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AU INTIRESTING EVENT. 
 
 Wednesday (Sept. 14, 1887) proved a red letter day at Lennoxville. 
 The pretty villas;e, nestling amid a perfect bower of beautiful trees, was 
 en fke in honour of the visit of the Governor-General and the Marchioness 
 of ItansdoWne. The weather was cloudy in the early morning, and rain 
 fell in brisk showers until noon, but after that it was Queen's representa- 
 tive's Weather. His Excellency's principal object in visiting Lennoxville, 
 on this occasion, was to receive the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws, at the 
 hands of the Chancellor, on the presentation of the Reverend Principal 
 Adams, and an address, artistically illuminated, in behalf of the University 
 of Bishop's College, from Chancellor Heneker. The University maintains 
 close connection with the great British halls of learning, Oxford and 
 Cambridge. There are always Oxford or Cambridge men in office at the 
 College, and when the Principal does not wear the scarlet hood of Oxford, 
 he is pretty sure to be an M. A., or a D. C. L., from the sister University. 
 Dr. Thomas Adams, the present able and distinguished Principal, comes 
 from Cambridge, but Rev. P. C. Read, M. A., the classical professor, is an 
 Oxford man. The visitor, His Lorship the Bishop of Quebec, is from 
 Oxford, and the new Doctor of Laws, Lord Lansdowne, is a graduate of 
 Baliol, where Dr. Jowett is master. The well equipped college itself 
 has an English university flavor about it, and the discipline and line of 
 conduct pursued are not unlike the older seats of knowledge. Bishop's 
 College is chary in the bestowal of her honors. A man must have done 
 something to be capped, and as proof that it is not the office, but the in- 
 dividual who is honored, we may mention the fact that Lord Lansdowne 
 is the first Governor-General who has been granted an honorary degree 
 since 1864, when Viscount Monck carried away a D. C. L. For degrees 
 in regular order, a man must pass a pretty stiff examination, and that is» 
 why honors from Lennoxville have a value and a prestige of which few 
 ooUeges on this side <4 the ocean can boa^t. 
 
Shortly before eleven o'clock their Excellencies, accompanied hy 
 Capts. Streatfeild and Pakenham, Mr. and Mrs. Hall and the Misses 
 Hall, and escorted by a smart-looking cavalry troop, arrived at the Col- 
 lege, They immediately entered the residence of the Principal, and were 
 received in the drawing-room by Dr. and Mrs. and Miss Adams. After a 
 brief interchange of civilities, the order of procession was formed and the 
 whole party entered Convocation hall, which was plainly but prettily de- 
 corated for the occasion, flags, and plants in full bloom, forming the chief 
 features of thd ornamentation. The first four or five rows of chairs were 
 reserved for the learned doctors, and masters of arts, n,nd invited guests- 
 The other seats were filled with guosts, students of the College, and the 
 masters and boys of the College School. Many ladies were present, whose 
 pretty and sometimes brilliant toilets, formed a striking contrast to the 
 less pronounced costumes of the College men. Lord and Lady Lansdowne 
 were received on a dais by Chancellor Heneker, Vice-Chancellor Norman, 
 of Montreal, the Bishop of Quebec, Lord Aylmer, and other gentlemen. 
 Principal Adams sat immediately in front of the Chancellor on one of the 
 first chairs on the floor. The aides-de-camp took up their positions at the 
 side. Among those present were Rev. Prof. Roe, D.D., Dean of the 
 Faculty of Divinity ; Dr. F. W. Campbell, of Montreal, Dean of the Fa- 
 culty of Medicine ; R. N. Hall, Esq., LL.D., M.P., Dean of the Faculty 
 of Law; Rev. Prof. Read, M.A., Rev. Prof. Allnatt, D.D., Rev. Prof. 
 Scarth, M.A., E. Chapman, M.A., Bursar; A. LeRay, M.A., H. J. H. 
 Petry, M.A., R. N. Hudspeth, M.A., P. E. Ritch'e, B.A., Wm. Reed, 
 Esq., of the Teaching Staff of College and School. Amongst the members 
 of the Corporation present were, besides some of those above named, Hon. 
 G. B. Baker, of Sweetsburg, Col. Kippen, Rev. C. P. Reid, D.C.L., Rev. 
 J. Hepburn, M.A., Dr. F. Slack, and the Rev. G. Thorneloe, M. A. Other 
 members of Convocation present were :- Hon. Justice Brooks, D.C.L., 
 Rev. J. Foster, M.A., Rev. T. L. Ball, M.A., Rev. L. C. Wurtele, M.A., 
 Rev. A. J. Balfour, M.A., Rev. A. Stevens, M.A., Rev. R. W. Colston, 
 M.A.,Rev. A. H. Judge, M.A., Rev. J. Eames, B.A., H. B. Brown, 
 M. A. Other members of the University present were :— Mr. G. Murray, 
 B.A., Mr. R. W. Wright, B.A., Rev. A. H. Robertson, L.S.T., and the 
 students. A large number of local friends of the Institution were also 
 present, amongst whom were Rev. J. Hooper, M. A., (Columbia) ; Rev. H. 
 Barnes, D.D., (Yale) ; W. Austin, M.D., rMcGill) ; Rev. G. H. Parker, 
 Rector of Compton ; Rev. W. T. Forsythe, Staustead ; and Messrs. Mac- 
 Donald, Abbott^ Farwell. 
 
