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Session 1881-1882
The classes during the session 1881-82 were
as follows.
Arts 186
Divinity 16
Medicine 68
270

These numbers showed an advance of thirty
on the previous session, and of these six were women.
At the autumn convocation Professor John
Fletcher M.A. Oxon. was installed as Professor of Classics
in the place of the late Professor Mackerras.
This appointment gave satis-
faction to all concerned, owing to Mr. Fletcher's repu-
tation as a teacher, scholar, & man.
A little was done during the year 1881-82 in
prosecuting the work of endowment, but a decided check was
given to the payment of subscriptions by the decision of the
Privy Council in the matter of the Temporalities Fund.
The case as it stood at this point [promised] to be of serious
importance to Queen's University. The ministers of
the Kirk of Scotland in old Canada, who had
refused to go into the Union of 1875 had instituted an
action, claiming that the Temporalities Fund of the
Church belonged to them. The Privy Council
decided that the Provincial Legislatures had

1881-82
880