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hopes of tlieir parents and friends. In this institution many holy aspira- 

 tions Avill doubtless arise in minds yet untainted and which by Divine 

 grace shall become a panoply to protect tliem through life against all 

 the temptations wliich can assail them. And the time will come when 

 Ave too can look l)ack to our line of celebrated men brought up at this 

 i^eminary, and whose character and attainments will cause a glory around 

 it, and become as it were the genius of the institution. 



"Ts there an ingenuous youtli now present, of quick sensibility and 

 lively ambition, who does not clierish in his imagination the hope that 

 he may bcome oni' of those whom in future times this university will 

 delight to honour as one of her favourite sons? Why should he not? 

 He is in the enjoyment of the same advantages, pursuing the same paths 

 of knowledge, which enabled many in former times to soar to the most 

 elevated heights of literary fame."' 



After a brief reference to the danger of secular views of education, 

 he closed with these weighty words : — " In this institution our chief care 

 will, it is lioped, ever be to cherish and strengthen in our youth those 

 principles and affections which give our finite being wings to soar above 

 this transitory sense, and energy to that mental vision which shall enable 

 them to look with confidence oil the glories of the spiritual when this 

 •our material world is vanishing rapidly away." 



On the 16th of August J\Ir. W. H. Blake was appointed professor of 

 law in place of Mr. Draper, who had resigned. On the reconstruction of 

 the university in 18-fI) Mr. Blake became Vice-Chancellor. Later, his 

 sons were numbered among her most distinguished graduates, and one of 

 them the Hon. Edward Blake, LL.D., was called to preside over her as 

 Chancellor througli one of the most important periods of her history, 

 On the 2.>th of September the council met, the new professors being pre- 

 sent, and steps were taken for the establishment of the Faculty of Medi- 

 cine with Drs. King. Beaumont and Gwynne as professors. At the 

 same time arrangements were completed for tlie opening of the ^lichael- 

 mas term in the Faculty of Arts. 



The actual work of the university tluis inaugurated, had scarcely 

 begun when once more the question of its constitution came to the front 

 by the introduction into Parliament of the Baldwin University Bill of 

 1843. The Amendment Act of 183^ had severed the most important 

 links of connection with the Church. TJie presidency had ceased to be an- 

 nexed ex-officio to the Archdeaconshi]! of York; the holder need not even 

 be a clergyman of any denomination. Tlie members of the council were 

 no longer required to be members of the Church of England or to sign 

 the Thirty-nine Articles, and the bishop of the diocese was no longer the 

 visitor of the university. But tlie Archdeacon of York, now Bishop of 



