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never allowed the medical side to deteriorate, and to-day this is said 

 to be unsurpassed in the quality of its equipment. 



A measure of State-aid is given to many of the Canadian 

 Universities, but one of the features which again calls for notice is 

 the part which land has played in the endowments of these 

 institutions. In connection with the Acts of Incorporation of 

 Canadian Universities, it seems to have amounted almost to a 

 custom to include a grant of a large acreage of Government lands, 

 which in the course of years, in some instances, has attained to 

 a high value. Indeed, the lands of Canada have been greatly 

 exploited in the cause of education. 



In some cases the towns in which the colleges are situated have 

 accounted it a duty to make a contribution from local funds for the 

 honour and advantage of having the University situated in their 

 midst. 



There is also one feature wdiich appears in connection with some 

 of the Canadian Universities which is noteworthy, and that is the 

 large amount of money which has been raised, not in the large 

 contributions of the very wealthy, but by the gifts of the people 

 in sums varying greatly in amount. In a few instances denomi- 

 national rivalry and honour have contributed not a little towards 

 this end. But from whatever source the money required has come, 

 Canada has abundant reason for being congratulated upon its 

 magnificent University institutions, for in not a few cities the 

 University, while helping to raise the life of the people, has 

 contributed not a little to the beautifying of the city through its 

 architecture. The younger States are also hastening to follow in 

 the course of the older provinces of the Dominion, in some cases 

 benefiting largely by the experience of those who have wrought and 

 thought before. 



It now remains to gather from this review what may be learned 

 by way of local application, and there is not a little — although the 

 work of studying the legal and economic bases of these Colonial 

 Teaching Universities has been imperfectly accomplished. 



What is hereafter given forth by w^ay of suggestion is not intended 

 in the least degree to disparage what has already been accomplished 

 in the direction of higher education in South Africa. There was a 

 time when criticism, and severe criticism, was necessary, but no one 

 can have listened to the recent addresses of the Vice-Chancellors of 

 the Cape of Good Hope University without being struck with the 

 immense strides which have been made in the direction of the 

 higher culture in recent years. It was not always thus. In 1857 

 there was a Select Committee appointed by the House of Assembly 



