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CORPOEATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 VISITOR.— His Excellency VisconNT Loud Monck, Governor General of British 
 North America, &c. 
 
 GOVERNORS.— The Hon. Citarles Dewey Day, LL.D., President. 
 The Hon. Jaues Fbrbisb, M. L. C. 
 Thomas Bhown Andrrson, Esq. 
 David Davidson, Esq. 
 Benjamin Holmes, Ksq. 
 Andrbw Robertson, M. A. 
 Chbistopher Dlnkin, M a., M. P. P. 
 William Molson, Esq. 
 Alexander Morris, JI. A., M. P. P. 
 
 PRINCIPAL,— John William Dawson, LL. D., F. G. S. 
 
 FELLOWS.— Rev. Canon Leach, LL. D., Vice-Principal and Dean of the 
 Faculty of Arts. 
 Henry Ahpinwall Howe, M. A., Rector of the High School. 
 J. J. C. Abbott, B. 0. L., Dean of the Faculty of Law. 
 George W. Campbell, M.A., M.D., Dean of the Faculty of 
 
 Medicine. 
 Buown Chambeelin, M.A., B. G. L. 
 Walter Jones, M. D. 
 W. B. LAUB'i, B. C. L. 
 
 Sir William E. ".ogan, Kt. LL. D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
 Rev. Daniel Falloon, D. D., Piincipal of St. Franci.s College. 
 
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 In an educational point of view, tho growth of this University un- 
 der its new charter, has surpassed the most saniruinc expectations of 
 its friends. It is in tlie present session instrumental in the educa- 
 tion of 889 persons, of whom 256 are Students in Law, Medicine 
 and Arts ; 62 are Teachers in training, 271 are pupils in the Hit^h 
 School, and the remainder are pupils in the Model Schools. It has 
 in the Faculty of Law, 5 Professors ; in the Faculty of Medicine 9 
 Professors; in the Faculty of A.-ts, 10 Professors; in the High 
 School Department 7 regular masters and 6 occasional masters. 
 There arc also two Professors, two teachers and four assistants, in the 
 McGill Normal and Model Sjnools. 
 
 In its buildings, tho University has long been inadequately ac- 
 commodated ; but recently by the exertions of the Board of Govern- 
 ors, and the liberality of one of them, Wm. Molson, Esq., this disad- 
 vantage has been in a great measure removed. 
 
 The University now challenges comparison with any other in 
 North America, in the efficiency of its staff and the thoroughness of 
 its courses of study, and is prepared to carry the scientific and literary 
 education of young men to a degree of perfection not heretofore at- 
 
tainable in Lower Canada, and comparable with that of the British 
 Universities. 
 
 While these results, kg creditable and useful to Canada, have been 
 attained, the Board of Governors have, from the first, had to complain 
 that the important objects committed to their care, have not receiv- 
 ed an adequate amount of Provincial pecuniary support, and that 
 their labours have, in consequence, been prosecuted under many 
 disadvantages. 
 
 The total expenditure of the University for the past year, includ- 
 ing S320 of interest on its debts, and repairs, &c. of buildings, 81930, 
 (but exclusive of the Norma! School and of Fees paid to Professors 
 in Medicine and Law.) may be stated at $30,560 : and that aa 
 institution of this character, with 33 instructing officers, should bo 
 supported on such a sum, must be regarded as an instance of economy 
 scarcely equalled in any other similar case. 
 
 Of the above sum, $10,106 are paid by the revenue of the original 
 endowment of Mr. McGill, and the interest of the Endowment 
 Fund contributed by the citizens of Montreal, and $8,597 by the 
 fees in the High School and the Faculty of Arts. Toward the pay- 
 ment of the balance the legislature contributes as follows : — 
 
 (1.) A sum of $1000 per annum to the Medical Faculty, being the 
 same amount paid to each of the other Medical Schools, none of which 
 equals that of McGill in the number of Professors and Students. 
 