 When the order of exercises began, at about 11 o'clock, everybody 
 stood up, and Dr. Heneker read the following address : — 
 

 
 To His Excellency, the Most Honorable Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitt MaU' 
 rice, Marquis of Lansdowne, O.C.M.G., etc., etc, Governor General of 
 the Dominion of Canada : — 
 
 May it Please Your ExdELtBNcY,— On behalf of the University of 
 Bishop's College, Lennoxville, we bid you a hearty welcome, and desire at 
 the same time to express our warm thanks for the honor conferred on the 
 College by your presence this day, accompf^nied by Lady Lansdowne. 
 
 It was with unqualified pleasure that we heard that you had consented 
 to receive our honorary degree of D. C L. , which enables us to enrol your 
 name amongst those who, by the acceptance of this degree, confer honor on 
 our University. 
 
 Your Excellency may wish to know something of our past history, and 
 of the objects sought to be attained by the founders of Bishop's College, 
 and the following statement will, we trust, enable you, to some extent, to 
 understand our position. 
 
 We do not lay claim to be either a large or richly endowed seat of 
 learning, but wc aim at doing the work we have taken in hand thoroughly 
 and in the spirit of the founder, the late Right Rev. Dr. G. J, Mountain, 
 Bishop of Quebec, a man truly apostolic in character, whose name is held 
 by all churchmen in the Province of Quebec in the greatest veneration, 
 His diocese was at the time of the foundation of the College coterminous 
 with the Province, so that Bishop's College was intended to be, and has 
 indeed since been, the Church of England University and College of this 
 Province. The College was incorporated in 1843, and created into a Uni. 
 versity in 1853 by a charter granted by Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen 
 Victoria. 
 
 The primary object of the foundation was to provide the means for ed- 
 ucating in Canada a body of clergymua, selected from the people of the 
 country, who could efficiently bring home to the people the ministration of 
 religion according to the doctrines and discipline of the Church of England. 
 It was at the same time felt that a mere theological training would not be 
 sufficient for this purpose, but that students intended for the church should 
 also receive a training in arts, and while under training should be associat- 
 ed with other students, whose object was the attainment of knowledge 
 without reference to any special profession. The system adopted was res- 
 idental in character following the great English models, although in a 
 humble way— and avoiding that method where students attend lecture? 
 only, without the careful supervision which our system aflbrds. We claim 
 also for our system that students derive incalculable advantage from their 
 daily associi^tion with the professors, who ar^ necessarily men of culture. 
 
Thus from the fint there were two faculties, arts and divinity, to which 
 have been since added law and medicine. The work of the law faculty is 
 carried on at Shorbrooke, that of medicine in Montreal, in which latter city 
 the students have the advantage of hospital training. 
 
