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and what is of vast importance to all, they are not exposed
to the temptations of a large city. Queen's has undoubtedly
a power for usefulness in Kingston which she
could never have if moved elsewhere. To move would sever
Queen's from traditions, associations, and affections, and by
what so much as these does any College live and grow?

The Committee hold the view that the interests
of the public and the cause of Higher Education in the
Province of Ontario will be immensely better served by the
existence of two or more well equipped Universities than
by having only one. As Scotland has been a great
gainer by the different contributions of thought given to
her sons of her four Universities, so also would Canada
by having more than one. The four Universitites of
Scotland were established when Scotland had less than
half the population which Ontario now numbers.
These seats of learning, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews
and Aberdeen, have long been famous. They are situated
at points averaging some forty miles apart. They are all in
part State supported. When the Government recently
proposed to reduce the number by giving power to a
Commission simply to consider whether the smallest
St Andrews, could be dispensed with, an indignant
protest arouse from one end of the country to the other,
and today a fifth is being established at
Dundee to meet the intellectual needs of a

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