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first eight was also added "with the concurrence of all parties to meet 

 what appeared to be the just needs of Queen's which had just expended' 

 a large sum in the erection of new buildings. The representative- of 

 Victoria were considering other schemes for the utilization of its 

 Cobourg property. 



The conference called by the Minister of Education after a general' 

 consideration of the subject adjourned until autumn. On the reassem- 

 bling of the conference in the autumn a new scheme prepared from the 

 point of view of the Uriiversity of Toronto was brought forward — and 

 from this time the conferences were mainly occupied Avith the considera- 

 tion of the points which had been eliminated from the original proposal, 

 and the settlement of some new questions raised. These questions were- 

 as fallows: — 



1. The status in the new university of university college. The 

 original scheme proposed that university college should stand with the 

 other colleges on a platform of perfect equality, having its own endow- 

 ment, building, trustees, and head and represented in the university a& 

 the other colleges. The new scheme insisted on the common possession 

 by the university and university college of the endowment and buildings, 

 and placed them under a common board of management of property and a 

 common president. ' It also carefully avoided any expression which 

 would imply that university college was one of the federated colleges in 

 the university. 



2. It limited the separate representation of the graduates of the 

 denominational universities to six years. 



3. It eliminated all compensation for losses incident to removal. 



4. It made very definite provision for the strengthening of the 

 staff of university college as well as for the establishment of a greatly 

 enlarged staff of university professors, additions to the university build- 

 ings and large additions to the equipment in apparatus, etc. To this 

 provision no objection was taken, though the enlargement of university 

 college staff greatly increased the responsibilities of the incoming colleges. 



On the first three points the representatives of the University of 

 Toronto and the Minister of Education whf) now met in conference re- 

 fused all concessions. On other points the general principles of federa- 

 tion were accepted and developed in full. The basis thus arrived at was 

 by no means satisfactory to the denominational universities. They saw 

 clearly that it embodied elements tending to the subversion of the funda- 

 mental principle of federation, the unity and equality of a number of 

 arts colleges in a common university. The elimination of the provisions 

 for compensation was also fatal to the incoming of Queen's. It was 



