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aim and intention to stimulate higher Education.

It is with no little satisfaction that the Committee
notice in the Scheme a practical recognition that
Queen's is doing no inconsiderable part of the University
work of Ontario.

Without entering at this stage into
the details of the Scheme, it is obvious that to accept
the invitation now offered and participate in the advantage
of the proposed Union, two things are required.

It is indispensably necessary that the whole establishment
of Queen's University should be moved from
Kingston to Toronto, and that the University powers
now enjoyed under Royal Charter should be held in
abeyance. The transfer to Toronto is no easy
matter. It has been estimated that a quarter of a
million of dollars would be needed to establish Queen's
in Toronto on the same scale as at present. This
may, or may not be an overestimate, but the Trustees
have not at their command any sum which they could
divert to such a purpose. Queen's is endowed and
supported by private benefactions. All funds are actively
employed in promoting the work of Education and
in order to move to Toronto it would be absolutely necessary
to raise money specially for that purpose.

Until this is done the Committee
could not recommend the Trustees to accept

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