92 QUEEN'S QUARTERLY. 



Mr. J. K. ]\Ieicdonald, of Toronto, said that he thought there 

 were difficulties facing the university and the Assembly should co- 

 operate in seeking to remove them. He would be glad if the uni- 

 versity could be retained, but the interests of the university should 

 receive the first consideration. 



Mr. G. M. Macdonnell, K.C., to quote the Globe report, re- 

 garded the proposed changes as the first step towards the separation 

 of Queen's University from the church. He denied that the senate 

 and trustees were a unit in favor of the changes, and maintained 

 that the attitude of the Church towards the university was clearly 

 defined in 1903. " They call this evolution," he exclaimed, " this 

 proposal to cut ofl: the university from the source of her past 

 strength. What is nationalization ?" asked Mr. Macdonnell. " Will 

 anybody tell us ? " 



A commissioner — Making a u^nited Canada. 

 " We are to make a united Canada," replied Mr. Macdonnell, " by 

 cutting us off from the things we have loved for the past sixty 

 years." The charter had been described as a dead parchment, but 

 the charter declared that the university was founded " for instruc- 

 tion in the Christian religion and in arts." (Loud applause.) 

 " Evolution," said Mr. Macdonnell, with a sweep of his hand — " you 

 cannot say, ' Come now, brethren, let us evolute.' " (Loud laugh- 

 ter.) He did not think the Assembly ought to unload the responsi- 

 bility of determining the destiny of Queen's University upon any 

 commission. But if they were to appoint a commission, that com- 

 mission should have instructions, and they ought to reaffirm the posi- 

 tion of the church, made clear at Vancouver, that Queen's Univer- 

 sity must stay with the church. 



He would not object to the Principalship being opened up nor 

 would he insist upon an overwhelming majority of Presbyterians on 

 the Board of Trustees, but he would not be content to have a cor- 

 poration composed of graduates. and benefactors. If the university 

 were nationalized the benefactors would disappear, and as for the 

 graduates, their power would be limited, and the control of the uni- 

 versity would be left in the hands of a Board of Trustees. Some 

 Toronto graduates had written to him, " Hold arts and theology." 

 The church must hold what it had held for sixty-eight years. They 

 could build up other faculties and group them as they pleased, but 

 let them stand by arts and theology. He proposed the following 

 amendment : 



" The Assembly, while reaffirming the resolutions of 1904 and 



