Lives of Dalhousie University - Volume II: 1925-198, the Old College Transformed (Electronic book text)

In the second volume of the history of Dalhousie University, P.B. Waite traces Dalhousie's development from a small privately funded college of about 700 students and four faculties to a large Canadian university of 9,000 students that includes many of the leading professional schools in Atlantic Canada.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.