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Queen's Univesity. Yesterday the Chancellor submitted
the Report (appended) to the Council, and also of a
special meeting held in Convocation Hall, of all interested
in the University. This Report which sets forth the
opinions of representative men from all parts of the
country on the University Consolidation Scheme, and
the resolutions passed by the Special Meeting and by
the Council (also appended hereto) establish that the
Constituency of Queen's is practically a unit in favour
of declining to enter the proposed Confederation and of
Queen's remaining permanently at Kingston as a
University. Accordingly the Board of Trustees
must decline to enter into the proposed Confederation of
Colleges and Universities at Toronto, and they request
the Chancellor to transmit this their reply, and at the
same time to transmit his Report, and Resolutions
referred to in it, for the informaiton of the Minister
of Education and his Colleagues."

The report of the Chancellor
above alluded to was read by request at Convocation.

This showed that 347 replies had been received from
friends and graduates outside of Frontenac, from representative
men belonging to every rank of life, and holding
every shade of opinion in politics and religion.,

The great majority of correspondents
declared that they did not wish her

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