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Report, and appointed Drs Bell and Jenkins Lecturers in Theology.

Mainly through the exertions of the Revd. D.J. Macdonnell
of Toronto, the services of A. Melville Bell Esq, formerly Professor
of Elocution in University College, London, were secured for several
weeks for the instruction of the Students in the art of reading.
The advantages derived from attendance on his classes, and the
interest in the subject which they excited, were such that an
Elocution Association was formed during the Session, of which
Professor Mackerras was chosen President, and which for a number
of years afterwards, under his able direction, gave public Entertainments
of a very pleasing, and instructive kind.

In every direction, indeed, the zeal of the Students and
their active endeavours to promote the interests and usefulness of
the University were this Session very signally marked. Encouraged
by the promised cooperation of the Graduates and of other friends,
they issued a Prospectus of a College Journal to be published fortnightly
during the Academic year of seven months, under the direction
of a Committee of the Alma Mater Society, the first number to
appear in October 1873. The Alma Mater Society itself continued
to flourish, and shortly before Convocation day gave
a Conversazione to the Citizens, who attended in large numbers

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