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[Letterhead - Top] SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS

1902-03

we feel for them in their bereavement. While we know
that none can experience that same poignancy of
grief as they, we venture to hope that they may derive
a measure of consolation from feeling that every
member of this Board, in common with the loyal
sons and daughters and the devoted friends of the
University in this and other lands, shares with them
in a common sorrow. We would also venture to
remind them that the counsel of our departed
friend himself would have been, rather to labor
earnestly for the fulfilment of the great work that
still remains to be done, than to dwell too long on
the innevocable loss we have all sustained. Though he
is removed from us, his spirit will ever animate and
inform the Institution to which he have a new and
complete life; and we feel that it would show a
distrust of the good providence of God to fear that
a life of such unswerving devotion to the University,
have been spent in vain." (Board Minutes. Page 196)
At the next meeting of the Board, June 14th in Toronto,
attention was drawn to the fitness of taking
immediate action to advance and complete some
of the plans, initiated by the Late Principal, the
nature of which will appear farther on in this Book.

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