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Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Armistice Day: First Draft
Description: Handwritten draft of an address by President Walter C. Murray in honour of Armistice day., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1918

Title: Walter Murray addresses : Miscellaneous Typewritten
Description: A number of short, untitled addresses by President Murray reflecting upon the Great War. Includes some history of the University's participation in the war, some notes on repatriation and re-establishment of returned soldiers, list of those who left for the front, poem "A Co-Ed's Lament", and ruminations upon the effect of the war on the University., PresidentWar
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Date: [ca. 1914-1930]

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : To the Chancellor
Description: Handwritten notes for an address given to the Chancellor Sir Frederick Haultainand others, formally welcoming returned soldiers as students, and returned staff. General Ross was also present, although Premier Martin was unable to make it to the event due to illness., PresidentWar
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Date: ca.1918

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Victory Loan
Description: Correspondence and a brief address pertaining to the Victory Loan, which aimed at helping people adapt to the shift in prices after the war., PresidentWar
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Date: 1917

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Remembrance Day
Description: A brief address by President Murray given on Remembrance Day in honour of the University students who were killed during the Great War., PresidentWar
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Date: n.d.

Title: Nutana Collegiate Memorial: Address and Programme
Description: Typewritten notes for a memorial address given by Walter C. Murray at Nutana Collegiate on the ninth anniversary of Armistice Day, reflecting upon those who gave their lives. Also a program of the event., PresidentWar
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Date: November 11, 1927

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Exerpts from The Sheaf
Description: Some excerpts from The Sheaf, featuring an account by Corporal W. E. Lloyd recounting life in the trenches, and another from MacPherson on the same. There is a brief article by Murray discussing the effects of the war on the class of 1917. Another 1915 article gives a Roll of Honour for the wounded, and those who had most recently left for the front. A Nov. 10, 1939 article by the then-Emeritus President Murray contains his recollections on the early days of the Great War., PresidentWar
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Date: 1915-1939

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : The War and the Universities
Description: A brief address by President Murray passionately outlining the effects of the war upon the youth of the nation, and consequently, its Universities. He also discusses the fall of the European University as a consequence of the war, and subsequent rise of the American University., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1914-1915

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : 1917
Description: A brief description of the "havoc wrought by war" as revealed by the class of 1917. Includes a poem on going to war by Rupert Brooke., PresidentWar ; Reminiscences of the War
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Date: 1917

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Feb. 1916
Description: Draft of an address talking about the establishment of the 11th Battalion, and the formation of the University platoon, under the 28th Battalion. Also the formation of a University Company for the 38th battalion under the guidance of McGill University., PresidentWar
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Date: 1916

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Honour to Whom Honour
Description: Handwritten and typed notes for an address by President Murray extolling people to honour those men from the University who died during the war. The postwar flu is also mentioned., PresidentWar
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Date: ca.1918

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : The Sixty Seven
Description: A brief address by President Murray regarding the sixty seven University men who died during the Great War. Includes a poem., PresidentWar
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Date: ca.1918

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Dec. 29, 1916
Description: Note from Murray to The Daily Star reviewing the work of the University in the past year, with particular reference to its involvement in the Great War,, PresidentWar
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Date: 1916

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Western Canada and Imperialism
Description: In which Murray discusses the relationship of people on the Canadian plains with the British Empire. Difference between Eastern and Western Canadians. Some predictions on the effect war would have upon Western Canada., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1913-1914

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Remembrance Day
Description: Brief address by President Murray speaking to the history of Armistice Day/Remembrance Day, and its meaning., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1931

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Disarmament
Description: An address by President Murray regarding disarmament and the pursuit of peace following the Great War, stressing the need to cut military funding., PresidentWar
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Date: ca.1931

Title: Murray Addresses : 1915
Description: Notes for an address on Canada's obligations in the war effort., PresidentWar
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Date: 1915

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Saskatchewanenses
Description: A reflection by President Murray on the 10th session of the University of Saskatchewan, how Western Universities compare with Eastern Universities, and the effect of the war., PresidentWar
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Date: ca.1918

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Miscellaneous Handwritten
Description: Handwritten notes for addresses by President Murray on nationalism, as well as enrollment statistics and notes on the University's involvement in the Great War., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1916-1917

Title: Walter Murray Addresses : Lest We Forget
Description: This brief address recounts the evolution of November 11th (armistice day) from a day of rejoicing to a day of remembrance. Murray reflects upon the horrors of war, and briefly upon the influenza epidemic that followed it., PresidentWar
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Date: ca. 1921

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