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, '.4'12;.:"':' ¥ e ©41l, , Ac JJ. $ J _ 4 mt T p nz3 W the support they were getting. It m mw _ lwas not purely a denominational insti-- C tution, but out of the fourteen mem-- 11 Ummfl"ben on. the board four were 9 7 L &1 usually Presbyterians. This was not a matter of arrangement, but a result of mpmmmufmganiin the general support Queen's has re-- ceived. 2+, 4. . : $ Government Will Concentrate Far from injuring the University of . Toronto, Queen's had been a great ad-- Their Efforts. vantage to it A newspaper owned and edited by a distinguished graduate ; weexutscampmis of Toronto frequently declared that | Queen's was a draft upon the Province. | TORONTO HAS FIRST CLAIM By way of comparison Mr. Pense said ' that the Mining School and the dairy calk ie ioh ricndtre is 4e building at Queen's were assisted by ' the Province to fthe ;:xtcct of $28,000 + against $416.529 for the University of . And Wiil Be Granted School of 'I'goronto. They did not complain be-- Mines. cause Toronto was being well treated, ' but they thought it scarcely right that | beas Kingston should be branded as a drait upon the Province. %uecn's was not | : zoing to lose her influence through | Pulp Agreement Ratified at a Late tshc gicath of her late Principal ; this | Session of the Legislature--Ad-- successor was a man of beautiful char-- ; j ; _ acter and impulse. .He simply asked { journment To--night Ufml Tues for that justice which he believed cast-- day--Increased Indemnity. in On:ariq_dcscrved from this Legis-- 4 lature.© If increases in grants were l neasetcnhecinihcreaye cnige ge in order in Toronto they were in order t in Kingston. _ He hoped the heads of| _ The Government's undivided devo. |the University of Toronto instead of | A *EX . sycat belittling the work of Queen's would tion to the bm.vcr'alty of Toronto as |go alj they could to promote the Cdu'l \the great Provincial seat of learning |cation of the Province, and in the long .\ was made clear in the Leg-- |run not one of the many dollars that 'lislature yesterday in a discussion on a | had been voted would be misapplied. | ;lmotion by Mr. Pense for correspond-- | Ontario's Ambition. ' | ence touching the public control of the Mr. Ross said the House was indebt-- " School of Mines at Kingston. The |¢d to Mr. Pense for his clear exposi-- : member for Kingston, in a speech of | U4O" _Of Lhe' 905:?"0" ofi Queen's. bJ""'cf > d soncischess d in« |Yt2ts 2g0 an effort had been made x'u'|1 |strength and conciseness, urge consolidate the universities of the Pro--| _|elaims of Queen's for Provincial aid. |vince, and at that time he shared the| 1|The Premier, in an exhaustive reply, '3!11biti0l;1 t]l:jat th('e hL'un-erslity.of 'lo-' 5 n : g » ronto should stand the equal of any on c re?;cwhcd (Ehc. n Ne (?t Qufm s pd lthe continent. The late Principal Gram.' ; |said the Government were disposed to |the late Dr. Nelles and the authorit-- | | . |assist the School of Mines for its useful-- |ies of McMaster sympathized with the | --!ness to castern Ontario. At the same |movement -- for a time, but Mc-- ® time he urged the claims of the Uni. | Master _became a -- separate Bap-- " ivefsity 'of Toronto. said th t 'b tist -- university and Queen's start-- 4 2o h o. Said fhere must'be.iled out . for, herseli. -- At-- .the . no duplication of Provincial aid to uni-- | same time, however, Victoria federated| versities, and declared that the aid to ; and the Provincial University \'{i:!' ' be given to Toronto must only be limit-- ' greafly strf:nzthencd. . Under tho>c C!r-' ed by 'its necessities and by the Pro-- C iee the frovihice wat able 19 o s en o ol 3 do more for it than could otherwise vinces power to give.. Mr. Whitney | have been done. And now everyone joined in. the expressions of c0--0p-- | looked with pride upon that institution.| R';it";g ""(')h T""O(;""_ L(]]ml""_s'tg- while | The alumni took leading positiom!' ;io. 3f"° '"h"" orsed these declara-- throughout the continent. _ Notwith--| ["; °] attachment. standing what had been done for them,| ther cr:('r"cs:; 1(1)13de * 3010?) deal _Of f""(i there were constant appeals for more] s progress on general business, and | aid. Under legislation of two years ago sat very late. the Government had taken over twn! The Chancellor's Sons. large gepartmer;ts. involving an annual' x o+ s M expenditure of $40,000. Twenty years mi(('iotlx'la(t"g;(:l':c";é';']';"';fds.m'}o}?lafid'aé' ago the staff of the university was si.':',! David G. »Bosd _ 4 ra(;ll.xatc n)f Ot); + | teen; now it 1s nearly seventy. Theyi' i Sciiool 0~f Sciycn.cc "'g" th (l !¢ | were always in need of additional : as--| | ivecfly in th dbf £. on'y Oc' | sistance.. _ Other large universities) _ y in the service of the Province. | were also looking for large assistance. He was eimnployed as an inspector in sls s the Bureau of Mines, and received $1,-- | Th¢ Limit of Assistance. ©00 a year. Two other sons, Law-- '"What is the limit of our assist--| rence Boyd and Philip Boyd, were ein-- | ance ?" asked Mr. Ross. "I answer.! ployed in the office of the Supreme | there is no limit. The limit must be Court of Judicature, holding positions | our resources, must be the means at largely within control of the High | our disposal, coupled with the wants Court Judges. _ The former received | of the people, pari passu with the $2,000° and the latter $700 a year. growth of the country; in other re-- Mr. Donald Sutherland was grant-- | spects the university must hold its ed an order for a return of corres-- | own." pondence respecting the establishment Mr. Ross agreed that there must be| of a reformatory in the county of Ox-- | a good feeling between the different, ford. universities. There was no room in! Kingstor Mining School. this educational work for jealousy. Alt! C f would be a great pity if the University] Mr. E. J. B. Pense moved for a re-- | of Toronto, with its large staff andi urn of correspondence between the|| equipment, should look with jealousy' rovernment and the Board of Gover-- | at any other university which was do--' 10rs of the School of Mining at King--|| ing a good work in its own field., ton, regarding public control of the|| Queen's had secured a hold on the peo--| school. Hg said it was to the inter--|| ple which was somewhat unique in the :?tsof that ms'It_itution that the School || short time covered by its history. | t science at Toronto should prosper, M + ind that the two should be inppcr;f)cct One Great University. ! narmony. _ Queen's University had Fear that the Province would endow never made an application that the || Queen's was unfounded. Their whole! school of Mining be taken over as a | history was that effort had been direct--| Government _ institution. Principal | ed to make one university great. He Gordon had been consulted on the| hoped that Queen's and McMaster matter before he left for Vancouver.| would succeed ; he hoped that Trinity He believed Queen's preferred that it| would succeed, too, even if it did not should remain an independent school| federate, which he hoped it would.