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was the mining laboratory, the only one in Canada
open for commerical purposes, to be extended and supplied
with modern machinery, but a sum had been
voted for making additions to the staff, and also an
annual rental of $2,000 voted for an additional
building. "Once it has been decided," he said, "that
the central faculty of the University, that of arts
and science, is to be so housed that it can grow indefinitely,
all fears as to the future may be dismissed.
And that means that we are to break forth on the
right hand and on the left, until the university's
beneficent activities shall be felt more and more in
every sphere of industrial activity, as well as in the
higher work of providing a home for ideas and a
school for character."

In other directions, the
Principal continued, they had cause for congratulation.
The students were more in number than
ever. The financial position was satisfactory in
the sense that they owed no man anything. "Of
course," he added, "in this respect we shall be very
much improved when th university question is
reopened, as the Government has hinted that it
may be in the immediate future." "We hope
the Government will do this, and that
it will do something more for Toronto

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1899-1900
1351

was the mining laboratory, the only one in Canada open for commerical purposes, to be extended and supplied with modern machinery, but a sum had been voted for making additions to the staff, and also an annual rental of $2,000 voted for an additional building. "Once it has been decided," he said, "that the central faculty of the University, that of arts and science, is to be so housed that it can grow indefinitely, all fears as to the future may be dismissed. And that means that we are to break forth on the right hand and on the left, until the university's beneficent activities shall be felt more and more in every sphere of industrial activity, as well as in the higher work of providing a home for ideas and a school for character."
In other directions, the Principal continued, they had cause for congratulation. The students were more in number than ever. The financial position was satisfactory in the sense that they owed no man anything. "Of course," he added, "in this respect we shall be very much improved when th university question is reopened, as the Government has hinted that it may be in the immediate future." "We hope the Government will do this, and that it will do something more for Toronto

1899-1900
1351