgewater (Rural) people he has taught, and his own fine Branch of the Canadian Red Cross; a qualities of heart and mind, I ask you, member of the executive of the local di vision, Victorian Order of Nurses, and Mr. President to confer upon Arthur secretary-treasurer of the Bridgewater Grenville Garfield Hirtle the degree of Curling Club. Doctor of Civil Laws, honoris causa. THE UNIVERSITY OF TODAY Address to Summer School Convocation By PROFESSOR A. C. DAWSON, PH.D., D.C.L., Acadia '12 President Kirkconnell and members of velopment with a fostering interest and the Senate, Dr. Hirtle and I wish to thank some anxiety for what was taught and you for the honor you have just conferred done in this new seat of learning. In the upon us. More than forty years ago we very nature of its development, a IUniver graduated from this university. We are sity assimilates the idea of the larger glad indeed to find ourselves graduating world of learning in which it is set. It once again at the end of a long period of competes with other educational centres active service in the "Wide, Wide World".