 (2.) The sum of $1,128 to the High School Department, on condi- 
 tion that it shall educate, free of expense, 30 pupils appointed by the 
 Government, and whose education at the annual rate of fees would 
 cost $1200; the High School being distinguished from every other 
 superior School in Lower Canada by receiving no free grant. The 
 injustice of this is referred to in the Report of the High School Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 3.) The sum of $2,862, 28cts. to the College, in aid of the Uni- 
 ve rsity generally, and of the Faculties of Arts and Law. The sum 
 thus granted has been progressively diminished from 1854 up to the 
 present time, as stated in the following table, though in the mean time 
 the number of students at the University and its annual expenditure 
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 ficiency remains of over $6,000, not provided for by tbe income. 
 This deficit proceeds not merely from the diminution of the 
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 University; which the Board is very unwilling to arrest in its 
 present stage, more especially as it is hoped that in a few 
 years the annual increase of the revenue from the estate will 
 
cover thJH deticienoy, could iidequate uid be obtaine i in the meaa 
 time. 
 
 [t is farther to be observed, by way of contrast, tiiat while the 
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 that of Upper Canada has a princely provincial endownicnt, and the 
 Universities of Queen's College and Victoria College in Upper Canada 
 have had their grants raised to $5,000 each, beside the usual aid to 
 their medical schools. 
 
 The Board would iartlier state that an inspection of the accounts 
 will show that the utmost economy has pervaded its expenditure, 
 and that its otVorts have been steadily directed to the pro- 
 vision of means ol education not otherwise accessible in this country, 
 and of a higher character than those afforded by the ordinary Aca- 
 demies and Colleges ; thus fulfilling the wise and benevolent inten- 
 tions of the founder, and giving to o ir young men the opportunity 
 of rai'jing their mental culture to .he level of that iu older countries. 
 It has further been an object of solicitude with the Board of Gover- 
 nors to promote practical scientific training bearing on the more im- 
 portant professions, and they would gladly do more in this direction 
 did their resources permit. 
 
 The following statements contained in a former memorial of the 
 Board, may be here repeated, as enforcing its claims to public aid. 
 
 First : — The late Mr. iMcUill undoubtedly made his bequest un- 
 der the expectation juid implied promise that a further and suffi- 
 cient endowment would be made by the Provincial Government. 
 This is apparent, from the circumstances under which the bequest 
 was made. The Governor General in 1801 laid bi.foro the Provincial 
 Parliament a message in thu following terms : 
 
 " That His Majesty had been graciously pleivsed to give direc- 
 tions for the establishment of a competent number of Free Schools, 
 for the instruction of children in the first rudiments of useful learn- 
 ing, and in the English tongue, and for foundations of a more 
 enlarged and comprehensive nature, and that His Majesty had been 
 further pleased to signify His Royal intention that a suitable propor- 
 tion of the lands of the Crown should be set apart, and the revenues 
 thereof appropriated to such purposes." As a preliminary step, the 
 
Act inoo.porating the lloyal Institution for the advancement of 
 learning was pnHhod, contiiiuing this message in itu preamble, aud 
 thereafter, it was intended that the "liberal grant of Crown Lands," 
 referred to in the meHi-aLa', should bo transferred to its control, ia 
 trust for Free ychools and " Foundations of a more enlarged and 
 comprehensive nature," — but no grant was ever made. 
 
 The lute ^fr. McGill was not only an active Member of the 
 Legislature at this time, but an Executive Councillor, and therefore, 
 must be presumed to have been thoroughly conversant with the in- 
 tentions of the Imperial and Provincial Uovernments. By his 
 last will he bequeathed a sum of money and his Kstatc of Burnside 
 to the Royal Institution for the purpose of erecting and maintaining 
 u University ; but his endowment, liberal as it was, was yet quite in- 
 adequate for the object contemplated, and it is reasonable to infer 
 that he looked beyond it to the Royal Institution, to whom he believ- 
 ed that a liberal Grant of Crown Lands was to have been entrusted 
 for a kindred purpose. 
 
 Ilis Endowment was loun anterior to the establishment of any 
 Protestant College in the I'roviuee, and still is the only one made in 
 it for that purpose. Since that time hundreds of thousands of 
 pounds have been bestowed by annual grants on Roman Catholio 
 ICducational Institutions in Lower Canada ; while, in Upper Canada, 
 several Universities have been founded, all of them participating more 
 or less in the grants of publi*^ moneys. One of them, the University 
 of Toronto, enjoys an endon li at of 220,201 acres of land conferred 
 by Royal Grant in 1828, from which a sum exceeding £293,883 has 
 been already derived, and in addition to this, it received during many 
 years for the College connected with it, a grant of £1,111 annually. 
 Upper Canada College, established in 1832, was endowed by various 
 grants between that year and the year 1835, with 63,805 acres of 
 land, which has yielded J65r),434, and has also received an annual 
 grant of £1000, which still continues. Yet no permanent provision 
 whatever has ever been made for McGill College ; and all the moneys 
 received by it " from public sources (of which the first was in 1854) 
 do not together amount to one-fourth of the annual revenues of the 
 University of Toronto, or to one-tenth of the value of Mr. McGill's 
 bequest. 
 
