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To 1 To His Excellency the Right Honorable Charles Stanley Viscount Monck, Baron Monck of Ballytrammon in the County of Wexford, Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Bruns- wick, and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice-Admiral of the same, etc., Uc, etc. The Petition of the Governors, Principal and Fellows, of McGill College and University — Respectfully Shewetii: — That your Excellency's Petitioners, In view of the present condition of the University and its limited resources, feel themselves justified and called upon earnestly to press upon the Legislature its claims for a permanent endowment, in support of which they heg leave to make the following statements : . , In an educational point of view, the growth of the University under its new charter, has surpassed the most sanguine expectations of its friends. It was in the past session instrumental in the education of 928 persons, of whom 305 were Students in Law, Medicine and Arts ; 74 Teachers in training ; 249 pupils in the High School, and the remain- der were pupils in the Model Schools. It has in the Faculty of Law 6 Professors ; in the Faculty of Medicine, 9 Professors ; in the Faculty of Arts, 10 Professors ; in the High School Department 10 Masters. There are also two Professors, two Teachers and several assistants, in the McGill Normal and Model Schools. In its buildings, the University was long inadequately accommodated ; but recently by the exertions of the Board of Governors, and the liber- ality of one of them, Wm. Molson, Esq., this disadvantage has been in a great measure removed. By the liberality of some leading citizens of Montreal, it has recently been endowed with gold Medals in Law, and. in most of the principal branches of Study in Arts. ;■"•£; 8 The University now challenges comparison with any other in North America, in the efficiency of its staff and the thoroughness of its courses of study, and is prepared to carry the scientific and literary education of young men to a d^ee of perfection not heretofore attainable in Lower Canada^ and comparable with that of the British Universities. While these results, so creditable and useful to Canada, have been attained, your Excellency's Petitioners have, from the first, had to com- plain that the important objects committed to their care, have not received an adequate amount of Provincial pecuniary support, and that their labours have, in conse(|uence, been prosecuted under many disadvantages. The total expenditure of the University for the past year, including $588 of interest on its debts, and $2018 for repairs, &c. of building (but exclusive of the Normal School and of Fees paid to Professors in Medi- cine and Law), may be stated at $31,411 ; and that an institution of this character, with so many instructing officers, should be supported on such a sum, must be regarded as an instance of economy scarcely equalled in any other similar case. Of the above sum, $6,702 are paid by the revenue of the original endowment of Mr. McGill ; $2,846 by the interest of the Endowment Fund contributed by the citizens of Montreal ; $6,019 by the fees in the High School, and $713 by the fees in the Faculty of Arts, Toward payment of the balance the Province contributes as follows : (1.) A sum of $1,000 per annum to the Medical Faculty, being the same amount paid to each of the other Medical Schools, none of which equals that of McGill in the number of Professors and Students. (2.) The sum of $1,128 to the High School Department, on con- dition that it shall educate, -free of expense, thirty pupils appointed by the Government, and whose education at the annual rate of fees would cost $1,320; the High School being distinguished from every other Superior School in Lower Canada by receiving no free grant. (3.) The sum of $2,803.97 to the College, in aid of the University generally, and of the Faculties of Arts and Law. The sum thus granted has been progressively diminished from 1854 up to the present time, as stated in the following table, though in the meantime the num- ber of students at the University and its annual expenditure for their benefit have largely increased. .1 NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND PUPILS OF HcUILL COLLEGE AND UNIYEB* SITY, FROM 1864 TO 1863, WITH THE ANNUAL GRANTS FOR THE SAME YEARS. Students. 1854 1855 1866 1857 1858 1859 1800 1861 1862 1868 In Arts 38 42 47 47 60 58 65 72 82* in Medicine,. 57 W) 90 97 108 124 146 176 177 iu Law 16 IG 80 m 87 47 45 66 48 Total Students 97 110 154 167 174 205 229 256 302 807 Pupils In H. \ .School. . . . ) 185 215 225 242 250 252 281 510 271 262 249 Total 282 325 379 409 424 457 527 664 656 9 9 8 9 9 9 • 8 S • Grants to the University. 7000 4167.77 3071.063001.07 29S2.82 2932.82 2862.28 2982.82 2862.28 2808.97 Grants to the Medical i 1000 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 looo.oo'iooo.oo 1000.00 School. Grants to the High Sch. for Educa- > 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 1128 ting 30 free Scholars... * Including 16 Students of Morrin College. JVbte.