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The other at the request of the colleges that comparative philology, 

 Italian and Spanish being taken only by a few honour students should 

 be provided by a common university staff as in the Taylorean Institute 

 at Oxford. 



The only substantial advantages offered to the outlying colleges 

 were a common provincial university, a fair share of its advantages and 

 honours to such of its students as were at the same tiçie students of the 

 university, with the opportunity of maintaining for these students the 

 social, moral and religious influences of a college in sympathy with he 

 church of their fathers. Financially the relief offered by the advan- 

 tages of the university professoriate were quite overbalanced by the 

 necessity of removing to Toronto and by the burden of competing with 

 the strengthened staff' of University College under the highly specialized 

 curriculum of the University of Toronto. 



But the two supreme motives still remained. Here was the oppor- 

 tunity for a truly provincial and worthy university, and here the 

 students of every name and creed while maintaining the full vigour of 

 their religious life and even of its distinctive peculiarities could also 

 enjoy the broadening educative influences of contact with the whole 

 body of their fellow citizens. These motives supported by faith in the 

 ultimate triumph of justice and equal rights alone urged for acceptance. 

 The decisions of the various boards on the 9th of January were awaited 

 by the whole country with eager interest. Queen's wdiile acknowledging 

 the high aim of the proposal pleaded her inability to meet the expense 

 and her obligations to Kingston and Eastern Ontario, and put in a plea 

 for a second University for the Eastern part of the province. Toronto 

 Baptist College expressed cordial approval of the scheme as a whole, but 

 asked that University College be merged into the university and each 

 college be permitted to teach such part of the curriculum as it might 

 prefer. 



The governing bodies of Trinity and Victoria likewise endorsed the 

 principle of the federation but pressed for the removal of what they 

 regarded as its defects. The points desired by Trinity were the 

 following : 



1, The more complete recognition of religious knowledge in the 

 curriculum by its extension to all the years and to honour as well as 

 pass courses. 



2. A restriction upon the addition by the state of ncAV chairs in 

 University College such as might add unduly to the burden of the other 

 colleges; and a similar restriction upon the transfer of chairs from the 

 university to the college. 



