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1878-1879
Session Thirty-Eighth

The number of Students attending the Classes in Arts
and Theology this Session was greater than that registered
in any previous year since the Commencement of the College.
The numbers in the several departments were as follows,
In Arts 92
" Theology 18
" Medicine 60
170.

The Classes in Elocution were conducted this year by
A. Melville Bell Esq., the Watkins Lecturer. Special Lectures
also were delivered in Theology by the Revds. Dr. Bell, and Dr.
Jardine, the Revd John Thompson of Sarnia, and the Revd. Dr.
Kemp.
The great work of this year was the prosecution by the
Principal of the Building and Endowment Scheme referred to in
the Annals of the previous Session. It was soon found that the
estimates for the building were too low and that fifty
or sixty thousand dollars would be needed instead of

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