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Dr. Jacob at the time of his selection as President of King's 

 College, in 1829, was in his thirty-sixth year. His policy as the head 

 of the institution was very conservative, and is thus defined in his 

 Encœnial address in 1851: — 



"In a thinly peopled and comparatively uncultivated country, no means which 

 could be employed would have the effect of filling the college with agricultural, 

 manufacturing, mechanical or commercial students. The attempt could have no 

 better effect than miserable, disheartening, self-destructive disappointment. Intel- 

 lectual and moral culture should be our pursuit and occupation. Our peculiar 

 province is to teach the principles and application of Truth." 



Doctor Jacob's term of service included one year at the University 

 of New Brunswick, but was practically co-extensive with the life of 

 King's College, 1829-1859. He died in 1868 at the age of 74 years. 



We come now to speak of one who left an abiding impress not 

 only upon the University but upon the progress of higher education 

 in general. 



William Brydone-Jack, the subject of this sketch, was born in 

 the Parish of Tinwald, Dumfriesshire in Scotland, on the 23rd of 

 November, 1819. His father, a stone-mason and master builder, 

 camfe of a Perthshire family, but removed to Dumfriesshire early in 

 life, married and settled down there. Young Brydone-Jack received 

 his elementary education in the parish schools of Tinwald. Later he 

 attended Halton Hall Academy, Caerlaverock, where he was prepared 

 for college. In 1835 he entered as a student at the University of 

 Saint Andrews in Fifeshire. Here he came under the influence of the 

 principal, Sir David Brewster, one of the most famous mathematicians 

 and natural philosophers of his time. Brewster was distinguished 

 for his contributions to scientific literature. His biography of Sir 

 Isaac Newton, embodied the results of more than twenty years patient 

 investigation of original manuscripts and all other sources of infor- 

 mation. In 1802, at the age of twenty, he was editor of the Edin- 

 burgh Magazine. He contributed many articles to the Encyclopedia 

 Britannica, and later was editor of the Edinburgh Encyclopedia. 

 In 1831 he w^as one of the founders of the British Association for the' 

 Advancement of Science. He was knighted the same year, receiving 

 also the decoration of the Guelphic order of Hanover. In 1838 he 

 became the Principal of the United Colleges of Saint Salvador and 

 Saint Leonard at Saint Andrews. He was president of the British 

 Association in 1849, and from 1849 until his death, which occurred 

 on Feb. 10, 1868, he was the vigorous president of the University of 

 Edinburgh. 



Brewster was famous for his original discoveries in optics. In 

 1816 he invented the Kaleidoscope, for which there was such an extra- 



