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University. But remember that Queen's has a
prior claim. We have the very best feelings for
Toronto University. I am an honorary graduate of
that institution. We believe that the friends of Toronto
are just and that they will recognize our
claim. A university to which the Province has given
already some four millions can well afford to be just
to another which is doing the large proportion of
public work that Queens is doing. Education in
Arts is the copestone of our educational system, and
our students in Arts are between 400 and 500 as
against 700 or 800 in Toronto and Victoria combined.

This surely involves that we should recognized financially
as we already are by the Province educationally. According
to the last report of the Minister of Education
there are only two University centres in Ontario.
Seventy nine per cent of the teachers in the secondary
schools of the Province have graduated from the four
Universities of Toronto. Two of these four are federated
there are negotiations going on with the third;
and there is no reason why the fourth should not
write and get the benefit of the Provincial Endowment
there. According to the Report of the Education
Department there is only one other University,
in the Province: for while one
per cent of, the High School teachers come

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