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  • Macleans

    University Crunch for Double Cohort

    IT'S 2:45 on a soggy September afternoon in downtown Toronto, and the cab driver is scratching his head. For five minutes straight, we've been stuck - smack dab - between two big yellow school buses: one dead ahead of us, one right behind, going nowhere fast. Now it's 2:50.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 18, 2002

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    University Cup

    The University Cup is awarded annually to the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) hockey champions.

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    University Education in Crisis

    Years and years ago, long before they invented e-mail or notebook computers, way before parents began panicking about student-faculty ratios or the double cohort, I packed up my favourite books and my brand new miniskirts and headed off for a four-year stint at QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 10, 2002

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    University Graduate Survey 2004

    FIRST, LET ME START with a little history. It was 13 years ago this fall that Maclean's first ventured into the complicated, controversial and, yes, highly political business of ranking Canadian universities. The motivation was partly personal.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on November 15, 2004

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    University Magazine

    A Montréal quarterly edited by Sir Andrew Macphail, it succeeded the semiannual McGill University Magazine (1901-06). Notable for paying its contributors, the magazine was financially guaranteed by Macphail himself.

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    University Music Programs

    Universities. Most of Canada's universities provide academic and extracurricular programs in music and therefore have entries in EMC. There are entries as well for subjects and subject areas related to higher education in music. See listing below.

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    University of Alberta

    The Department of Extension (1912) quickly began offering lectures and library services across the province. The department later created two enduring Alberta institutions, CKUA radio (1927) and the Banff School of Fine Arts (1933, now the Banff Centre).

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    University of Alberta String Quartet

    The University of Alberta String Quartet. Founded in 1969 as quartet-in-residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, with Thomas Rolston and Lawrence Fisher (violins), Michael Bowie (viola), and Claude Kenneson (cello). Fisher.

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    University of British Columbia

    In 1920 honours courses, extension services and summer sessions were introduced, and McGill's Victoria College in Victoria became an affiliate of the university. In 1925 UBC moved to its permanent site on the Vancouver campus. Expansion of the campus was virtually at a standstill during the 1930s.

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    University of British Columbia Chamber Singers

    The University of British Columbia Chamber Singers. Student choir of twelve mixed voices assembled in 1962 by Cortland Hultberg to perform music of the 15th, 16th, and 20th centuries; 17th-century music was later also included on programs.

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    University of Calgary

    By 1969 the U of C had established many of the programs offered by larger Canadian universities. In 1991, the year of its 25th anniversary, the U of C had more than 20 000 full-time and part-time students, with almost 4000 academic and staff positions.

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    University of Guelph

    The University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, was incorporated in 1964. It was founded based on three founding colleges: the Ontario Agricultural College, Ontario Veterinary College and the Macdonald Institute.

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    University of King's College

    University of King's College, Halifax, is Canada's oldest chartered university.

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    University of Lethbridge

    The university grew out of the University Section of Lethbridge Junior College (now Lethbridge College), and in 1971 it moved to a new 185 ha campus on the west side of the Oldman River Valley.

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    University of Manitoba

    In 1900 the university became a teaching institution by an act of the provincial legislature. Thereafter, other colleges also received affiliated status: the Manitoba College of Pharmacy (1902); Manitoba Agricultural College (1906); St Paul's College (Roman Catholic) and Brandon College (1938).

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