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ment of the objects aforesaid, and for removing the difficulties and objections hereinbefore referred to: - Be it therefore enacted, +c."
The terms of the Act which followed "established a University to be called the University of Toronto, and a Collegiate Institution in the City of Toronto, to be called University College, These, according to the provisions of the Act, are entirely distinct and separate, the one from the other; having different functions, and being placed under different Government. The functions of the University are simply to examine for, and confer degrees and University honors. Those of University College, to give to Students the ordinary education of Collegiate Institutions. The property of all kinds, belonging to the University of Toronto, as formerly constituted, was vested in the Crown, to be managed by a Bursar, under the direction of the Governor in Council; and the income thence arising, omitting for the present all reference to what is called Upper Canada College, which has property of its own, to be applied, first to defray the expenses of the University; second, of University College; and third, if there were any surplus to form a fund, to be from time to time appropriated by Parliament, for Academical education in Upper Canada."
The annual income at that period being from
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£ 15, 000 to £ 17, 000. Cy., while the number of Students was less than 40, it was to be expected, as the framers of the Act certainly did expect, that, after making ample provision for the suppotrt of the University and University College, of two thirds of the income, even then more than £ 10, 000 Cy. a large surplus would remain to aid Academical Education in other Colleges which it was proposed should be affiliated to the University. The expectation was a reasonable one, as the result of the observance of the terms, and intention of the Act for a year of two shewed. In 1855 the surplus fund amounted to no less than £ 6, 580. Cy. The new Act, however, had most unwisely constituted so many of the Professors of University College, along with the Principal of Upper Canada College, members of the Senate of the University, that they formed a majority of the number of the quorum fixed for the meetings of that body, which its members outside of Toronto seldom attended. In this way, it was virtually left in the first place, contrary to the declared intention of the Act to make a complete separation between the Examining and Teaching Bodies, in the power of the University College Professors, to appoint the Examiners of their own Students as well as those from other Colleges which might become affiliated: And in the 2nd place, the Authorities of University College were thus enabled so to direct the proceedings of the University Senate, that in a few years
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instead of the surplus contemplated in the 54th clause of the Act, there was an excess of expenditure over revenue. The sum of $ 300, 000. was spent on a new building altogether out of proportion to the requirements of the Institution, large additions were made to the Salaries of the Professors, and $ 5000. were annually devoted to Scholarships, Medals and Prizes, all exclusively for the benefit of University College, and all apparently designed to crush, and "lure" away Students from endowed Colleges. doing as much, and as good, work for the eduction of the country. This enormous expenditure, together with others of similar extravagance, the Bursar's Office, for example, absorbing no less than nearly $ 9000, was due almost wholly to the counsels of the six Professors of University College, including the Principal of Upper Canada College, who were members of the Senate, the body which exercised the virtual control of the Finances of the University.
In these circumstances, it was unanimously resolved, at a meeting of the Executive Committee of Queen's University on 26th March 1860, "that the Very Revd Principal Cook be authorized to prepare and sign, in name of the Board of Trustees, a petition to the Legislature, praying for an investigation into the management, and a more beneficial and equitable application of the public University Endowment in Upper Canada."
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It was further resolved, that a Petition to the Legislature be prepared to be signed by the Chairman of the Board praying for an amendment of the 3rd and 5th subsection of § 286 of the Act regarding Municipalities in Upper Canada, 22nd Victoria ch. 54, and that the same powers be given to the Councils of every County, City, and Town separated from the County for Municipal purposes, to pass bye laws of a similar nature for the encouragement of learning among the youth of the Province in connection with other Chartered Universities therein."
Similar petitions were presented to the Legislature by the Universities of Trinity, and Victoria, and a Select Committee of the House of Assembly was appointed to consider them, to take evidence regarding the matters referred to, and to report. During the Session of Parliament in 1860, Evidence was laid before the Committee, fully confirming the malversation and extravagance alleged, and printed with other Sessional papers in 1862, and there was good reason to expect, that the Legislature would interpose to remedy in an effectual manner the injustice and evils complained of.
On Thursday, 26th April 1860, - after oral, and written examinations, the Senatus agreed to confer the Degree of M. A. on Daniel James Macdonnell,
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Fergus, C. W., with honors on all the subjects of examintation, and the Degree of B. A. on Andrew Thomas Drummond, Kingston, C. W. Thomas Hart, Perth, C. W. Alexander McBain, Thorah, C. W. John McLaren, Glengarry, C. W., with
honors in Mental and Moral Philosophy and Logic. Edward George Malloch, Perth, C. W. Donald Ross, Glengarry, C.W., with honors in all the subjects of examination. Horace Porter Yeomans, Waterloo, C. W. George Macdonnell, Fergus, C. W.
The Degree of M. D. was also conferred upon the following gentlemen: Nelson Bird, Belleville Thomas Chanonhouse, Kingston James G. Cranston, Hamilton Thomas R. Dupuis, Harrowsmith John G. Giles, Farmersville Edward H. Horsey, Kingston Edward McKenzie, Prescott William P. Roche, Easton's Corners
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