 The College has had many warm friends and owes its entire endowment 
 to private beneficence. It receives yearly a small grant from the Superior 
 Education Fund of the Province of Quebec, but this grant is insufficient 
 even for the maintenance of one Professor, At the present time the office 
 of Principal, (who is the Professor of Mathematics) and the chair of Divin- 
 ity and Classics are endowed, and we are thereby in a position to give a 
 first-class education to our students, and to provide them with board and 
 lodging at an extremely moderate charge. The staff of professors and Lec- 
 turers is not limited to the Professorships above named, but the three 
 mentioned are specially endowed. 
 
 Your Excellency will, we hope, personally examine the premises and 
 visit our lecture rooms, library, students' rooms and chapel, where there is 
 daily service, morning and evening. 
 
 We should also mention that, although thus founded for and by the 
 English Church, we invite all students of all denominations to partake of 
 the advantages we have to offer, not exacting any religious test from those 
 who are not or do not intend to become members of the Church of Eng- 
 land. We have had in training Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Method- 
 ists and Baptists, and none have, we believe, left us otherwise than per- 
 fectly satisfied with their education. 
 
 In addition to our training of students in College, we have also a Col- 
 lege School established on the model of the English public schools, and 
 Bishop's College School Boys are to be found in all the leading positions of 
 Canadian life. We specially and successfully train for the Royal Military 
 College, Kingston, where the name of Lennoxville has for many years 
 ranked high from the conduct, the talents and the^oharacter of the cadets 
 who were trained in our College School. As a University, as a College for 
 the study of arts and divinity, and as a College School, we aim to fit men 
 for every branch of Canadian life. 
 
 In conclusion, we desire to express to Your Excellency our warm 
 thanks for stimulating our boys by the gift of a silver medal annually. 
 
 Hoping that Your Excellency and Lady Lansdowne may have a pleas- 
 ant visit to the Eastern Townships, and that you will ever remember us 
 and our humble efforts in a great cause when called to even higher duties 
 in the mother land, 
 
 We have the honor to remain, 
 
 Your Ejjgellency's obedient Servants, 
 
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 The Higoature of the Ch&noellc-, the Bishop (u Prdtident of the Oor*^ 
 poration,) the Principal and the Registrar follow. 
 
 The Special Convocation was then declared open. The Marquis of 
 Lansdowne was then presented by the Principal, and admitted to the De- 
 gree of D.C.L. , {honoris causa) by the Chancellor. An illuminated Diploma 
 was presented, composed by Prof. Read, and reading thus : 
 
 Omnibus quorum intersit Universitas Episcopi C'ollegii de Lennox ville 
 Canadensis Salutem. 
 
 Hae literae testimonio sint virum spectalissimum atque in primii 
 honorabilera, Carolum, Lansdownii Dominum, cruce eximhi inter SS. 
 Michaeli et Georgii comites jam donatum ; Dominii topius Canadensis pro 
 Regina adrainistratorem ; quum majoribus ortura iplendidis, tum ipsura 
 cultu, ingenio, eloquentia ornatiorem ; denique omni erga bonas artes 
 amore et rerum publicarum scientia insignitum, gradu et dignitate Doctoria 
 in Jure Civili hac in Universitate nostra esse hodie ampliatum honoris 
 causil. 
 
 Edvardds Chapman, 
 
 Commentariensis. 
 
 R1CAKDU8 Henekbr, D.C.L,, 
 Univ. Ep. Coll. Cancellarius. 
 
 Die decimo quarto Sept. Anno Salutis MDCCCLXXXVIL 
 
 His Excellency, who was received with great cheering and applause, 
 then asked those present to be seated, and replied in a graceful and elo- 
 quent speech to the address. He was in excellent voice, and his words fell 
 on appreciative and attentive ears. The applause was frequent. He said : — 
 
 Mr. Chancellor, Lord Bishop and Members of the University 
 AND College, — I should in any case have wished to take this opportunity 
 of expressing the pleasure which it has given me to visit, foi* the first time, 
 this University and College, the existence of which illustrates so strikingly 
 the strong desire felt by the people of our race and of our church to secure 
 for themselves the inestimable advantages of higher education. 
 
