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population which even now is only one half larger than
Ontario. Scotland is justly celebrated for her system of
Higher Education and her Universities and the success which
they have achieved is the strongest testimony we can have that
Ontario should have more than one.

At the present moment the Universities
of Scotland are attended by over six thousand students
while Ontario with almost two thirds of the Population
has under fifteen hundred. The population of the
Scotch Universities would give to Onario four thousand
students. To have such a number of students congregated
at one University would for many reasons be undesirable.
Similar remarks will apply to Germany,
perhaps the most economical and best educated country in
the world. Numerous Universities in the United
States, are being endowed to an unprecedented extent by
benefactions from private individuals who recognize the
healthy influences which are excercised upon the whole
community by a sufficient number of flourishing centres
of learning in various districts. The nearest approach
to centralization has been in England, but even there,
the rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge has had a beneficial
influence and it is now universally admitted that
the benefit would have been greater had there been more
than two centres of thought. More
recently England has added the Universities of

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