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THE DOMESDAY BOOK of QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY 1839-1900
THEO. SAVNDERS
SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITAS
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COLLEGII ET VNIVERSITATIS REGINAE REGIODVNI ANNALES
A.D. MDCCCXXXIX. MCM0I.
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This volume, to be known as the Domesday Book of Queen's University had its direct origin in the success which attended the appeal made in 1887 to obtain increased means to meet the requirements of the University and extend its usefulness.
In that year it was announced at Convocation that an increased enowment to the extent of a quarter of a million of Dollars was indispensable and from the feeling that the appeal to obtain that sum from the friends of the University would
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not to be in vain, it was resolved that the special contributions should be known as the Jubilee Fund in commemoration of the fifty years reign of our most Gracious Sovereign the Queen and of the first fifty years life of the University itself.
Within a year owing to the untiring energy of the Principal and the generous sympathy of the many friends of the institution the required sum was subscribed. In consequence of this result, on the 7th of March, 1888; a committee of the Board of Trustees was appointed to consider the best course to be followed in marking permanently the spirit which from the earliest date has animated the
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benefactors of the University.
At the following Convocation held in April 25th the Chancellor, brought the matter to the direct notice of those assembled. In his address he pointed out the purpose of the Trustees and that they desired gratefully to perpetuate the memory of all who have aided Queens University in its early struggles or who have in any way evinced devotion to its fortunes.
The Chancellor stated, "It has been proposed to create a rool of Benefactors, inscribed with the names of all who have aided this institution from its foundation. The Domesday Book of William the Conqueror which has survived eight cen-
