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Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est filmA d partir de I'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche d droite, et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'Images nAcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 5 6 .^!! ' ' " ' The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE COLLECTION of CANADI ANA ilueerCs University at Kingston I ; .-tl W ** ;^^. .-/ ^A? //f !U.t^tt^^~^ ADDRESS OF The Honorable C. D. DAY, LL.D., pHANCELLOI^ OP yVlcpiLL pi^IYEFSITY, Delivered at the Entertainment given to Benefactors, December 20th, 1870. *?^^^* It is some thirteen years since I had the satisfaction of address- ing the friends of the University on an occasion precisely similar to this, so that history w;^eats itself in little things as in great. Then, as now, an effort was in progress for obtaining the means of increased usefulness by an appeal on behalf of the great cause of education. Then, as now, considerable success had been attained in the work, and a social gathering like the present one was deemed to be a grace- ful and pleasant mode of acknowledging, thankfully, what had been done, and of promoting prolonged and zealous exertion for what was still required. It is unnecessary to detail the result of the effort then made. We all know how satisfactory it was, and l^ow well it witness- ed to the intelligence and liberality of our goodly city. I have not the inhuman design of inflicting upon people who have been invited to pass the evening here in social enjoyment, a long and solemn address ; but I wish to lay before you in familiar words a statement which shall bo plain and brief. Whatever I may say beyond this statement, will be, in substance, pretty much what I said before ; possibly, after the man- ner of history, repeating myself. At all events, I now repeat to you, ladies and gentlemen, in the name of the University, a welcome and thanks for your presence here, not less cordial than were given to that audience of thirteen years ago. Early in the present year, the Board of (governors having long felt the inadequacy of the pecuniary means of the University for keeping pace with the growing wants of the higher education in the Province, determined upon a public appeal for aid. They accordingly issued a circular, setting forth briefly the urgent reasons for such appeal. In response to this invitation, a meeting was held in the Collcgo ^^/^ Library on the 10th February hist, by a fow publicspintea gentle- men Kesolutions were adopted in the Ibllowin, tern.H -- Moved by Rev. Dr. Jenkins, seconded by George Frothiugham, ^'m " That the grov^-th of this eonntry in politieal importance and JlLarS^itsWntpoH^^^^ the means we have hitherto possessed lor giving to our youth a libcr al scholastic training." „ rr i v Moved by Rev. George Dougla., seconded by T. M. Taylor, Esq. to^ <.That with a view to meet the educational wants above referred Moved by Rev. John Cordner, seconded by Charles Alexander, ^7^N " That an appeal be made to those interested in the cause of Colle-e, and that a Committee be appomted to take me.isme. promoting such appeal and for obtaining subsenptions. Moved by Rev. Dr. Wilkes, seconded by J. Dougall, Esq. them to take." A Committee was appointed, and afterwards y^^-^^'^^'^^^l " °«l?o1o ctlusive of rS i for the o»tabli.hmc„t n.d .up. \ most "cncrous of the friends of the University, have given $0 000. Here we find the honoured name of Mr. Wui. Molson that ot our worthy city representative, Mr. Thos. Workman, and of f .^a , McDonald, a staunch and liberal friend, who, to the $5,000 has added the ample sum of $1,250 yearly, for the maintenance of ten scholarships. I mention last the name of the late Mr. John Frothmg- ham— a name which must ever be gratefully remembered by us lie was one of the foremost among the list of subscribers to the first endowment fund. His present subscription was among his latest acts. Since then, after an old age prolonged beyond the I'nnt of years usually iiccorded to man, singularly tranquil and cheertul, his virtu- ous life closed in peace and hopefulness. He was truly a just and honest mau, and those who knew him best, among whom 1 count my- self, can bear testimony to the benevolence and worth ot character which made his death a calamity to the community in which he had lived so long. You will see upon the paper other large sums trom $2 000 an it be expected that a University so situated should, in any considerable degree be able to sustain itself, and carry on its work upon the feesot tuition a one? I have said that the first and hardest lesson to teach a people is that the higher education has any real or appreciable value and none but those who have been engaged in the task can ,^"ow ^joj. '^^^^f^i' is. I believe this University has done a great deal m that direction, but it has a great deal more to