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 The largeneBB of tlmt bequest and the munificence with which the 
 fund has since been increased in the sum of £15.000 by subscription 
 in the City of Montreal, coupled with the character of the University, 
 justify your Memorialists in the hope that a corresponding spirit will 
 be manifested by the Legislature, and that after so much has been 
 done by private benclicencc, the work may be completed by gnintinp; 
 the relief now sought, and providing for the future a permanent pub- 
 lic Endowment. 
 
 Secondly .—Not only was the late Mr. ^IcGill warranted in be- 
 lieving that his exertions to establish a University would be support- 
 ed by a Grant from the Crown Land.>^, but the Members of the 
 Royal Institution, subsequently, were led to expect that they would 
 have been saved the heavy expense of erecting the College Buildings, 
 and that the endowuymt would have been rendered available for its 
 future support. In the early part of 1819, the Lord Bathurst, then 
 Colonial Secretary, instructed the Governor Geneiiil, the Duke of 
 Richmond, to adopt, with as little delay as possible, the necessary 
 measures for erecting upon Mr. McGill's property an adetjuate build- 
 ing for the instruction of youth, and His Grace was authorized to 
 defray the expense thereof from the funds which might be in the 
 hands of the Receiver of the Jesuits' Estates. 
 
 But for reasons unknown to the Governors, these liberal intentions 
 on the part of His 3Iajcsty were not carried into effect. 
 
 Thirdly .—The University of McGill College is the only one in 
 Lower Canada which is non-sectarian. As such it possesses the 
 confidence of the Protestant community of every religious denomina- 
 tion. This is shown by the list of subscriptions to the endowment 
 fund, in whicli are to be found the names of Members of the English 
 and Scotch Churches and of the Free Church, Methodists, Congrega- 
 tionalists, American Presbyterians and Unitarians ; Members of the 
 Jewish faith have also contributed. 
 
 Fourth :—T!\\Q University is not a mere private Institution 
 founded by individual benevolence, but is public and Provincial in 
 its character. It is prepared to confer degrees not only upon the 
 Students of its own Colleges, but, under just and salutary rules, upon 
 those of any others which may be established in the Province,— thus 
 rendering it uunecessary, as without doubt it is inexepedient, to 
 multiplythc number of Educational Institutions possessing that power. 
 
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 The (ioverning body i» appointed by the Crown and is removable 
 at pleasure. The Governor General is its Visitor. 
 
 A large miinber of scholarships in the Faculty of Arts are at the 
 disiKisnl of Hi.^ K.xcelloncy, and ho has the presentation to 30 schol- 
 arships in the llii^li Sclioul Departiiuiiit. 
 
 /yM.— This Provincial ciuirnctcr uf the rnivor:jity, and the 
 prosperity and influence which it has attained, mark it out as the 
 great centre and sujiport of the higlier I'rotestant Education in 
 Lower Canada. As such, the establishment and management of the 
 Normal School has been confided t.j it with the approbation of the 
 whole community ; and the contidcnce has thus far been justified by 
 a complete success. A further indication of the same nature is 
 afforded by the affiliation with it of the St. Francis College (a 
 flourishing Institutidn in one of the Eastern Townships) under the 
 liberal terms provided by the Statutes of the University. 
 
 The affiliation ofother Colleges and Theological Schools may be 
 expected ; and thus the aids to higher education, which this country 
 so much needs, will always be available to all who may require them, 
 and that in the amplest form ; for it is to be observed that this 
 University offers to its students not only an ordinary liberal educa- 
 tion, but the means also of high scientific cultun'. and of thorough in- 
 struction in the professions of Law, Medicine and Engineering" and 
 that its present position in this respect will enable it. with additional 
 pecuniary resources, to extend itself still further in the direction of 
 professional education. 
 
