Iburwash] a review of THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 9S 



versity ou the same terms as their Anglican, Presbyterian or Methodist 

 brethren. 



As another result of this unity of sentiment and of the united 

 efforts of the great body of graduates, the wave of indifference to higher 

 •education which a few years ago threatened to carry us on to the shal- 

 lows of intellectual inferiority is now turned back and once more the 

 university is sailing in deeper and safe waters. Perhaps we needed a 

 little storm to carry us back from this perilous position. We now need 

 only to be true to ourselves and to the interests of our country and our 

 children to have an institution worthy of our ambition and of our loyal 

 affection and support. The present constitution provides for all that 

 great and good men in the past have lived and laboured for. Strachan, 

 Liddell and Eyerson were united on this point, the union of sound 

 learning with religion and morality. We will not claim to have reached 

 perfection. There is still room for the labour and patience of our uni- 

 ted wisdom. But the ideals and principles are embodied in our present 

 • constitution. In our colleges, religion, morality and personal culture 

 have their fullest scope. Through the moral and social life of the col- 

 leges also we think the problem of the best results of university life for 

 women may find an easy solution. In the college the power of personal 

 influence in education finds its prepared field. The springing up of 

 residential colleges not so large as to be unwieldy will add largely to 

 the moral, religious and social influence of university life. And all this 

 can be accomplished because the variety of colleges will offer freedom 

 of choice, and naturally draw together congenial spirits whose ideals of 

 college life agree with those of the college which they may choose. 



On the other hand the university admits of indefinite increase of 

 perfection of work and of extension of curriculum to the utmost limits 

 of human knowledge. It admits also of almost indefinite increase of 

 the numbers to whom its advantages may be extended. It provides for 

 such extension under thorough organizations and with all the advantages 

 of compact college life. The colleges, each for its own students, provide 

 the culture elements for all the courses, and also, by combining their 

 forces by intercollegiate exchange, provide the special advanced work in 

 the honour courses in languages, literatiire and in part in philosophy. 

 In these departments every new college provides not only a new centre 

 and type of college life, but also adds to the general intellectual strength 

 of the university by the reputation and work of its best men. The large 

 university staff is organized by departments. Of these biology and che- 

 raistrv' are already furnished with separate and modern buildings and 

 arrangements are under way to do the same for geology and mineralogy 

 and physics, and possibly astronomy. This will also leave room for 

 much more convenient work in political science, history, psychology and 



