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days. Dr K.N. Fenwick died on the 17th of January
after an illness of only two or three days. His loss was
much felt in Kingston, where he was counted one of her
most brilliant surgeons. He had been mainly instrumental
in the establishment of the Training School for
nurses, and in the equipment and planning of the Doran
Building for Women's Diseases, which had been his special
study. His death was followed on the 19th of February by
those of Rev. D.J. Macdonnell of Toronto, and of Dr. H.J.
Saunders of Kingston. The death of Mr. Macdonnell
came home to the University generally with a sense of
inseparable and overwhelming loss. Mr. Macdonnell was
a graduate of Queen's, and his single hearted devotedness
to her cause through every crisis had been unfailing. A
man of stirling eloquence, of accurate and extensive
learning, and of unbounded influence, his loss was felt
far beyod the limits of his home, his church and his
Alma Mater. The Board of Trustees expressed their sense
of loss and their appreciation of his worth in the following
resolution. "This Board desires to place on record its
sense of the great loss the University has sustained in
the death of Rev. D.J. Macdonnell, on the 19th February
last. Mr. Macdonnell was for over twenty years a Trustee
of the University. The untiring and unselfish devotion,
the rare sagacity and tact, and the wide and
delicate sympathy which characterized and rendered

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