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The opening of Dalhousie and the transfer of McCulloch to its 

 Presidency, instead of quieting sectarian animosities, led to a greater 

 outburst than ever.^^ 



It seems that three professors were to be appointed — •McCulloch 

 to the Chair of Philosophy, MacKintosh to the Chair of Mathematics,, 

 and another to the Chair of Classics. Crawley, who had been a 

 member of the Church of England, but had joined the Baptists, a 

 man admittedly well qualified, had applied to the Governors for the 

 appointment. Three Governors only were active — the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Colin Campbell, C. W. Wallace, son of a former treasurer, 

 and S. G. W. Archibald, Speaker of the House of Assembly. Archibald 

 and another promised support and Crawley and his friends felt assured 

 of appointment a short time before the meeting of the Board. But 

 in the interval it was represented to the Governor (a brave soldier, 

 as the Indian Mutiny showed, but a poor statesman) that McCulloch 

 was a Seceder and a well-known Reformer; that Crawley was also 

 a Dissenter and that between them they would control the college 

 to the detriment of established religion and the government of the 

 province. Political considerations, reinforced by religious, prompted 

 the Governor and Wallace to reject Crawley and appoint another. 

 They gave as a reason that Dalhousie was by the founder intended 

 to be like Edinburgh, and that in Edinburgh only members of the 

 Established Church of Scotland were professors. 



Disastrous effects soon became apparent. Acadia College was 

 established by the Baptists and each sect felt in duty bound to do 

 likewise. Nova Scotia to-day has within its borders eight or nine 

 institutions with degree conferring powers, notwithstanding the dis- 

 appearance of the Congregationalist and the two Presbyterian 

 Colleges, and the Medical School, which Dalhousie has absorbed. 

 Mt. Allison University, at Sackville, N.B., also renders service to 

 Nova Scotia. This epidemic of Sectarianism has blighted university 

 education for a century in a province with a capacity to emulate old 

 Scotland. 



It is well to remember the year of this misfortune — 1838. The 

 political passions of the time had burst forth in the Rebellion of 1837. 

 In the religious and educational spheres, passions were running alm.ost 

 as high. 



Ontario fared no better than Nova Scotia. The amendment of 

 the Royal Charter of King's College in 1837 had come too late. 

 Within a year or two of its opening in 1842, Victoria College was 



'^Dalhousie Gazette, vol. 35, pp. 137-140. 