 The importance and claims for support of such a Central Institu- 
 tion are too obvious to rocinire argument ; and these, great as they 
 noy are, will be augmented by the increase of population, wealth and 
 intelligence, bringing with them an appreciation of the vul-'.e of learn- 
 ing and a demand for the means of its general cultivation. The 
 University of .AfcGill College ought not then to be confounded with 
 the ordinary Schools and other Educational Establishments, sectarian 
 or non-sectarian, which abound in Lower Canada. It stands alone in 
 its character and objects, and requires from the Government a direct 
 and special support adequate to its importance and its wants. To 
 place it, in the distribution of Legislative aid, upon the same footing 
 with those minor establishments which share In the fund placed in 
 the hands of the Superintendent of Education, is an error and an in- 
 justice, not only to the University itself but to the whole Protestant 
 community of Lower Canada. 
 
Alport of i\t frjfe Scljool dmrniilu 
 
 OP THE CORPORATION, 
 
 TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS, 
 
 MARC :, 1862. 
 
 The High Scliool Department has been connected with the Uni- 
 versity of McGill College, as its preparatory scliool, for seven years, 
 and has in that time increased in its attendance from 153 to 264 
 pupils, and has been materially enlarged and improved in its staff of 
 instructors and course of study. 
 
 During the whole of this time the income of the School has fallen 
 short of its expenditure by sums varying from $1,400 to $3,000 an- 
 nually, the whole of which deficiency has been borne by the funds 
 of the University, nor has it been pos.*ible in connexion with main- 
 taining the School in the necessary degree of efficiency, to render it 
 self-supporting. 
 
 The Board of Governors would scarcely have been justified in 
 sanctioning this use of the revenues of the University, but for the 
 great importance of the High School in relation to the training of 
 students for the College, and that the latter, while still in an infont 
 condition, made comparatively small annual demands. There was 
 also reason to hope that the just claims of the School on the public, 
 would at length be acknowledged to a sufficient extent to render it 
 independent. 
 
 Of late, however, the subject of the High School deficiency having 
 forced itself on the attention of the Board a^ a serious impediment 
 to the development of the College, by absorbing much of ita 
 
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 resources, at a time when these are imperatively demanded for the 
 institution of new professorships and other purposes, your Committee 
 were requested to take this subject into consideration, with the view 
 of diminishing the expense or increasing the revenue of the school, 
 and would observe that the following alternatives appear in the cir- 
 cumstances to be presented to the Board, 
 
 1st. The present staff of the School may be reduced. 
 
 2nd. The Fees of instruction may be increased in amount. 
 
 3rd. Efforts may bo made to obtain adequate public aids to the 
 School. 
 
 With respect to the two first of these alternatives, the Committee 
 are very reluctant to enter on the consideration of either. 
 
 The present staff, though consisting of men of the highest qualifi- 
 cations, is not more than sufficient for that efficiency, which the 
 principal public School of such a city as Montreal should attain ; 
 and should its reduction be forced on the Board as a necessity, it 
 will still be greatly to be deplored. 
 
 An increase of the fee might have a tendency to narrow the ad- 
 vantages of the School to a smaller number of pupils, and thus to 
 defeat its own end, and would tend in any case to exclude some 
 from the advantages of the School. 
 
 Nor does it seem called for to adopt either of these alternatives, 
 while it can be affirmed with truth that the School has not as yet 
 received any free grant whatever from the Government ; and that 
 those parents who send their children to the High School are prac- 
 tically deprived of the advantages of the public grant for superior 
 educati-'i, and are thrown upon tbe slender revenues of the Univer- 
 sity for providing for their children an education which in the case 
 of other Schools is liberally supported b} public aids. 
 
 A sum of about $69,000 annually is given nominally for superior 
 education in Lower Canada ; but it will be easy to show in the first 
 palce that this sum is only in small part actually distributed for this 
 purpose, and that of the sum really given for superior education the 
 High School has not received any part as a free grant. 
 
 We mf.y state as indisputable principles with respect to a grant 
 
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 for superior education, that it should be distributed not on the ground 
 of population or religious denomination, but in the first place to 
 Schools capable of giving to their pupils an education sufficient to 
 enable them to enter the University or to commence the study of 
 the higher professions, and to such schools in proportion to their staff 
 of instructors and course of study, and to the number of pupils ac- 
 tually receiving their benefits ; and in the second place that the facts 
 in reference to such schools should be ascertained by competent in- 
 spectors appointed for this special purpose. In Upper Canada, if we 
 may judge from the statements in the School reports, these principles 
 are kept in view, but in Lower Canada no attempt seems as yet to 
 have been made to bring them into operation, though in the passage 
 of the Superior Education act, these objects were distinctly stated 
 by the Government as those which were contemplated in the change of 
 system then introduced. 
 
