University Records

SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

1900-01

The government of the Province had granted the annual rental of the new building asked for.

The Board of the University, by resolution, agreed to consider carefully the proposal of the School of Mining, as set forth in the resolution of its Governors and the Building Committee, with the addition of the Chairman, was to take such action as might be deemed advisable.

The pressure for more room was becoming general. The next call came from the Medical Department, asking that the building occupied by it be enlarged at a cost of about $10,000, building arrangements and management to be mutually agreed upon by the University and the Medical Faculty. Terms were accepted.

After careful consideration of the proposal of the School of Mining, as to the building required, the Board instructed the Finance Committee, with the addition of Professor Dupuis and Goodwin, to proceed with the enlargement of said building, on the terms set forth in their resolutions.

Next, comes the weighty question of the suggested change in the Constitution of the University.

A Convention of the Trustees, Senate, Council, Graduates, Alumni and Benefactors of the University, was held Nov. 12, 1900, to consider the proposed changes in the Charter which were submitted by the Trustees at the last General Assembly; and it was resolved as follows:

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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

1900-01

Whereas the Constitution of the Board of Trustees of Queen's University, has been modified both in 1874 and 1888, with the view of giving a larger representation to all classes of the friends and graduates of Queen's; and whereas, in the general practice of the University, other changes have been introduced, rendering the University more national in its arms and character; and whereas, since 1888, the growth of the University has been marked especially in the following particulars:

1. Its cordial support and encouragement by the public men of all shades of religious opinion. 2. The increase of the number of students and graduates who are not Presbyterians. 3. The growth of the connection of the University with the general education of the Province, and 4. The widening acceptance of Queen's as the University of this part of Canada, evinced by the recent donation of $50,000.00 to the University by the City of Kingston, and by the interest shown in Queen's throughout the adjoining municipalities. "And whereas, the General Assembly in the meeting at Halifax, last June, expressed its approval of any wellconsidered change in the Constitution of the University, which would still further increase its usefulness by making the body of Trustees more completely representation

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