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Las diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. errata to pelure. □ 32X 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^ Sv 30 UNIYERSITY OF TORONTO. SENATE ELECTION, 1892. The attention of tlie <|;i'iiclu;it(?s f^enerally of the University of Toronto, but more particularly those in tli«> Faculty of Arts, is diiected to the following evidence and comments which are oHcred for the purpose of making them acquainted, not only with the present position of University Jiffaiis, hut with certain recent developments which throw some light on Vicc-Chanccllor Mulock's attempts during the last five years to saddle the expense of tlie M(Mlical Faculty oji the University l^lndowment, in deliance of the understanding hetwecii the Faculty, the Senate and the (Government, at the time the Faculty was estal)lishe(l in 18S7. The substance of these developments is to he found in the communicalions of the JUirsar and the Architect, and in the Commencement address of the Chancellor. Although the full investigation of these matters was successfully resisted in the iSenate by the Yice-Chaneellor and his frieeds, eiu)ugh appears from the evidence at hand to shew that the ciiticisms of the jiress and of J. S. are unanswerable. Some of the.se are leprinted here for the information of those who may not have seen them. The following is a summary of what has Ijcen established : 1. In 1887 the Medical Factdty was established under an Order in Council which provided that its maintenance should be no charge on the University Endowment or income. 2 Notwithstanding tin's provision, Vice-Chancellor IMulock had plans secretly pre])ared for an Anatomical building, and in 1S81), uiulei cover of building operations for the Science Department of tlie Univayable unless the University erects, eipiips and maintains the additional buildings required by the Faculty for such work. 7. These provisions were inserted in the lease by Mr. Mulock without the authority or knowledge of the Senate ; nor has the Senate been yet permitted to decide whether it will accept the grave tinancial responsibilities thus attempted to be saddled u))on it. 8. In 1891 the Government, on discovering the facts relating to the Anatomical building and the examination and degree fees, arranged that a rent should be paid for the buildiiiy by tlio Medical Faculty, ami Imd the t'eos in qiiestiuii restored to the general funds of the University. This arrangement, whicli was appioved of by the Henate, practically condemned the previous action of the Vice-Chancellor. 9. In 1892 a now arraiigenient was made by the Senate whereby the fees received from Medical Students for instruction in Chemistry, Biology, Physiology, and Physics go into the general funds of the University. It will thus 1)(' seen that the qutistions relating to the occupancy of the Anatomical liuild- ingand the fees received for (rxaminntions, for degrees, and for instruction in Chen\ist)y, etc., have been settled. Thei'e remain, therefore, tUo, complications relating to tlie College street lots, and tlie (jucstion whether the University will accept or repudiate tlui arrangements made by the Vice-Chancellor for clinical teaching in connection with the Park Hospital. An attempt was made in the Senate to eH'ect a settlement of thes(* (piestions, but the move- ment was resisted by the; Vice-Chancellor and his fri(>nds, who not only dei'eated the jaopo- sition, but *endoi'se(l the action of the Vice-Ohiincellor in respect botii of the Anatomical building and of the Park Hospital scheme. With those who so voted we take issue, and we maintain that these practical (piestions should be grappled with and settled on the princij)les applied in settling the otlu!r dilKculties created by the Vice-Chancellor's unauthorized actions. Mr. Mulock has been ecpially culpalde in many other ways. To University College he refused the much ntieded assistanc(! to the staff which was subseipiently jirovidi-d by the intervention of the Chancellor; his statenuuit that there was no money, even for a Modern Language Fellowship, being proved innnediately afterwards to be grossly inaccu- rate by the Chancellor's repoi't, which slu'wed that there wei'O ample funds, not only for this purpose but for Lectureships in Latin, French, and (bM'urin, 'uul for other pur[)oses. To tho.se members who have made enquiries in the Senate, and who have attenq)ted to secure for the University an honest and intelligent administration of alfairs, Vice- Chanceilor IMulock has been hostile to the point of rudeness ; his opposition to the re-estab- lishment of the Finance Committee being a marked example of his policy of keeping the Senate in the dark with regard to the financial position of the Univeisity. It is quite e\ident from the language of Mr. ^lulock's defcnci; that he does Jiot acquiesce in the arrangements already made with respect to the INledical Faculty, and that he cannot be trusted to carry out the details of that arraiigement. Knough information is here given, we trust, to prove that it is imperative in the interests of the University, to repudiate the methods which he has introduced into its administi'ation, and to discounte- nance all who are jirepared to support him in a policy which has already done inca'culal)le injuiy to the University. We repudiate the ridiculous charge made by Mr. Mulock that our condemnation of his acts is due to " personal feeling " ; and in reply we ])oint to the luitorious fact that more than three-fourths of the elected menib(irs of Senate, in Law, Medicine and Alts, who voted in favour of his action in connection with the Anatomical Iniilding .and the Park Hospital scheme, are his personal friends ; and we assert that the real dangei- at the present juncture is the candidature of these adherents of the Vice-Chancellor, who are still prepared to foist him and his methods on the University. TTuder these circum- stances, we appeal to every elector to lay aside all personal predilections, and to vote only for those candidates who can be trusted to continue the work of reform which has recently been initiated. In this work we gladly recognize tlie great services of the Chancelloi, and it is for the purpose of supporting his policy and of putting an end to the unsatisfac- tory administration of Mr. Mulock that we recommend as worthy of the confidence and support of the graduates, at the coming election, the following candidates : Chancellor : Hon. Edward Blake, M.A., LL.D., Q.C. Senators : W. H. Ballard, M.A., Hamilton. Hon. S. H. Blake, B.A., Q.C, Toronto. M.P. The f Vice- Chan THE ( In ai to the Bii Park Hos (1) 'I ihe Minist to defer ci WycliUe < tlie Trust! purposes such mom })rivileg(3 tions : — (a) ■ formerly being lots Park Hhnl the term be held ai such Edii Universit behalf de *For vote, see p. 9. .lie general lie Senate, OS received Physics go uiical liuild- uistiy, etc., illego street r;uigen»ents V llosj)ital. t tlio iiiove- I the piopo- Anittoniical ■ issue, and led on tlie Chancellor's ity Ci)llege )i'ovid('(l by oven for a ssly inaccu- ot only for r purposes. ) attoniptwl ilairs, Vice- he re-estal)- kccping the le does not by, and that information liversity, to I) discounte- inca'culabie ndenination torious fact odicine and )uii(ling and ,1 danger at icellor, wlio lese circuni- to vote oidy lias recently Chancellor, i inisatisfac- ifidence and Wm. Dam:, M.A., Toronto. W. H. Ei.Lis, M.A., M.B., Toronto. Hon. J. M. Ginsox, M.A., LL.13., Q.C., M.P.P., Hamilton. Rkv. W. T. Hi.;i!Ui»(iK, B.A., Ottawa. Wm. Houston', M.A., Toronto. James Loudon, M.A., Toronto. W. F. Maclka.v, B.A., M.P., Toronto. John Skath, ]>.A., Toronto. \V.M. Tytlku, n.A., aiiclph. W. H. Va.M)i;i{Smi.sskn, M.A., Toronto. Signed oil behalf the Committee ; J. SyuAiK, B.A., Chairman, W. S. Mii.NER, B.A., Secretary. The following representatives of Arts and Law Graduates endor.sed the actioa of the Vice-Chancellor : Prof. Baker, Mr. King, Mr. Justice Falconbridge, Mr. MacMurchy, Mr. Barwick, Mr. Marsh, and Mr. Creelman. EVIDENCE AND COMMENTS. THE COLLKUK STBEKT LOTS ANT) THE PARK HOSPITAL SCHEME; J^xtrads frma i)r()ai:diii(/s of Si-nate, Ajiril .J'Jlh and Jfaiji JJth, 1892. In answer to ciKiuirics sent to the Uegisti.ir by ]Mr. Huustoii and by him transmitted to tlio IJuis:!!', till' t'olliAviiig report was presented relating to the site of the proposed Park Hospilal on University land adjoining (Jollege street : (i) That on ALuvli 10, 18S7, the following board minute appears: — "Letter from the ^1 inister of E;lucation was read at the meeting ot the lioard of Trustees asking board to defer consideration of application of parties to lease lots on College street in front of Wyclide College.^' (2) That on January Ith, 1890, lots S and !), fronting on College street, were leased to the Trustees of the Park Hos|)ital for 99!) years, for the said Hospital and Educational ]»urposes only, "yielding .■lud paying therefor yearly during the said term by way of rent .such moneys as the Senate ni.iy from time to tim(> require to l)e i)aid by .students for the privilege of attending said ifospital for Eilucatiou.al purpo.sos "' on tin,' followi'^" condi- tions : — (a) That tlie said hereafter diiinised lauds (8 and 9), and also certain other lands formerly leased i)y the Bnisar to the Protestant Ej)iscopal Divinity School Corporation, being lots numbers 7 and 10, according to a plan of a subdivision of [lart of the University Park tiled in the registry office of the city of Toronto as pl.an i) 18, which .said lease and the term thereby demised have iHseii assigned to the said trustees of the Park Hospital, to be held and u.sed l^y the said Park Hospital Trustees only for Hospital purposes and for such Educational jiurpo.ses in connection therewith and with the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto as the Senate of the s.iid University may from time to time in that behalf determine. {(>) Tbat Her Majesty for and on behalf of uiul as Trustee for said University of Toronto may from time to time ercet and mi iiitaiii on said lands, notwithstanding the estate therein of the Park Hospital 'i'rustees, mjch Itnildiny or l)uildinj,'s as may be deemed necessary by the Senate of the ['nivcrsity of 'I'oronto for Kdueationul purposes in conneu- tioii with the sjvid Hospital, and for siieh piirposcts may use, occupy and enjoy the same. (e) That no building or buildings shall at any time hereafter be erected by the lessees upon the said demised or other lands without the approval first had and obtained of the Senate of University of Toronto. (y the solicitor on October 2."{ril, LS'Jl, and thfit the lease of land on south side Jloskiu jueime to the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School Corporation was returned to the Uursar on April L'Uth, IJS'JJ. (5) That the arrangements which resulted in the execution of these papers wei'o never submitted to the Board for its consideration. (6) That on January tlth, hS'JO, the following appears in the minutes of the Board : — " University Park lots 8 and 'J, lease lo Park Hospital, a[)[ii(i\ed. Jjots 7 and 10, assignment of lease of I'rolestant ICjiiscopil Divinity School to Park Hosjtital trustees. Land south of Hoskin avenue, lease to Wyclitle College of one acie, approved." (7) That the documents themselves were not then, or at any time, sul)Uiitted to the Board. With regard to the value of lots 8 and IJ, tlio Bursar cannot undertake to make an estimate of the present value of the property. In answer to the enquiries l)y IMr. Houston, it was stateil that tho Bursar of the Uni- versity is the secretary of the Hospital Board, and that tiit^ mendiers of the Board are : — - W. Mulock, M.P., PVesideiit; Geo. A. Cox, H(;nry Cawthra, John Hoskin, (.J.C., Sir Daniel Wilson, William Chi-istie, Hon. W. (I. Falconbridge, Donald Mac Kay, Geo. Gooderham, James Scott, A. B. Lee, Hon. John A. Boy(l, K. B. Osier, Sir Oasimir Gzowski, and Hon. C. S. Patterson. It was stated as the opinion of the University solicitor that the be(iu(!st of .$G0,000, contained in the will of the late Senator iNlacdonald for the hospital, is void. A letter was read from the Minister of Education stating that the lease of lots on ('Ollege .street was approved by him on the representation that the matter was one of great urgency, and that upon the })romptness with which action was taken d«'i)ended the gift of $100,000 from the late Senator Macdonald, who was then lying at the point of death : and also because he was led to believe that the terms of the proposed lease had been previously agreed to by the Trustees of the University. The ^Minister fui'ther stated his willingness to consent to the restoration of the pi'operty to the University, if po.s.sible. A comminiication was read from the Bursar, stating that ^lessrs. ^lulock and Hoskin had been appointed by the Park Hosi)ital Board to confer with th(! Minister of Education, the Trustees of the Uuiveisity and the Senate with regard to the ditHcidties about the College street lots ; and also that the Board of Trustees had appointed Hon. Edward Blake and Prof. Loudon a committee for a like purpose. Mi'. Houston gave notice of motion, for the appointment of a committee of the Semite to confer with these two comuuttees. Toei B. Geikie foi' medici was, durii I'eplie.s, of On tl sent to th proposed named in anywhere ogical de| departmei and on th With following safely be ( aceommod prepai'ed 1 are not pr what pros On tl as follow^s the Comm n<'nt fuml: UniviMsit; ai)])r()ve ol On t ^linister c replaced." On t been " des '• sketchcf- tion of th On 1 basement made of C pencilled best of li Board." On i adopted b approval, Council I expenditii Universit On t of the pr were let. portion oi Uuivorsity of stiiiuliiig tlie ly lie (loeiaud cs ill coiiiiec- tlie HfiDi*'. >y the leHsees itiiicd of the I'listeeN simll I accoidfince iiiic eiiiiL't. s, viz., k'Hse II smith side 1 to liiin lor ml iJivinity Uiiivcr.sity, ict'ent'd to J i tied l)y the •)t' Edufii- iiL't ot' their istecs of tlie , l.S'Jl, and )al JJiviiiity ).i|ici's were Board : — - 7 and lU, al trustees. 'J itted to the ke to iiuike of the Uiii- )ard are : — , <.,'.(J., Sir •Kay, Goo. ir Oasiinir .f 8G0,000, of lots on was one of jKinded the he point of 1 lease had ther stated if \)0ssible. nd Hoskiu Education, about the ard Blake of motion, iiittees. THE ANATOMICAL BUILDING. Extracts from Senate Proceedings, May Id, 1S!U. To enquiries put by Mr. Maclean, based on published statements made by Dr. W. B. Geikie, to the eU'ect that the western portion of tlie Biological building is largc^ly used for medical school puriHiscs, and that though manifestly intendccl tor such purposes this was, during constiuction, a carefully kept scciret, the Burser and Architect sent written replies, of which the following is a summary : — On the ]9th of March, If^SD, the Architect, at the requtist of Prof. Ramsay Wright, sent to the lUirsar tracings from sketches of floor plans wiiich he had prepared for " the proposed addition to tiie ISiological building." On these tracings the various rooms are named in the lia.sement, and on the ground lirst and second floors. No mention is made anywhere of Medical School uses, Imt in the basement there is a " .stor(;room for ^lineral- ogical department" ; on the ground floor there is " space reserved for Mineralogical department," liesidcs a room for the " Piofessor of Geology' and a "preparation room"; and oil the lirst floor space is reserved for " Geological nnistuims." With these tracings and proposals before them, tlu^ University Trustees adopted the following resolution : -"The Hoard recognize tlie desirabhmess of erecting, as soon as can safely be done, an addition to the vew science building already in progress, with a view to accommodate (Jeology and oth(;r departments, and for which plans have been submitted, j)repared by the University architect, at an estimated cost of 800,000. But the Board are not prepared to recommend an exiienditure from the capital fund until they ascertain what prospect there is of its bcdng replaced, and from what source." On the 20th ^March, 18S9, an order was jiassed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, as follows :■ — ■" Upon the recommendation of th<^ Honourable the Minister of Education, the Committee of Council advise that the sum of .800,000 be set apart, out of any perma- nent funds lielonging to or i'lvested tor the endowment of the L^nivcrsity of Toronto and UnivcM'sity Colhige, for the erection of such buildings as your Honour in Council may aj>pi'ove of, to provide better facilities for the Science ile[)artment of the said University." On the 11th Ajiril the Hoard instructed the Bur.sar to call the attention of the ^linister of Kducntion to their request '■ to know how the capital and income are to be rei)lac(>d." On the following day the Dursar acted on this instruction. On the 3rd of October, 1889, the Architect wrote to the Bursar .stating that he had be(!n " desired hy the Vice-Chancollor " to send for sulnnission to the Board of Trustees " sketches showing the proposed extension of tin? IHological building for the accommoda- tion of th(^ museum, (!tc." The estimate of cost is, on these plans, -808,000. On the sketch plan submitted on the 3rd of October rooms are named in the basement and on the ground and lirst floors, but not on the second floor. No mention is made of Gciology or Mineralogy, nor is any mention made of ^Medical School uses, except in pencilled names on .some of the rooms on the plans, which names, the Architect says to the best of his I'ecoUection, " were not there at the time the plans were submitted to the Board." On the 17th of October, 1889, the plans for the projjosed building were finally adopted by the Board and directed to be forwarded to the Minister of Education for approval, and, on the 14th of November, they were approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council under authority of ii resolution of the Legislative Assembly, authorizing an expenditure of 860,000 " for the accommodation of the; Science department of the University of Toronto." On the 5th of December, 1889, the Architect sent to the Bursar the working drawings of the proposed building, which were approved by the Board, and on which the contracts were let. On these drawings, as exhibited to the Senate, there are no indications that any portion of the building was intended for medical teaching purposes. 