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that idea, feeling that they could not afford to strain the friendly relations which existed between the city and college by asking for aid which could not perhaps be given. Still, the Council, believing that the progress which had continued without a break for thirty years would be arrested unless something was done, ordered the Chancellor's address to be printed, and a copy of it sent through the postoffice to every citizen that he might read and judge for himself. "We all know the result;" he went on, "the intelligent initiative on the matter taken by the City Council, the conference between the Finance Committee and the university authorities, and the decision of that committee to recommend the Council to submit such a bylaw to the ratepayers as would enable the university to put up a new building, with much larger classrooms, for the faculty of science and arts. That the people will carry out the views of their representatives, no one who knows the relations between the college and city can now doubt. The press has cordially endorsed the action, leading men of all denominations have volunteered their support, and so far as I know not a single protest or murmur has been heard from any quarter. Nothing which has happened since I came here in 1877 has given me such unalloyed pleasure. it
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is not the money, though that is not to be despised. I have raised ten times that amount, and hope yet to do as much more, but it is the proof that the community is in sympathy with the educational work we are doing and has come forward to help us that has warmed my heart and formed my resolution never to be attracted from this grey Limestone City, built on the old Ontario strand."
After expressing the hope that Queen's would become more and more like the institution after which it was modelled, Edinburgh University, which, he reminded them, had been founded by the Town Council, and therefore was long known simply as "the town's College;" the Principal said: - "We were founded by the church to assert freedom, and now we are being founded anew by the city to show the excellent relations which exist between the university and the city." The medical faculty he continued, had decided to extend its building, and add to its equipment, and the trustees would, at the request of the University Council, consider to what extent or in what way they could best help the faculty to carry out the faculty's decision.
The response of the Government to the request of the governors of the School of Mining had also been generous and timely. Not only
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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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University. But remember that Queen's has a prior claim. We have the very best feelings for Toronto University. I am an honorary graduate of that institution. We believe that the friends of Toronto are just and that they will recognize our claim. A university to which the Province has given already some four millions can well afford to be just to another which is doing the large proportion of public work that Queens is doing. Education in Arts is the copestone of our educational system, and our students in Arts are between 400 and 500 as against 700 or 800 in Toronto and Victoria combined.
This surely involves that we should recognized financially as we already are by the Province educationally. According to the last report of the Minister of Education there are only two University centres in Ontario. Seventy nine per cent of the teachers in the secondary schools of the Province have graduated from the four Universities of Toronto. Two of these four are federated there are negotiations going on with the third; and there is no reason why the fourth should not write and get the benefit of the Provincial Endowment there. According to the Report of the Education Department there is only one other University, in the Province: for while one per cent of, the High School teachers come
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from outside of the Province, the remaining twenty per cent are Queen's men. Therefore it will be time enough to ask where financial recognition is to stop, when any other University in any other centre shows that it is contributing to the teaching work of the Province, something like twenty per centre of the High School teachers. There is thus no difficulty, if you take the test established by the Department of Education itself. At any rate our financial position may be said to be satisfactory. We have a surplus of revenue over expenditure of seventy dollars. Such a surplus is not bad housekeeping, when an annual expenditure is concerned of nearly $50,000 not including that of the Medical Faculty, or of the School of Mining and Agriculture."
The following confidential memorandum was submitted to the Board of Trustees by the Principal,
Confidential Memorandum on proposed changes in the Constitution of the Board of Trustees with the view of increasing its representative character and on the creation of a special Board of Management for the Theological Faculty, to be appointed by the General Assembly.
According to the Charter of Queen's granted in 1841, the Board of Trustees
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