Dalhousie University - Pharos Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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Educated in Bridgetown, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie and Oxford, Henry Hicks was a good chemistry student, but after winning a Rhodes scholarship and arriving at Oxford, turned to law. His university days were not all work. At Mount Allison he was a good track man, and at Oxford was active in ice hockey, rowing and mountaineering. As president of the Oxford Rowing Club he organized the first wartime Oxford-Cambridge Board Race, and at one stage was cox of the Oxford crew. After war service as a radar officer in Europe, Dr. Hicks began a law practice in Bridgetown and became Liberal Member for Annapolis County in the Legislature. He was the province's first Minister of Education, serving also as Provincial Secretary and Premier l1954-561. He was Opposition Leader from 1956 to 1960, when he lost his Annapolis seat. Henry Hicks was on the verge of joining a Halifax law firm when his predecessor, the late Dr. A.E. Kerr, in- vited him to become Dean of Arts and Science. At first he said 'No' but some members of the Board of Governors painted an interesting picture of the prospects if I came. So I came and I've not been sorry. In 1972 he was appointed to the Senate of Canada, and unlike the reaction to his joining Dalhousie, no one objected this time. Dr. Hicks took over the presidency in 1963, at a time of rapid growth, and immediately embarked on the biggest building program Dalhousie has had, a program to cope with the then tremendous enrolment boom. I think really I have not been a planner so much as I've been a pragmatic doer of the things that seemed to be necessary, he says today. A pragmatic, forthright, doer he has been - and more. An intellectual with a love of good jazz and the music and words of the Beatles, an Oscar Wilde fan, a salmon angler and rod-maker of note, a stamp collector, a cabinet-maker lthe furniture kindj, Henry Hicks is a master of many trades and jack of none. His departure as president may mean that he will be missed, by students, faculty and administrators alike. But he will not be forgotten, for everywhere on campus the products of his drive as a builder and leader are much in evidence - the residence extensions, the library, the Arts Centre, the Life Sciences Centre, the Tupper building and so on are all monuments to the Hicks era.

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- .. 1 - Y 5gg '- ' fig Before I proceed with this ceremony, I think it necessary to state to you, gentlemen, the object and intention of this important work, I think it necessary to do this because I have never yet made any public declaration of the nature of the institution I am here planning among you, and because I know that some part of the public imagine that it is intended to oppose the college already established at Windsor. This College of Halifax is founded for the in- struction of youth in the higher Classics and in all Philosophical studies, it is formed in imitation of the University of Edinburghg its doors will be open to all who profess the Christian religiong to the youth of His Majesty's North American Colonies, to strangers residing here, to gentlemen of the military as well as the learned professions, to all, in short, who may be disposed to devote a small part of their time to study. It does not oppose the King's College at Windsor, because it is well known that college does not admit any students unless they subscribe to the tests required by the Established Church of England, and these tests exclude the great proportion of youth in this province. It is therefore particularly intended ,-T57-Ti----' 'f .1 -.I Q,-TL-i H- 1 - 2542... I - - - ' 5 i5-f E -Y Y J W - Yi, Y. 4 -+V ul 1' -D J: -Wi - A-- lg lf- Yi: Y H- -A-- ' -If 5 C--3. L ..- 1, Y Z i l i . Y .t - gh +-,- -- Eg L -1 .. --M E --1 15 'F gi - .-, -,L V - Y --- L -f ' ' 44 ---- ' L' -. L - gg -... ..- i.-i.. ----- -ff i a : . A - Y -- -t, - Y i- - ai -,,f -, -K---M -- -. Ez.: 1 ..,111 5 .. 1 ., . .l,.-? . ,u ,.i4ii'ifi-r' ll U u l na ,X ga' -RN: - --.' 1. -S - X ik! 'Q 1 Y for those who are excluded from Windsor. It is founded upon the principles of religious toleration secured to you by the laws, and upon that paternal protection which the King of England extends to all his subjects. It is under His Majesty's most gracious approbation of this institution that I meet you here today, and as his humble represen- tative I lay this cornerstone of the building. I here perform an act which appears to me to promise incalculable ad- vantages to this country, and if my name as Governor of this Province, can be associated with your future well- being, it is upon the foundation of this college that every blessing may flow over your countryg in a few months hence it may dispense those blessings to you whom I now address, may it continue to dispense them to the latest ages! Let no jealousy disturb its peaceg no lukewarm in- difference check its growth! Protect it in its first years, and it will abundantly repay your care! Address of George Ramsay Cornerstone Laying May 22, 1820 I IN 'rms YEAR or OUR LORD-18201 Azvn INTHEFI 'TYE 0FTllEREf67V of His otjqe thelv KING F THE UNITED KINGDOM OF M' BRITATTN-QIREHLAND z C: . C C: 'Cs ffm Qmer Qfffly ggffkfe DESIGNED FOR I A PUBLIC SEMINARY Ill wlziclz the Bark qfz'!z1's ami Mixer BRITISH PROVl2VC!'S may be EDUCATED in fir' Various Branches of Llterature,Science 8eUsefulArts U J wAs LAID K I 0fEf??zMffa1fQfffmf 'Phe Right Honourable L GEORGE RAMSAY EARL or DALHOLTSIE . Baron Dalhousie of Dalhousie Castle Krirght Grand Cross of'theMost Honourable Mllnary order of the B8fh.CAPTAlN GENERXL andGpvERNORmCHll-:F m andover his Majesty! Provi nces of LOWER CANI4 DAJJPPER CLNADA , NOVA SCO'l'lAand N EWBRUNSWICKand i 'rm-: ISLAN DS of PRINCE EDXVARDSCAPE BRICTON, 8 cz inc: Y-fc : I Accwq P4N1s1zBY ' 1 Q5ILw MAi3JqMf61ffaf1u KJ ful-fl'-5'7'Y5'SQU 04' THE' '1'l0NCol.oNm.GaoncnMArK1E COMMANDQNT or THE Gmuu soN.LrEu'r. COLONEL G.-xi INTLETT Comma d the62 'R 1- d ' lsaftggtys Fore ei:: riMUizirg'l21.tt1?idRt.lg:01eIegteQE'!fiFg,I: 0'-H I 5 U47 Q79 ef If fe' If ia, FACSIMILE OF THE BRASS ON THE CORNER STONE or THE ORIGINAL DALHOUSIE. COLLEGE