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1890-91

The number of students attending classes in Queen's
during the session of 1890-91 was as follows:

Arts - 247
Medicine - 143
Theology - 40
[total] 430

There was but little of importance
to recored in connection with Queen's during this winter.

The advantages of the late additions to the teaching staff
were felt on all sides, and the Principal's report in the
spring expressed the satisfaction felt by every one at the
results of the changes. Though it was agreed that on
the side of Biology and Geology Queen's was decidedly
weak, yet in the central departments of University
work, such as English, Classics, Mental and Moral
Philosophy, Political Science, Mathematics, Physics and
Chemistry, she had received such additions during the
last four years, that in these she might be considered
reasonably complete. Further changes were made at
the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in
April, when the lectureship of Political Economy was
converted into a Professorshisp, to which Mr Adam
Shortt was appointed at the same salary as during
the previous year. In accordance with
the Principal's suggestion at the last meeting of

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