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1923-1924
Session 1923-1924
Registration of Students for the Session
Arts
Intra-mural First Registration - 171 Previously Registered - 437 [subtotal intra-mural] 608
Summer School - 423
Extra-mural First Registered - 203 Previously Registered - 573 [subtotal extra-mural] 776
Summer (not attending Summer School) - 273
Sciences First Registration - 71 Previously Registered - 169 [subtotal] 240
Medicine First Registration - 43 Previously Registered - 231 [subtotal] 274
Extension Work Banking - 241 Chartered Accountancy - 246 [subtotal] 487
[total] 3,081 Less Registered in two Faculties - 22 Total - 3,059
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There is a slight advance on the registration of the preceding session. And while classes are never so full that there is not room for more, possibly the numbers now, extra-mural and intra-mural, are as large as can well be cared for. The Staff is large, and exceedingly well manned, but if registration is to continue mounting, more teachers and more revenue must somehow be secured. Success is not without its anxieties.
The Session of 1923-24 closed with a well-grounded note of satisfaction and optimism. Changes in Staff and administration, of much interest, and likely enough of far-reaching importance, took place. Our Chancellor, Mr. E.W. Beatty, K.C., retired, and Sir Robert Borden was elected in Succession.
During his term of office Mr. Beatty was a good friend of the University, but the head of the Canadian Pacific Railway found himself with too many responsibilities on hand adequately, as he thought, to do justice to his high academic office in Queen's.
The Council was fortunate in securing Sir Robert Borden, who will be installed at the Autumn Convocation; and a man of his distinction and wide experience "may be counted on" (in the words of the Principal) to give Queen's the advantage of
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his presence and advice."
Some years ago a place was made in the Charter for a Rector on the Trustee Board, to represent the undergraduate body. The first appointee was Principal S. W. Dyde, D.D., of the Theological College; the second, Dr. Arthur E. Ross, C. M. G; the third (recently) Mr. W. H. Coverdale, LL.D., an engineer of eminence, a Canadian by birth and training, but at present a resident of New York City.
As is the custom in universities of the Motherland, it would be interesting and stimulating not only to the constituency of the Rector, but to all the friends of Queen's, to have, at least, one address from him, touching some vital and outstanding question of thought and life. He is an officer of administration.
To obviate an undue crush of work for staff and students at the end of the Session, and to encourage student work without undue sag (because of counterattractions), the examination at mid-term has been found to relieve the strain on the examiners, and to stimulate steady diligence on the part of the students. In the olden days, and when the University was much smaller, there were monthly examinations in the various departments, and on the results, class-prizers were awarded.
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authorities to the marked increase in matriculants of rather juvenile years. While the increase is a tribute to the efficiency of our Secondary Schools, and Public Schools also, it is felt that many enter the Universities at too immature an age to really profit by the more reflective studies. An eminent senior professor of philosophy was heard to complain, not long ago, that his classes were crowded with infant girls who could not, in reason, get a good footing in his subject. But those young, winsome ladies are, as a rule, excellent students, and may pick up more philosophy than appears on the surface. That they like the study is a sign that they may not be as juvenile as they look. Anyway, the University all-round discipline is good, and most of the precious years between 22 and 32 are saved for post-graduate world's work.
The Department of Philosophy begins the Session of 1924-1925 with new men. Professors Ferguson and Symons have taken up work elsewhere, and Prof. John Watson, L.L.D., has retired after fifty-two years of glorious service. As thinker, teacher, author, and a good sport, his reach and influence have been unsurpassed in the educational history of Queen's and of Canada. And his standing has been felt and acknowledged in the whole English-speaking world, and possibly farther. May he enjoy for many [image-moroccan oil lamp] 542.
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years his health and cultured leisure, and the attachment and gratitude of the generations of students who have been enriched by his inspiring words, and unblemished personal example.
Dr. Watson's successor at the head of the Department is Mr. George Humphrey, M.A. (Oxford and Harvard), of Wesleyan University, USA., and the author of a very attractive book in Philosophy, "The Story of Man's Mind." His assistant is a young Canadian of excellent social stock, of much promise, an Oxford and Rhodes Scholar, Mr. H. Reid MacCallum, B.A. So that the new start in the department is awaited with much confidence. The traditions connected with the names of George, Clark, Murray, and Watson will be continued.
The Principal reports that Professor Sandwell, as head of the English Department, has made an excellent beginning. The classes are large, and the instructors, all round, bring conspicuous ability and ripe experience to their work, and as for many years now, the very best results continue to be achieved.
The occupant of the Research Chair in Physics resigned in the course of the year to the regret of the Board, to take up similar work in St. Louis, U. S. A, He was a popular and efficient worker, and gave promise of making valuable contributions to the branch of science which he cultivated. Prof. Hughes' [image-moroccan oil lamp] 543.
