See fonds level of the CKX records for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Image of protesters outside the Gymnasium taken during the Brandon University rampage. Darrach Hall and Flora Cowan Hall are visible in the background.
Quebec : Quebec Federation of Regional Unions of Caisses populaires Desjardins
Physical Description
73 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Notes
"This publication is dedicated to the founders and leaders of the Federation of Quebec of Regional Unions of Caisses populaires Desjardins and to all the volunteer workers in the Caisses populaires and Regional Unions who have worked tirelessly for the development of Caisses populaires Desjardins until the Desjardins Cooperative Movement is now the finest economic and social success in French Canada"
A new self-teaching course in practical English and effective speech : comprising vocabulary development, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, and the fundamental principles of effective oral expression
Lesson one. First among the evidences of an education I name correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue / Nicholas Murray Butler-- Lesson two. The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals in our speech / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson three. Those things which now seem frivolous and slight will be of serious consequence to you, when they have made you once ridiculous / Earl of Roscommon-- Lesson four. His words, like so many nimble servitors, trip about him at command / Milton-- Lesson five. Talking is one of the fine arts... and its fluent harmonies may be spolied by the intrusion of a single harsh note / Oliver Wendell Holmes-- Lesson six. Language most shows a man; speak, that I may see thee / Ben Jonson-- Lesson seven. Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear / Joubert-- Lesson eight. And it is so plain to me that eloquence, like swimming, is an art which all men might learn, though so few do / Emerson-- Lesson nine. Mend your speech a litter, lest it may mar your fortunes / Shakespeare-- Lesson ten. Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade / Anonymous-- Lesson eleven. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact / George Eilot-- Lesson twelve. What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely / Goethe-- Lesson thirteen. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests / Coleridge-- Lesson fourteen. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none / Carlyle-- Lesson fifteen. He ceas's, but left so pleasing on the ear, his voice, that listening still they seemed to hear / Homer
"Report is the result of four years' consideration and debate by the Science Council's Committee on Canada's Scientific and Technological Contribution to World Food Supply."--Pref
