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College could now receive. Probably Harvey had 

 in his mind especially the encouragement of the 

 bestowal of benefactions of a nature calculated in 

 a more direct way to benefit the College. If we 

 carry our thoughts — and looking at the position in 

 which the College stands at the present time it 

 requires a little effort to do so — I say, if we carry 

 our thoughts to what the College was in Harvey's 

 day, we realise that needs then existed which have 

 now disappeared. We have no longer occasion to 

 give ourselves concern about the corporate welfare 

 of the College in the manner that was formerly 

 called for. Founded " with a view to the improve- 

 ment and more orderly exercise of the art of 

 physic, and the i-epression of irregular, unlearned, 

 and incompetent practitioners," the College for a 

 long time possessed but very meagre accommoda- 

 tion. A gift by our Founder and first President, 

 Linacre, of the front portion of his private house, 

 " comprising a parlour below and a chamber above, 

 to be used as a council room and library," consti- 

 tuted for many years the only local habitation 

 belonging to the College — a modest beginning 



