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Foundation Year Program Concluding lecture, 1981 Philosophy and Poetry The presentation of a concluding lecture is a very intimidating business for the lecturer. One feels that such a lecture ought somehow to gather in and sum up everything that has gone on in the course, from the beginning to the end; and when one recalls…
Here are two lovely items by Dr Angus Johnston: A reflection on the early modern self in an audio lecture on Shakespeare’s Tempest, and Angus’ beautifully illustrated and wonderfully cryptic notes from his final lecture [PDF] in the Foundation Year Program. Angus was our great teacher, mentor and friend. It’s his portrait you see in…
Wasteland The broken ruins of Troy continue to fall all around us, the ashes of fallen empires dust the earth like snow but who will found Rome? I see no Aeneas among us but perhaps the ghost of Perpetua lingers still, her voice calling out to us in anger in between the pillars of our…
Retired geologist Craig Miller graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from Dalhousie in 1974, and completed a Master’s Degree in 1979. During his time as a student, he realized that there were no records in the King’s library about the stone that makes up the buildings, and set out to remedy this. As it turns out,…
Author’s Note:As we’re coming to the end of this extraordinary FYP year, I’ve been thinking a lot about journeys. While much of this has been focused around our own moves home and changes in routine, I wanted to share something a little more lighthearted in the form of a true (albeit somewhat embellished) story about…
Having lived for the entirety of the preceding years of my life just outside of Halifax, it was a distinct but not entirely alien experience to spend the better part of a year living in the heart of the South End. By this I mean that, while I was not unfamiliar with the South End…
Contents Lisa Gregory: What you are about to hear... Neil Robertson: FYP Director's Introduction to our collective Final FYP lecture Roberta Barker: Greetings from Dalhousie President Lahey: Congratulations and FYP Essay Prize Winners Christopher Snook: Gilgamesh, "our year-long journey" Susan Dodd: Homer, "The grace of the witch" Neil Robertson: Dante, "equity, diversity, inclusion" Thomas Curran:…
The Anatomy of Angels Angels inhabit love songs. But they're sprites not seraphim. The angel that up-ended Jacob had sturdy calves, moist hairy armpits, stout loins to serve the god whom she befriended, and was adept at wrestling. She wore a cobra like a girdle. Yet his bone mending he spent some several tedious weeks…
We were at the third of several holiday parties over one weekend when I caught my boyfriend--a bold, charismatic, belly-laughing extrovert--sitting alone on a couch looking at his phone. He was wearing his favourite conversation starter: a blue and yellow Hanukkah jumper with the star of David, dreidels, menorahs, little orthodox rabbis dancing, gold coins,…