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SAPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS

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 un-
tiring 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