The historic lack of anti-Semitism at my alma mater, Queen's University, in the 1930s is responsible for my school's acquisition of so many works of art, as described by the Toronto Star's Sarah-Joyce Battersby.

Queen’s University has been crowned the king of Rembrandt after an alumnus gifted the school with a multimillion-dollar painting by the ( Read more... )

It's not a lie for me at all when I say that the time I spent at Queen's University, located in the charming limestone-clad city of Kingston where the Great Lakes narrow into the St. Lawrence River, was one of the happiest times of my life. I'd go so far as to say that it help start off what has been the happiest period of my life to date. I love ( Read more... )

This article by Elizabeth Church in The Globe and Mail caught my attention, what with its connection to my alma mater.

In a hillside plot at Toronto's Mount Pleasant Cemetery a faded pink headstone marks the grave of Robert Sutherland, who in 1852 became the first black man to graduate from a university in what was then British North America ( Read more... )

It's not every week that I receive two E-mail from my alma mater, Queen's University, trying to deal with two public relations disasters.

The first of these E-mails related to Homecoming, a reunion at the beginning of the school year in September that is famous for out-of-control behaviour.

The riot is cancelled. In a desperate effort to end out- ( Read more... )