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In view of the opposition which would be
evoked by a grant to a second University and the
probability of sectarian, or ill-equipped institutions
making such a grant the ground for appeals that
it would be difficult politically to resist, the Premier
asked if aid could not be given to Queen's through
a measure broadening the basis of the School of
Mining and attaching to that School scientific
departments at present connected with Queen's.

The Principal assenting, with the understanding
that he and all were to be as free as before in
pressing the claims of Queen's to direct recognition
as a second Provincial University Centre, and in
educating the public towards recognition of such a
measure as just and beneficial to the higher interests
of the Province, the Premier promised that he
would consult his colleagues on the whole matter,
and that he hoped that some such measure as
he has suggested could be passed at the approaching
session of the Legislature. The Principal also pointed
out that instead of a building costing about
$35,000 which had been thought needed by the School
of Mining nine months before, the new policy suggested
would call for a building costing from $80,000
to $100,000 and that as the Government
could borrow money more cheaply than

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