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SAPIENT ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS
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1908-09

so as to own the whole block for expansion, as might be
necessary, and the Finance and Estates Committee
reported some purchases in that direction. Meantime,
the rental would be a fair return on the investments.
Turning to more intimate University needs, some important
additions were made to the staff. In English Wm. Everett
McNeill M.A., Ph.D., of Harvard, was appointed Assistant
Professor. In Hebrew Herbert T. Wallace, M.A., Ph.D., of Toronto,
and Queen's, was appointed Assistant Professor. Both these
gentlemen had a record of excellent standing as teachers,
and of wide and accurate Scholarship. There was urgent
demand for assistance in other departments, and this
pressure and the rapidly soaring expense involved,
accounted, among other things, for the existing anxiety
about more adequate revenue, and the call for Charter
changes, in the hope of extended help from the Legislature.
Professor S.W. Dyde, M.A., D.Sc., of the Chair of Mental
Philosophy, having resigned that position to become
Principal of Robertson College, Edmonton, Alberta.,
Alexander Stewart Ferguson, M.A., (Oxon.), was appointed
in his stead. An Assistantship in Classics being vacant,
the choice fell on William Alexander Bain, M.A., (Oxon.).
The assistantship in Mathematics was giiven to W.H. Houser, M.A.
All the young men came with the best credentials.

The Educational authorities of the Provincial Government

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