Question: What's the name of the school at Dalhousie that trains lawyers? You may be surprised to learn, as I was, that it's no longer Dalhousie Law School. Following a $20-million gift from Ontario businessman Seymour Schulich, it officially became The Schulich School of Law on October 15. Haligonian Warren Reed runs the numbers: In 2004-5, the total Dal budget seems to have been around $200 million—all but $13 million coming from government grants and tuition payments. One could doubtless find more recent data on the Internet.  Schulich's gift, if added to the endowment and invested conservatively, will add about $1...

15 November, 2009