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[Letterhead - Top] SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

1902-03

For the first time, mention is made of the need of a
residence for the College girls, and the reference comes
from the University Council, and is left with the
finance and Estates Committee to look into. Later, as
this record will show, the Alumnae Society of the
University took up the new and adventurous proposition,
and faced its implications bravely, gathered $80,000 for
the cause, and the Board promising dollar for dollar,
$160,000, this year of grace 1923, are available, and
building may be undertaken in the autumn.
With a view to giving under publicity to the excellent
spirit and work of the University, and afford necessary
and valuable information to the many interested friends
and prospective students of the Institution, it was decided
to have the Annual Reports of the Principal, the Science
Professors, the Librarian, and such other departments
as might submit reports, published in the Quarterly.
It was left to the meeting of the Board to be held 16th May
to prepare the usual Report to the General Assembly.
Two delegates from the Student Body, James Wallace and
H.H. Harpell, appeared before the Board, and told of a
most commendable project that they had in hand, being
no less than the erection of a new Convocation Hall, to be
called the "Grant Hall." Already they had subscriptions
to the amount of nearly $34,000, over $12,000 of which

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