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It is highly regarded and consistently ranked as one of the top undergraduate universities in the country. Mount Allison University is noted for being the first university in the British Empire to have awarded a baccalaureate to a woman. Over the years, Mount Allison graduates have been awarded a total of 46 Rhodes Scholarships; more than any other liberal arts university in North America. (Williams College, in Massachusetts, is second with 37 Rhodes Scholars). Mount Allison has very loyal alumni and is the wealthiest university in Canada on an endowment per student basis - $37,636. ^[1] Williams College is a private, liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ...

Mount Allison University was once again named the top undergraduate school in the country, this year tied with Acadia University, in Maclean’s magazine’s 17th annual University Rankings, which hit newsstands November 8, 2007. Acadia University is a university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. ...

History

Springtime in Sackville - a view of Convocation Hall from the swan pond, Mount Allison University.

Mount Allison's origins go back to a boys' academy founded in 1839 by a local Methodist merchant, Charles Frederick Allison. Mr Allison's grandfather had emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 1700s, because of the after effects of a dinner with the local government tax collector. Wanting to impress the man, the family had set the table with their one valuable possession; silver spoons. After entertaining their guest, the Allisons were informed by the tax collector that if they could afford silver spoons, then they could certainly afford to pay more taxes. Not surprisingly, the Allisons left Ireland shortly thereafter. The offending spoons are now on display in the main university library. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (701x890, 818 KB) Summary Convocation Hall, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (701x890, 818 KB) Summary Convocation Hall, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada. ... The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ... Events and trends The Bonneville Slide blocks the Columbia River near the site of present-day Cascade Locks, Oregon with a land bridge 200 feet (60 m) high. ...

In June 1839, Mr Allison proposed to the Wesleyan Methodists that a school of elementary and higher learning be built. His offer to purchase a site in Sackville, to erect a suitable building for an academy, and to contribute operating funds of £100 a year for 10 years was accepted and the Wesleyan Academy for boys subsequently opened in 1843. In 1854, a girls' institution, (later known as the "Ladies College") was opened to complement the boys' academy. In July 1862, the degree-granting Mount Allison College was organised. The first two students, Howard Sprague and Josiah Wood, graduated in May 1863. In 1875, Mount Allison awarded a baccalaureate to Grace Annie Lockhart; a first in the British Empire. Logo of The Wesleyan Church For the former Wesleyan Methodist Church of Great Britain, see Methodist Church of Great Britain The Wesleyan Church is a religious denomination associated with the holiness movement that has roots in Methodism and the teachings of John Wesley. ... Josiah Wood Josiah Wood (18 April 1843 – 13 May 1927) was a Canadian lawyer, entrepreneur, parliamentarian, and lieutenant governor of the province of New Brunswick. ...

For nearly a century, Mount Allison functioned as three distinct, mutually enriching parts: the College proper, the Boys' Academy and the Ladies College.

By 1920, Mount Allison University had three faculties: Arts, Theology, and Engineering. It awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Divinity (BD), and Master of Arts (MA). It had 246 male students and 73 female students, as well as 28 academic staff, all male.^[2] A B.A. issued from the University of Tennessee. ... B.S. redirects here. ... A Bachelor of Divinity (BD or BDiv) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a courses taken in the study of divinity or related disciplines, such as theology or, rarely, religious studies. ... A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ...

The closure of the School for Girls in 1946 and the Boy's Academy in 1953 coincided with a period of expansion and provided much-needed space for the growing university. In 1958, a period of construction and acquisition of buildings began, easing the strain of overcrowding at the institution. At this time the university board and administration decided to reaffirm the traditional aims of Mount Allison in providing a high-quality undergraduate liberal arts education, along with continuing to offer professional programmes in already-established fields. As such, the university decided not to compete for new professional programs and generally avoided post-graduate course development. In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ...

Academics

Mount Allison University is considered one of the most prestigous undergraduate universities in Canada. The institution consistently ranks amongst the top three primarily undergraduate universities in the annual Maclean's magazine rankings. Mount Allison has also produced 46 Rhodes Scholars, more than any other liberal arts university in North America.

Mount Allison University is committed to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in a community of higher learning, centred on the undergraduate student and delivered in an intimate and harmonious environment. Mount Allison offers Bachelor's degrees in Arts, Science, Commerce, Fine Arts and Music, as well as Master's degrees in Biology and Chemistry and Certificates in Bilingualism.

Current full time enrollment at the university is about 2,200. The student body at Mount Allison comes from every province in Canada and there is a large proportion of international students as well. They are attracted by the university's reputation, academic standards, collegiality and small class size.

Traditions and achievements

• Mount Allison students and alumni are referred to as "Allisonians." The official abbreviation is recognized as Mount A or MTA.
• Mount Allison was the first university in the British Empire to confer a Bachelor's degree to a woman; (Grace Annie Lockhart, B.Sc. 1875). It was also the first university in Canada to grant a Bachelor of Arts to a woman; (Harriet Starr Stewart).
• Mount Allison boasts the oldest university art gallery in Canada.
• Mount Allison was the first university in the country to wire its entire campus to the information highway.
• Mount Allison offered the first Canadian Studies programme in the country.
• Mount Allison is a recognized pioneer in the establishment of support services for students with learning disabilities.
• Mount Allison is the holder of the first ever ACAA men's rugby championship. (2007-08)
• Mount Allison was once again named the top undergraduate school in the country in Maclean’s magazine’s 17th annual University Rankings, which hit newsstands November 8, 2007.

