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place on tlio miiversity Senate immediately thereafter. The buildings of 

 Victoria in the Queen's Park were completed in the autumn of 1892 at 

 a cost of $230,000 and constituted an important addition to the fine 

 group of university buildings already erected or in process of erection 

 there. In the month of February, 1890, a disastrous fire had destroyed 

 a large part of the noble university building which had been completed 

 in 1860. This was now restored in its original style and the interior 

 arrangements accommodated as far as possible to the new and enlarged 

 work of the University. 



The years that followed the entrance of Victoria College into 

 federation raised and solved another important question as to the cons- 

 titution of the University. The federated University of Toronto then 

 included the following bodies: 



The University faculty of Arts ; the University faculty of Medicine ; 

 University College, Victoria College with faculties of Arts and Theology ; 

 two theological colleges, Knox and Wycliffe, closely associated with 

 University College; St. ]\'I|ichael's College teaching besides theology two 

 university subjects and one college subject and thus closely approxi- 

 mating to a theological college. There were also affiliated with the 

 University a number of professional and secondary schools. 



The hope was entertained i>y many, and some times openly expressed 

 til at Victoria would shortly relinquish her Arts faculty and become a 

 theological college. The Chancellor of the University of Toronto him- 

 self had at an early stage of the negotiations given expression to such 

 a view in a public address at convocation. Such a development would 

 have overturned the fundamental principle of federation, would have 

 rendered many of its intricate provisions useless and absurd and would 

 virtually have reduced the University back to the position of 1853 of 

 a single Arts College with a number of affiliated theological schools. It 

 is to the credit of all concerned that this hope passed into the region 

 of forgotten dreams. The success and rapid growth of Victoria as an 

 Arts College and the entrance of Trinity into federation have given 

 final permanency to a constitution of the University which by the com- 

 prehensiveness of its fundamental principle and its power of adaptation 

 to the varjdng needs and convictions of the community promises to 

 give universal satisfaction. 



But before considering the further development of the university 

 constitution under federation we must direct attention to the conse- 

 quent enlargement of its staff and equipment. In order to make effective 

 the sections of the Federation Act which contemplated the enlargement 

 of the University', a joint committee of the Board of Trustees and the 

 Senate was appointed to report on the present state of the endowments 



