“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
Ruth Reichl
Friday Reflection
“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
T.S. Eliot
Halifax Public Library
Friday Reflection
“It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
Friday Reflection
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”
George Bernard Shaw
Friday Reflection
“Leave the roads; take the trails.”
Pythagoras
Friday Reflection
“I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity’s heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.”
J. Drew Lanham
Friday Reflection
“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friday Reflection
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday Reflection
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
Friday Reflection – Happy Munro Day
Every year on the first Friday of February, Dalhousie closes its doors to celebrate Munro Day. And for good reason. Without George Munro, Dalhousie University would merely be a page in a history book.
George Munro, born in 1825 near the once active shipping port of Pictou, Nova Scotia, did not attend Dalhousie, nor did he follow his first career choice of becoming a Presbyterian minister. Instead, he made his way to New York City and fulfilled his destiny in the printing and publishing business, amassing great wealth in the process. Even so, his loyalty and attachment to Nova Scotia prevailed. When Dalhousie faced extinction, his gifts of $330,000 ($10 or $11 million today) brought life and independence to the fledgling institution. George Munro endowed Dalhousie chairs in physics, history, political economy, English literature, and philosophy.
The man who published romances, light fiction and an inexpensive story paper called “The Fireside Companion” recognized the power of education.
George Munro’s legacy is a reminder that individual contributions to education, even those seemingly small, generate positive outcomes for society.