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ago. How is Queen's to keep pace with the certain
extension of Toronto and McGill? We recognize that
whatever strengthens them is for the good of Canada,
and helps to strengthen us, if we too keep our place
in the constantly rising level of efficiency. Yet how
can we do so? We have already done so much considering
our numbers and wealth, that we cannot be
asked at present to make further sacrifices; and the
ill success of the late Dr Smith during the last five
or six years suggests that it is unfair to our constituency,
loyal as it is, to overstrain this source of supply. The
Government, again, no matter how well disposed, could
hardly give direct aid to a University, five sixths of
whose Board must belong, according to statute, to one
denomination.

What should be done in these circumstances?
That is the matter to which the best attention
of the Board is asked; and seeing that our founders
desired to model the University on the Scottish Universities,
particularly on Edinburgh, it may be well to look at
their Constitution. Many changes have been
made, by successive Acts of Parliament to adapt
them to change of conditions; and their basal constituency
now is the general body of their graduates.
Our founders made the Church the corporation
of Queen's, because, as the Rev. Dr Machar

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