6 In Ill's lottor to the Kofjistrnr. diited May 11th, 1892, the ArHiitPct writes: — " I wa? instructed not, to put ihuiioh on tlic rooms used for iiiiiitnniical pni'i'oscs Vx'canse, «s I nndorstood, of the possiltility of ohjection lieing iimde by residents in the neij^hltonrhood. Hueh possibility lieint; indicated by the opposition to the proposal to convert WycliH'e Colloge old liiiihling into ii hospital." In tlie same letter, he savH ; " My instructions were >:;<'nerally received throu;»h Pi-of. Ran)say Wright." To Mr. .Maclean's ciii|uiiv •» iictlicr the Senate had ever bfcn "consulted licfore con- struction on the suliject ot' tiio designed use of the Ituilding," the l^egistrar replied that at the rcijucst of the Chancellor he had cart.fuUy searched thi! Senate's minutes, and had foun- r any qiu-stion ns for iDcdiral OSes for which l)ro[iaratiou nf Inns since the groat sorviccs ' cspocially in iO(inironit'nts. of University a significant irst tiiiK! into ods were the 1 liavo been a shed procecd- nf University Prnstees, who le University ent, nor tlie [■ncy over the ig personally according to nptness with terms of the ty." It now appears that the Trustees had not heen consnheil, and that the alleged gift aiiioiinted to only 810,000. the fnrthei- be(iuest of 8(iO,00() having been declared voiil. Under these cireunistanceH the Aliidster lias declared his readiness to accede to a widespread demand ti> seciire the cuicellatioii of the transaction, 'liiis is not the place to disciiss the nn'iits of Mr. Mnlock's hospital scheme, but we may say in {)iissing that, apart altogether fnjni the irregnlai'ities above referred to, the plan was crude ynd ill-advised. An inloy(;d in rushing through the hosjiitid lease a I'e thrown into Htrtuig rc^lief liy the account jMililished in last Monday's Moi/ni the proceedings which led to the erection of tht> .so-called ^^useuln wing "f the I'iological buililing, in which the Medical Facidty is now installed. I'rom the dmaiments submitted to th(^ Senate, it appears that the University '{'rustevs, the (Jovei iiment and the Legislature were all misled as to the real character of the structiuv, which was variou.sly icprescnted as being for (»eology, Miiu'ralogy and liiology, and for the Science department of the University. The very tirst steps taken in this matter have a suspicious look. On March !!•, ISSO, the trustees were asked to apj)rove of a building for Geological, ^Mineralogicral and Diologieal jmi'iposes. according to plans submit ted by the Ar(.'hitect at the reciuest of Professor Itamsay Wiiglit. In resj)onse to this re(|Uest, the Uoard fornuiUy apj)roves of the desirableness of erecting siu-h a building, but (leclines to recommeiul the expenditure of the i-tMpiired amount (•1rtiO,0()()) out of tin' capital, until they ascer'tain how it is to lie recouped. On t\n' very next day th<( (iovta'umcnt, by Order-in-Couiicil, appropriated the desired sum for the erection of buildings for the Science department of tlus University, the ol)jects of these buildings, b(> it observed, beting stated in general terms, whilst those recomuiemled by the Trustees were specifically stated .and set forth* on the plans sul)mitted to them. Against action on the pait of the (lovernment in ap|iropriating 8')0,000, tin,' Tru.stees again jtrotested. but in vain. The published doeumeuts do not state; who inspired the Oovern- nu'Ut to oscriide the Trustees ; but the second iiioxc in the matter, which was made about six months after, when tiie Vice-Chancellor publicly apj)eare(l on the scene, removes all HNisonable doubts on the point. On this occasion he submitted to tin; Trustees an amended sketch plan from which the express designations of O(!ology and .Mineralogy had disap- ])eared, all the names of the rooms being left blank, excypt tho.se for Biology. These blanks were left by the Architect, acting under instructions, in tlu! ease of all those rooms wdiich were desigiu'd for medical teaching purposes. Tht; Architect now informs us that the object of omitting the real names was, as he understood, to prevent pos.sible objections to the scheme on lla^ part of thepidilic - a ([uestionable proceedir.g, and a highly improper reason in connection with a public undertaking. But why, it may lie asked, was it neces- sary to conceal the I'cal character of the plan from the Trustees, to whom aloi\e, and not to the piil)lic, the sketch plans were submitted 1 And why was it considered expedient to pursue the. simw course with reference to the final plans which the Government were led to endor.s(,' as btung plans of a structure "for the accommodation of the Science department of University ■?" I'lainly for the ptnpo.se of concealing the Ethiopian; for the documen- tary evidence |n'oduced in the Senate, clearly [U'oves the absolute correctness of Dr. Geikie's charge that " the building was manifestly intended for medicid teaching purpo.ses ; that this fact was, during construction, a carefully kept secret ; and that even tin; Govern- ment knew nothing of these purposes till some months after the completion of the build- ings." It now apjiears that the Trustees and the Senate knew no more than the Govern- ment ; and Mr. Mulock, who is chairman of both bodies, overrode the former on the question of expenditure, tind deceived them as to its object, whilst he ignored the latter in the matter of educational policy. We oV)serve that the Architect states that he generally received his intructions from Prof. Ramsay Wright. It is not credible that a memVier of But sue letter of J. iS., g J. p. 13. A / tlio HtatV would tiiicU«rtiiki>, without authoiity, to liavo plans prpparcd, ovon if they wore coiifiiiffl to llic Ifgitiiiiiitf jdiiposi's of his (icpartmoiit ; and wf acc()^din^ly oxpit'SH tlie hopn that tin* ProtVssor will ho ahlc to hIiow that \u' was tiie nioro iiKHlitiin of coinniuica- tion with the ArchittiCt, and that ho was acting under inHtiuutions. As to ♦^lio ViccChanwllor, the whole ])roc('«i(lin!»H go to nhow that ho hab an utter iniMconi'option of tiie functions and duties of the liigh oflirc which ho has ro long and, as it now appears, no autooratieaUy Hlled. As Chairnnui of tlie Hoard of Trustoos it was liirt first duty to repay the ecnitidenco that body reposed in him by frankness and a roadiness to fully explain wliat was laid before them. Aa Vioe-< 'iianeeUor it was his duty to the Senate whieli elected him to see that they were not ignored, but that they were constdted on all matters relating to the oducatioual i)olioy of the University. As ehief exectjtive otlicer of the Unisersity, and as one who, in that tMipaeity, was tuUy trusted hy the (lovernment, it was his duty to n^present to thti Minister of Kducatiou the dtdiberate ojiinions of the Senate and the Trustees, and to put the (iovernment, which assumed the responsiliility of taking ai'tion, into full possession of all the facts and considerations couuected with the matters submitted to them, ACTION OF THE ARTS FACULTIES OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AND TIIE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Hesofiifioii coinmiaiirated to the Senate, May 11th, ISUi At a meeting of the joint Faculties in Arts of University College and the University ■of Toronto, held on Montlay, ^lay Cth, at which the Prtisident, Professors Loudon, Raker, Hutton, Pike, Alexander, AlcCurdy and Chapman ; Messrs. vanderSniis.sen, Dale, Keys, Squair, Fairclough, Cameron and Milner were present, the foUowiiig resolution was adopted : " That in the opinion of the joint Arts Faculties of University College and of the University of Toronto, the alienation of the College street lots to the Park Hosj)ital under a lease for OH'J yenrs, which was executed l)y the Bursar at the re(piest of the Vice-Chau- cellor, and with the approval of the Minister of Eilucation, and without the knowledge or approval of the Senate or Board of Trustees, and under terms whicli contemplate the erection and maintenance by the University of additional buildings for medical teaching pur|)oses, is a serioiis loss to the University, and that the Stsnate be requested to take steps with a view to the restoration of the property, and that copies of this resolution be sent to the Minister of Education and to the Senate. ACTION OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. ResoliUioH communicated to the Senate, Miuj 1.1th, 1892 : That, in view of the serious financial loss to the University which has been occasioned by the alienation of lots 8 and 9 on College street to the Park Hospital Trustees, the Executive Committee of the University College Alumni Association request the Senate to take immediate steps to secure the restoration of the property. At tl with the \| the commF " Mr of Prof ( mover, b(j lots on C'l Hursar's ij to report said lots l| On t| Toronto of order. Rev. heard wit Ushment to I'lace eontinvu'i Mr. as follow omitted, that the t«) the I'll was actui approve policy. Mr. Yk/ Houston Nai I Ramsay I His Hoii f Mr. Mai Dr. Call James \ Father '! Th. Rev. Fa Y'k Ramsay His Ho Mr. Ma cellor li McBrac Father Ni Housto It only ag con nee ing: t\^ >ii if they were ,1,'ly o.xprcNH the 1 of coiDimiica- liiis Mil utter NO loiijj and, AH tt'cs it w(is his 111 a lomliiicKS is liiity to the ft' ooTisiiItt'il on xt'(Mtiv«( otHoer t' (}ov«'rniin'nt, pillions of the '«l)on.sil)i)ity of ected with the ACTION or THE SENATE. EGE AND lio [Tniversity niilon, iiaker, Dale, Keys, •solution was ge and of the ospital under le Vice-Chau- knowledgf! or template the ical teaching to take steps tioii be sent iTION. ti occasioned 'rustees, the le Senate to At the meeting of the Senate, held .Tune 3, 1892, the following,' motion was moved with the vi((\v of reporting on the tiansaotion of the College street lots, after conferring with the committees appointed by tlie University Trustees, and the Park Hospititl Trustees : — •' Mr. Houston moved, sccundecl l)y Prof, Loudon, that a special committee, consisting of Prof, (lidl.r.iith, Mr. A. ft. Aylcsworth, Dr. .1. J. Madaren, Dr. J. II. Caiiun-on and the mover, be appointed with instiuctions to eu(juii(' into ami report on the couNcyince of two lots on (^•Ilegl' street to the Trustees of tiie pmiKiM-d Park Hospital, as set forth in tiie Hursar's re|tort inid before the Semile !*t its meeting held on the 20th April ult., and also to leport whether it is expeilient to take any steps with a view to th»! restoration of the said lots to the control of the I'niversity." On this motion being put, the Vice Chancellor delivered his defence (published in the Toronto papcis .hum ti, 1S'.)2\ after which the following amendments, though plainly out y the meeting ; — Rev. Dr. iJui'Wiish moved, seconded by Uev. Fatlier Teefy : " That the Senate has heard with great satisfaction tlie explanntioiis made by Mr. Mulock touching the estab- lishment of the Paik Hospital and the addition to th(^ Hiolof,'ical Laboratory, and desires to jilace upoti lecord it.s ii]i|preci,itioii nf his action in connection therewith, and its contiuiied contidem.'c in hiai .is V'ice Chancellor of this University." Mr. Houston moved, seconded by Prof. (iaU)iaith, an amendment to the ameniiment as follows: " That all the words after ' that,' where it first occurs in the amendment, be omitted, and the foUoxsin;,' inserted instead thertiof: — 'While there is no reason to doubt that the Vice t^liancf'Uur in his action with i-espect to the least^ of the ('ollei^e street lots to the Park Hospit.il IJoard, and the erection of the addition to the Jiiological building, was actuated i)y a desire to pidiuote the interest of the L'^nivorsity, this Senate caiuiot approve of his conduct in neglecting to consult it on such important matters of academical j.olicy. '" Mr. II(^uston's aineudnieut to the amendment was rejected on the folhiwlng division: Ykas — Prof. (Jalbraith, Mr. Kmbree, I'rof. llutton, Dr. Ugden, Prof. Loiulon, Mr. Hou.ston, Mr. Maclean. Nays Dr. O'Sidliviin, Dr. Willmott, Sir Daniel Wilson, Dr. W. T. Aikins, Prof. Ramsay Wright, .Mr. I'.arwick, Dr. .McFarlaiie, Uev. Dr. Dewart, Rev. Dr. Burwash, His Honor Judge Dean, Mr. Marsh, Dr. L.irratt Smith, Dr. I. IL Cimeron, Mr. Moss, Mr. MacMurchy. Mr. .Fusticc F'alconlu'idge, Prof. Riker, Mr. King, Mr. Crcelman, Rev. Dr. Carman, (Jlianci^llor Moyd, Mr. Justice .Macleiinan, Rev. Fatlier McHrady, Prof. James Mills, Mr. Hovles, Rt'v. Dr. Sheraton, Dr. A. H. Wright, Rev. Dr. Revnar. Rev. Father 'I'eefy. The abovt! iimeuiliiient, which was moved by Rev. Dr. Burwash, and seconded by Rev. Father Teefy, was carrie(l on the foUowint.' division •— Yeah -Dr. O'Sullivan, Dr. Willmott, Sir Daniel Wilson, Dr. W. T. Aikiiis, Prof. Ramsay Wright, Mr. Warwick, Dr. McFarlaiu;, Rev. Dr. Dewart, Chancellor Burwasli, His Honor Judge Dean, Mr. ^Lirsh, Dr. Larratt Sn)ith, Dr. I. H. Cameron, Mr. Moss, Mr. MacMurchy, Mr. Justice Falconbridge, Prof. Baker, Mv. King, Mr. Creolman, Chan- cellor Boyd, Ml-. Justice Maclennan, Rev. Dr. Carman, Prof. James Mills, Rev. Father McBrady, Dr. A. 11. Wright, Mr. Hoyle-s, Rev. Dr. Sheraton, Rev. Dr. Reynar, Rev. Father teefy. Nay.s — Prof. Galbraith, Mr. Embree Prof. Hiitton, Dr. Ogden, Prof. Loudon, Mr. Houston. It will be observed that the following representatives of Arts graduates voted not only against the (MUjuiiy asked for, but in favour of Vice-Chanceller Mnlock's action in connection with the Park Ho.spital scheme, and in the erection of the Anatomical build- ing: Prof. Baker, Mr. Bar wick, iVIr. Justice Falconbridge, Mr. King, and Mr. Mac^Iurchy 10 UNIVKIJSITY AKKAIUS. Editiiriiil nf (he Toronto Mitil, Jiiiw lH, ISH.. The Iciigtliy stiitciiicut iniulc J>y Mr. Mulock, iiiid puMisIicd in last Monday's Mail, m defence of liis action in connection witli Hie erection of tlie Anatomical liuilding and the le.a.se of the College sheet lots to the Park Tfospital calls for a comparatively hiief reply, so far at leasi. as oni' i)revions ciiticisni, which is now more than jiistilied, is concerned. In thr- former matter it now appears th.at ho undertook on his sole responsihility to provide accommodation for !inatoh)y ; tiiat he attempted this most important depariure in educutional policy without the necessary authorization of thf Senate and the (iovernment; that he concealed his project from the Ti'ustees, whom he professed to consult, and from the Government when suhmitting liis plans ; and that his seci'et was so well k(^pt that tiie authorities did uot discover the real ohject of the huilding until it was erected. This .studied j)olic\ >;f concealment ^fr. ^iulock not oidy acknowledges, hut attemj)ts to justify on tlie ground that it was necessary in oriier to prevent the public, and more particularly that dreadful fellow. Dr. Geikie, from wrecking his project. What is particularly disappointing in this part of the defence; is the absence of any e.xpicssion of regret for having attempted to ell'ect an imiporlant change in University policy liy I'c.sorting to such an unheard of succession of concealments. So far, indeed, did hi; carry this sy.stem that even the President of the University was not admitted to the secret ; and it is now patent that the chief concern of the Yice-C'hancellor was to keep his designs from the knowledge of tlie (Jovernnuait until the building should be iinished. With these facts before us we are slow to credit his pretended belief that the whole UniviMsity was " of one mind in favour of his policy and the sjiecial undertaking in question," nor can we put implicit faith in the genuineness of his alleged surprise at the disapprnxal of the (Jovernnient on discovering the consjiiracy. Finally, we are unable to reconcile his assertion, that the action of the Senate in establishing