EEPOET ON FELLOWSHIPS, ETC. XLT 



tho pi-i)visiori of Professorshiijs, Libraries, Museums aud Laboratories. Most of the Fclldwships 

 which they jiossess have been founded quite recently, and several Presidents of colleges have I'eportod 

 to us that they are making etibrts to obtain the necessary endowments and hope soon to be successful. 



In Canada we have made a beginning, but the beginning is small, and the few Fellowships which 

 our Universities possess are in all cases so conditioned that their holders, being required to engage in 

 teaching, are unable to study abroad. 



There can be no doubt of the immense value of such foundations as Fellowships, especially in a 

 country like Canada in which the class of people who are able to provide incomes for their sons, 

 while engaged in higher studios, is small. Thoroughly trained men in all dejjartments are wanted to 

 till the Professorial Chairs at our colleges, to adorn our professions and to become our loaders in the 

 making and administration of laws. In Science they are especially wanted to hasten the development 

 of our natural resources. In support of this ijosition we think we need present no argument. It 

 only remains to ask how they can be got. 



The sources of the endowments as shewn in the above table are three : (1) The General Endow- 

 ment Fund of the univei-feity or college; (2) Direct Government Grant ; and (H) Special Private Bene- 

 faction. These also arc the only sources from which Canadian Fellowships can be drawn. 



1. From the first there is but little hope of any adequate provision of Fellowships being made. 

 For our colleges are in general so badly endowed that all their funds arc needed to provide the first 

 requisites of university work, Professorships, Libraries, Museums and Labiu'atories. In fact not one 

 of our colleges has anything like a proper equipment. 



2. Fellowships might be established by Government Grant in a variety of ways. 



(a) Grants might be given either by Central or Local Governments to all our universities. 

 Were these not legion, such a scheme would be practicable. But their number is such that, to carry 

 out this scheme, an enormous grant would be necessary, and it would not in all cases be well apjjlieJ. 



(6) Grants might be given either by the Central or the Local Governments to those of our 

 universities whose graduates are really ready to enter upon advanced work. But the difficulties of 

 selection under this coui'se are obvious. In some few cases the selection might be made. In those 

 Provinces, for example, in which one university is supported either by annual grant or by public 

 endowment. Fellowships might be provided, just as Professorships have been. In Provinces which 

 possess no other universities, no difficulty would arise. But in others, in which universities of 

 private foundation exist, the Government would probably find it difficult to make the r ecessaiy grant. 



((?) The Central Government might establish Fellowshijis, open to the whole Dominion, and 

 appoint a Board of Examiners to award them. This scheme is probably feasible. But the Committee 

 make no recommendation on it at present, leaving the matter for future consideration. 



(d) The Local Governments might establish Fellowships, ojien to the respective Provinces, 

 apj)ointing Boards of Examiners to award them. On this also the Committee make no recommenda- 

 tion. 



3. The only other source is that from which large numbers of the Fellowsliips of other countries 

 have been drawn, viz., private beneficence ; and your Committee are of opinion that it is from tho 

 benedictions of the friends of education in general and of particular seats of learning that Canaflian 

 Fellowships ought to be obtained at present. The progress which some of our universities have 

 recently made through the munificence of their graduates and of appreciative friends, justifies the 

 hope that so soon as the utility of Fellowships is understood and their necessity perceived, the funds 

 will be forthcoming to endow them. To bring about their endowment at the earliest possible date, 

 possiblv the best means we can immediately employ is the circulation of information as to what has 

 already been done in other countries. Your Committee would theretbre recommend that this report 

 should be published in the Proceedings of the Society, and that a large number of separate copies 

 should be struck off and distributed to the Heads of Canadian Universities to be distributed by them 

 to persons whom they consider able and willing to assist in this great work. 



. Pro. 1885. F. 



