1898-99. | FIFTIETH YEAR OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 651 
In order that Canada may take her place worthily among the nations 
making up the British Empire, it is for you to see that she contributes 
a generous share of all that is best in Letters, in Science, and in Art. 
On you is now placed a responsibility which I feel assured you will find 
pleasant to bear. It rests with you to do all in your power to foster 
and promote, as the years roll onward, every agency which has for its 
object the advancement of our country and our race. 
Professor Maurice Hutton, M.A., said :— 
Y our Excellency, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
In the unavoidable absence of the President of the University, and in 
the absence also of Prof. Ramsay Wright, who is spending his sabbati- 
cal year in Europe, it has devolved upon me to represent the University 
this evening. 
Perhaps I may snatch one consolation and advantage even from the 
unfortunate conditions under which I appear. 
We are gathered here to-night to congratulate the Canadian Institute 
on attaining its fiftieth year of life and usefulness. 
Now, Sir, it might perhaps be more difficult for the President or for 
Professor Wright to represent the University here and to congratulate 
the Canadian Institute disinterestedly, heartily and without stint; and for 
this reason: not only have the University and the Institute been closely 
linked from the beginning, but these two members of the University in 
particular, the President, and the Professor, have been in person specially 
linked with the Institute; and therefore, if in their representative 
capacity, as representatives of the University, they had referred to the 
history and the trials and the good work of the Institute, and had 
touched with pride upon the part which the University has played in 
that moving history, the “guorum pars magna fui” as it rose to their 
lips, might have seemed to be prompted by personal rather than repre- 
sentative memories, and so might have stuck in their throats, or never 
have passed “the barrier of their teeth” (as the more ancient and the 
more graceful idiom has it.) 
But in my own case, who in my representative capacity represent 
specially the ancient languages, and in my personal capacity am the 
least of all the members of the Institute,and am not worthy to be called 
a member, it will not be invidious for me at least to claim for the Uni- 
versity an honest pride in the celebration of this evening, and a share in 
all your past successes; and I at least can say “ quorum pars magni fui” 
