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while Dr Mowat confined himself to the first and
second years in Hebrew.

Steps were also taken during
the winter to secure an additional professor in
Theology, and at the Spring Convocation of 1900,
the Rev Samuel McComb, a minister of the
Irish Presbyterian Church, who subsequently served
in the English and U. S. Presbyterian Churches
was appointed to the Chair of Church History
and History of Doctrine. Mr McComb graduated
at Belfast and Oxford with very high Honours
from both Institutions.

The endowment for this
additional Chair in Theology had been raised in
part by Rev Dr Smith, the General Secretary, who
had devoted several years to the task: and it was
believed by the Trustees that the remainder would come
in the summer of 1901 from the Century Fund of
one million dollars, which the Church was raising
for the various departments of its work as a Memorial
of thanksgiving at the beginning of a new Century.
In the list of schemes and institutions to be
aided by this Fund the Theological Department of
Queen's was put down for $40,000. As Professor
McComb would not enter on his work
till November 1900, a salary for only six

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