 The University of Lennoxville has, however, placed me under a speci- 
 al and exceptional obligation, which I must not lose a moment in acknow- 
 ledging, by its action in conferring on me one of its honorary degrees. 
 You could not, I think, have welcomed in a more graceful or appreciative 
 manner one who comes to you in his official capacity, as the representative 
 of the Crown, and who, for that reason, irrespectively of any personal con- 
 siderations, is regarded by you as worthy of any honor by the bestowal of 
 which you can contribute to the dignity of the office which he is permitted 
 to fill. (Applause.) 
 
 I hope that you will allow me to add that without reference to my 
 official position, and speaking as a member of the Church of England, 
 
which is under a special debt to this University, or again as a member of 
 one of our old English Universities, the spirit of wh-ch breathes in and an- 
 imates its offshoot^j in all parts of the worid, or again, as one who watches 
 with friendly interest the steady advance which higher education is making 
 in this country, I value this token of your hospitality and good will, and 
 that 1 accept it with a deep appreciation of the feelings which have ledyoa 
 to confer it upon me, and find a place for my name upon a roll which in. 
 eludes those of men who are justly honored, not only in this country, but 
 throughout the empire. (Applause.) 
 
 I have listened with the greatest interest to the dei^cription which you 
 have given me of the origin and objects of the University. It is no small 
 thing that here, in the centre of the Eastern Townships, there should exist 
 a foundation, such as that which the prescience of Bishop Mountain sue 
 ceeded in establishing at Le«inoxviIle-a Foundation comprising within it- 
 self a University, a College, and College School-institutions in which are 
 preserved the best traditions of our English School,! and Colleges, which 
 are well organized and thorough in their methods ; and which, moreover, 
 although especially connected with the Church of England, open their 
 doors without distinction to students of all denominations. Such a foun- 
 dation cannot fail to make its mark upon the people and upon the culture 
 of the country ; it must, however, of necessity, have at first many difficul- 
 ties to contend with. The experiences of educational pioneers are in their 
 way as trying as those of the earlier settlers who ^id themselves called up- 
 on to hew their way through the backwoods of a new countiy. Both must 
 be content at first with modest beginnings, and satisfied if each step they 
 take is in the right direction, and if no portion of the ground which year 
 after year they are able to conquer is allowed to run back to wilderness. 
 Some of the obstacles which stand in your way are inseparable from the 
 eariier stages of the career of all such institutions as yours, when they are 
 situated in a new country. First among these come the absence of old en- 
 dowments, such as those by which the educational foundations of the old 
 Universitiea have been enriched. I am glad that the stream of private lib- 
 erality has already begun to flow towards you. Then again there ie the 
 fact that in a new country the time necessary for what we should consider 
 a complete University education is, not unnaturally, grudged both by par- 
 ents and pupils. A lad is expected to be earning his own living at an age 
 when at Oxford or Cambridge he would still be wearing an undergraduate's 
 gown. I must own that I am strongly disposed to believe that we at home 
 prolong the period of education unnecessarily, Pitt was Prime Minister 
 at an age when many young Englishmen nowadays are still taking their 
 B.A. degree, and here in Canada we must somehow or other contrive tg 
 compres? oqr Univsrsity course within more reeigonablQ limits, 
 