do, and until the mstruction of our people is brought up to a far higher standard, universities will not be numerously attended, and certainly will not be papnf enterpnzes m u pecuniary point of view. But in connectjjn with this objection t is assumed that the work which the Univerfity docs is not worth the money which it costs, the number of students being so coiiipara^^^^^^^^^^ .mali: It is unfortunately true that the number ot students is very much less than could be desired, and this evil springs from the precise cause which has just been adverted to the want ol a just ap- preciation of scholastic training. But whether few or many, the moans ofgivinfr a liberal education must exist within the University. It is very nearly as costly to educate fifty as five hundred, for the appliances for a complete education must bo the same, whether for the larger or the smaller number, just as a ship must be sea-worthy and complete in all its costly appointments, whether it, happens to carry fifty passengers or its complement of a thousand. You cannot measure the outlay by the first numbers who may take advantage ot it. Tn its session of 1854, our University had, in addition to its medical class of thirty-six, just half-a-dozen students, but it was ne- cessary to begin with the number which then offered, or to close its doors. It could never have expected its two hundred and fitty now, or its five hundred, or one thousand hereafter, unless it began with its half-dozen then. A commencement must at some time be made in every enterprize, and when the enterpnze has for its object the improvement and elevation of a people, the sooner the beginning is made the better, for the agencies of intellectual and moral progress do not act quickly, their results are gradual and painfully slow. It is then our ob- vious and imperative duty in the present generation to lay, as a necessity of national life, a foundation of national education ; although the superstructure may not be completed in our time ; to plant the tree, although it may only be expected fully to mature and fructify, for our children or our children's children ;— this is an elementary and inexorable condition for a nation's growth. If the men of the present day live only for the present day, resting upon the niggardly and miserable thought that we owe nothing to posterity— we are a people doomed, indeed, to hopeless and everlasting dwartishness. But let us meet directly the assumption that the expenditure ot money exceeds the beneficial returns from it. I deny that the num- bers educated furnish alone a criterion of the true value of the work performed. But if they do, the aggregate of those numbers shows a result which itself neutralizes the objection. Since the first subscrip- tion to the Endowment Fund, the University has sent out not less than seven hundred graduates, exclusive of a great number, amounting to thousands, from its affiliated schools. This is no small contribution to the educated intelligence of the country, but I am not disposed to rest upon this fact. The subject justifies the occupation of higher ground. I repeat that numbers alone furnish no just criterion ot the true value of the work performed. The training of a hundred or of ten young men of capacity, instructed and prepared to go out, and do the work which belongs to the higher order of intelligence, is worth more than all the money which the University has expended, or is ever likely to require. A few such minds, perhaps a single one, ot capacious mould and thorough discipline, may shape and govern the destinies of his country, and contribute more to its prosperity and renown than the cost of training a hundred times repeated. A \ 6 nation i.iu.i what its n.on an^ ----'''t "ow'th'^^'S" of in,livi;iual intollij;c.H.; ..a ['-'•-*;^^.,^1 ^ ' ^ ^^ Tl.o position of the nation will bo bw, iur th oy '^•^; ;;'\ ' , '' • i,„,i Lu-ch of a sound civ.li.a.ion "-« ,,^^^ ^^l^^, J^^i ^ " lit upon its two -i>P-;-'^^;^:t, ^^ 0^^^^^ •" and l»;;'P"'f.'. ^P;" ZnnZtns Z Wan^housc and .ho. Hunk- Agriculture, in the ^'^""*'f " J' " , j^,^ ^t,,er look to Universities in.'othce ts material profit, it inu(,t on nic ou.c. .„d ««a™t,, to Science, Utcrafure -^ ^■^^'^'^g, / :^ I. slimtca its essential an,! noble, e onient, and holds Bocleiy \ / thegrcssness which leads to barbarism. 'rOSSneBS wnivj" '^"-" -" 1 .i„ If it be said that our youn- .uon ean be trained nore e lea l.ly and L'te^r.SnyersitieJ abroad :I^^-^^^^ no. The denationalizing effects ot a y^-^r^" >-" . ' j^^^.y to S-up" W iiS" a™ t™:' S s. 'li'tfen. e,^ ?br'ae"^d love of eo.ntry, are --'»■"„,- „"fh",f I "produced I all nations kmv, and act upon ''•"K'-'"^ n"roes-illuatrious ber long line of sons-Sages and 1 oet. and "o™ ,^^^ in all tlie arts of peace and war, by »'-"""=" . , ( shores to seek an education in .» '«"«" ';"^; „,^'^'wnd con.ro. counUT eommitted so fata a mistake, ^.nd it . e ..r bey ^^^__ r^,*n";hTw 11 ui kc tl'nsefvcsIndSada'Jclt asu power, and Canadians— who will niakcincmsuv i„,pr,.»