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Southern professional brethren. It is sufficient for our 
present purpose to know that it has seceded ; and is actually, 
at this present moment, warring against the corporate body. 
But, ought this to be ? Cannot terms fair and honorable to 
both be made between the parties? Is all reconciliation 
and re-alliance insuperable and hopeless? Perhaps, rather 
like a difference between individuals, that between the schools, 
or rather between one of the schools and the college, may 
only be waiting for proposals from one party to be accepted 
by the other. We would not have the principal party— the 
chartered body — truckle to the school ; but we would have 
that party not forget, that, as yet in their infant age, many 
desiderata are wanting to complete their growth, and that, as 
shown by their own motto, combination is power : a good reason 
why it behoves them to gather together all parties, though 
it be at some sacrifice to their own body. The council had 
a brilliant opportunity in taking a step this way in the recent 
election of a President. Why did they not, after one head Pro- 
fessor had served the office, make choice of the other head Pro- 
fessor, and on certain conditions elect him ? One stands as high in 
the Scotch school as the other does in the English school. Not 
that we have ought to say against the elevation of Mr. Good- 
win to the chair ; no more than we should have against that 
of Mr. Field or Mr. Turner, had any one of those most res- 
pectable gentlemen, all good friends of ours, been placed 
therein, as the last-named indeed has been. We reason on 
principle alone, and by such reasoning we are guided, ex- 
cluding all private and personal considerations whatsoever. 
Were a reconciliation of this kind brought about, all oppo- 
sition would of course end with the Scotch, as it has already 
done with the English, school ; and with that school’s oppo- 
sition, all that of its adherents and hangers-on, who, once that 
the ground was cut away from under their feet, would have 
no locus standi , and therefore could no longer have any power 
to show their teeth to the detriment of the College. Hence 
would result the arrangement of a great point, “ as harmo- 
niously as a marriage bell and thence would result a much 
larger attendance at the General Meeting. 
