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1900 - 1901
Domesday Book, Queen's University, Volume II.
Registration of Students Session 1900-01.
Undergraduates in Arts, 433 General Students in Arts, 37 Students in Theology, 37 Students in Practical Science, 72 Students in Medicine, 151
Total ..... 730
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Since the close of last session, the Rev. Dr. T.G. Smith, the General Secretary of the University, died after many years of strenuos, fruitful work in the Church, and for the University.
Principal Grant reported on the excellent work done by the General Secretary, and a committee was appointed to draw up a minute expressive of the services rendered by Dr. Smith:
"The Board of Trustees desires to place upon its minutes its sense of the goodly services of the late Rev. Thomas G. Smith, D.D., who has been removed by death since the last meeting of the Board.
"Dr Smith was the General Secretary for eleven years, and performed the duties of that office with singular diligence and faithfulness. His kindly, yet firm and earnest spirit, made him welcome wherever he went, and it is not too much to say, that his official journeys throughout the length and breadth of the land, were not only of service financially, but contributed largely to make the advantages of Queen's University more generally known. He was in all respects a true and earnest friend".
At a previous meeting of the Board, a Committee was appointed to consider the establishment of a new Chair in Theology, which was felt to be a very desirable
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addition to the equipment of that Faculty.
At a future meeting the Committee presented the following report:
The Committee, appointed to recommend a name for the new Chair in Theology, recommend that the name be that of Church History, and History of Doctrine.
That the Rev. Samuel McComb, M.A. (Oxford) be recommended for said Chair"
The report was carefully considered, clause by clause, and after the various clauses were severally adopted, the report was adopted as a whole.
The salary connected with the Chair was fixed at $2,000.00 per annum, and to take effect the 15th of October next.
Then, on motion duly made and seconded, the Rev. Samuel McComb, M.A., was appointed to the newly founded Chair of Church History, and the History of Doctrine in the Theological Faculty of the University.
For many years the University had been receiving a generous grant from the Temporalities Board of the Presbyterian Church, and official announcement was now made that the grant of $2,000.00 would cease after the present year. Events which had a bearing on the funds of the Temporalities Board made this action not unreasonable, and further, the loss could be made up by the increase in the amount of student fees.
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Arrangements were proposed to the Rev. John Sharp, M.A., late Professor in Morvin College, Quebec, to take up tutorial work in Philosophy and English.
A memorandum from Principal Grant brought up a question of some moment to the University, and which received much attention for several years thereafter. It was a proposal to make such a change in the Constitution of the University as would give the graduates and benefactors a larger share in the Government of the Institution, and would place the Theological Faculty, which had hitherto been a department of the University, under a separate and independent Board appointed by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.
The matter being one of grave importance, the following representative Committee was appointed "to examine the whole question, and present a report to the Board at its autumn meeting":
"The Chairman, the Chancellor, the Principal, Dr. Campbell, the Moderator of the General Assembly, Dr. Herridge, Dr Milligan, and Messrs. D.B. Maclennan and F.H. Chryster to be the Committee."
And in view of the honorable part taken by the Presbyterian Church in founding Queen's, a clause was added to the Report to the Assembly asking that Court to appoint a Committee to confer with the Committee of the Board.
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Reports from the various Faculties were encouraging, and the financial situation was easy enough to allow some additional expenditure on salaries and much needed improvements to the plant, and grounds.
As had been agreed upon, the Committee on Constitutional changes reported in the autumn verbally through the Chairman, answering the questions that had been submitted by the Principal, as follows:
(1) Should the Governing Board of Queen's hereafter be wholly undenominational and representative? Answer: Yes. (2) In that case, how should the Theological Faculty be governed? Ans: By a Board appointed by the General Assembly. (3) Should the students, as in the Scottish Universities, be part of the Corporation, and be represented on the Governing Board by a Rector elected by themselves? Ans: Yes. (4) Should the City of Kingston, as in the case of Edinburgh, be represented by the Mayor, or some one elected by the City Council? Ans: Yes. (5) Should the Provincial Government be represented? Ans: If it sees fit. (6) Should the Secondary Schools of the Province be represented? Ans: Yes. (7) What proportion of the Board should be elected by the graduates, directly, or through the University Council? Ans: Not exceeding one-third.
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