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1893-94

The total number of students for the session
of 1893-94 was as follows:

Arts - 318
Law - 4
Theology - 27
Medicine - 107
[total] - 456

The graduating class in Arts was the largest
by far that Queen's had ever had, for the same reasons
which had made that of the previous year smaller
than the average, the students having decided to avail
themselves of the honour classes opened to them by the
Senate which almost necessitated a five year course
instead of a four year.

This winter saw the closing
of the Women's Medical College and the opening of the
School of Mining. The Trustees of the Women's
Medical College came to to the conclusion that it would
be unwise to continue it in operation any longer, as
women could now continue their studies either in
Montreal or Toronto, and as the total number of
students was inadequate to maintan even one teaching
faculty in Ontario in a state of efficiency. As their
object had been from the first, to give the
Women of Canada an opportunity to

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1893-94

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