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1885-86

The number of students attending Queen's
University during this session was as follows.
Arts. 264
Medicine. 165
Theology. 30

459

A majority of the medical students were attending
one or more of the Arts classes. Deducting these
from one of the Faculties concerned, the total number
of students was 347, the largest number ever enrolled in
any one year in the history of the College.

But little of public importance to
the University is to be recorded for this session. The
excitement and activity of the two previous years ceased
to a certain extent, with the final decision of the
governing body relative to Queen's action in University
Federation, and a season of quiet ensued. At the
same time, an increased impetiu had been given to
the efforts made for the welfare of Queen's, by the
crisis just passed through, and the schemes inaugurated
at the Convocation of April, 1885, for the increase of
her Endownment and the Extensin of University work
were steadily carried on. A College Branch
of the Endowment Association was during
the yer 1885-86 established by the Alma-

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1885-86