the Afedical Faculty involved the carrying out of such a scheme as the one in question, with (he fact that he had perfect knowledge of the clear understanding between the Senate and the Government that the ^Medical Faculty should be no charge on. tiie endowment. In defence of his action in the matter of the CoIlf!ge street lots, Mr. Mulock makes a great parade of a knowledge of and a.ssent to .some project about a Park Hospital wliicli was talke0.000 would be required for the .sclienie ; .so that even on tiie assumption that the ^lacdonald be(piest was valid, tin; amount mentioned in connection with tlu^ 1S!)0 scheme was deficient by !i?jO,000. Moreover, we fail to find in tlie defence any proof that the lea.se of the College street lots had been agreed to on any terms, still less on the terms arranged by Mr. ^lulock. It was, therefore, iiic-orrect for him to represent to the ^Minister of Ediication that the con.senl of the Trustees had been ol)tained to this particular tran.saction. This is the important fact to be rememl)ered, because ii was mainly on the strength of this representatiim that the ^Minister's ajiproval was secured. Although the ]Minister's approval had thus been inqjioperly olttained, it was still possible for the Vice-Chancellor to ask for the sanction of the University Trus- tees before submitting the lease for acceptance by the Hospital Trustees. P>ut what was his course? The latter were .summon(;d on January "tli and the transaction completed, and on January 9tli, when approval or disapproval could mean nothing, the University Board, tlie guaniians of the property, at an ordinary meeting are asked, in the absence of all documents and without any explanatiorjs from the chairman, INIr. Mulock, to record a farcical ajiproval. Of the names of the gentlemen wlio attended these meetings, Mr. Mulock makes a great parade, for the obvious purpose of creating the impression that as members of the Hospital Board, if not of the University Board, they must have fully known the nature of the transaction. On this point it is snfVicient to remark that, although at the first meeting he submitted a lengtliy report, wliicli he clo.sed by aiiologiz- ing for not having obtained authority for the steps he had previously taken, he took no pains to gentleiTK stand iti- we obsei only not nor evei informs by hiiu dejiartu avoided \Vi their d( understi observe must b diflicult various believe laat nie( duty sti nized b; conuuit Educat 11 oiiflaj's Mail, in 'iiildiiig iind tlie vcly 1)1 icf ripply, ("'I, is coiit'criu'd. <'.s|i()iisil)ility to :int (Icji.ir'iiiro in )<■ <'OV('i'iiiiieiit ; msult, .•111(1 from II lii of icgrot for I'soi'tiiig to such liis systt'in that t is now patent lin( knowlodtre ts Itcfore us we of one mind in It implicit faith 'overnnient on l^ition, that the iii^i,' out of such Igo of the clear Faculty should 1 11 lock makes a fospi(aI which ■xisteil su(!li as lif'i' seen that licine ; so that Micntioned in t'lil to find in ■eed to on any , incori'ect for ^tees had been rcmemljered, iter's apjtroval y obtained, it iversity Trus- P>ut what was >n completed, le University he alisence of V, to record a iieetings, Mr. 'ssion that as it have fully i-eniark that, 1)V apolofifiz- 1, Jie took no pains to exjjlain tlie exceptional ciiaracter of the lease ; ami it is a fact that several of the gentlemen jnesent, including even the Bursar, who had signed tiie lease, did not under- stand its very peculiar features. Here again, as in the case of the Anatomical building, wo observe tiie same objectionable sj'stem of secrecy as regards the Senate, which was not only not consulted, but was not (!ven infoi'med of the arrangements made in its name, nor oven retjuested to exercise the powers with which it is invested. Mr. Mulock now informs us that this hospital scheme, with all that it implies, was formulated and endorsed by him four or five years ago, and yet during all that time, although it involved a greater departure in University jiolicy than was evei' dreamed of by the authorities, he studiously avoicled sul)nutting the matter to the judgment of the Senate. With regard to the action of the Senate at their last meeting, we imagine that it was their desire to limit their finding to a vindication of the Vice-Chancellor. Whilst we can understand and to souse extent sympathizt! with such a feeling, we think it proper to observe that such a body has a public trust to administer, and that its duties to the public must be performed, even if thev are unpleasant. With regard to the Park Hospital difficulties — involving the hospital scheme projier in its present ho])eIess jilight and the various protests connected with the lease of the College street lots- -we are willing to l)elieve that the ScTiatc's action has been merely postponed by the resolution ])assed at the lant meeting ; for no one, we trust, will seriously contend that that body has not an important duty still to jierform, when the existence of these difficulties has been so readily recog- nized by the Hospital Hoard and the University Trustees (both of whom have -appointed committees to confer with a connnitteo of the Senate), as well as by the Minister of Kducation, and even by Mr. Mnlock himself. UNIVERSITY M1':DICAL FACULTY. Ediforial of the Toronto Mall, Jnue lOt/i, 1S92 On the exi)lanation given by the Chancellor in his Commencement Address with regard to the arrangements made to .settle the difficulties created by Vice-Chancellor Mulock in erecting the Anatomical building, and in .seizing examination and other fees. In our editorial of ."Monday last on iNIr. IMake's address we were oliliged to omit all refei'ence to his interesting statements concerning the reorganization of the Medical Faculty and its future prospects, as also to his imjKirtant explanations regarding the action of the Government on the question of examination ancl d(!gree fees, and on the Anatf)niical building iological building for the purposes of the Univeivsity Science departments, and obtained the assent of the Legislature to the lequisito approjiriation for this specific object; that they were never told or imagined tliat any part of the building was intended for any other purpose, such as the teaching of Anatomy ; that they had declared to the Legislature that the establishment of the Medical Faculty should be no charge on the University funds or endowment ; and that as soon as they learned that the authority they gave and the assent they procured had been used for the purposes of the Medical Faculty, they had no other alternative but to insist on a change. This was not a question of policy in the sense that the Govei-nment was asked and refused to consent to an expenditure for these purposes. On the contrary it was simply a (piestion of common honesty, and their clear duty to the Legislature recpiired that they should make their pledges good. It was no part of the Chancellor's duty to enter into the controvei'sy ventilated in these columns as to the ))erson or per.sons responsible foi' these coniplications and for the unauthorized acts which produced them. His duty was limited to an explanation of the action of the Government, as comnninicated to him, and his own action taken on behalf of the University at the request of the Gov- ernment. He made it clear that the Government had no alternative under the circum- stances but to call for these changes, ami that he had no altei'native but to arrange the matter with as little, deti'iment to existing plans and interests as possible. Disturbance and diHiciiltics donl)tles.s there were ; but for these neither the (iovernment nor the Chan- cellor was res|)onsible. Who was is a matter we do not now touch on. It is, of course, obvious that the necessary rearrangement was ditKcult and embarrassing, and might have been destructive of the >Iedical Faculty. Who shall say what judicious plans might not have been devised had the truth of the case been declared to the framers of the Medical Faculty scheme ? As it is, it is fortunate indeed that the Faculty survived the dilHculties imjiosed on it by an unhai»py and mistaken jMilicy, and has even, under the impulse of the new organization, gained added strength and vigour. We can now well understand that, as the Chancellor says, a very large portion of his time has been devoted to efforts to disentangle the complications in which unauthor- ized measuies and the secret methods of accompliKhing them had involved the institution. It is a pity that so much valuable time and energy should not have been employed in working out the unsolved problems of educational reform, and in strengthening and per- fecting the weaker parts of our ever-expanding University system. CRITICISM OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S DEFENCT^.. Letter No. 1. To the Editor of the Mail. Sir, — I desire, with your permission, to make some observations on the defence offered by Vice-Chancel lor Mulock of his action in the erection of the University Anatomical building. Inquiry in this matter is not, I hope, at an end ; for the Vice-Chancellor has made some statements which demand further elucidation, notably in connection with his attempt to make the Minister of Education responsible for the failure to i)rovide adequate accommodation in 1889 for Mineralogy and Geology. 1. M of the bui of Mines and Geol( March, 18! to point such a chi course, at purposes Wright, i for Anatoi assigned t the lectur and Geolo one-sixth The so-cal of the lil) ostensibly sianilicant attenqit t( that tlien provision tor Anato 2. \> absence o would sa; that he is him to d( the iSIini] Science, v of Mineri until loiii. MuloL-k, \ Senate Wi the Univ " the (Jo^ I the I'rov possil>ilit of the M that com known t( when tlu to the w Science ^ no provii new arrii tical Sci proposed Educatii Chemist and Aiu Ohemici departui of Educ that he of adilii ties of 13 icism ; and the dative liability o tlie fees it is les of the Mecli- 11 ply incompre- us well as the Such an appro- iind oj)posed to ise is equally appeai-s that lui'ding for the the Legislature never told or ^e, such as the ! cstublislunent lowment ; and they procured ilternative but le Government 1 the contrary le Legislature o Chancellor's ion or persons i-oduccd thena. ^oniniunicated t of the Gov- n' the circuni- it to ai-ranae Distuiliance nor the Chan- is, of course, d might have ns might not the Aledical he difficulties e impulse of fe portion of :.'h unauthor- e institution. em])loyed in ing and per- 'ence offered Anatomical iiicellor has on with his ie adequate 1. Mr. Mulock commences by saying " that there was a change in the proposed use of the building," because of the intention of the JNIinister of Education to establish a School of Mines "which should relieve the L^niversity of any expense in lespect of ^lineralogy and Geology."' Now, lest it may be imagineil that there was originally, on the plans of March, 1889, adequate provision for Mineralogy and Geology, and none for Anatomy, I wish to point out that the veiy opposite was the case, and therefore there could not have bt>en such a change as Mr Mulock's statement seems to imply. This was not apparent, of course, at the time the plans were submitted to the Trustees ; but lately, I understand, the purposes of the unmarked rooms on those jilans have been indicated by Professor Ramsay Wright, and these indications prove that whilst tliere was ample accommodaton pi-ovided for Anatomy (almost as much, indeed, as in the amended plans of October, 1889), the space assigned to Mineralogy and Geology was ridiculously small. I understand, in fact, that if the lecture-room, which though designed for Anatomy, was also to be used for ^lineralogy and Geology be e.vcluded, the whole space allotted to the latter department was only about one-sixth of what a Select Senate Committee . Unsatisfactory iuul lanm as is the Vice-Chancellor's excuse fot omitting the names in the ))lans, his attemjit to justity the work is even more so. " T regarded," he says, " the action of the Legislature and the Senate in re-establishing the Faculty of Medicine as carrying with it the obligation to provide facilities for its maintenance." Now, no one knows better than Mr. Mulock, who is a mendjcr of Parliament, that the Legislature, like the Senate, has one and only one i'(!cognized mode of discharging its i)bligations. Tn the j»re- sent case that obligation, which was fleclared l)y formal resolution, was to erect a building "for the Science departments of tla; University." Was Mi'. Mulock then justitied in erectin" one for Anatomy instead ? If the Legislature autluiri/cd an expeudituie on a Chemical laboratory, would Mr. Mulock l)e justified in spending the moiuiy on a residence or on a Law School / Is the fanci(!(l existence in Mr. Miilock's mind of an oliligation to supersede a solemn engngement .sanctioned by the Govody ei.se did, that no su h obligation as he .suggests did exist ; and this fact was niad(} clear at the time the Medical Faculty was established in 1887, by the Order-in-Council, which provided that " i:i no case shall the Bursar certify to the payment of any I'xpensL- whatever incurred on account of the said Medical Faculty from any of the trust funds, endowment, or other fees received Ity tlur Uidversity of Toronto, except such as arise from the establishment of the Medical Faculty." 6. Tn further justification of his action, Mr. Mulock says that " he does not think there exists in University circles any opposition to his scheme ; and that such an attitude Avas n(!ver assumed until after the completion of tlu^ buililing. ' Now, why diil he not explain that the real re;ison for the absenci^ (jf opposition was that his sch(ime was kept a iirofoiuid secret from the Uni\ersity — -being known, so far as I caiiK.'arii, oidy to himself, Professor RaiiLsay Wright and \)i-. A. Jl. Wright i .Moreover, any siispi(.-ions which may luive been entertained at the University wisre lulled by the aniKJuncemont of the Covern- juent who, belie\ ing that their instructions were l)eing strictly carried out with regard to the building operations, jtublicly stated on the floor of tiie House (rldn Jfa.il, Miircli 14, 1890) that " there had lieeii no charge for Medical FUicatiou wiiatever, and no money was being so expended ;" and further, " that not one dollar of the pul)lic funds was expended for the purj)Ose of giving a professional eiiucation to stuilents attending the University." Similar statements were niaile by the Minister of Education in a letter to Dr. (Jeikie on March 11th, 1890, although the Anatomical liuilding was then in process of erection ; and yet, in the face of these public denials, Mr. Muloclv maintained a guilty silence until the end. 7. If the University, having been kept in total ignorance, might be .said to be "of one mind" as to his policy Ijcfore the completion of the building, Mr. Mulock will admit, I presume, that such was not the case after that event, when it was no longer possible to preserve his secret. As to the reasonableness of such op[>osition, if anyone entertains a doid)t I would recomnuMid him to rc'ad the Chancellor's recent address, in which an authoritative .and imi)ariial statement is given of the action taken by the (jrovernmeut on learnin<' that the Biological building addition contained accommodation for Anatomy 8. Fi the Goveri on paymeii " came to is now bei the will of means to i rental, he and was tl As to his .isk what ! iimigine tl supjiose th and public in which 1 not for a Governme reasons wl ToitoNTO, Slli,- defence, a action in o of th(> Pari knowledgti for medica i . ^- '" ' of \aluabl( ments in 1 successful! Anatomy Governme liad deceiv hual adopt 1 like Mr. ^ ili'partmeii . tion, if nei he did use to allow tl for Clinic; I from 1887 that, even tion of till been this s to attach cellor ? — -It Governme e(pially ill two mont money ha 10. 1 himself, ' 10 ])lans of the f the Architect esidonts in the r tlie dissecting ing that it was and from Dr. hftoly ignores : •e soon only by \'on; submitted hose questions, iiicnt in ignor- kl be allowed !