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speaking of the endowment movement, that he had been wounded 

 in the back in the house of his friends, a charge he had not expected 

 from such a quarter. By maintenance he had simply referred to 

 the maintenance of the Arts department. Some tliought that the 

 Assembly might here and now commit itself to the principle of main- 

 tenance of Arts. Even this, however, seemed to be a responsibility 

 that the church was not prepared to undertake. He cited the cases 

 of Princeton and Dalhousie as those of universities that had con- 

 tinued to maintain a living connection with the churches to which 

 they owed their origin, without any legal bond. Hence he could not 

 agree with Professor Dyde that the constitutional is the vital bond. 



The brief reply was closed with an effective rejoinder to one of 

 Dr. Dyde's points. The Principal in his opening speech referred to 

 the relation between Canada and the motherland, and showed that 

 real loyalty had increased in proportion as the strict legal ties were 

 released. To this Professor Dyde replied that the Principal ought 

 to have taken his illustration from the case of the United States ; the 

 present demand for separation had its analogy there rather than in 

 the Canadian relations to the empire. The Principal was in the for- 

 tunate position of having the right of reply, and he turned the argu- 

 ment very deftly by declaring that if in the time of strain between 

 Britain and her American colonies British statesmen in charge of 

 affairs had shown more wise conciliation, we might to-day have had 

 closer union between the United States and Britain exerting its in- 

 fluence towards peace and the higher life of humanity. 



Under the influence of this happy illustration we went to the 

 vote, and the amendment was defeated by 143 votes to 65, and im- 

 mediately thereafter the original resolution was carried ncm con by 

 179 votes. Thus the matter is remitted to a commission which con- 

 sists of the following members : 



The Very Rev. Dr. Lyle, Moderator, Hamilton; Rev. Dr. 

 John MacMillan, Halifax ; Rev. Dr. T. C. Jack, North Sydney ; Rev. 

 Dr. Barclay, Montreal ; Rev. A. T. Love, Quebec ; Rev. Dr. Ephraim 

 Scott, Montreal; Rev. Dr. Ramsay, Ottawa; Rev. J. H. Turnbull, 

 Ottawa; Rev. C. H. Daly, Almonte; Rev. J. D. Boyd, Kingston; 

 Rev. James Binnie, Tweed ; Rev. D. W. Best, Beaverton ; Rev. 

 James Wallace, Lindsay ; Rev. Dr. D. McTavish, Toronto ; Rev. D. 

 Strachan, Toronto; Rev. Dr. McLeod, Barrie; Rev. J. J. Wright, 

 Elk Lake; Rev. Dr. W. Farquharson, Durham; Rev. Dr. James 

 Ross, London; Rev. J. Edmison, Kincardine; Rev. Dr. Charles W. 

 Gordon, Winnipeg; Rev. Dr. J. A. Carmichael, Winnipeg; Rev. 



