The Lives of Dalhousie University: Volume IFinanced by British spoils from eastern Maine in the War of 1812, modelled on the University of Edinburgh, and shaped by Scottish democratic education tradition, Dalhousie was unique among Nova Scotia colleges in being the only liberal, nonsectarian institution of higher learning. Except for a brief flicker of life (1838 43), for the first forty five years no students or professors entered Dalhousie's halls a reflection in part of the intense