• the scientific ing the names he says, " the >f Medicine as no one knows itnre, like the Til the jtre- ect a l>uilding 11 justified in Miditure on a Dii a residence I obligation to ilaturc! ? But obligation as I Faculty was •asu siiall tlie lit of the said ceived by the the Medical loes not think •\\ Hii attitude liy did he not le was k(ipt a ly to himself, us which may f the (Jovern- I'ith regard to (7, March 14, Liid no money was o\ I (ended ! University." Dr. treikio on erection ; and •nee until the to bo "of one will admit, 1 or possible to entertains a in which an veinment on natomy 16 S. From the Chancellor's exiilanatious it appears that after considerable negotiation the GovernuuMit fimilly consented to the Imildiiig lieiug occupied Ijy the Medical Faculty on jiaymeiit of a substantial rent. Tlie cliargiiig of an occu|iatiim rent, says Mi'. Mulock, *' caiiu' to him as a surprise, and it is in deterriice to other opinion than his own that rent is now being charged." It is satisfactory to learn that a giMitleman who did not respect the will of the Governiueut and the Legislature, eventually did defer to somebody. If he means to iiii|)ly, however, that the ( Joveriiiiieut or anyone else tbrciMl him to agi'Ofi to a rental, \w is in (uror, for the suggestii n of this (;ourse (•ame, I uialerstand, from himself, and was the liest possilile solution ot the dilliciilty into which he had led the University. As to his alleged surprise at the opposition to his plan of giving free ()i-(;u[)ation, may I .isk what attitude did he expect tin; (jrovi-rnment and the Legislature to takes ( Did he imagine that they would coiidenni their own ])re\ioiis uetioii and approve of his? Did he suppose that ttn'V would "record their appreciation of his action" in leaving "the straight and pulilic road," which they directtid him to follow, for " tlu; crooked and (lovere.l way " in which he a])par(!iitly delights to tread? That he had any such great expectations I do not for a moment believt-, and lieui-e 1 suspect that his surprise at the attitud(! of the Government was al)out as genuine as the lame exeusL-s, the atl'-uled beliefs and futile rciisons wlii(;h chaiaeteri/e his defence. Yours, etc., TouoNTO, June .'}0. J. S. Lkttku No. To tliH E>Vitor uf tin: Mall Siu, — With your jierinission [ resume the furthtsr consideration of Mr. Mulock's defence, and propose in the [iiuisent coniniunicalion to deal more,' [>articularly with his action in obtaining from the UnivcM'sity Endowment the College street lots for the benefit of the Park Hospital, and attempting at the same time to coiiiniit the Senate, without its knowledge, to an unknown expenditure for erecting, (!ipii[iping and maintaining buildings for medical teaching. 9. In order to understand how it was possible for him, in 1890, to elfect the ali(;ii!ution of valuable propia'ty for such a purpos". it will be necessary to recall some of his achieve- ments in 1SS9, in coiuiei^tiou with the .AiiatomiiMl building plans, liithe first place, he had successfully concealed fnun tli(^ University Trusici's IVoiii .March oiiwanls the fact that Anatonu' was being provide. 1 for ; in th(^ seco:id place, he had sucec'eded in getting the Governm(,Mit's sand ion for .*::(!(),( )()0 in s[(ile of tla^ protest ot' his co-trustees; and thirdly, he had deceived the Minister of l"]ducation as to the plans in blank which W(!re sul)mitteil for linal adoption l)y the GoNcrnmeiit. With sut'li an eni;ouia^iiig series of successes, an ade[it like Mr. Mulock was not to be balked from linishing his plans of providing for all the other departuuMits of the Medical Faculty, roCil,;. niu' i-in'itn. That ho was prepared to use decep- tion, if necessary, his conduct in the; case of tlu' Anatomical liuilding amply proves. That he did us(! deception of some kind is in mifest from the (!(neinnient's well-known refusal to allow the University to spend a dollar for ordinary medical teaching pur[)oses, still less for Clinical teaching in conniictioii with a hospital. In fact, the Government's attitude fr(jm lcSS7 onwards was so dticided on this ipiestion of the sup[iort of the Medical Faculty that, even if the Senate and the Hoard of Trustees had joined in a unanimous I'ecommcnda- tion of the lease of the College street property to the. Park Hospital, there would not have been tlu! .slighti.'st hope of obtaining the consent of the Kxecutive. What valiu;, tluMi, are we to attach to an alleged a])|)roval of the lease, obtained liy some artitice of the Vice-Chan- cellcM" ? — an a,p|)roval about as valuable as that sc^cured by him when he submitted to the Government the blank plans of the .\natoiuicil building. That tin; Government were equally dticeived in both cases plainly .appears from their ])ublic declaration inaths about two months after the execution of (he lease, t) the ell'ect that not one dollar of the public moinn' had been, or was l)eing, s[>i!iit for medicil teaching pur[)oses (see sec. (i). 10. But let us hear .Mr. .Mulock, who, insto id of beginning with the chargiss against him.self, "takes the lib,!rty of presenting to us in detail the history of the Park Hospital IG sflicme." The first jmiiit wortliy of noto in tliis tedious hciwint is liis roforence to tho t'.SiiiV)lisIiiiient of tlic Lmw Fuculty, tli('ii[)i)oiiitiii(!iith in whidi, he iiK'ideiitally roniiukH, " iir, a eliai'jtje on tiiogcnciiil rcsourct's of the University." Such a statement, if uncori'ected ami UDOxplained, is, of conise, calcuhitcd to ereate the iinjucssion thiit tliere is as mnch reason foi' supporting,' tiie .Medical Faculty out of Univeisity funds as for payiuLj the j)ruf«'ssors oi constitutional law and Jurisprudence, and, accordiuyly, I would direct attention to that part of the Chancellor's (•(imniencenient address wherein he sIkiws that these so-called Law sul)jects are really sul)jects which the University Ai't places in the same category as Latin, Mathe- matics and other hranches of the Arts course^ and that no ))r()vision exists for paying the lecturers on puicly professional suhjects out of University funds. 11. With regard to Mr. ^lacdoujdd's proposal, in 1SS7, to establish the hospital, it .seems that that gentleman wrote a hotter alioul the matter to ^Ir. Mulock, and that some- V)ody (presumal)ly Mr. INfulock) suhndtted a ilraft agreement to the Trustees, who thereupon passed a resolution of thanks. Spe.'iking of tlies(! proceedings, Mr. Mulock says : '"From a ])erusal of the diaft agreement and letter and resolution the Senate will understand that the J»oard of Trustees accepted Mr. ,M Mcdonald's gift on tli<' terms, amongst others, thalthe University was to provide the site." Now, as neitliei' Mr. .Macdonald's letter nor a Mank agi'eement ciadd ))ossil)ly hind the Trustees, theii' undertaking, if it existed, to provide a site would be in their i)ul)lislied resolution. I'lit I have lookeil in \ain tor it, and have come to the conclusion tli.'it the undeitaking in i|Uestion w;i.s alioul a-: mythicid as that of the citizens of Toi'onto on whos(! behalf the Trustess gratefidly acknowledged the generous offer of Ml', Macdon.'ild. And in so al)staining from giving any siu'h undertaking the I'onrd evidently realized the fact that it was not within its power to do .so. 1'2. In connection with the proceedings of the ii\-e or six gentlemen who practically constituted the Board of th(! Park Hospital, it is curious to notice the extiMordinary amount of foi'mality observed liy them, as evidenced by tlie lengthy .icconnt which Mr. Mulock gives of .some of tlu'i,' proceedings. Whilst this tedious ii'cital serves the obvious purpose of leading waders away iVom tla^ real (juestion, it fortunately proves to us that had these gentlemen inteiuled to give such undijrtaking as ]\Ir. .Mulock asserts tlujy did, they would have indicated their intentions in the most form.il manner, as would become a body so mindful of the necessitv for formality in their proceedings. 13. liCt me now explain the posit imi of the College stieet lots before they Avere seized by Mr. ^Mulock for the hospital. From his ow n statement it iippeurs that Wyclitle College desired to lease these two lots, aiid chiimed that she was cut itleij •' to have some considera- tion in regard thereto," but "that the I'niversity Fxi.ird w;is not prei)ared to assent to" their claim. This was the situation in 18S7, when, /irrsto .' the lots in (juestion were with- drawn from the control oi the 'I'rustees i)y the (loveinment. Now observe the assumed uncert^unty of Air. Mulock in referring to this .act. A connnunication cann* " he thinks from the Minister of Fducation '" .m1)ouI. the matter ; " he does not s])eak with positiv<'ness as to the tenor of this letter," but merely says that it "created the impression on his mind that the disposition of thi'se lots was really withdnivvn fVom the. IJoard."* Now what is all this cloudy talk intended to conceal ? That it vvas Mr. Mulock who overrode the Trustees by getting the Minister to intervcuie in the matter, 'i'hat this act was Mr. M\dock's is indeed evident, (1) because we now know that in March, 1SS9, he overrode; his co-Trustees in a similar manner in connection with the proposed expemliturt! of SGO.OOO for building pui'[)oses, and (2) because thei-e was no one but Mr, IMulock to do the act, and no one else who had any ulterior jdans which called for such tactics. 14. What thi'M vvas the situation at this time (Xovember, 18S7) ? Mr. Macdonald's proposid to give !^-IO,000 to founil a hospital had been made. Whatever may have been the private understanding between him and Mr. ]Mulock, the University Ti'ustees certninly had made no offer of a free site, as indeiMl they wcndd not have been justified in doing without the s.uiction of the Government, whose Trustees they were. As to the College street lots, they had been withdrawn from the control of the J>oard clearly at the instiga- *Ry rcfcriing' to tlic liur.sar'.s si.itiMucnt, p:i^'o — , it will lie seen that Nh'. Mul()(^k is incorrect as to tlio pnriifiit <>r tlic Minister's letter, which nuTcly ;iskc(l the Board to " defer cnnsideratiou of appliea- tidus of parties to lease " tiiese lots. This re((uest Mr. Mulouk di.stiats into a withdrawal from tiie control of the Trustees whuni he accordingly had ignored. reference to the V leiuiiikH, " ar iincoiicctecl inxd as inucli leason he pi'ofessDi'.s oi tion to tliat pait t'd |ja\v sul)jct't.s s liatiii, .Mathe- for ijaviii'' the 1 » o tin; liospital, it and tliat sonie- , who thciciipon k says : '• Kioni uidcfstand that otlicis, tlial th( tor noi- a l)lank to ])i'ovi(lt' a sitt and Iiavc vnnw as that of tliti ic i^'cncrous oHoi- kill'' the lioard 17 tion of Ml". Mulock, who was llius indopumhint of lh(! Ti iiste-es whi-n thu time caiuf to carry out his schiMncs with I'c^'ard to the htts in i|m'stion. 15. And now ensncd a very oonsidi-rahh" dehiy before the pnrcliase of WyclifFe ('olle^f I)y tlie Park H().s])ital Tiustecs. Durini; this period, as Mr. Muhiek informs ns, " the attitude of tlie lJni\('rslty l»oard t<»wards tlic proposal was oik; of ^'eneral approval," whatever that very indetiniti! statement may menu. ^Ir. Mulock also informs ns that ho is " not aware of havin;,' ever heard any olijeetioii to the proposal as to the site finally .selticted," which is cvtremely proliahh', seeing,' that i he exact nature of the proposal r(Mnaine(l a profound secret, and only liecame known, even to the authorities, a few months ago. 10. liet'ore advertini,' to tht; so-called approval hy the Minister of Education of the lease of the Colleifo street lots, I wish to direct attention to the tact that there were three transactions which were put thr()U<,di hy Mr. Mulock at the same time : ( 1 ) Tlu! transfer of the Wycliti'.' (Jolle^e and site from VVyclitH- Colie'i;e to the Park Hospital for .^(iO,OU(J, lo (2) the hiase of the new sit(! hy tiie University to Wyclili'e Collejje, and {'•>) the lease of k the (,'olle;j;(! street lots hy the University to the Park Jlosj)ital. iS'ose that had these lid, they would 'ome a hody s(j ley Mere seized yclillo College (line consiilera- t(j assent to " ion were with- •(■ the assumed lie " he thinks til positivene.ss 11 on his mind sow what is all e the Trustees r. Mulock's is lis co-Trustees )0 for liuilding id no one else r. Macdonald'.s may have been istees certainly ititied in doing to the College at the instiga- is incorrect as to iitioii of ivpplioii- Irawiil from tiic whidi lit; is careful not to give, " the Minister agreed with him that they would not he justilied in adopting any course that insolvcd delay."' Now, whilst this may he true with re • ustitied in adopting any course tnar insoivcd delay. i'Now, wniist tins may dc true wiin egard to the first transaction, it does not appear Mhy the last could not have been delayed for mature consider ition. l)elay in this case would have meant, of cour.sc, certain failure to .secure tin; (^illege street lots, and this is proliably flu; reason why Mr. Mulock, Avlio had all the details of his scheme carefully worked out, took care to lump his re(jue.sts for the Minister's approval. Indeed, the fact that the new site of Wyclifle had been selected, and the complicated terms of the lease arranged, shows that the settlement of the.se ))reliminaries w.as the work of we( ks, if not of months, and goes to prove that IVFr. Mulock purposely waited for some occasion on which he could rejicat his achievement.s in connection with tli(> blank plans of the AnatDmical building. 17. That the Minister gave the desired ajiprovals we know. That he would have given his assent in the case of tlm College street lots had li(> understood the transaction no one will pretend who knows what the avowed policy of the Minister in this matter is really not more material than what he said in the case of the Anatomical building plans, and tlieie- fore it is not necessary to dwell on tlu; ^Minister's statement that he was given to under- .stand, amongst other things, that the University Trustees had approved of the transac- tion. What is material, however, is the undoubted fact that Mr. Mulock did not, when g(;tting the Minister's .approval in an alleged case of nrgency, clearly explain, as was his ])lain duty, that the University was giving, and tlie (iovernment approving of giving, upwards of S7r),0()0 for Clinical teaching ; and, further, that the (h)veriimeiit was jiossibly committing the University to a further indefinite ex]ienditure for like pui poses. li). The Minister's approval was obtained on January 4, 1890, and on January 7 IMr. ]MuIock presents a lengthy report to th(> Park Hospital Trustees, fiv(; niemljers lieing present, in which he dt;votcs fifty six lines to transaction No. 1 above referred to, and one line to the niatt(>r of the College street lots. In this docunieiit, which is so overloaded with details about the former matter that tlu; latter is completely hidden, ^Mr. Mulock inform.s us that he undertook to act on his own responsiltility in the former transaction without •' having obtained iirevious authoritv " from his collcaifnes, becau.se "there was danger of the matter receiving publicity, which might perhaps endangei the carrying out of the scheme." As to the lease of the College street lots, it is .significant that he takes care 3 18 II to iniiksi'(pient action on iln' pait of .Mr. .Muloek's four co-Trnstises could all'ect the matter. When, tlnuefore, Tlr. Mnlock triumphantly produces a minute of the ITniversity lioard of January IHli to apparently prove that these same gentlemen, lu'ing mcndiers of hoili IJoards, appro\cd of the same three transani-tions referr«'d to nhove, it is snlHcient to point out that so far as the ("i^llcge street lots were concerned Mr. Mulock was asking them to (mgage in a fa ice, (I) liecaiise the transaction was closet! two flays lieforc, ami sul)se(pient approval could lia\'e no nie.iiiing or ellect, and ('J) hecaiisi* he iiad nearly three years ij(;fore got the Minister of Ivliication to .send a (Communication, tlie elfect of which, he .says, was to witlidr.iw the disposition of the lots from the ISoard. In fact this former action of his relieves liis colleagues of all I'csponsihility in this matter, for theic^ is no ]ireteiu'e tli.it they wiM'c i ver consulted iis to the disposition of these par- ticular lots liefore they were linally craiisferrtid to the ]*aik Hospital l)y the Minister on Janu.''.rv 4, USUI). 21. And now let. us examine the contends "show tliat the interests of tlie main |irrs. (ieikie, l>yerson and (ha.sett, who affirm that "it was Mr. Macdonald's intention and express wish and determination to have Trinity ^Medical College and the University of 1'oronto ecpially lepresenttMl'' on tlie staflf of tlie hospital ? If so, then it would appear that Mr. Mulock is also open to the very serious charge of taking advantage of Air. Macdonald's helphiss condition, and of arranging the terms of the lease to suit his own views. In the interests of the Univer.sity so sei'ious a charge as this should not be allowed to rest unanswered. 24. But the question I have now to deal with is, as already hinted, not the merits of the hospital scheme, but the further charge against tlic; Vice-Chancellor that without the knowledge of the Senate he undertook to commit them to tiie dangerous cour.se of taking a leap in the dark in connection with hospital teaching and maintenance. Tliis he liim-self confesses he did in 1887, when he arranged with INIr. Macdonald the terms of the proposed "Amy Macdonald" Hospital; and again, in 1890, when he incorporated in the lease of the College street lots provisions intended to connnit the Senate to the project of iccliii^' (Jaiiimrj lis of liis couisc," Icliiiitt! a|iiir()val s|)ital, till! stat»!- cso (.