- cou'ntr,. Whoever X'^.^ndefs'' fvi ewliicS no olbcrt^of whatever qualified to deal with it as a master should. , And I now ask your patience for^ if^^^^^^^.Z^, about the ladies. I have >^«^,f/\y^\,^ ,iji J, \hc means of which points to the necessity ^IJl'^'""'^-^,,,,, in which furnishing a higher edueatio^^^^^^^ l" hall' not d" cuss this sub- we are woefully behind the «S„^- .,/'"; „°^^^„ts I couW irsterg'^S:J:Lrru^,rXl^'ii^^^^^^ \ 1 cbost standard stiuidiii'd and ii.tion. Tlio ;uid siistaitu'd -and not halt 1,1 it finds in and the IJaiik ; to Universities hat which con- ciety hack from d novo cheaply ! emphatically, atiun, breedinij; ts tendency to und to enfeeble o-anientH. This not produced rocs— illustrious them I'roni her r has any great • beyond contro- to have men — It as a power, and <>; all the inipres- dicir native air sympathies must nd habits of their cured in no other stitutions of that i great means of ther, of whatever iiitted all mention has lately been , of all u)<^i- i^ upon Its ii.iluenccs. ^^''"y\, , position and happmess fur more than that ot men. i m ,. , j loader of European anmes differs incon.parably Ic.s rom the po shc^ .a.U.r ^ .^.^^^ or the nccon.plished «^''''^*«r:/^;'"/''' ,^'^''^ j;;^;^^^^^ cultured, slave whom the savage calls Ins witi^ 4' ^^ j i;^ Tt is cduca- ^fi'ed. respected and belov.l woman ;^ J-d.ed 1 i^^U - .luc^^. tion which has made ♦^*■/l'ff^^7f,^^ .^^n alp^^^^^ Wsm!uloil^.arro»ltV,^Bympatlo^™a™cco>;cd instrument of atter of Educatiou ^un.t .,f Uu. WTort tor a new I.,,ul..wnn...t u, 1 .ru. r • Peter lledi.ath, Ks,|., for thi Endowuicnt of ♦'"' *'l"^"' "' .,„ nnn NatnvMl I'hiloxophy, - - ^^O.OOO WilUaiii Molson. V.m\., - - - W. C. McPonalil, Esq. - - Mr. McDonaUl ^ivos al?o ifit-.')0 yrarly for tlm inaintenauci) of tonScholarshiva and Exhi- bitions of the annual value (it' .$12;') each. Thomas Workman, Esq. - - .Tohn Frothin.i^ham, Esq. - - .J. 11. K. Molson, Esq. - - - Charles Alexander, Esq., tor ' ^ndovvmcnt of a Sc^holar- xf the annual value of lion, abloF. AV. Torranf. ,Sii\V.E. Logan liri.D.,l-.H.^^ lor a, Chair of (1 oology, - 0. W. Camphcll, Esii-, M.I>-,_ Ihirt Lof^an, Esq., for a Chair oftJeology. , 15. Oibb, P'sq. - i W. Notniah, Esq. - „,,„,„ T. W. lUtehio, Esq. - " 6 0(»0 A. & W. Kobertson, Esqs. - 5:000iT.M. Taylor, Esq., $100 per ;,nnnm for a Scholarship. T. M. Thomson, Esq., *260 for ' "two Exhibitions in Soptom- ber. 1870, and $50 for Prizes ' in (lernian. 1 T. J. Claxton, Esq., £50 ster- ' ling for additions to the Mu- seum, i John Roddy, Esq., M.D. - i Messrs. Sinclair, Jack & Co., I Williiim Lunn, Esq.,^ Kenneth Campbell, Esq. William Rose, Esq. John M>;Lonnan, Esq. - - Mrs, Redpath, (for an Exhibition in Arts.) 600 t^OO ()00 GOO 5,000 5.0fltt 2,UU0 2,000 1,000 1 ,000 1,000 100 250 100 100 50 1000 16G7 .000 "' ''T"': the sum of (exciusJio of Scholarships not endowed, &C.) $53,667 Amounting to the sum oi (exol . ^^^^^ ^^^ ,. SU^l r Of i:S::t :Z^; ^^^^ Mr. T. M. Xhcson ,.00 for Exhibitions for 1871. Statement of J^inaj^cial yVFFAiRS or MCGILL UNIVERSITY, 1870. Tho value of Mr. MoGiirg original Endowniont. being the Property known aa tlio Estate of Burnsido When the Charter pivaseil this property was only in part productive, the Revenue of the University being only And this amount burdened with a debt reducible by annual InstaU ments of Leaving an available income of After tho lapse of 18 years, the present property including the En- dowment Subscription of tho Citizens in 1866 of $57,200, amounts under the head of real Estate : covering Buildings, College Grounds, Lots sold. Mortgages, tho Library, Museum and Appa- ratus used by the University, &c., to . , . . . The present Income amounts to This includes tho Government Grant, which was reduced last year to $lo40,49. Tho Expenditure amounts to ,•••••• Under the heads of Salaries, University .•:•••• do Faculty of Arts, do Faculty of Law, do Sorters' Wages Fuel, Insurances, Taxes, Printing. Stationery ond Con tingoncios, * * Repairs, Ac, of Buildings, $120,000 2,160 $2,000 13.750 800 800 3,164 974 22,088 1,040 1,120 558,017 20,875 22,088 3,000 2,020 1,440 4,440 The Prospective income from tho New Endowment up to date is -without including tho sums contributed for Scholarships, of the Annual Value of . ' , ' .', There will be an increase of income in 1872, arising from the Sale of Burnsido Hall of So that the anticipated increase of income may be put down at . TFor information as lo the objects sought to be attained by the University through the increase of its endowment, reference is made to the printed state- xuen issued by the Committee on Collections, and referred to in the above Address. To provide for these objects, it is estimated that a further annual Lome of at least *6.000 will be required, in addition to the increase above stated.] /