VITA. 



I, Roy Balmer Liddy, son of Rev. James J. Liddy, M.A., 

 Methodist minister now of Brantford, and his wife Kate Frances, 

 was born in Bradford, Ontario, in the year 1885." My High School 

 training was obtained in Oshawa and Harriston, and my early 

 teachers, especially Principal Lyman C. Smith, B.A., and Mr. E. T. 

 Slemon, B.A., I shall always hold in appreciative remembrance. 

 After a few months spent in teaching, I entered The Dominion 

 Bank, in which institution I remained for some four years, leaving 

 that work in the fall of 1908 to enter the University of Toronto as 

 a student in the second year in the honour course of philosophy. 

 After graduating in Arts in 1911, I was made Fellow in psychology, 

 and during the sessions of 1912-13 and 1913-14, I held the position 

 of Demonstrator in the psychological laboratory. During a period 

 covering about four years I have taken the examinations in the 

 subjects constituting the Bachelor of Divinity course in Victoria 

 College, and in April of this year was given the degree of B.D. 



My registration for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy dates 

 from the fall of 1911. My first minor has been Banking, taken in 

 the Department of Political Economy. For the suggestive and 

 helpful lectures given on that subject by Mr. S. A. Cudmore, B.A., 

 I am very grateful. My second minor has been the general topic, 

 History of Philosophy, while my major has been The Relation of 

 Science and Philosophy, taken under Professor W. G. Smith, of the 

 Department of Philosophy. Work in this last subject was com- 

 menced in the session 1911-12, and in May, 1912, I submitted for 

 the M.A. degree a thesis entitled: Some Considerations of the 

 Relation of Science and Philosophy. Throughout the three years 

 which have been spent pursuing the study of the major subject 

 my work has been under the direction of Professor Smith, and, 

 though I owe much to the other members of the staff in philosophy, 

 I shall ever be deeply indebted to his keen yet sympathetic criticism 

 as well as to his constant supervision and encouragement. 



