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to do its part. Thereafter Principal Snodgrass and Professor Mac-
kerras, having offered their services in prosecuting the work through-
out Ontario and Quebec, forthwith proceeded with their labours
for the accomplishment of this end, provision being made for
the teaching of their classes during their absence. In less than
four months, as the result of their arduous and self denying ex-
ertions, $70,000 were subscribed, and upwards of $25,000 paid
to the Treasurer of the College. Their efforts were continued
during the Summer and Autumn of 1869, and portions of
the two succeeding years. They found everywhere a cordial
welcome, and willing response, even beyond their most
sanguine expectations, while the effect of their appeals in
their public addresses, and visits from house to house
in no less than 86 pastoral charges, was of the most
beneficial kind not only in calling forth the liberality of
the people, but in impressing them more widely and deeply
with a sense of the advantages of a higher education, in
encouraging a greater number of young men to come up
to study in the University, and in demonstrating the firm hold
which Queen's had on the affections of its friends. By the
end of May 1873 $113,000 had been subscribed, of
which $100,632 had been paid. The number of

1868-69

[handwritten note of 520]