•oiii|)liiii('iit- cr^'s sijj;intiir(! to i.f Mr. Muloi-k's wliic'li is tliat liy (,' College .strot't ractically settled four fo-Tnistoos idiiccs a iniiiiite anit.' ■^t'litlciiicn, (•MS rcfci'r'cd to e conconiod Mr. was closed two (■_') hufaiisc Ik; iiiiui.ication, the tlic Hoard. In ill tliis matter, Ml of tliL'se |»ar- tlu' Minister on it'll Mr. 3Iulock oiisidered." Jn itlicr cases have sity Senate lia.s istees, " to erect ■s, and for these pay ibr (.'jinical lock \ciitiire.s to way of rent, I'e- •ilher by sellinj: er venture.soMJO 'ii(\y in the hos- tile scheme so le strictures of of the Univtr- enjoyed by the 1 (hasett, who 'termination to ssented " on tiie ilso open to the idition, and of the University )t the merits of lat without tlie oiir.se of taking riiis he iiim-self terms of the rporated in the > the })roject of 19 erecting medical buildings and enga;.;!!!;,' in Clinical teaching. And further, if tlion^ wiu* no other evidence of his ciilp;il)ilil.y in this matter, wo have sutlicient jiroof in the fact tlitib he maintained a jj;iiilty silence for years nut 11 a chance encpilry in the Senat(( led to the present revelations and disclosed the .secret ,!.,Mme he had lieen Ioiil,' playing to rob the Arts Faculty and to saddle the ITuiversity with the siijijiort of the .Medical Faculty. 2'). Let me now restate wh.at I coiisidcM' to Ijc tlii' main charges ag:iinst Mr. Mulock in connection with the Park Hospital scheme. Tht^ lirst is, that he overrode the University Trustees liy getting the College street lots, as he says, " withdrawn from " theii control in 1SS7. 'I'lie second is, that he ol)tain(!d thc^ approv d of the Minister of Kducation to the alicn.itioii of these lots by misrejiresentntions .nid liy cnlp.ibh^ failure to explain the natiM'e of the transaction. The third is, tliiit he usiirpecl the powers of the Senate and of tlie Coverniiieiit in arriuiging the terms of the lease. And tlieri! is now the I'urther serious charge involved in the declMiations of Drs. ({eikie, Hyerson .and (li'astitt, that in arranging llie.se terms he was fipparentiy guilty of a l)reiicli of f.dtli with Mr. .Miicdonald when that gciitleMian wiisoii his deittlidied. 20. Neither in his defence to the Senate nor since its .ippearaiice has Mr. Mulock attempted to iiiiswer these charges. fiideed, he h.is iniblushingly a\oi(led them, conlident ill the virtues of his guiding inoito : " /).■ /' innfurr^ I'lirarn (If /' itiihii-i\ rl, hinjonrH de V •iH'lii'ji:'' Acting in accoid.nice sviih this luaxiiii, he li.is tre.ited us to ;i long and irrelevant dis(|uisitioii about the rise and f.ill of the I'ai-k llosjiital sclieiiie. The cliaigt>s against lii.S wrongful acts he di>.lo',-ts into an attack uj)!)!! that scheme, which as.sault, ho says, "will be reganlcd as .liined at our Medicil I'^atadty."' Reraises visions of sanguinai'y encounters which are to follow when "the literary side of the University arms itself again.st the scieiitiiic, and the Arts Faculty against the .Medical," and "when e;icli shall .seek their .•lilies amongst our confeiler.ited and alliliated Uiiivcrsiti(?s and ( 'olleges,'" "a stat(! of atlairs" having "but one I'lid, the destruction of the University." Tn answer to which it is sutlicient to say that tin' literary Jiiid scientific departments have united in protesting against his act in alienating the (Jollege street propiM'ty ; tint there is the utmost harmony between the Arts and Medical Faculties ; and that the University is perfectly sate from destruction so long as .Mr. .Afulock is not permitted to direct its [lolicy, or to continue his (congenial worlc of foment ing internal dissensions. 27 l..et me. ill coiielusion, direct attention to Mr. Mulock's nnscrupulous suggestion that there! exists a. disposition to \iolate tin- terms of Ci)nfedei'.ition. " I would remind those,'' he .says, " who seek to make a point against the development of the Science side of the University, that the I'liiveisity must keep faith with those who endor.sed Confederii- liou." Now, in the first place, who i)ut Air. Mulock (jiverted the money wdiich was voted in M.irch, ISSD, for the Science departments to the erection of the Anatomical building, and who imt .Mr. Mulock thereby .arrested tlu! development of the Geological dcpirtmeiit? SeL'ondly, what are the Science departments whose development Confeder- ation still reipiire.s, if tliey an; not Chemistry and .Slineralogy and Geology i And who are the fcderationists who maintain that .Anatomy and hosjiital work lielong to the ScicMice departments of the Uiiivei'sity ? Ihit when .Mr. Mulock sugg(!sts the existence of bad faith in others, h(> should ilraw the line before hinting that iiit(!grity and uprightness have been his lH;setting virtues. "Every action of tlu! University," he .says, "should be an object lesson of what is honourable and true."' W.is it then honourable and true to submit blank plans for Anatomy, wlitai Confederation rcipiiied Mineralogy and tieology ? Was it honourable to endow a hospital when (Confederation required a Chemical Laboratory ? And who are the fcderationists or anti-federationists who will dare to say that it was either honourable o" true to take the money of a j)hilanthro])ist wdio was "dangerously ill ' and disregard his wishes I Yours, etc., J. S. Toronto, July 8. I ACTION 01' TIIK ITNTV^KIiSlTY COLLKdK ALTMNI ASSOCIATION, Moved by Dr. A. 15. Macnlhmi, I5.A., Pli.D., .sm.ml.'d l.y Piot A. 0. McKiiy, M.A (professor in McMiister UniviMsity), iiiul ciuiuhI: " Tliat in v'ww of tlic jirlion of ilie I'lirk Jlospitul Trustees in iippointing tlie Viee-Ciiancellor and Dr. Ili)slt lot.s, and aliont (he present unsatisfactory condition of the Paris Hospital scheme, and in view of the e.spie^r.cd (loiicol' the Minister of Education to facilitate a settlement of the difliculties in (piestion, tliis Association deems it expedient to express the hope that the steps so taken towarils ai raiij^iu!,' for a conference on these important niatter.s will be followed at an early date liy correspomling action on tlie part of the Senate." THE IJ N I \' K i J sri' V S K N A '!' K. To the Kdilor of Thr Moll. Siu,- In to-day's issue of the }fiiil Mr. Walter IJarwiik pul'lishes u manifesto on the subject of the University Senate Elections, in which he makes some extraoidinary asser- tions regardijig myself, and I take the oppoitunity olf'ered by your (•ohinins of drawini;- his attention to these misstatements, and to tlie advisability of iiis makiiii; the nece.ssary correction.s. In this manifesto he says ; - "A number of the lecturers in the college came to the rem lii-iuii tli:il tliey should in the interests of their ilep.artments b(! made professors, and rc.iirci\ ■•!! tlir idea that a nwolution of the Senate recomnn;ndiiig tlair appointmeut wimld seiiiri' tin' desired result. After nearly a year's log-rolling, a resohition was, in (lie fall of ISO(l, sidimit(ed to (he Senate, recommending that the following college lee(uroit\ted professors," Also again : — "The interests .if the University are not to be' promoted by men \\ ho would go to tlie Senate with personal interests of their own to serve. Mr. I >,ile aims a( bciiih of llio I'lirk 11(1 jilso of Uic lltt(H'.S to IllCft tiii'ulticM wliich Illlsiltitsfiictol'V r iIk' Mini.stfi' oci.-ilioii (It.'eins »!■ 11 COnfcl'fllCT' ill'' action on iiift'sto on tlic >i(liiiiii'y iiSNcr if diawiiii;' liis tlif iicccssiii'V I tlicy should '• iiic(l ri'siili. lliitird (o (|„. I>ale, S(jii,iir, Shortly after tliih two other' ha-tin'crs, wliosn naiiu's arc not iiniong tliosn onumoratod liy Mr. Itaruick, aslvnl me (o t^'i'^n with them a Mienmrial for inrri'iise in Halai'v, and they yavo nie to unihM'stand tliat if 1 .sij,'iii'd it the Vice ( 'hanceihtr, witfi wlioni one of tlit'in was ill coinniiiiiicatioii, wouhl l)e likely to consider it fa\ ciniihly. I decidedly refused to siifii this or any siniilitr nieniorial. Their applii'atioii met with a fate like that which l)el'ell tho report of llu! ((iniinittco on the nitsinorial of the other lecturers. In Octoher of last yeai', the conmiittoe of tla^ Senate on the Medical Faculty, tlio ('hancellor idCKidiiiL.', reconiineiided that F l)e made inofessor of physioloffy in the Medical l''aeulty, and the Senate adopt 'd the recoinineMdatinn. That put mo in the anomalons position of iiein;^' professor in one faculty of the Ihiiversity while lecturer in another, an arrangement which i would he loath to accept had not matters in the Medical Faculty reached a stage in which some active interference on my pnrt f considered absolutely ju'cessary. and the appointment to a professorship gave me .'in opportunity for assisting in bringing ahont a considi ralily improved condition of alluirs. Tliis result has reconciled nie somewhat to the position I occupy ; lint could 1 Vie convinced that the niainteiiaiice of the present s;tt isl'actory condition of atliiirs in the Medical I'aciilty did not recpiire my hunihle elloi ts I would resign my pro(■e.^sorslli]) in it at once. Let iiie repeat for .Mr. iJarwick's information: 1 have never a.sked or applied for a jirofessorship or seat in the IJnivijrsity Oouncil or medical faculty. J have never intimated or hinted that I had any desire for the same. J have never entertained the idea that I could adxance my interests liy liccoming a meiiil)er of the S(Miate. Whether 1 have the anihition to lie a professor in the Arts Faculty can hardly lie Mr. Darwick's concern, seeing tint I lia\(' iie\er striven in any shape or fashion that he can he aware of to attain that position. .Mr. itarwick, who has lieen regular in his attendance at Senate ineetings, ought tf) have known the true state of atl'airs. So grossly has he misjuilged my motives that it ajipoars to me almost unnecessary to .say that the piihlic oiiglit to receive with reserve his views as to the motives and character of niv collciiijues. I await Mr. Il.iiwicks reply. I trust that whatever results the present contest produces it ought not to cause him to forget the gentleman's code — iioltlense obliye. Yours, etc., ToiioNTO. Au-Mst 1. A. B MACALLUM. would go to iiig appointed . Fraser to a the jilace of I iecturer.s, of I tli(f Univer- tce appointed reported to li liink would iiate adojited ink accorded nd decidedly ilso 1)6 taken mended that leiwise, with kvas dictated MR. BARWICK CALLED DOWN. To the Editor of the Mail Sir, — In ^londay's Mail appeared a letter from Mr. Walter Darwick, in which occurred tlie following : — " A number of the lecturers in tlu^ College; came to the conclusion that they should, in the interests of their departments, be made jirofessors, and conceived the idea that a resolution of the Senate recommending their appointment would secure the desired result. After nearly a yeai''s log-rolling, a resolution wa.s, in the fall of 1890, submitted to the Senate, recommending that the following college lecturers, namely, Messrs. Dale, Squair, Fra.ser, VaiiderSinissen and Dr. A. B. ^lacallum be appointed professors." In answer to this statement 1 append the following extracts from the proceedings of Senate ; — "Octolier 10, 1890. — Letter from the lecturers in the departments of Latin, French, Oerinan, Italian and Spanish, asking the Sen.ate to take into consideration the lack of reprcsentiition in the University and College Councils of the above-named departments. )l r22 Tin's letter wiis icfi'in'd ti) ii ioiimiittt'u foiisistiiij; of the Vit'eClmiicciloi', tlio Presideiitp Pi'iiicilxil Citveii, l'riiH'i|>iil (iiillimitli, Mr. I'lniLrte, Prof. Loudon and Dr. KIliH." At A Hul)Hei|Uent inictin;; Princ-ipid Ciiveii, who Itad hwu flcitcd chairniun, preseittiMl A report witli the follow in;,' (indin^^H: — " 1. The ;,'('in'rid siiliiccts tdiiylit by the menioi iidistH, whetht'i' in view of their iniportiinee, or of t!ir nnniliri' of stmlents connct'tcd with lliem, linvt- a \tdid claim to Itu represented on the University Conncil or on the Council of I'nisciHity ('olleye. "2. The C'oiinnittce has every reason to lielieve that the siiijjccts or d( |iiii'tinentH of liiiiin, French, . Macallnni, le- nd t ted to it oil pri'seiiialioii of its lepoi t (III I lie iiieiiioriiil of the lectin els in Latin, Kreiicli, (Jerman, Ilaliiin imd Spmiish, with the view of eoiisiilerinu whether the recommendation liaah; in regard to the lecturers on the alin\e sulijects slaaild apjily also to Dr. aMacalhim and thesuliject of physiulo-y taiiyht liy liiin." " The committee tiiids that the suhjeci taught liy ]h: ]\iacalluni is not in any such sense suhordinate to l)i"leyy ii.s to make it ini|iiiipcidi' iiiinen s.siry that this snliject should be I'epre.sentcd on the {'nuiicil of llie L'nivi ivity, and that there wdiild he positive advan taye in haviny it independently represented." "The committee further lias ahiindaiit evidence that Dr. Mat dlum has discharged his duties with nuicli ( lliciency. It is therefore recommended to the Senate that the rank tA' profes.sor shall lie sought for Dr. .Macalliim as for the gentlemen teaching the suhjects dealt witli in the previous report." On the motion for adoption (he C!liaiicellor proposed and carried the following amendment: — " Tiiat the departiiii'iils in (|iie.sli(iii sjiuiild he represented, and that the (lovernnieiit be recpiested to take such siejis l)y ameiiil.itoiy legislation, the apptjintmeiit of professors, or otherwi.se, as may accom|iiish the result." I may add tliat no n (pu si for |iromotion to jn'ofessorships came either tvi flii' Senate or the committee from IIkm- geiitlin.eii. and tliat J)r. iMacalhini made no application whatsoever. The view taken hy the Chaiiiellor vv.i.- that the ( iov ci iimeiit slionid take the .sole resjionsihility of niaking pidiiKitioiis or appointnieiits in these ca.ses, and that the Senate should not make a rccoiiin.eiKliilion. It will lie ohseived, however, that the ajipli- cation of the memorialists was c.iiiiid. 1 lioj;e ]Mr. I'larwick will i,ot icipiire any sugges- tion as to theeouise he should now pursue in view of the inacctiiai'ies in his statement. ToiiONTO, August 4. Yours, etc., J. UALIU5AIT1L SiK. iilVairs cDiiimitl) and Mr. HCI vit'CHI with tilt Chancel 1. i ! ( iovoiiniu'iit of piut'cssuis, >• the Soiiaic I) iiip|ilifiitii)i( : slnjiild t.iUc iiiid that tilt' hilt the iijijih (• any Miyys- stutcllK'llt. I'.lJAiTll , tho President, Kllis." iiinii, |n»',st'iit.'(l \it'\v of thfir iliil chiiiii to U> \t'iH'. I< Iiartiiicnts of i(hi('tfd liy the • lie indiiiotcd (hf I'luvd'sitv ho (lovciiiiiiciit t till' liullic nt a« ai'cordiiijily i i addition : - | .MacalliMii, )»■ ' liMtiii, Kiciich, coninM'ndatiiiii l)r. Macalhin" t in any ^n(•h i •sulijcft .sl.onld o.Nitivf advaii diHC'hargfd hi.s (t the ranis of ; tho sulijfft.s the followin'' I 23 UNIVKIISITV AIKAIUS. Hii{, I hiivi' to ask yoiif iicrniissioii ffir .s|»aff to answer tho manifesto on l- niver.sity iill'airs pnlilished in Munday's Mam, liy Mr. Walter liarwick, in wliieli ho appears u>* a i-oniiniltee ot one in the interest of eertain ;{entlenitMi, prondnent anion^' whom ait; hini.s(>lf and Mr, Mnloek, if I may jnd;L,'e from his cumplimenlary referenees In the distinLjni.^hed services of the pair juir mtliilf fratrinn. It isto oe regretted that Mr. Uaiwick in dealin,n with the important matters now In'tore the I'nist'r.'-ity j,'raduatos re.smts to the Vico- t'haneell(»i''s taetios of e\adiny the re.d issues and ndsreprosoiitiii',' his erities, I. Mr. liarwick l)e;{ins liy ciniiplainin:,' that in asking; for help in " a ernsade ai^ainst those who practice or endorse crookedness in l'ni\crsily admiin.-'tration." I was aiudiijH at liilu and eertain other ;,'entlemeii, vi/. , Mr. .lustice l'\ilc(>nlirid;,'e, I'rof. I'aker, Mr, Mac- Murchy, Mr. Aylesworth, Mr. fxiiiLt, .Mr, Coyne, and Mr, Darwick, To he lirict'. let me .say in answei- to this cliari;(' that my words had lefcrence to the \'ice-()hancellirwic!i,it is not necessary that I slnudd ddine his po.^ilion, as he has done so himself. What he ohjects tn, I presume, is that I shoidd ajijily the term 'crooked' lo certain acts of .Mi. .Miilo'k. In jnstihea- tion thereof I ha\e merely to point lo the pl.iin. unvarnisheil tales told hy the I'ursar and llie archileet and to t he cijitorial comments of I he pi'css I may also refer .M r. I t.irwick to th(> Commencement addrc-s of the ( 'li.iincllor, in which, after yivini; a \ery full account of Mr. Mu lock's deal iiiLJs in I lie matter of I he .\ii;itoinical liiiildiiii,' and certain fees, he empha- sizi's the importance in Senate administi atioii of eschewing " the crooked and covered way." Does Mr. liarwick imagine that this reference ot Mr. Mlake's was directed ag.ainst the man in the moon? In common with the whole rniversity \ think the rcferenc(i was to the man at Mr. I'arwick's elliow, \ iy, , Mr. Mnloclc, ami so I prestime Mr. liarwick was justilied in fitting the e:ip to his own he;el when I rcfei red to tho-ewho emlorsed .Mr. .M (dock's pecniiar met liod-i. Mr. li.irwick', however, should not assume that lieeaiise tho cup (its him he must put ii on the heads ot' .Messrs. Coviie and .\yle-.wortli. ■_'. In referring to the recently issued manifesto, in which the new policy of the Chancellor is detim^d and the old one of the \'ice-t'haiicelhjr eondomneil, Mr. liarwick s.iys that '"in the main, (iveryoiie of the aliove seven graduates can suliscrihe" thoi'cto. Messrs. (Joyiie and Aylesworth can do so, of course, hut how can tln^ other.s? Let us see how many of the ten jilanks .Mr. liarwick can accept, ('an he suhscrihe to No. 7, which condemns Mr. Muloek's .