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president's address. 
It is contended that the memorandum shows that the testator 
attached much greater importance to the study of bacteriology 
than the Senate did, and that that consideration shows that he 
must have intended to secure a maximum number of lectures on 
that subject. 
I do not think that necessarily follows. The passage in the 
memorandum refers to all the conditions which certainly bind the 
Senate to give great prominence to the study of bacteriology in 
the degrees of medicine and science, but it does not at all follow 
that the testator meant himself to prescribe for all time the actual 
number of lectures to be delivered on the subject, especially when 
the evidence before us shows that so great a number of lectures 
as is contended for would at present be useless. 
I gather from the by-laws that the Senate, on a report from 
the different faculties, determines from time to time the number 
of lectures to be delivered on each subject during the terms. And 
from the evidence of Professor Liversidge the number of lectures 
varies considerably. That course of procedure I must presume 
the testator, as a member of the Senate, was aware of. 
It appears to me that in prescribing a six months' course of 
bacteriology, the testator did not mean to take from the Senate 
the power from time to time to prescribe the number of lectures 
to be given on the subject, but only to provide- that each student 
for the degree of medicine or science should devote two terms to 
that particular study under a competent professor or lecturer. 
I therefore declare that the words "a six months' course of 
bacteriology" mean such an amount of lectures or teaching 
throughout two terms as shall from time to time be prescribed by 
the Senate, having regard to the great importance which the 
testator attached to that study. 
I think those last words ought to be added to the declaration 
of the Court, not through any fear that the Senate would in any 
way seek to evade the conditions, but as more fully expressing the 
intention of the testator. 
The costs of all parties will be paid out of the legacy as between 
solicitor and client." 
