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from universih' officers. A common tariff of fees for all the colleges is 

 appended to this. 



3. The department of religious knowledge is given equal rank with 

 the other departments of i'nstruction in the university curriculum. 



Under this agreement the federa.tion of Trinity was completed by 

 proclamation of the-Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council on the eighteenth of 

 Xovember, 1903, to take effect at once for the faculty of medicine and 

 for the faculty of arts on the first of October, 1904. 



By these arrangements the objections to the federation scheme pro- 

 posed in 1885 have been almost completely removed. The president of 

 the university, standing in a common relation to all the colleges and 

 departments enjoys the equal confidence and support of all, and Univer- 

 sity College enjoys the advantage of the energy and ability of its own 

 accomplisjied principal. The graduates of the three colleges now ming- 

 ling on friendly and equal terms in University Senate and Alumni Asso- 

 ciation recognize with pride their common Alma Mater on whose Senate 

 they enjoy their several representation in perpetuity without struggle 

 between colleges. The unity of feeling of the university is becoming 

 apparent in the student body as well as in the faculty of graduates. 

 Common university s'ocieties have come into existence and college socie- 

 ties have federated both for the promotion of the worthy and important 

 objects of the Y. M. C. A. and for the athletics. The common moral 

 and religious spirit of the university has become a distinctive feature 

 and university sermons by able preachers of all the churches are attend- 

 ed by overflowing congregations of students. 



The rectification of another of the failures of 1885 is by no mean.^ 

 so easy and is perhaps now quite beyond our reach. x\t the origin of 

 federation in 1885, a hundred thousand dollars would have covered the 

 expense of the removal of Queen's to Toronto and have made the federa- 

 tion scheme complete. We speak with some confidence when we say that 

 we believe this was Principal Grant's first and best thought. Since that 

 date the establishment of a school of mines in Kingston has cost the 

 province far more than twice that sum. It also may be questioned 

 whether this expenditure has added anything to the needed facilities for 

 this class of work in Canada. "We do not for a moment by this 

 disparage the character of the work done 'either in Queen'^ 

 University or in the Kingston School of Mines. "We fully appre- 

 ciate the ability, the scholarship and the energy of the men who work 

 there. But in Toronto these same men could have done both better and 

 larger work. The addition of their educational forces to the provincial 

 university would have been to the advantage not of the students of 

 Queen's alone, but of the entire student body of the province. When 

 competition passes a certain point and especially when maintained with 