Again, in this Province, situated as you are in the midat oi a mixed 
 population, and belonging as you do to a race which is in a minority, you 
 have, I undorstfti'd, some upprehensions lest your students ohould find the 
 avenues by wL. !: the learned professions are approached, obstructed by 
 hindrances, not perhaps, designed to affect them injuriously, but operat 
 ing to their special disadvantage. In regard to that point, let me say in 
 passing that I feel convinced that any demands which may be preferred on 
 behalf of this University will be inspired by considerations of the etrioteot 
 justice and moderation, and my earnest hope is tliat if any differences liave 
 arisen they will be found capable of a just and amicable settlement. I am 
 glad to know that you have not allowed yourselveo to be deterred by any 
 of these difficulties. You can afford to wait, and there are many reasons 
 for which the University may take a sanguine view of its own pvospects. 
 I observe with pleasure that through the generosity of your friends, one, 
 at all events, of your professorships has been liberally enc<.owed, and that 
 this is not the only case in which private good will has brought you. accept- 
 able help. I do not think there is any factor in the calculation upon which 
 you can depend with gr;jater cei linty than the ever increasing gratitude 
 and attachment of the old studen,.'* of the University. I am glar' ) learn 
 that they are to be found represent, ng this College in various stations of 
 life, and In all parts of the Dominion, and, so far as I have been able to 
 ascertain, with credit to themselves and the place of their education. I 
 observe in this connection that you have here, under the name of the Alma 
 Mater Society, an organization which, as far as I am aware, is peculiar to 
 yourselves, and which I have no doubt will serve to keep alive the bond 
 which unites your alumni to the place of their education. Then, sir, there 
 is another advantage which you enjoy and which I think is a very precious 
 one indeed. I mean the advantage which you derive from finding your- 
 selves situated in the midst of a community which is, in every respect, a 
 growing and advancing community, in the progress of which We may, I 
 think, rest assured that the University and College will have their share. 
 (Applause.) And, Mr. Chancellor, when I look out of these windows and 
 consider the view spread before my eye, which was unfolded before me as 
 I drove up here this morning, I cannot help feeling that you are richly 
 blessed in the matter of the site and sum undings of the College. I could 
 not help being reminded of the description which the old Latin poet gives 
 of the conditions which he was anxious to secure for his country residence : 
 Modus agri non ita parvus. The clear water runing at the foot of your 
 lawn, as it does, and the paulum eilvoB— you have all these things here, and 
 I think you have every reason to be grateful for the advantage which they 
 give you. I cordially wish, Mr. Chanoellor, that they may coribntute to 
 
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 to yowt saccesB and atrengthen year by year your position in thw Province 
 and in the country, (Applause.) The part which you are called upon td 
 play within them, id weighted with the most solemn responsibilities which 
 ctin attach in a public body. A University like yours is in one sense a sbr- 
 vant, and in smother a master of the public, and I trust that it will be 
 found that your University is able, not only to meet the want of the socie- 
 ty which surrounds it by providing a liberal education a J the usual pt'd- 
 paration for the learned professions, but also to guide and influence that 
 society, by increasing the general desire of the community for knowledge 
 and by leading all who come within its influence, be they doctors or law- 
 yers, or divines or men of business, to approach the problems of their every 
 day life from the standpoint of ct.ltured and liberal-minded men. (Loud 
 applause.) I am glad to have the pleasure of meeting a number of your 
 students, and I should like if they will allow me to impress upon theni the 
 fact thai it is to them quite as much as to the professors and authorities of 
 the University that it has to look for any successful results which it hopes 
 to achieve, and that each one of them by steady application, while he re- 
 mains a student of tb s Jniversity, and by keeping up its credit after he 
 has left it, can contribute towards an endowment of reputation and good 
 name, which, in its way, is more valuable to a body such as yours than 
 any endowment of material wealth. (Great applause. ) I beg to thank you 
 very cordially for the welcome yon have given to me and to assure you I 
 
 deem it a very great honor indeed to be enrolled aa a member of this Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Dr. Heneker called on Bishop Williams to say a few words. As usual 
 his Lordship was most felicitous, hi^ allusions to the illustrious ancestor of 
 His Excellency, "the Maecenas of Literature ; the Nestor of his age," were 
 very admirably expressed indeed. Of coiirse, there were charming bits of 
 scholarship introduced, all of them pointing a happy phrase, and betraying 
 deliciously, the presence of Attic Salt. Briefly Dr. Williams said :— 
 
 I am not prepared, Mr. Chancellor, to make a speech. But I thank 
 you for affording me opportunity to put into words my grateful apprecia- 
 tion of the kindness and urbanity which have given us the pleasure, and 
 the honor, of their Excellencies' visit. " Honos alit artes," and for an in- 
 stitution like ours, whose aim and whose function is to evoke aspirations 
 after mental development and liberal culture, there is no form of encour- 
 agement 30 stimulating as the actual living presence of those in whom we 
 recognize the qualities to which we aspire. I have not, Mr. Chancellor, I 
 have not unfortunately your familiarity with the Italian tongue. But— al- 
 though the avowal in the academic severity of the atmosphere may savor 
 perhaps of scholastic heropy— I have read the Inferno, by the aid of a crib. 
 