 From the report of the Superintendent of Education for Lower 
 Canada for 1860, it appears that the superior education fund was 
 distributed among about 250 institutions, the greater part of which, 
 though perhaps deserving of support from the cor'mon school fund, 
 had no proper claims to be institutions for superioi education. Of 
 the whole sum of $69,000, only $19,492 were given to Colleges 
 proper and their preparatory schools. In Upper Canada, on the 
 other hand, in the same year, about $49,000 were distributed among 
 6 Universities and Colleges, and 81 County Grammar Schools, re- 
 quired, under the law, to be sufficient to train pupils for the Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 Making every allowance for those of the so-called Academies and 
 Model Schools of Lower Canada, which rise to the standard of su- 
 perior schools, it may be safely affirmed that more than one half of 
 the superior education fund is really given to Elementary schools. 
 
 Again, in the grade of Classical Colleges in the Report for 1860, 
 there are ten institutions, including the High School Department 
 of McGill College. In so far as our information extends, we believe 
 that not one of these surpasses the High School in its staff of instruc- 
 tors and course of study. Yet it receives, per pupU, less than any 
 other in tho list. Six of these are Roman Catholio Cnllfltrps Hnwin™ 
 an aggregate of 1376 pupils, and receiving 810.260, or at the rate of 
 
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 $7.46 cts. per pupil, without condition. The High School, with 
 283 pupils, receives $1128, or at the rate of $3.98 cts. per pupil, and 
 has, for this, to educate 30 free pupils, whose education is worth, at 
 the ordinary rate of fees charged by the School, more than the whole 
 sum received. This we hold to be nothing less than virtually to pro- 
 scribe as unworthy of public support the superior English and Pro- 
 testant education represented by the High School. It is further to 
 be observed that all of the institutions above referred to, have, in for- 
 mer years, received additional grants for building purposes, while no 
 such grant has been given to the High School, though the Governors 
 of the College have erected an excellent building for it, and renewed 
 this building, at great expense, after the calamitous fire of 1856. 
 
 Your Committer would not wish to be understood as desiring to 
 exclude free scholars from the High School, but as insisting on the 
 unfairness of representing as a grant to the School, the foes paid 
 under an arrangement entered into with Government for the purpose 
 of educating indigent and deserving pupils, long before the enact- 
 ment of the Superior Edacation Act, and not considered as a 
 free grant. What wo maintain is that a grant should be given in 
 addition to the fees paid for those pupils, and in proportion to the 
 efl&ciency of the School. Nor do your Committee wish to attach to 
 any one in particular the blame for the injustice which they have 
 suffered. They are, however, decidedly of opinion that the time has 
 fully arrived to add to their frequent and fruitless applications to the 
 Education office and the Government, a more formal appeal, and if ne- 
 cessary to demand a parliamentary investigation of the application of 
 the Superior Education fund, in connection with the injustice so 
 long done to this University and its preparatory school. 
 
 Your Committee would farther state that Jie connection of the 
 High School with the University should not cause the High School 
 to receive less than its due proportion of aid from the Superior. Edu- 
 cation fund. The connection produces no pecuniary benefit to the 
 College, but entails on it an expense equal to the amount of its own 
 parliamentary grant, which has always been very inadequate, a^i the 
 care extended by the Board of Royal Institution to this School, and 
 the excellence to which it has in consequence attained, should surely 
 be regarded as additional reasons for its liberal support. 
 
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 1 the whole 
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 It is proper to add that owing to the successive delays in payment 
 of the annual grant under the Superior Education Act, a whole year 
 appears to have lapsed, so that the Secretary has been this year re- 
 quired to sign a receipt for a year in advance of the payment actually 
 made. This has been done under protest. 
 
 At the rate of aid received by other Schools, even on the improper 
 basis of distribution already referred to, your Committee estimate 
 that since the passage of the Superior Education Act, a sum of about 
 $9000 is duo by the Superior Education fund to the High School ; 
 and we are of opinion that eiforts should be made to obtain compen- 
 sation lor this loss, in addition to a future increase of the grant. 
 
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 }uld surely