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teaching of the Classes in Hebrew, and Biblical Criticism.
Besides various donations of funds for Scholarships and Bursaries recieved this year, the Ladies of St. Andrew's Church Toronto offered to endow a permanent Bursdary of £ 200. Curry. and the Trustees, while thanking them for their zeal and liberty, resolved, that the said sum be held in trust for the Endowment of a Bursary to be called, "The Bursary of the Ladies Association of St. Andrew's Church, Toronto." For the further securing of the above object, the Chairman was authorized to sign an Indenture as drafter by Oliver Mowat Esq. of Toronto, and recorded in full in the Minutes of the Executive Committee of date 19th, December 1856.
After due notice had been given in the newspapers at the seats of the Universities in Scotland, and in the Canadian Press, of the time for receiving applications of Candidates, the Board of Trustees, on 5th August 1857, appointed the Revd John B Mowat M.A., a graduate of the University, Successor to the deceased Revd Professor Smith in the Chair of Ecclesiastical History and Biblical Criticism.
Professor Williamson who, in addition to the duties of the Professorships of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and taught during the last three years
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the Classes in Chemistry in connection with the Medical Faculty, having brought before the Board the necessity of appointing a permanent Professor of Chemistry and Natural History in the Faculties of Arts and Medicine, was authorized to continue his correspondence with Dr. Balfour Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, and with such Candidates as Professor Balfour might recommend, with a view to obtain a properly qualified person for the proposed Chair.
From the time of the resignation by Dr. Machar in 1853 of the office of permanent Principal, which the onerous duties of his pastoral charge rendered him unwilling to retain, efforts had been made to secure a suitable successor for that important position, Dr. George having agreed in the meantime to act as Vice Principal. Endeavours, however having failed to obtain from the Church of Scotland one possessed of the necessary qualifications for the Head of the Institution, and Dr. George having in Septr 1887 resigned the office of Vice Principal, together with that of Trustee, the Board, strongly convinced of the urgent necessity of an immediate appointment for the good of the College and Church, and assured from ample testimony,
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that the qualifications of the Revd Dr. Cook commanded the unanimous approval of those connected with the Church, resolved, that he be earnestly requested to accept the office of Principal, and a deputation of the Board was appointed to wait upon him, and represent to him the desire of the Trustees, and their hope that he may see it to be his duty to accept an office for the discharge of which he was so eminently fitted, and thus comply with what the Trustees were assured would be most acceptable to the Church at large.
On Thursday, 30th April, after examination on the various subjects prescribed, the following gentlemen were admitted by the Senatus Academicus of the University to Degrees in Arts, Viz;
Joseph Evans, Kitley, to the Degree of Master of Arts,
And, of the Students who have completed their curriculum, to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts John May Beckwith John Machar Kingston With Honours. Donald B. McLennan Glengarry John Martin Fraser London
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John Livingston, Picton N.S. Alexander McLennan, Glengarry. Duncan McMillan, London. James Pennington McPherson, Kingston. James Webster, Guelph.
And the following gentlement to the Degree of Doctor of Medicine: James Maxwell Bell, Nassagaweya. Samuel S. Bowers, Berlin. H.S. Chisholm, Belleville. Joseph Crawford Owen Sound. Sylvanus Joy Otterville. Alexander R. Laidlaw, Milton. Micheal Lawlor, Toronto. Alexander R. McDonald, Kingston. Julien Perrault, Belleville. Oliver Thibodo, Kingston.
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COLLEGII ET VNIVERSITATIS REGINAE REGIODVNI ANNALES
A.D. MDCCCLVII-VIII.