— 74 Teachers in training in the Normal School, and 300 Pupils in the Modal Schools aro excluded A-oni the aboTO table, these institutions not deriving any pecuniary support from the College. Taking into account all these sources of revenue, an annual deficienoy remained in 1863, of $10,141, not provided for by the income; and this deficiency appeared so alarming that the Governors were under the necessity of withdrawing the aids formerly given to the High School, and of dis- continuing the course of Engineering in the Faculty of Arts. Th«y were also obliged further to postpone the just claims of several Profes; i ^ for increase of their salaries, and to abstain from all additions to the Library, Museum, and Apparatus. It should also be stated that the extension of the University renders additional expenditure necessary for examinations and printing, which there are not means to defray. Your Excellency's Petitioners would further state that an inspection of the accounts will show that the utmost economy has pervaded the expen- ditures of the University, and that its efforts have been steadily directed to the provision of means of education not otherwise accessible in this country, and of a higher character than those artbrded by the ordinary Aoadcmies and Collet^cs ; thus fulfilling tho wise and benevolent intentions of the founder, and giving to our young men ihe opportunity of raising their mental culture to the level of that in older countries. It has further been an object of solicitude with the Governors to promote practical scientific training bearing on the more important professions, and they would gladly do more in this direction did their resources penuit. The following stutemonts, contained in a former memorial, may be here repeated, as enforcing the claims of the University to public aid. Firit : — The late Mr. Mcliill undoubtedly made his bequest under the expectation and implied promise that a further and sufficient endow- ment would be made by the Provincial Qovernraent. This is apparent from the circumstances under which the bequest was made. The Gov- ernor in Chief in 1801 laid before the Provincial Parliament a message in the following terms : " That His Majesty had been graciously pleased to give directions for the establishment of a competent number of Free Schools, for the instruction of children in the first rudiments of useful learning, and in the English tongue, and for foundations of a more enlarged and compre- hensive nature, and that His Majesty had been further pleased to signify His Royal intention that a suitable proportion of the lands of the Crown should be set apart, and the revenues thereof appropriated to such purposes." As a preliminary step, the Act incorporating the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning was passed, containing this message in its preamble ; and thereafter, it was intended that the " liberal grant of Crown Lands," referred to in the message, should be transferred to its control, in trust for Free Schools and " Foundations of a more enlarged and comprehensive nature," — but no grant was ever made. The late Mr. McGillwas not only an active Member of the Legislature at this time, but an Executive Councillor, and therefore, must be pre- sumed to have been thoroughly conversant with the intentions of the Imperial and Provincial Governments. By his last will he bequeathed a sum of money and his Estate of Burnside to the Royal Institution for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a University; but his endowment, liberal as it was, was yet quite inadequate for the object the Mr. tify DiJinary tcntion» ■ raising further practical nd they r be here itions for for the g, and in I compre- ;o signify le Crowu to such le Royal ning this I " liberal ansferred f a more lade. egislature 5t be pre- ns of the iqueathed istitution but his be object i I contemplated, aud it is reasonable to infer that he looked beyond it to the Royal Institution, to whom he believed that a liberal Grant of Crown Lands was to have been entrusted for a kindred purpose. His Kndowinoiit was long anterior to the establishment of any Pro- testant College in the Province, and still is the only one made in it for that purpose. Since that time hundreds of thousands of pounds have been bestowed by annual grants on Roman Catholic Educational Insti- tutions in Lower Canada ; while, in Upper Canada, several Universities have been founded, all of them participating more or less in the grants of public moneys. One of them, the University of Toronto, enjoys an endowment of 226,201 acres of land conferred by Royal Grant in 1828, from which a sum exceeding £293,883 has been already derived, and in addition to this, it received during many years for the College con- nected with it, a grant of $1,111 annually. Upper Canada College, established in 1832, was endowed by various grants between that year and the year 1835, with (J3,805 acres of land, which has yielded £55,434, and has also received an annual grant of £1000, which still con- tinues. It is further to be observed that the Universities of Queen's College and Victoria College, in Upper Canada, have had their grants raised to !ii5O0O each, beside the usual aid to their Medical Schools. Yet no permanent provision whatever has ever been made for McGill Col- lege ; and all the moneys received by it from public sources (of which the first was iu 1854) do not together amount to one-fourth of the annual revenues of the University of Toronto, or to one-tenth of the value of Mr. McGill's bequest. The largeness of that bequest and the muniticeuce with which the fund has since been increased in the sum of £15,000 by subscription in the City of Montreal, and the completion of the College buildings by Mr. William Molson, coupled with the character of the University, jus- tify your Memorialists in the hope that a corresponding spirit will be manifested by the Legislature, and that after so much has beeen done by private beneficence, the work may be completed by