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Pm P ' i@ . C s ? w . _ of _ these reprexntntives being _ elected \ He detied any man,under the most rigidly uni~ every year, ther® should be an election form system of education, to produce uniform-- every three years, at which all the ity in the minds of students. 'Then the objec-- whole body should be re--clected. It was also tion was made that the scheme would destroy -- provided that each federated university should outlying universities. He would be very sorry -- have separate representat.on for six years. It lndeed if any word or act of his snould b@; was proposed also to abolish scholarships so construed as a menace to the outlying univer-- _ far as Provincial funds were concerned ; also ; Sities. Queen's had rendered the country = to deny to any theological school affiliated with | fi'oqd.servwe in the F&St, Victoria, Ottawa, and | the University the right of itself granting | lrinity had done the same ; and they were | theological degrees. If this bill passed it ]glful to recognise the contributions these in-- | would involve the stntutnong had made to the literary wealth of 1NCREASE OF THE UNIVERSITY EXDOWMEXNT the Provm.ce of Ontario. _ But there were | to such an extent as would allow of the profes-- other considerations which pressed themselves | soriate being doubled, or nearly so, and made forward, and which must be taken up, inde | genersliy a more efficient complement to the pendent of t-hesc outlying universities. If it magniticent _ High school system of the were found in the future that the students | Province. The passing of the bill would came -- to Toronto _ to _ receive _ their ) mean the education of the young men upon education, it must be because the | broader, more liberal lines than heretofore. It education given there _ would be _ Bu-- | would advance the cause of education all along EGNOI_', and y that superiority would be a | the line, for every dollar spent on the Univer-- enefit to the country,. _ The duty of the Gov-- sity would be a stimulus to the High schools. ernment was to see that the facilities for the | The nations that led in education all through highest possible education were afforded. They | the history of the world, said the speaker, con-- l must be governed by the desire of the greatest | cluding with an eloquent peroration, were the good _ for the _ greatest number. _ He | nations that led in learning. _ Egypt, Greece, quoted as follows from the inaugural address | Rome, all owed their supremacy largely Orf #@-- delivered tirely to the fact that they excelled oghe@r BY_ PRINCIPAL GRANT, * nations of their day in learning. _ England haea at Queen's, in 1877 :--** As far as Provincial -- discovered this, and was making tremendom® action was concerned, it was surely well, it 7 seems to me that Ontario should devote the _ Offorts to advance her system of education, ' whole endowment accruing from the lands set :l'"!."_')'*"" "'"'l, the other ""l".')' f= } apart for university education to one good col-- {'i}{ ; ;'L}}' f;: é"f"f:lf'l_li";:f'l"illg','r"(";? io P ovoh | lege, rather than fritter it away on several in-- Fifty years of ever ".l"'lLfm{;gb;'fi,';;i'l;;,. | stitutions." If others are in existence from _ And if they would have fifty years | local, denominational or other necessities, let more of "bromdening commerce," "ripcning l the necessity be proved by the sacrifice their _ seience," and " widening empire," they could | friends are willing to make for them, and the _ not do better than in advancing the cause of | real extent of the necessity by the survival of _ education by passing this bill. (Applause.) _ | | the fittest, The existence of one amply en-- Mr. T. D. CRAIG said he was a graduate of | ' dowed from Provincial resources, will always _ Toronto University, and claimed that the ! i be a guarantee that Provincial educational in members on his (the Conservative) side of the I terests shall not be sacrificed to the clamors of t liouse woere ijust as anxious to advanes the | ' an endless number of sects and localitigs, and * enuse of education as were those on the Gov-- ' i a guarantee also of the efticiency of the vari-- y ernment side of the House, Everybody would | | ous colleges, the Provincial one included. admit that it was a privilege and an advantage | In this speech Principal Grant had given ex-- to have a university education, though he : cellent reasons for the policy of federation,. _' thoroughly recognised the fact that there woere | The scheme agreed on at the conference was _ many men in various walks of life who wmade accepted by Torouto University, Knox Cole _ brilliant marks without having had this pri-- lege, 8t. Michael's College, W yeliffe Hall and _ vilege and advantage. _ Now, as to federation, the Baptist College, and with some modifica-- _ --he ' tions by Victoria, It was rejected by Trinity FAYORED THE PRINCIPLE, j and Queen's. but not having gone thoroughly into the THE BILL NOW SUBMITTED details of this bill, he would not express his embodied the agreement arrived at by the con« approval of them as a whole. _ 'The great ad-- ference. -- It first provided for a general federa-- vautage of federation would be the cconomy tion, of which Trinity, Queen's, or any other _ of the system. It would give them one good university could on certain conditions hbecome University and surely one good University was a member. It established a teaching faculty betier tharn half a dozen poor ones. They |, in the university. 1t divided the course into _ would all admit that. He believed that it was two sections : one in the university, the other _ good for the young men of the country of in the college, and these were to be comple-- various denominations to be brought together, | mentary one to the other, Education in the _ He was quite sure that his traiming in the | university section would be free, but fees _ University had made him more tiberal--minded, | would be charged in the college, for they _ as a Baptist, than he would have been if he | felt that they could not afford to dispense with _ had graduated in an exclusively Baptist Uani-- | fees altogether. Then they proposed to re-- versity. Some people said the> 'Toronto I establish the teaching facuities University had been called a " godless" IN LAW AND MNEDICINE, University, but he knew from -- ex. ' which were abolished in 1855. They ace--« perience that a young man could hbe knowledged the good work done by the schools just as religious as he pleased _ and l of medicine, but felt that it would be well to as he could be anywhere else. He did not | give students the standing which belonged to a _ pay much heed to the argament that the merit | Provincial university, _ As regarded law it -- of the University would be impaired by the | had been observed with'regret that there was withdrawal of the existing rivalty between | no instruction in legal studies save that which the present institutions, but he believed that | was afforded by the Law Society. Then some oNXE GRaANXD FEDERATED UNIVERSITY [ changes would be made in the constitution of for the whole Province, wherein the young the Senate, and it would be placed on a more -- men of the country of whatever denomination democratic basis, a greater share of represen-- _ or descent might meet together and receivo a tation being given to the graduates than -- liberal 'education, would do more than any-- before. Then, instead of a certain proportion -- thing else he knew of to develop a true spirit