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 And I cannot get out of my mind the poet's exultant reminiscence of the 
 tonic effect induced by the visible presence of men worthy of admiration 
 and honor. 
 
 "Mi far mostrati gli spirits aiagui 
 "Che di verderli in mestesso m' esalto." 
 
 And we, too, Mr. Chancellor,— when we are favored by the presence of 
 one who, in the Dominion, discharges, with so apt a grace, the functions 
 of a gracious Queen,— we, too, feel alike lift in our experience. And I 
 must be permitted to add that the feeling is increased and intensified when 
 the dignity of office is enhanced in the person of one who himself, possess- 
 ing all the best culture of the day, bears the name and holds the place of a 
 man renowned— in the days when you and I, sir, still carried " nigros au- 
 gusta froate capillos,"— who bears the name and holds^he place of a man re- 
 nowned when we were young amongst men of letters as the Maecenas and 
 amongst statesmen as the Nestor of his age. 
 
 I thank you, Mr. Chancellor, for giving me the opportunity to say this 
 much. And I thank, for myself and for all here assembled. Their Excel- 
 lencies for the honor they have done us and the gratification they have given 
 U8 by coming amongst us to-day. 
 
 Canon Norman, D.C.L., of Montreal, followed in a clearly-cut and reso- 
 nant speech, very delightful to hear, and tinctured with the true academic 
 flavour. 
 
 Chancellor Heneker called on the Rev. J. Hooper, M A., (Columbia Col- 
 lege, New York,) of Newport, Vermont, to address the audience, which he 
 did very happily. He dwelt on the cordial relations which existed between 
 Canada and the United States, and of the pleasure which he felt in being 
 able to take part in a ceremony which he could never forget as long aa he 
 lived. He paid a tribute of respect to His Excellency and thanked the au- 
 dience for the attention which had been given to his remarks. Mr. Hooper 
 spoke with warmth and sympathy, and made a fine impression on hia 
 hearers. 
 
 George Stewart, Esq., F.R.G.S., D.C.L., (Icing's College, Windsor, 
 N.S.,) being called upon, as the representative of King's, the oldest Colo- 
 nial University, in a brief address said he did not wish to gild fine gold by 
 adding to what had been so fitly said that day. He reminded the audience 
 that His Excellency was pre-eminently like the Gracious Sovereign he re- 
 presented in the Dominion, —a constitutional Ruler. 
 
 Lord Lansdowrie then asked for a holiday for the boys and students, 
 wtiich was granted, their Excellencies came nearer to the front, and shook 
 hands with nearly every one present. Afterwards the Viceregal party, His 
 Excellency escorting Mrs. Adams, and Mr. Adams accompanying the Mar- 
 
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 chioness, proceeded on a tour of inspection through the College and School, 
 visiting the chapel, the library, the <lormitories, &c., and expressing them- 
 selves in the most flattering terms concerning what they saw. Lord and 
 Lady Lansdowne were much pleased with tlie condition of the young 
 people's rooms, and congratulated the senior matron, Mrs. Skinner, on the 
 perfect manner with which she jjerformed her duties. 
 
 The proceedings terminated before 1 o'clock. Tho Viceregal party 
 drove to Sherbrooke by the willow road, and after lunching with W, R. 
 Ives, M.P., President of the Eastern Townships Agricultural Association, 
 proceeded to the Exhibition. 
 
 The Clergy and their wives, and other visitors from a distance, were 
 entertained by the authorities of the College. — [Re-printed from the Quebec 
 Morning Chronicle of September 16th, 1887.] 
 
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