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the Chancelior and A'iee-Chanccllor controlled the faculties. The Senate, 

 which constituted the legishitivc body of the university, consisted of 

 the Chancellor, Vice-Chancel lor, the President, the Professors, and twelve 

 or more nominated members, — one-half to be named by the Crown and 

 the other half by affiliated colleges conferring degrees in Divinity only. 

 The Government in this way secured complete control of the university 

 as it held the appointment of a large majority both in the Caput and in 

 the Senate. 



The property of the university was vested in a Board of Trustees, 

 but their powers of expenditure were strictly limited to the maintenance 

 of the university and of Upper Canada College. Provision was also 

 made for a commission to examine the affairs of the university and its 

 imst financial management. 'J'he only other details which require to be 

 noted, are those tliat arc connected with the secularization of the imi- 

 versity. These provided for the abolition of the faculty of divinity, the 

 exclusion of all ecclesiastics from tlie chancellorship, and from the 

 members nominated for the Senate by the tiovernment, and the pro- 

 hibition of all denominational forms of worship in connection witli tlie 

 university. The denominational colleges were admitted only as affiliated 

 divinity schools having each one representative on the Senate. All forms 

 of religious test or subseription. for either officers or students of the uni- 

 versity, were abolished. 



The leading features of the bdl were thus, complete government 

 control of the university, the reservation of the endowment for the exclu- 

 sive use of the university and Upper Canada College, and the thorough 

 secularization of the university and its complete separation from tno 

 denominational colleges except on conditions to which they were not 

 likely to conform. 



The most important feature of this bill was that which completely 

 wrested the control of the university and its endowments from the hands 

 of any ecclesiastical hotly. This was accomplished not merely through 

 the government assumption of control, but also by various provisions 

 which acted as so many danger signals forbidding the approach of eccle- 

 siastical dop.iination. This was the triumph of a principle from which 

 the country has never receded, and it terminated the struggle in v,-hic!i 

 the country had been engaged for twenty-three years. 



A second important feature was the introduction of the principle 

 that the university endowment must not be divided, but be reserved for 

 the exclusive use of the provincial institution. To be sure, this was not 

 yet completely carried into effect ; Upper Canada College continued for 

 many vears to l)e the feeder and the financial dependent of the univer- 

 sity, but the principle was clearly asserted as against the denominational 