Mount Allison University has routinely ranked near the top of the Maclean's Magazine Annual Survey of Canadian Universities. In the first survey, it ranked third over-all out of all universities in the country. Since then, the Maclean's rankings have been broken down by the size of institution and Mount Allison has consistently ranked either first or second amongst universities in the primarily undergraduate category, including ranking first in 2007. The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Grace Annie Lockhart was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelors degree. ... Macleans is Canadas leading weekly news magazine. ... A cover of the Canadian magazine Macleans. ...

Notable alumni

Mount Allison has produced more Rhodes Scholars (noted by RS in the list below) per capita than any other university in the Commonwealth. The latest, nominated in 2005 for the year 2006 was the school's 46th scholar. Rhodes House in Oxford, designed by Sir Herbert Baker. ... The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2006 Headquarters Marlborough House, London, UK Official languages English Membership 53 sovereign states Leaders  -  Queen Elizabeth II  -  Secretary-General Don McKinnon (since 1 April 2000) Establishment  -  Balfour Declaration 18 November 1926   -  Statute of Westminster 11 December 1931   -  London Declaration 28 April 1949  Area  -  Total...

• John Peters Humphrey, jurist
• Ivan Rand, jurist
• Christopher Pratt, artist
• Mary Pratt, artist
• Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of St. Kitts and Nevis
• John Buchanan, Premier of Nova Scotia, senator
• George F.G. Stanley (RS), historian, designer of Canadian flag, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Robert Winters, politician
• Ruth Goldbloom, former Chancellor of the Technical University of Nova Scotia, fundraiser, Chair of Pier 21 National Historic Site Society, Halifax, NS
• Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, physician, politician, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Heward Grafftey, politician and businessman
• Ian Hanomansing, journalist
• Alex Colville, artist
• Frank Parker Day (RS), author
• Muriel McQueen Fergusson, senator
• Herménégilde Chiasson, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Barra MacNeils, entertainers
• Edgar Ritchie (RS), diplomat
• Moses Morgan (RS), academic
• Les Little, Justice of the Federal Tax Court of Canada
• Henry Burr, entertainer
• John Clarence Webster, physician/historian
• Charles Beall, litigator
• John Bragg, industrialist
• Wallace McCain, industrialist
• Margaret McCain, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Michael deAdder, cartoonist
• Daniel Theaker, composer
• Kate Braid, poet
• Tom Forrestall, artist
• John Gray, playwright
• Eric Lapointe, football player
• Angus MacLean, Premier of Prince Edward Island
• Catherine Callbeck, Premier of Prince Edward Island, businesswoman
• Steven Singh, physician

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Campus life

The university has residence facilities which divide the community into social groups, although approximately half of the student body lives off-campus. Still, 85% of first-year students live in the following residences:

• Windsor Hall
• Bigelow House
• Bennett House
• Trueman House (closed as of June 2005)
• Hunton House
• Thornton House
• Edwards House
• Harper Hall
• Campbell Hall
• Cuthbertson Sustainable Residence

Social life at Mount Allison tends to focus on extracurricular activities. Mount Allison students also socialize at places like Ducky's, Paddy-o-s, the Tantramarsh Club ("The Pub"), Joey's, and the Bridge Street Café. Trueman House was a residence at Mount Allison University, in Sackville, NB, Canada, until its closure in June of 2005. ...

Mount Allison's campus paper, The Argosy, is produced weekly by Argosy Publications Inc., an independent organization funded by the students through an annual fee. The publication dates from 1875, making it one of the oldest continuous publications in Atlantic Canada.

Mount Allison's community radio station, CHMA 106.9 FM, is owned and operated by the members of Attic Broadcasting Company Ltd., a non-profit organization with its offices on the university campus. CHMA-FM is a Canadian radio station broadcasting at 106. ...

Tintamarre theatre company was founded at Mount Allison by Professor Alex Fancy and produces a bilingual collective each year, staged in Windsor Theatre and later presented at junior and senior high schools throughout the Maritime provinces. Tintamarre is a bilingual theatre troupe that was founded at Mount Allison University by Alex Fancy. ...

Athletics

The school's team name in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the Mount Allison Mounties. The football team has not fared well in recent years, but won their first game in more than three years in October 2006 against Saint Francis Xavier University, with a score of 24-18. This win broke a losing streak of 34 games. The football Mounties finished their 2006 season with a record of 2-5, their best record since 1999. Mount Allison is also home to CIS-level women's hockey, swim, badminton and soccer teams. Basketball and volleyball teams compete against colleges and other smaller universities. The Rugby teams continue to be the highlight of Mount Allison Athletics, winning the Maritime championship and going undefeated in three years. CIS Logo Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) is the national governing body of university sport in Canada. ... The Mount Allison Mounties are the athletic teams that represent Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. ...

Footnotes

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External links

• University Website
• Tantramarsh Club Website
• Bennett House Online
• Windsor Hall Online
• Edwards House Online
• Trueman House
• Hunton House Online
• Mclean's 2005 University Rankings
• The Argosy
• CHMA 106.9 FM

	New Brunswick universities
Public universities
Moncton | Mount Allison | New Brunswick | St. Thomas
Private universities
Atlantic Baptist | Bethany | St. Stephen's

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