granting the relief now sought, and providing for the future a permanent public Endow- ment. These donations also show how urgently the want of a Protes- tant University has } en felt, and how highly its benefits are esteemed by the English population. Second! J : — Not only was the lato Mr. McGill warranted in believing that his exertions to establish a University would be supported by u Grant from the Crown Lands, but tlie Members of the Royal Institution, subsequently, were led to expect that they would have been saved the heavy expense of crectin;.; the College buildings, and that the endow- ment would have been rendered available for its future support. In the early part of 1819, the Lord Bathurst, then Colonial Secretary, instructed the (iovernor General, the Duke of lliehmond, to adopt, with as little delay us possible, the necessary measures for erecting upon Mr. McGill's property an adequate building for the instruction of youth, and His Grace was authorized to defray the expciiso thereof from the funds which might be in the hands of the llecoivcr tl the Jesuits' Estates. But for reasons unknown to the Governors, these liberal intentions on the part of Ilis Majesty were not carried into effect. Thirdly: — The University of McGill College is the only one in Lower Canada which is non-sectarian. As such it is entitled to claim, and as your Excellency's Petitioners believe, it possesses, the confidence of the Protestant community of every religious denomination. This is shown by the list of subscriptions to the Endowment Fund, in which are to be found the names of Members of the English and Scotch Churches and of the Free Church, Methodists, Congregationalists, American Presbyterians, and Unitarians ; Members of the Jewish faith have also contributed. Fourthly : — The University is not a mere private Institution founded by individual benevolence, but is public and provincial in its character. It is prepared to confer degrees not only upon the Students of its own Colleges, but, under just and salutary rules, upon those of any others which may be established in the Province, — thus rendering it unneces- sary, as without doubt it is inexpedient, to multiply the number of Educational Institutions possessing that power. A large number of scholarships in the Faculty of Arts are at the dis- posal of your Excellency, as also the presentation to thirty scholarships in the High School Department. Fifthly : — This Provincial character of the University, and the pros- perity and influence which it has attained, mark it out as the great centre and support of the higher Protestant Education in Lower Canada. As ntions on Buoh, the manageincDt of the Provincial Normal School has been confided Ut it with the approbation of the whole community; and the confidence has thus far been juslificd by complete success. A further indication of the same nature is affrjrdcd by the uffiiiiition with it (»f the St. Francis Collcf^e, Richmond, under the liberal terms provided by the Statutes of the University, Still more reocutly Morrin College, Quebec, has been affiliated, and has already sent up eleven students who have jmssed creditably the preliminary examinations of the University; and arrangements arc now in progress for affiliating the Congregational Col- lege of British Nortli Auierlcn. The affiliatlun of other Colleges and Theological Sehools is expected ; and thus the aids to higher education, which tliis country so much needs, will alwayu be available to all who juay require them^ and that in the amplest form ; for it is to bo observed that this University offers to its students not only an ordinary liberal education, but the means also of high scientific culture, and of thorou< b instruction in tho professions of Law and Medicine, and that its pn^sent position in this respect will enable it, with additional pecuniary resources, to extend itself still fur- ther in the direction of professional education. The importance and claims for .support of sucli a Central luntitution are too obvious to require argument ; and those, great as they now arc, will be augmented by the increase of population, wealth, and intelligence, bringing with them an appreciation of the value of learning and a demand for the means of its general cultivation. The 3IcGill University ought not then to be confounded with the ordinary Schools and other Educational Establishments, sectarian or non- sectarian, which abound in Lower Canada. It sttmds alone in its (character and objects, and requires from the Government a direct and special support adequate to its importance and its wants. To place it, in the distribution of Legislative aid, upon the same footing with those minor establishments which share in the fund placed in the hands of the Superintendent of Education, is an error and an injustice, not only to the University itself, but to the whole Protestant community of Lower Canada. Your Excellency's Petitioners would further, in view of the proposed Federation of the Provinces, urge the necessity of an immediate consideration of the claims above set forth, and of a permanent provision for the support of the University. 8 Your Excellency's PetitioncrB would therefore pray for a permanent endowment, and that this should be equal to an annual income of $20,000 for the College and University, and of $4000 for the High School, independently of any sum the latter may receive for the education of Government scholars. And your Excellency's Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. permanent of $20,000 igh School, due at ion of ever pvay.