■tction in the ere(;tion of the .Vnatomical liuililing ? His recorded vote says no. Can hesuhscrilie to Xo. S, which condemns Mr, Miilock's action in the Park hospital transaction? His recorded vote stiys no. Can ho suliscrilio to No. !), which says that tho complications about the Colh'ge street lots should he emiuired into ? His recoriled vc^te again .says no. Can .Mr. I'arwick, after endorsing .Mr. Muloek's ae'tion in ignoring tho Senate in such important matters, consistently suh.soril)(> to No. ."), which declares that the Senato " should b(! allowed the full oxerci.s<( of its rightful functions f No! Can Mr. liarwick after a|)proving of Mr. Muloek's iuition in sultmitting tho plans of the Hiological Building addition to the trustees and not to tho Senate consistt-ntly say, as declared in No, G, that "it is manifestly not pi'opc^r that the trustees should super.sede tho Senate in the oxorcise of its peculiar fuimtions, as it was asked to do in the matter of the plans fur the Bi(dogical i)uilding addition! CiM'taiidy not. If, then, Mr. liarwick cannot consistently sub.scriljo toiivo out of tlu! t(!n planks in the nianifosto, is it proper for him to say that he can "cor- dially" sup)K)rt it in tho main 1 •'}. Mr. IJarwick confesses that his arduous labours in connection with tho library have proventod liini " from becoming fully acquainted with University politics." Notwith- standing this confo.ssion of a slijht lack in omniscience, Mr. liarwick proceeds to inform us that tho University College Alumni A.ssociatiun was formed "for tho purpose of pro- moting the interests of the college as against those of all other sections of the University. 24 < li I Now, I am iiwaro tliat liis pretensions to omiascionoc in liljniry matters cause some amusement in tlic facility, Itut it is only after discovering,' the inaccuracies of liis manifesto about University affairs tliat I fully aj)|)iTciate wliy |)eo|>le sometimes smile. Now, why does Mr. ]Jarwick omit all reference to the Univer.sity and its faculty, in whose interest Jmd that of University College the association is expressly stated to lie fornuid ? Mr. Barwick of course knows that there is a Medical Alunnii Association, that there is also a Victoria College Alumni Association, and that there are similar associations in Knox and Wyclitfe. He knows perfectly well that all these memhers of the University "had devised such a scli in the domain of University politics is responsible for the absurd mistake committed by Mr. liarwick in this particular instance. With yiiur permission, 1 shall continue my criticism of Mr. Iiarwick's manifesto in a day or two. Yours, etc., ToROXTO, August ;3rd, 1892. J. SQUAIR. UNtVERSTTY AFFAIllS.-Mlt. P.AllWICKS BLUNDERS. To the Editor i>f tlie Midi. f>u\, — Will you kindly permit me to contiinie the criticism of Mr. Iiarwick's mani- festo of last Monday, which I began in last Thursday's issue of your paper. 4. The next matter touched on by ^fr. Barwick is the apjilication of certain lecturers in the University to have their departments represented on the c(juncils. On this subject Mr. Barwick has made so many misstatements ihat I observe he has been ''called down" by Di'. Macallum, and also by Prof Calbraith, who was a mend»er of the committee to vhoni the apjilication was referred. As to the idiarge of log-rolling in this coiumction it is not a new one, for it was made during the discussion by the Viccj-Chancellor, who was compelled to apologize in the Senate by the chaii'm:in of the committee, Principal Caven. AVith regard, however, to Llu^ application in (juesrion, although the justice of the claim was recognized, as shewn ])y Mr. Blake's I'esolution for which Mr. P>arwick votcnl, it still remains an unaccomplished reform. In other words, the departments of Latin, French, Oerman, Italian and Spanish, are still without repr(>sentation on the councils of the College anil University. As these councils simd representatives in rotation to the Senate, it follows that the important departments in (juestion are without representation on the Senate, and the only way left to secure such rc^presentation is to appeal to the graduates. That is why I am specially interested in i\w candidattn-e of .Messrs. Dale and vander- Smisseu, to whom Mr. I]arwick objects, although on gcmeral grounds these gentlemen will surely make quite as worthy representatives of the graduates as Mr. Barwick. One (pi(\s- tion, then, before the electors is this : Are the important departments of Latin, French, German, Italian and Spanish not as fully entitled to representation on the Senate as 31 r. Barwick's firm, which is re})resent(!d l)y ^[essr.s. ]\!oss, I5arwick. Hoyles, and Ayleswcn-th, and which can point to another Senator, Mr. Justice Falccmbridge, as a recent partner. Why, sir, this Hrm, together with Mr. Mulock and his thick and thin supporters, Messrs. Marsh, Crcelman, l>aker, and Drs. A. H. Wright and Macfarlane, constitute a majority of the Senate at its ordinary meetings. ^\v. Aylesworth excepted, the.se gentlemen consti- tute the real "cominne" who are manipidated l)y Mr. Mulock. But apart altogether from the evil consef|uences which have already tlow(!d from this dangert>us combine, \ ask the graduates, Is it reasonable that Mr. JJarwick's Hrm should have such a pre[)onderating an representi members but as th: tation of adilitioii Seath. ' gHNit adv in the pr; to otler a( the Sena al)out till Univer.sit would pi'iifouni \ . ••'• ' ? ciation, •' wild a justify SI to deal I based on answered will be ti I Piof. I'.al " the Vice way in tl long as t one he w the Park favour of to go to < ("reebnaii made by articles o in a posii loftv the i ti. ] contest r Are we t from M Barwick his own " iio to t is possib with the as Mr. i fi'om hii ])olicy ol Barwick ordiu' to has notl As other e( those ei matters advice Associa m'ged t d's cause soino A' ]iis iiiiuiif'csto s sinil(^ Now, ciilty, in wliose to 1)(^ foniMid ? Iiat tlieio is ;ilso HIS ill Knox and ly "had devised (lerod necessary iSf)ci.itioii, wlieii < "calamitous"? •I'sity politics is iciil.ii- instance. nifcsto in a day SQUAIJl. lis. ii'wiclc s iiiaiii- 31-taiii lecturers Dii tliis siiliject ■' called down " coiiiiuittee to s connection it ■el lor, who was cipal Caveii. ce of the claim c vottnl, it still Liitiii, French, oimcils of th(! to the Senate, itation on the the gi'ad nates, e and vander- fentlemen will k. One (jut^s- ..atin, French, MMiate as Mr. I Aylesworth, ;cent partner, •rters, Messrs. a majority of Icnieii coiisti- toLjetlier from iiio, r ask the roponderating representation as it has? Under other circuiiistaiices. if the Senate contained a tlionsand mendiers it might lie proper to comply with Mr Hai wick's demands oa belialf of his firm, but as that Ixidy is limited, I would respectfully suggest that tor the present the represen- tation of this tirm he limited hy leaving at least .Mr. I>arwick at home. I remark that in addition to .Messrs. Dale and vaiiderSiiiissen, .Mr. IVirwick takes e.xception also to Mr. Seath. There can he no douht that the presence of Mr. Seath on the Senate would he of great advantage to education in our country. Jle is a gentleman whose life has lieen sp(!nt in the ]iractical working of our educational system, and no man is better (pialili(!d than he to offer advice on all those intricate practical proljl(Mns which it is the main business of the Senate to solve. ft is particularly desir.dih; to have mc'inbers of" Senate who know all aliout the schools of our count ry. so that the relations subsisting lietween them and the University may be iii. -dy adju.^ted. .Men like Mr. Scuth. .Mr. iJallard, or Mr. Tytler would be of iiilinitely more .scr\ ice than a shipload of men like Mr. IJarwick, wdio are profoundly ignor;int of cducat ional problmis. ."). ill referring to the attitude of the press, and the proceedings of the Alumni Asso- , ciation, .Mr. I'.arwick speaks of " uiitiiithl'ul newspaper articles" on tlu; one hand, and ■'wild and iiicorr<-ct speeches" on (he otlu-r, but he does not favour, us with anything to justify such stiong language. In this coniKMjtioii, Mi'. Barwick had a spleiulid o;iportunity to deal with the articles in tlie Mdil, which contained no untruthful stat(Mnents, Ijeiiig * based on the otficial documents of th(! Senate. Why liav(! these articles iievei- been answered? When .Mr. IJarwick has pointed out the errors of fact oi' judgment in thtmi it ; will lie time enough for him to talk of untruthfulness, but not before. Let me also invite I Prof. I'aker to do the same, who at one meeting of the Aluiniii Ass(jciation declared that the Vice-Chancellor '"had been attacked in a scandalous, highly ofleiisivt;, and per.sonal way in the ])ublic press," and als('( .Mr. .Marsh, who at the same iiuMniiig asserted that "so long as the Senate was dragooned either through the jiulilic jiress or a meeting like the one he was adilres-^ing, the Senate would not pass the motion ' to apjioint a committee on the Park Hospital matter, although "he was, under certain luodilicatious, personally in fa\()ur of it '—an attitude reminding one of the Irishman's pig, wdiich couM only be got t(; go to Cork by driving him to IMarney. If these gentleineu will not reply, jierhaps Mr. (.'reelman will, inasmuch as, in his opinion, the alleged newspaper attacks " ought not to l)e made by any man having gentlemanly instincts. " When these gentlemen dispose of the articles of th(> newspapers which were so othnisive to tln-ir refined sensiiiilities, we shall be in a position to judge who are they who deliver "wild and incorrect speeches" on the , lofty theme of Vice-Chaiicellor Mulock's wonderful doings. I (!. i am sure all will agree with .Mr. P)arwick that it will be a calamity if the pre.sent ; contest results in ((xclu)tiie allotment of rooms to the physical department. As Prof. Loudon has alr(.'ady disj)oscd ot the last two cases Ijy shuwing that at the time they were arranged the Senate iiad nothing to do with such matters, it is not neccssirv i'or me to sav anvthiii'' tiirthei'. I am surprised, however, to hear tliat there was anything irreguliir in tiie appointment of M r. I'aker to the chair of mathematics, and I shall be "lad to hear from Mr. l>arwick some further explanation in addition to his brief complaint about this particidar business. Whatt-vcr the irregularity may have been it can liardly lu- laid at the door of Prof. Ijoudon, who was in Germany during the year tho event occurred. Let us have more light. .Mr. Parwick, on this important event in the caicer of Prof. IJakcr. Put even supposing that former Senates did not fully exerci.se their powers and perform their duties, did that fact justify tlH>ii' cliairm.in, Vice-Chancellor ^Inlnck, in concealing fiom the Senate such important matters as the erection of an Anatomii'al building, tlie gift of l.imls fur iiospital iiurjioses, and his airangement to erect, equip ami maintain further liuildiugs for medical teaching purposes? Did the alleged apathy of tlu' Senate excuse the deception practi<'ed in these matters by the Vicr' ('h.incf llor on the P.nard of 'I'mstees and the <;o\ernment ? Does Mr. Barwick yet understmid that the m.ain charge ag.ainst the Vice ( 'jiaueellor is his policy of deception, which he has carried on so long? Such a policy is not t) be justified or (;on- doned even if 'Sir. I'arwick's absurd claims as to the value of the Vice-Chancellor's services and the amount of his contributions to the University were True which to my mind is Very doubtful. As to the coutiMitiou that .Mr. ^[ulock inherited ids pecidiar metho.ls of adnnir istration from his predecessors, I presiinu> that, so far as his policy of deception is con- cerned, Mr. Parwick will adnnt that it was Mr. NLdock's own peculiar atti-il)Ute, and that none of it cam(> from the prcvi'ias \ i<'i> . liaucellors, ( 'liicf .Tiisli'c Moss, Dr. L. W. Snutli, and .^L■. Langton. Ff Mr. IJarwick does not adnnt this, will he pdint out wh(>rein any of the.se gentlemen deceiveil either the Senat<» or th(> ( JoN-erniiieiit .' Furtlua'. will he cite cases to prove that ( 'liieC dusfice .^^oss usui'ped the powers ot the Seuat(! oi- iu any way I'esembled the novel ty]ie of Vice-( 'hancellor which nas introduced for th(> first, and let us hope last, time into Univeisity adnunistration in the per.son of Mr. Mulock. 8. With regard to ^Tr. Houston's uiitions oi; the P.irl-; Hospital transaction and the Anatomicid building T shall allow Mr. Houston himself to speak. That "investigation of these two ipu'stious is now desiied by the ViceChancellof." as Mr. P>arwick declai-es, I am slow to bi'lievc. Tf true, the dechiralion is the first sign of penitence which the Vice-Chnncello)- has y(^t exhibited, but it is strangely inconsistent with the attitude which he a.ssumed at the meeting of the Senate, when, after tin; carrying of the whitewashing resolution, as I understand, he suggested the withdiawal of .Mr. Ifouston's motion for an investigation into the An.atomic.al building matter, although Mr. Aylesworth had pointed out the exp(!diency of the Vice-Chancellor's insisting there anil then on a full investigation. As to the Park Hospital matter, it is (pute safe to court in\H'stigation in the f'utni'e, becau.se that is sure to come with the advent of the n(!W Senate ; but why was such inves- tigation voted down last June? And why did jNIr. Parwick endor.se Mr. Muloek's action in l)oth the.se matters before an investigation into either had taken place? In the official statements already made, and the truth of which is umjuestidned, \ thiidc there is more than enough evid(MH;e on which to condemn Mr. Mulock ; but no additional evidence is likely to cause 'Slv. liarwick to revoke his endor.sation of "Sir. Midock's actions. 9. Tn conclusion, let me .say, that my opposition to the Vice-Chaiicellor does not rest alone on the charges which hav(^ lieen made in connection with the two matters aljove referred to J n comuion with other members of the faculty and exannneis generally, I ', liave other ichaiges afo experi(Micei who has sti disastrous i in disguise, Uiuver.sity To RON SlH,^ — he made a1 in the publ 1. He and the l>ii mover' and feeling agai one of the moved by i to investig: statement < doing oi' si warranted investii,'ation. in the future, vas sucii iiives- lu look's action In the official there is more lal evidence is ins. ' does not I'cst matters above s generally, I i i have other grounds which, from an educational point of view, are more serious than the chatge.s aforesaid ; grounds which will be readily understood by any e.vaminer wlio lias ever experienced the overbearing conduct of the Vice-Cliancellor at examiner.s' meetings, or^ who has struggled with others to jirevent him impairing our standards. On tliis account disastrous as his inroads on the endowment have been, 1 should look upon them as blessings in disguise, greater than even the tire, if their di.scovery leads to his withdrawal fiom University administration. Yours, etc., Toronto, August G. J. SQUAIR, UNIVERSITY SENATE ELECTION To the Editor of the Mail. SiK, — After giving Mr. Walter T'ai wick time to correct some nii.sstatenients which Uie made about myself in his recently pulilished addre.ss tu the graduates, I find it necessary in the public intere.st to correct them for him. 1. He alleges that " when the resolutions with regard to the Park Hospital Trust and tlie Iliological building were introduceil into the; Se'-.att', they were dealt with liy the ino\('r and seconder of the resolution in sueh a Tiianner that it was manifest personal ^ feeling against the Vice-(.'lianci'llor jirompttd the resolution." As a matter of fact, only ji one of the resolutions aliove referred to was introduced at the iiaa'ting, and that was \ moved by myself and seconded by I'rof. Louilon. It was the one asking for a committee to investigate the Park IIo: [lital (piestion. In mo\iiig it, I conliiied myself to the barest i stati'iiient of the facts laid bcfor(! the Senate in the ibirsar's report ; I imputed no wrong /j doing or sinister motives to anybody, and 1 s;iid nothing that in the slightest degree j warranted Mr. Parwick's accusation. Mr. Mulock has, since that meeting, in the presence J of others, exjiressly informed me that he had no objection to my manner of dealing with the subject, and I shall be surprised to find that he approves of ^Ir. Parwick's uncalled i for attack on me. It is efjually uncalled for as regards Prof. Loudon, who made no remarks i at all in seconding my motion. We both expected that the Senate would appoint the committee, and did not deem it necessarv to artrue in favour of a conr.-,e thai was so obviously the proper one to take. '1. ^Fr. Parwick alleges that "every head of a federated university and afliliat(;d college expressed him.self as opposed to the resolution for this reason "' — that is to say, becau.se the mover and seconiler were apparently actuated by per.sonal feeling against Mr. Mulock. As a matter of fact, not a member of Senate, head of College, or other found fault with our manner of introilucing the matter, and therefori- .Mr. Parwick's assertion is absolutely untrue. Nothing we said had any eli'eet whatever in evoking op[iosition to V my motion to appoint a committee. I 3. y\v. liarwiek alleges that " investiiiatioii of tlie.se two (piestions is desired by the I Vice-Chancellor." 