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that idea, feeling that they could not afford to
strain the friendly relations which existed between the
city and college by asking for aid which could not
perhaps be given. Still, the Council, believing that
the progress which had continued without a break
for thirty years would be arrested unless something
was done, ordered the Chancellor's address to be printed,
and a copy of it sent through the postoffice to every
citizen that he might read and judge for himself.
"We all know the result;" he went on, "the intelligent
initiative on the matter taken by the City Council,
the conference between the Finance Committee and
the university authorities, and the decision of that
committee to recommend the Council to submit such
a bylaw to the ratepayers as would enable the university
to put up a new building, with much larger
classrooms, for the faculty of science and arts. That
the people will carry out the views of their representatives,
no one who knows the relations between
the college and city can now doubt. The press
has cordially endorsed the action, leading men of
all denominations have volunteered their support,
and so far as I know not a single protest or murmur
has been heard from any quarter. Nothing
which has happened since I came here in
1877 has given me such unalloyed pleasure. it

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