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monuments which attest the taste of the men of olden time with Bishop 

 Strachan at their head. St. Hilda's, Annesley Hall and Queen's Hail 

 for the women students of Trinity, Victoria and University College, are 

 the first promise of the supply of another most important need of our 

 university life. 



Before giving a final summary of our forces for university work a 

 word is necessary as to the contribution made by the colleges to the 

 strength of the university staff. Each college has its own faculty, the 

 arts colleges covering the full work assigned to University College by 

 the Federation Act. But this does not imply a duplication of all col- 

 lege work. By a system of inter-collegiate exchange, the varied talents 

 and special scholarship of the different members of the staff are made 

 to add strengh to the entire university. The honour work is divided 

 into special sections, and one of these is assigned to each professor of 

 the united college faculties, who lectures on this subject to the students 

 of all the colleges. Thus the present united faculties in classics give the 

 advantage of the work of twelve men, in English six, in French and 

 Germaa, each six, and in Orientals five, and in moral philosophy, three. 

 Every college which brings even one man of eminence in his depart- 

 ment is thus a source of added strength to the university, while by rea- 

 son of the competition of the colleges, no college can afford to keep weak 

 men on its staff. In this way the whole student body is learning to 

 appreciate the strong men who may be outside of their particular col- 

 lege, and to claim the strongest men not as belonging to one particular 

 college, but as ornaments of the whole university. The present stafE of 

 the university and colleges apart from general officers presented by 

 departments iS as foHows: — 



Philosophy 7 



Classics and ancient history 13 



English 6 



French 7 



Gei:man 7 



Italian and Spanish 3 



Oriental languages 6 



Mathematics 5 



Physics 6 



Biology 8 



Geology and mineralogy 4 



Historical and political science 6 



These with laboratory and lecture assistants give a total staff in 

 arts of about one hundred. 



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