1 was not awan; that Mr. Mulock ever expressed such a desire, liut !; now that he has done so he can easily lie accomiuodated. If he had iieen at all eager for ■ it he should have asked the Senate to puss my resolution, for he could not object to its j)er.sonnel, especially ;is he had been, Mith Dr. lloskin, ajipointed by the i'ark Hospital ■ Poard to confer with the Senate committee and with one representing the University trustees. The joint committee would then have been made up of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Hoskin, Prof. Loudon, Dr. Maclaren, Dr. Cameron, Mr. Aylesworth, > Prof. Galbraith and myself. Mr. Parwick cannot name a more representative committee now. Of course, to have passed my i ('.solution after l^r. Purwa.sirs that night was not to be thought of. " Jeddart justice " was hanging a man first and trying him afterwards; the proposal to try the Vice-Chancellor after acijuitting him is just as exquisitely, if not so grindy, humorous. 28 4. Mr. Bai-wiok cliaryi's ine witli iitttMiipting to '' niiii Mi'. Mulock's career." The l»e»t iuiswor (o this (.•liiu'm! is to Ik; I'oiiiul in tlu; text of tlie aniendinent whicli I moved as a .substitute foi' Dr. Burwasli's sweeping exculpation :— " While there is no reason to doubt that the Yice-Chancellor, in his action with respect to the lease of the College sti-eet lots to the Paik Hospital Board, and the erection of the addition to the biological Ijuilding was actuated by a desire to promote the interest ot the University, tliis Senate caimot approve of his conduct in neglecting to consult it on such important mattei's of academical policy." This amendment was voted down by an overwhelming mnjority, amongst whom we;e Mr. Barwick, Mr. Justice Faleonbridgcs Prof. Baker, ^Vv. MacMur<'hy, Mr. Marsh, and Mr. ('reelh)an. The only representatives of the graduates who voted foi' it l)esides myself were Pi'of. Loudon, I'mf. (Jalbrailh, and .Mr. ^laeleaii. in sjjite of Mr. I'arwick's as.sertinn to the contrary, that amendment correctly defines my attitude towards tlie Vice-Cliancell(»r and his policy on tiie two matters in ijuestion. Mutatis mntaiulis it defines my attituile towards the whole administrative policy of the University. Ft is in strict accoi'd with the University Act, wiiicli declares that the Senate .shall, subject to the provisions of the Income and Property Act, "have the management of and superintend(^ncy over the affairs and business of the Univer.sity." I know that my reiteration (jf this view of the Senates functions and my persistent efibrts to magnify the Senate's oflice liave been very tiresome to the Vice-Chancellor, but there is a vast difference between ti-ying to " ruin his career," and tryiijg to thwart his policy regarding a great puldic trust, in relation to whicli I have as good a right to my opinion as he has to his. Mr. Barwick may b(! }trepareil to abnegate his .senatorial functions to the Yice-Chancellor ; I am not, and no one knows this better than 3Ir. Mulock d>es, after our experience of ten years together. In connection with this same accusation let mo add that he has held his \''ice-Cliancellor8liip for the past three years on my nomination, made under circumstances of which Iit^ retains, I am certain, a vivid recollection, though apparently Mr. Barwick eithtir never knew or has forgotten them. r». ]Mr. Barwick refieats the Vice-Chancellor's own plea of extenuation, that the practice of consulting the Senate on important ipieslions of policy is of late growth. Even if this assertion were true it would not justify Mr. Mulock's admitted persistent and suc- ce.ssful efforts to keep from the public, the Senate, the University Trustees, the l.itMitenant- (iovei'nor-in-Couii.:il, and the Legislative .As.sembly the fact that the addition to the J5iological liuildiiig was really intended for inetllcal teaching purposes when he was asking an apjtro- priation to provide increased accommodation f(n' science. But the assertion is not true. It is, in fact, an aspersion on every previous occupant of ^^r. ^luloek's oflice, as tin; minutes of the Senate abundantly prove. Mr. .Muldck is the first Yice-Chancellor wdio ever thought of ignoring, not to say deceiving, the Senat(! in .a matter of so much importance as either the Park Hospital or the IJiological building extension. Yours, etc. WM. HOUSTON. Toronto, August 10. UNlYEltSTTY MATTERS. To the Editor of the Mail. Sii{, — In the Mail of August 1 and Augu.st 2, respectively, appear .somewhat lengthy contriliutions from Mr. Walter Barwick, and one who declares himself " A Signer of the Manifesto."' Both these gentlemen seem to be labouring under an amount of excitement — due, perhaps, to the hot weather — that has caused them, for the time being, to allow their irritability to run away with their sound judgment and common . 29 sense. Two letters to tlie press "full of sound iiud fury, signifyin-,' iiotliing," an; the re- sult of awakening to the consciousTiess that the old order of things was c-lianging and yielding to tlu; new. Like many persons wiion disturhed from a slumber that is pleasing to theui, they give way to their passions, as soon as aroused, and vent tlieir torrent of abuse on the heads of those who have been alive and active whilst they slept. When the.sc two gentlemen come, therefore, as mentors and advisers, before the liody of graduates interested in the approaching election of meMd)ers to servo on the Senate of i\w University of Toronto, it is but too painfully apparent, as indeed ]\Ir. Harwick naively confesses, that the one "has been prevented i'rom becoming fully acquainted with Univer- sity politics," while the innocent admission of tiie other " Of ^lessrs. IJallard, of Hamilton; Tytler, of (iuelph ; and Uerridge,of Ottawa, I know very little, and, after miicli searching, I can add nothing to my store of knowledge," shows him to bo in a most lamentable con- dition of ignorance and misinformation. Mr. I'lU'wick and his somewhat "slangy" coadjutor, make a sei'ious mistake if tliey think to delude tiie graduates by their jioisy and aliiisive liietoric. Tliev will gain no votes for their candidates by abandoning the logic of facts and dcNoting tliemselves to a campaign of vitujieration, in wiiicli they seem anxious to exhaust the vocal)ulary of the ward politician, witli whose methods, to judge from their skilful employment of his language, they are, doul)tless, cpiite familiar. At the risk of rendering myself guilty of the heinous crime of lesc-Mulock, which the fertile l)rain of the eminent iiX'. has educed as the most cxalled fui ni of academical high- ti'easovi, 1 would liaxcsa few plain wdids with him and his fiimd The present I'lisis is .■; serious one in the history of our Provincial Uni\i'rsity. it is sain I'oi- .Mr. I'aiwick. or any other friend of tin- Vice-(."hanccllor. to attempt to draw a red lieiiing over the trail in tlie hope of thereliy divt'iting the attention of the giaduates .■lud the jiiililic from the ri'al question at issue. Messrs. Scpiair, Dale. N'aniierSiiiissen, I'Vaser, lOllis, and Loudon, graduates (jf Tniversity College and of the Uni\eisity ot 'i'oronto, who !i,i\-e long been. and ari' now, lighting the battles of theii' alma iimtei- alike anains; open Ines and enemies in tin,' guise of friends, are now on t rial, as the undcrlin-s of tlic \'ire ( 'liancidlor would seek to have us belie\'e. The crinu> of the men is not that tlcyare •' olllre stMdcers," '• log- rollcM's," or "cabalists" which assuredly they are not — but that, laliC)uring in the inter- ests of higher education, tliey have arrayed themselves against, the woi-st " cli(pie " and most desperatt! ••cal)al " that the history of tins University has ever knouii. Having trod- den on the toes of some of thc^ real '' cab.alists " and " log follers." tliey are now e.\[)cri- encingthe usual outpouring of wrath and I'esentnient. The consciousness of having ]ier- formed their duty well, in having sti'ivcn for rigiils w illi which they ought long ago to have been invested not professorial chair's, tliitugh they all deser\-e them, lait |iroper recog- nition of their important departments and ade(|uate icprcsentation of tla^n on the govern- ing board of the college, together with the gi'atilude of their alma niatcr for the eiforts tiiey made topi-event her sacrifice at the hands of :ni iiic.ipnble \ice-ch:incclloi' will serve to extinguish any resentment they might feel at tiie niifoiinde(l and unnianly insinuations of illinforiiHHl h'tter-writcrs. No, INIr. Darwick, et al., you have no case, mid abusing the plaintilfs attorney will not win you tiie cause. It is Mr. Mulock, tiie X'iceChancelhjr, wliosi? trial is now pro- ceeding, and indess you occiijiy yourself in a badly needed defence of the policy which has brought the University into financial straits and disreiMiie, >ileiice will be more el(M|uent on his iieliali' than all the al)iisi\(' I'jiistles his friends may veniure to iiillict upon tlie public. ]\Ii'. Mulock and his methods have had the veil turn Irom them, and they stand forth in all their nakedness. when the Vice- "ign whilt! the I have no fear of the verdict. To lie pi; - .- „. — ^.-. . ., ..V, plain, the time has pass(H Chanccdlor can po.se as "Sir Oracle," and expect profound silence to jmiducts of his academical genius are lieiiig lioiii and reared. if, as we are told by Mi Harwick, Mr. Muhjck "has devoted more ot" his means to educalioiiM" otl illairs than any when ler man ui Ontario," the University has bought his charity at too dear a cost, and, len tlie a-gis of his " protection" shall have been withdrawn from her, she will not falter -• - Q.. J .... ..... [.. ,,vv,v^v..^.. .............. .......... .i.,1 .... ,1 .. ...i. JI, ., ..... .. ..I liwu i.lH,V. 1 or wither, but grow stronger and more alile to withstand the attacks of her foes, and respond to the hopes and wishes of her friends 30 It is tlio " lUHv policy "' agiiiiist tlie old, ns roprosontt'd Ity tho Vioe-CIiancellor and Ills cotorie, tVoui whom tlio roccnt cvaiij{c.s for the licttcr in the University — ^few they are, l)Ut full of pioMiis(! — have liwn wrt'stcd hy the intoiposition of Mie hononrod Cliancollor, who, coiivinfcd liy unaiiswcraltli' facts, is making it liis caic tliat justice shall ho done. In tlie way of these necessary icfonnK, yielding only when ahsohitely forced to do so, are 'Sir. .Mulock and his supporters. If the graduates desir(> to give the Hon. T'Mward Jilake and the true fi'iends of tlu! University a fair chance to oai'iy out the policy outlintv.l in the words of the cloijuent t'lKincelloi' liimsclf : -•' To administer its resources to the best advantage, to appiv so far as the-^e resources allow, all tlie most modern and approved methods, and to vindicate its existence in the futme, as they luditne tlu-y have done in till- ))ast,"' thev will help to remove the prt^seiit VietvtJhaneelloi" and thosi? iiienii)eis of the >!eiiate who have hcen his supporters in tlie I'ark Hospital and I'.iological hiiilding scheme, and see that in futuic everytiiing is done honestly and ahove Uoard. In his whole policy the Vice-Chancellor is inimical to the hest interests of the University -not merely in its financial hut in its educational aspects als((. It is no secret that he has been opposed to the raising t)f the slandiird for matriculation and jiass gr.idiiaiion. In this he h;.s i»een assisted ]>y a professoi' who didn't sign the matiilesto, hut who obtained an otiice, .and who, in more tlian oix' instance, has allied himself with the reactionary forces. The idea of the coteri(! to whicli liiese lioth belong is that the University "should not mak(( it hard" for the sous of rich men " who must iia\e a degiee" to gr.aduate tVom our gi.and provin- cial institution. Financially and edncatiomdly the Univeisiiy will do wtill to shake ofF entirely these men and seek the counsel nf others, whose promises to husband her i-esources and to guard her honour will be no empty ones. ^Ir. i'arwick .■md his friends are particularly annoyed at the existence and activity of the " Alumni A.ssociation." ft is the /icf'- uoiri' of their lucubrations. To read their excited j)rotests one would l)e le(l to think thai there li.ad suddenly sprung up in our midst an academical "'l";nnmany,"' the members of which were all " ward heelers "' and "political liacks ' of the most a])prove(l sort. If if be wrong, if it be a crime, tor the graduates to gath(>r tou'ethei' for the protection of their alma inatei- in her hour of peril, then the members of the ".Alumni .Association" are wrong-doers ami criminals, jf to protest by all lawful m Mirs against the mutilation of her endowment atid th(» aspersion of her honour be •' log-i'olling," then are they " loff-rollers.'' Jf to denoiuice an olt'eiider and to demand his dismissal from oflice be •' reprehensible electioneering cabals," tliey must |ilead guilty to the charge. Hut tlu^se charges have no foundation except in the im.igination (;f ;i few of the nu)ie excitable of the friends of the Vice-Chancellor and his metluids. I for one am not ashamed to be nf ihnse wh ) decline to .^land idlv bv and permit the real " ax(\grindi'is ' and false friends of l'ni\(!i sity Colle^i; to eontiinui to end.inger the very existence of inv alma mater, that u'l'and old cnllen'e that tor so maiiv vears has stood firm as the exiiomuit of unseetari.an higher education. iNfy advice to the graduates of. the University of Toronto is : Pay no attention to ^' weak inventions of the em-my," but vole to support the Chanctdlor of the University in the new programme of reform which he has inaugurated, liy I'eturning to the .Senate the twehe candidates who will support the •• new policy," the juinouncement of wdio.se candi- dature has .so I'lifllcd the temper of Air. Darwick ami others of Mi'. AIul(.)ck's friends. Yours, etc.. week. TOUONTO, Aug. ?) ANt)TJIER SlGNEll OF THE MANIFESTO 31 PllUF. BAKER'S STATEMENT. To the Eililur of t/f Mail. Silt, — III Pnit'i'ssof linker's p;i)KM', rciid iit the nicfting of tlic Alumni Assnciation last >v(;i'k, I liml the fdllowiu!,' .scntcnct' : - " Kdi- tlic hoMpitiil liuuls, if iiiiytliim,' over comes of tlie liosidUil sclu'iiit", w»r are to r»,'eeiv(i tli(^ fees of tijo stud.Mits, wiiieJi me;uis aljoiit live jtur cent, on tlie value of tlit; lands — its much as is rt;ceived iiny wiicre i'or leased lands.' This is said in e\tenn,ition of Mr. Mulock's conduct in leasin^' lots S and 1), facing i'ollege street, to the Park Hospital for UO!) years. I have looked np tht! sultjccb since Professoi- I'.aker's paper was puMished, and tind it extremely diHiciilt, if not impossil)le, to reconcile the ahov(> statement with facts. It is currenlly reporte(| in University circles that Professoi- I'aker, w liom I re;,'ar.l ;is an e.xpert real estate \aluator, places tho land at 8-00 jier foot, ■and im very careful <'stimates it is rc^^arded us worth per foot .'i'loO at least. As there arc^ al)out M.HJ fci't of frontage, the land, according to the lower estimate, must be worth .^GO.OOO. It is provided in the lease; that the ITniversity sh.ill put n|i a huildnig for medical teaching purposes on thc.se lots, and pay for its niaint(Mianc(\ .\ny building put up for these pur|io>es would not coi*'<'«' of 'MDund would .sn-"esi the iiic onuiaiitv of lia\ in.,^ a xcrv lar^c toast inii' i»aii for a very small clieslniit. The total cost, tlieref jic, of the schi'ine to the irniversity would not lie less than -^St), ()()(,). Koi- this sum rrofessoi' linker appeal's to im;igine th.it tliu University will receive annually live per cent., or .•^l,0'.)(), in the shape of students' fees for liospital " walkim;-."' The cost of maintenance; would not he one cent less than .'fi'oOO, and it would, in all prohahility, lie near .'?!,. ")00. The sch(>me, therefore, to furnish li\'e per c(uit. annually to the Unis ersity chest, wduld ha\'e to ensure a rewnue of >^ jj.-jOO at least. Profes- sor Paker's suggestion that this sum, or any like stnn, would he mi't liy students' fees will scarcely hear examination. The students, ahout l'.")<) in number, who "walked" the ticneral hospital hist session, ])aid a little more than .•^.'?,Sl)l), which ;;um went into the Jlospital fund and not into tin- treasury of either medical si hool. I )epii\ed of this revenue, the(ieneral Hospital, though fairly well managed tinancially, would liiul itself in straits, 'i'he new Park Hospital will tind it necessary also to take and keep e\t'rv cent that is piiid in the shape of fees, wliate\cr tliesi' may be. Now let. us examine the ay enough now, and I .should not be sur[)rise(l if they rebelled against any attempt to "bleed " them in order to .save Messr.s. Mulock, McFai'lam; and Wright. Po.ssibly I'rofessoi Uaker has.sonu' fc^asible way for " l)leeding," but if he has I hope he will I'.xjilain how the students may stand a drain of 84,500 annually for a term of UU'.