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1906-07

and labors of that body was listened to with much interest.
The office of Dean, not being provided for in the original
Charter, and being of comparatively recent creation, there
was some obscurity as to the functions connected with it.
This led to a refrence from the Senate, requesting the
Board to define, in general terms, the functions of the
Deans in the various faculties. This was a question which,
left in the hands of the Principal and the Deans, would
find its own solution - as it did.

Another reference from the Senate was, as to the status
of Assistant Professors in Senate deliberation. In the
opinion of the Senate, both assistant and associate
professors should be members thereof, and, in the mean-
time, Assistant Professors should be asked to sit with the
Senate, with power to vote. With the rapid growth of the
University and the enlargement of the Teaching Staff,
changes like these were inevitable, and the Constitution
was flexible enough easily to permit them. This was the
opinion of the Hon. Justice Maclenan, Chairman.

On rising, the Board agreed to meet again the evening
of Autumn Convocation Day.

The negotiations between the Legislature and the Board
touching the establishment of a Faculty of Education
in Queen's, proceeded pleasantly to a successful issue.
And at the autumn meeting (1906) it was announced

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