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will be attracted more and more to Dalhousie, Quebec
to McGill; Western Ontario to Toronto, Manitoba
and the North-West to the University of Manitoba,
and each of these Universities has a Theological Faculty
or College of the Church affiliated to it. The
graduates of these Universities and Colleges could
not be expected to give a rival institution a stronger
claim to their support than that which is claimed
by their own Alma Mater. Indeed the very fact
that we seem to persist in putting forth a claim
which they have decisively rejected must be irritating, and
as long as that feeling exists there will be a certain
friction which is bad for the Church and for Queen's.

The present condition of University matters
in Ontario and our needs combine to make the
present moment opportune for a thorough consideration
of the Constitution of the Board. The Government of
the Province has pledged itself, in answer to a request
from the University of Toronto, to reopen the University
question in the near future, with the view of aiding
still further the Provincial University. This is not astonishing;
for the needs of a University, now that the
competition of the great American Universities has to be
met, not to speak of the constant enlargement of
McGill, cannot be met by a revenue supposed
to be adequate half or quarter of a century

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1899-1900

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