-' years ; and how, if they do stand it, tlu! Park Hospital is going to do without such sum, in ordca- to make good the loss to tho University iiu'onie. Failing to get a, satisfactory answer to these (pu'stions I shall be reluctantly com- pelled to believe that Piofessor P.dccr exhibits, what I have not yet thought possible, a lack of insight into business aflairs that is hardly consistent with niatheniatical ability. Professor Baker said furtlier, in speaking of the Anatomical building ; " If secrecy was inaintaine last meetin,, of the Alnnini .Association, I proiMisc, witli yunr |icriiiission, to deal with some of his statements to which attention lias iKpt yet Ictii dir *ei|. And, in the Hrst ])lace, 1 desire to e.\iM'<'ss surprise that, in ret'errini; to the t'ounda .on of the !tssociatioii, he should have misicprcsented the aims of those who were active in the work of orijaniz- iiig it and settinj,' it on its feet. Prof. Maker was at the in.iiiL;ural meeting, at which he })i'esided most of the evcnini,'. Mr. Dale was the chief speaker, and, as eveiyone know.s, iiis views were heartily endor.setl i)y the late president, Sir I)aniel Wilson, If Prof. Baker saw anvthinL' to condemn nt that or the next iiieetinL;-. whv did he not s])eak out ? Why nurs(! his wrath until the late meetini^, when it, explndeij in a succession of insinua- tions oi concealment, of bitterness ;ind of insim-eiity aLjainsi the oIHihts of tlm .■issoci.ation, ending in the assertion that in the proceedings they li.id ■• rieetioneering purposes " mainly in view Now, sir, ;is ;ui active nieiidu'r of the .association. I know th.-it eveiy (-H'ort was made to steer clear of electioneering laisiness : and tlie oiil\ .•itt( nipt which has so far been made in that direction was thiit of Prof. IJaker, who resorted at the Last meeting to such questionable means to get his (ilcctioneeriiig paper befor.' the iiiceting. His conduct on that occasion w;is ;i icvelation to me, as it w,is to many o(hei.>. uho thought him incapjible of such tactics. Still greater was my sur]iri>e to >fe that lie persisted in publishing unfoundtMl assertions on various matters after his inaeeuracic^ had been point ( 1 out at the meeting. The |iublication of his paiier has .accordingly proni[iteiI mc to make the follow- in' obh )ser\ations : 1. In dealing with the history of Senate control. Prof. Maker refers to the attempts of ]\rr. MulfK'k ten or twelve years ;igo '■ to interest the Senate in the finances of the Uni- versity,"' but it grieves I'rof. liakcr to lie obliged to say that tli<' "interest was so fecl)ie " that the practice of ])resenting annu:d financial reports "fell into desuetude" Now, if this little reminiscence of I'rof. JJakeis is true, how does he explain the aversion which Mr. IMulock subseipiently manifested towards letting the Senate get the liur.sar's annual statement? Js Professor Baker ignorant of the N'ice ( 'liaiicellorV attempts to kee}) the report of 1S8D-90 from the Senate, .and to spirit it away just iiefore i*^ was M'anted by a commitree? Does he not know that the report i")i'(lie next year which the Vice-(Jhanc(!llor presented showe(l that there were no funds fm a modern l,iiii,fii;igi' fellowship, altiiough the committee jifoi'csaid had presented a report showing tluit there must be funds — a conclu- sion conlirmed a few months later l)y the ('li.inceliei. who found that there svm'ci thousands of dollars for such purposes? If Prof. Muker is ignorant of tlie-e well known facts he can- not be ignorant of the Vice-Chancellor's hostile at tit mle towards the creation of the Finance Comnuttee — an attitude with which Prof Maker evidently syiiip;itlii/ed, for he refuse/., the grant of land to Victori.a ('ollege, utterly ignoring the fact 33 .liiily that the cliaractoiiHtin fdiiturc of i\\v, former transaction was tlic conccalinont practis(>(l, whilst that of the; latter was its |nililicity. The (act that Prot'. I>ai<((r puts such transac- tions as these in the same eatei,'ory seems to iiulieate that iiis etiiical sense, if ho over possessed one, has l)een duih'd hy iiis slavisli attachment to his master, or perhaps it is reserved exchisively for those liigli oHices which lie disdiargi's within tlio precincts of the deanery. 3. In referring to Mr. Houston's motion for the appointment of a committee on the College street lots, Professor Baker now takes the novel position that the motion was not really necessary — a jjosition never taken, J believe, hy anyhody exc(!pt himself. "The vote," he says, "'did not in the least prevent the encpiiry respecting the lease of the College street lots from proceeding. TIk; representatives of the Poard of Trnstes not setnn (piite consistent with his declared attachment to the princi|)leof " Senate control ;" hut will he explain how the Senate coukHx! thus iguoi'ed wIhmi .Mr. Mnlock tells us in his defence " that iht; hospital is practically under the (;ontrol of Senate," and adds, " [ trust that the Senate? will first dt-cide whether the presence of the hospital is of any, and, if so, what service to the LMiiv(?rsity." "They (tin; hospital trustees) hold oflice at the will of the Senate; and can makes no disposition of the property without the consent of the Senate." If, then, as Mr. Mulock says, the hospital trustees ai'e .so much iinder the control of the Senate, is Prof. Paker's prestMit al)surd position of any value except to show that his plank of "Senate control " disiip|i(!ai's at the nod of his master, Mr. Mulock? But will Prof. Paker explain how his presfMit attitude and his vote on the Senate about the College street lots square with his action at the meeting of the Arts Faculty, when he voted in favour of a motion which was unanimously carried, that "the Senate be reijuested to take steps with a view to the restoration of the property " in (question. Yours, etc., TouoNTO, Aug. 13th. HANS. THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. To the Editor of the Mail. Sir, — In view of the oourrcnces at the meeting of the Alunnii Association of University College, and l)ecause of the fact that the reports published give an incorrect account of the i.s.sucs between Professor Paker and my.self, I think it necessary to mako an explanation of the statements then" made by that gentleman, and of his subsequent attitude with regard to them. Professor ISaker stated that a certain medical " ticket " claimed, in their platform, that the University should furnish frc.ui its endowment funds for the chairs of physiology, anatomy and })atliology, and that certain Arts graduates, whom he would not name, were secretly .supporting this raid on the endowment. As there is but one; medical " ticket," on which are the nanu's of Drs. Cameron, Reeve, Mullin and jMacallum, it was plain to everyone that the; chai'go was directed against me and my colleagues. So far as I was concerned, it a])i)eared practically to be an insinuation that I had entered on a campaign for the purpose! of promoting my own interests in connootion with the chair of physiology, and it was at this that I fe-lt indignant. Even had he omitteel all reference to the depart- ment of physiology, the charge, as he put it, was extremely unfjur, and I am glad to say that he now recognizes that it is so. He removed fi-om the paper, before publishing it, all the sentences containing this charge, and he has made a full apology on this score, having admitted to me that he had misinterpreted our attitude. I deem this explanation necessary, because the omission of this charge from the published paper would lead the readers of the various reports to believe that I was refuting charges that were not made. 5 84 Our platfoi'in, wiiich Professor Baker inisinterproted, is Hiiiiilar to that of the Chan- cellor, Mr. liliikf, (wlio certiiiiily ciiniiot be accused of hostility to the arts faculty of the Univeisity), and states that when the needs of the Arts Faculty are met, substantial aid nhoiild be granted to the scientific departments connected with medicine. Mr. Blake, in his convocation address deliveied thi.s year, held that the departments of anatoniy, patho logy, and sanitary science should be thus assisted, and that tlie University public should l)e educated up to the point of granting this assistance. Our platform does not go further than that of the Chancellor, and it is apparently in agreement with the tenth section of the Arts manifesto, which reads as follows : — " We gladly recognize the great and growing value of the medical faculty. We deem it the duty of the university to encoinage, as far as cii-cuinstances and our prior obligations permit, the promotion of medical education ; and we shall welcome the day when the university can afford to give substantial aid for such purjjoses." The platform containing this clause is supported by about two hundred Arts graduates, including Professors Alexander, Hume, Hutton, Elli.s, Gall)raith, Loudon and RIcCurdy. Even Profe.»*sor Baker and Mr. Barwick admit that the platform is such as they can sup- port, and I have not yet heard anyone; condemn it. That being the case, it may be safely assumed that our platform has on the point in question the approval of the University public. Some of the supporters of Drs. A. H. Wright and ^IcFarlano have, for the purpose, apparently, of injuring the candidature of the " ticket," used this part of our platform to indicate that we support Mr. Mulock's course during the last five years. To state this charge is but to refute it. Yours, etc., Toronto, August 6. A. B. MACALLUM. (This letter is substantially the same as one sent to the Gloue but not published). UNIVERSITY SENATE ELECTIONS. To the Editor of the Globe. Sir, — In the Globe of August 12, "Graduate" takes upon himself the rdle made familiar to us by the efforts of Mr. Barwick and Prof. Baker. It is the same old policy of misrepresentation and abuse — the same attempt by vituperating Mr. Squair, Mr. Houston and others, by impugning their honesty and devotion to their alma mater, and by deliberately distorting fact into fiction, to divert the attention of the graduates of the University from the real question at issue in these elections — the actions of Mr. Mulock and his conduct as Vice-Chancellor. The personal attacks and insinuations need no reply ; they refute themselves. I can only assure "Graduate" that the airing he has given his vocabulary will advantage his party even less than the more pretentious displays of his confederates. "Graduate" seems to allow the Senate's "whitewashing" of Mr. Mulock to loom so large in his horizon as to obscure everything else. He seems to think that the Senate is the only body competent to pass judgment on these matters. Let me tell him that there are other and important bodies \*^hich do not agree with the Senate : (a) The faculty, almost to a man, are opposed to Mr. Mulock's general policy in University matters. They have, by resolution, expressed their disap))roval of his action with respect to the Park Hospital. In their opposition to the system of "meddling and muddling," inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor, the faculty represent a principle the maintenance of which is essential to the welfare of the University. S6 ) Clmn- of tho tial aid e, in liiH , patho loiilil Ih) further :tion of (h) Tlio Alttmni AsHOciation, roproHontiiig tho gradiiatra of Uiiivorsity Oollogn and tho Univorsity of Toronto, has paSHf'd a Mimilar n^sohition. Tho attempt of Prof. Baker and Mr. King to delude the Ahiiuni by an ingenious compound of tiction and abuHO brought out the fact that tho majority of graduutcH opposed to Air. Mulock is simply overwhehiiing. (c) Ap|)arently, the Board of Trustees have lost confidence in Mr. Mulock, inasmuch as he is no longer their ('hairman — Mr. Blake having been elected Chuirmau, and Mr. Hoskin Vice-Chairman. (./) That Air. Mulock has not the approval of tho Government seems evident from tho follo'i'Mig statement of the Chancellor in his address delivered at the last Convocation of the I 'ui versify : "They (tho members of the Covcrnment) stated that they had lately ascertained that the addition to the JJiological building was d(!signod, not wholly for the science purposes of the University, but partly for the medical teaching of anatomy ; and that they had lately understood that examination and degree fees, and tuition fees, for services rendered at the exjjonse of the Arts or general funds, were being put to the credit of the Medical Faculty funds. They added that the action taken in these matters, being in contravention of their understanding and intention, policy and pledges, could not bo maintained, and that the existing arrangements must be modified ; and they requested us to devise sonie plan under which the addition to tho Biological building should, according to the authority for its construction, be devoted exclusively to the science purposes of the University, and some arrangement under which the general or Arts funds should receive tho fees referred to." The Minister of Education has also stated, with regartl to the lease of the College street lots, his willingness to consent to the restoration of the property to the University, if possible. (e) That the Chancellor, the Hon. Edward Blake, lacks confidence in Mr. Mulock, can bo seen both from his deeds and his words. If the Chancellor has so much confidence in Mr. Mulock, why has he taken the chair at meetings of the Senate to the exclusion of the Vice-Chancellor 1 Why has he taken upon himself the direction of University affairs, if Mr. Mulock's rigime has been the undisguised blessing that his friends would make it out to be ? What mean the investigations and reports undertaken and prepared by the Chan- cellor himself 1 If "Graduate" cannot comprehend tho import of the Chancellor's advice to Mr. Mulock and his associates, not " to proceed by some crooked or covered way," he may bo able to understand the following tribute to the Vice-Chancellor's administrative genius, paid by Mr. Blake in his Convocation Address of June last : '* And, indeed, a large part of tho time of some of us has been ever since devoted to efforts to disentangle, with the least possible disturbance of existing arrangements, and the least damage to the important interests concerned, the complications in which these questions had become involved." And "Graduate," forsooth, would have us support the talented innovator to whose "dis- interested efforts " in academical matters we owe this policy of "blundering," the full development of which has been arrested by the interiwsition of Mr. Blake. The graduates will, I trust, stand firm at the side of their tried and trusted Chancellor, who has bent his energies to the task of disentangling the complications which have arisen through the mistaken policy of Mr. Mulock. " Graduate" says that certain members of the faculty ai'o in favour of enlarging the powers of the Senate as regards academical aj)pointments. Let him produce some evidence to shew that any of tho men in question are in favour of this, which seems to have been a feature in tho old policy of tho Vice-Chancellor, as is shown by the fact that, on a certain occasion, Mr. Mulock having advanced the candidature of a certain individual for a pro- fessorship, and being incensed at the Government because they did not take his advice, headed a deputation in favour of establishing a board of patronage, on which occasion, it is said, ho gave the Government collectively a piece of his mind, in language more forcible than elegant. If, then, blame attaches to any one for having advocated " the policy of enlarging the powers of the Senate in the matter of academical appointments," why does " Graduate " not put it on tho right shoulders 1 • « 36 "Oraduatc " r«'it<'?'iitoH tlio foUM(lationlt plain answer to tliiH niiHi'e|)i'*!8oiitation is that, as rrot'c'ssoi' riidliniith has shown, mmi' of ihcsi' vjcntlonicn havi! cvor askcul thu Ht'iuito for advanc<>ni(iit, iiml tliat it is not tlitt fiinitiou of th(! Scnatu to niako rccoiniiicndutionti for promotions, still Ichh to make ap]iciintnioiits. If any fiirthor proof of tiiin is iieodnd, what iicttcr csidcncti tran we havti tlian iIm! fact that tim Senato is perfectly neutral at tlio present time, when several appointments aro pendiiif,' 1 Th(3 real functions of the Hcnato aro to settle the various courses of study for students, to muna<;e the examinations, and to settle the j^oneral polic^y as to tht) tleveiopment of the different departments of University study. In every other Univ(;rsity these importunt fuuctiouii are discharged by tho faculty, which generally constitute the Senate, Does " (iraduate ' pretend to say that in Toronto tho best men to give advice on those matters are, not membeis ot tlu; facidty, not educational experts like Messrs. Seath, llallard and Tytler, but l)iisiness men like Messrs. Creclman, Uarwick and King ? Does' Uradiuito" seriously aver that it is either ex|ie