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[margin] Jan 19 1881[/margin]

Mr Campbell & Prof Mowat the Lewis
Mr Fotheringham & Prof Mowat the Almonte

[margin]prize poem[/margin]

The Senate decided to offer a prize for
a poem to be publicly read on one of the
days appointed for the closing ceremonies if
a piece of sufficinet merit is received; the choice
of the subject to be left with the writers; the
poem to contain not fewer than fifty and
not more than two hundred lines, and to
be in the hands of the Secretary of Senate on or
before the 15th of April; all registered students
to be at liberty to compete

Closed with the benediciton

JB Mowat, Secretary
Geo M Grant, Principal

[margin]Feb 17th 1881[/margin]

Queen's Univefsity Fedsbruary 17th 1881

The Senate met and was constituted.

Sederunt Principal Grant, Professors Williamson,
Mowat, Dupuis, Ferguson, and Watson,
and Messrs Nicholson and Fowler

The minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.

[margin]CH for G.C. concert[/margin]

On application from the Glee Club it was
agreed to grant them the use of the Convocation
Hall for a concert to be held on the 26th inst.

[margin]HM Froiland[/margin]

There was read a letter from HM Froiland
stating, that his note book on botany had been
stolen fom the cloak room, and requesting the
Senate on that account to allow his monthly
examination in botany to stand instead of the
pass examination. The Senate resolved that
they could not grant this request inasmuchas
by doing so they would be establishing a dangerous
precedent.

[margin]LW Pinkerton[/margin]

In reply to a letter from LW Pinkerton
who passed in the session of 1878-9 in junior Latin,
Junior Greek and junior mathematics, the Clerk
was instructed to inform him that he will be allowed
to come up for examination next October
in senior Latin, senior Greek and rhetoric and