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1886-87
As for many years past a steady increase in the number of students was recored for this session.
The numbers were as follows
Arts 241
Professional Faculties 111
Theology 20

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The session of 1886-87 was an eventful one for Queen's University.
With the cessation of the harassing uncertainty which had attended the proprostion of University Federation, the Trustees and Friends of Queen's had felt the increased necessity of lengthening her cords and strengthening her stakes. Immediate action had been taken for increasing her revenue by the establishment of the University Endowment Fund, but the results were insufficient for meeting the needs of the University, and it was decided that the time had come to place her finances on a permanent basis, and increase her work in different directions. It was proposed that strenous efforts should be made to raise the sum of $250.000 to be called, in honour of the Queen's Jubilee Year. The Queen's Jubilee Endowment Fund. The schemeas propromended by the Principal in his address at Convocation, had the following ends in view. The University Council, after full consideration, has come to the conclusion that a

1886-87

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