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 MINISTER OF EDirCATION, 
 
 WITH RESOLUTIONS AND LETTERS 
 
 From the Board gf Trustees, The Faculty, 
 Hi: ADS OF Universittes, Graduates, &c., 
 
 IN APPROVAL OF 
 
 COLLEGE RESIDENCE. 
 
 BY 
 
 SIR DANIEL. W^ILSON, LL..D., F.R.S.E., 
 
 PRrSIDENT OV THE UNIVKKSITY OF TORONTO. 
 
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 Heads of Universities, Graduates, &c., 
 
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 COLLEGE RESIDENCE. 
 
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 SIR DANIEL W^ILSON, LL.D., F.R.S.E., 
 
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 University College, Toronto, 
 18th March, 1890. 
 
 To the Ron. G. W. Ross, LL.D., Minister of Education ; 
 
 Dear Sir : — 
 
 I beg leave to ask your careful perusal of the accompanying 
 ■documents : including resolutions embodying the opinion of the 
 Board of Trustees ; of the subscribers for the restoration of the 
 Library ; and of Graduates who have not been themselves in 
 Residence, I also submit to you letters addres-sed to me by 
 parents of Students who have boarded in the College Residence ; 
 and by Graduates who have themselves resided there, and are 
 able to give their matured judgment on the influence of residence 
 on student life. The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor are also 
 strongly opposed to the idea of doing awa}' with this important 
 branch of the University. 
 
 1. A movement, I am led to believe, has been originated 
 aiming at the abolition of the College Residence, for the purpose 
 of converting thi; building into lecture rooms. It is greatly to be 
 regretted that this question should be thus inopportunely raised ; 
 as it is calculated to interfere most injuriously with the appeal 
 now being made to the friends of the University for contributions 
 both for the restoration of the Library, and the erection of a new 
 Convocation Hall. 
 
 2. The west wing, which includes the College Residence, 
 happily escaped any injury in the late fire. The idea of its 
 conversion into Lecture Rooms may be dismissed at once. 
 The building, designed originally for its present purpose, is 
 arranged in three stories, altogether too low in the ceiling 
 
for lecture rooms. To apply the building to the latter purpose 
 it would have to be arranged in two stories, thereby involv- 
 ing the removal of the present floors fire-places, &c. ; and 
 the building up of the windows, and opening out others. In 
 addition to this, a wall runs up through the whole length of the 
 building, on which the two inclines of the roof rest. The removal 
 of this wall is indispensable for any plan of reconstruction for 
 lecture rooms, and would necessarily involve the renewal of the 
 roof. Hence the report of the University architect, when the 
 same proposal was made in 1887, was that it would cost less to 
 pull th-i whole down, and build anew. But such a procedure 
 involves the sacrifice of all the money expended in the erection of 
 a residence, without any equivalent advantage. 
 
 3. It is proposed, in the reconstruction of the University 
 Buildings to appropriate the old Convocation Hall for the Library ; 
 as it has been long found inadequate for a Convocation and 
 Examination Hall. The Museum i.'3 to be accommodated in the 
 addition now in progress, at the Biological building ; and a special 
 fund is being raised by public subscription, for a new Convocation 
 Hall, with Senate Chamber, Registrar's Office, &c. Thus a 
 large amount of space in the main building will be available for 
 providing the necessary Lecture Rooms ann other accommodation,^ 
 such as experience shows to be required for present and 
 future wants. As, owing to the results of the late fire, the main 
 portion of the interior of the University Building will be at the 
 disposal of the architect for all needful requirements, without 
 the removal of floors, or partition- walls, it would be a most 
 superfluous and wasteful procedure to destroy the Residence- 
 wing of the building. 
 
 4. On this important question of the desirableness of retaining 
 the present Residence building for the purpose originally aimed 
 at in its construction, I beg leave to oflfer the following state- 
 ments : Speaking from my own observation and experience of 
 the working of the College Residence as a part of our University 
 system, I feel confident that it is beneficial, both intellectually 
 ^and morally, to an important class of students whose parents do- 
 
not reside in Toronto, and some of whom would not be sent to the 
 University if such lodging and oversight were not available. It 
 is true, and very much to be regretted, that the number who can 
 be so accommodated is small compared with the whole body of 
 students. If the Residence could be enlarged to three or four 
 times the extent of the present accommodation, it would enable 
 us to reduce the cost to each student, as well as to cope more 
 effectually with our rapidly increasing numbers. A separate 
 Residence for lady students is also much to be desired. You will 
 see from some of the following letters from former students how 
 important is the influence which the senior students exorcise 
 both morally and intellectually over their companions of the 
 junior years. In considering this question in all its aspects it is 
 well to bear in iremembrance that students are not the class 
 of boarders most in request. Families willing to receive such 
 naturally give the preference to bank clerks, assistants in stores, 
 and others who may be counted on as permanent lodgers ; rather 
 than to students who are only in the city from October to May. 
 
 5. An idea seems to exist that some exclusive system of 
 admission to the Residence prevails. This is wholly unfounded. 
 The charges are kept as low as possible, consistent with making 
 it self-sustaining ; and, could be further reduced if (and I trust, 
 sooner or later, some wise benefactor will furnish the means;) the 
 residence were enlarged. The present cost to a student in resi- 
 dence is, on an average, $18 per month. As he pays for certain 
 items, such as fuel and light, according to the quantities actually 
 used, part of the charges are variable. For board and lodging, 
 with a single room, the charge is $16.50 per month. On those 
 terms any student is admitted. The first applicant will obtain 
 f(,ny vacant room. The only element ever allowed to influence 
 any discrimination as to admission is, that a preference is given 
 to winners of scholarships and prizes, or to other students who 
 have given special proof of diligence and ability. 
 
 6. But, in considering the numbers provided for in the 
 present College Residence, it is an error to contrast this with 
 the whole large number of students. The system of affiliated 
 
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 Colleges is an important feature in the orgunization of the Pro- 
 vincial University ; and one which is destined in the future ta 
 assume greater proportions. At present a large number of the 
 students are accommodated in the Collejie Residences attached to 
 Knox, Wyclitie, and St. Michael's Colleges; the plans for the 
 new buildings for Victoria College incUuio similar provisions for 
 residence; and the ample provisions for the same purpose, both 
 in Trinity College, and* in MacMnster Hall, show the unanimity 
 of opinion on this subject. In truth, no thoughtful and experi- 
 enced educationist can advocate tlie turning aibift young men, at 
 , ihi) critical stage of student life, to lodge where they please, free 
 from all r(.'straint and control. 
 
 7. The Scotch Universities have been ap{)ealed to as favour 
 ing non-resid(>nce, but this is a mistake. Sir Williaui Muir, the 
 present Principal of Edinburgh University, has, in successive 
 annual addresses, urged the extreme desirableness of making pro- 
 vision f(»r College Residences; and the late, Professor James D. 
 Forbes, on his promotion from the Chair of Natural Philosophy 
 in the University of Edinburgh to the Pi'incipalship of St. 
 Andrew's University, strenuously exerted himself to erdarge the 
 
 ) students' residence there. From mv own knowlodo:e of Scot- 
 ' tish Student life, I confidently affirm that the organization of 
 adequate students' residences', urulei- efficient superintendence, 
 would have a most beneficial influence alike in promoting tem- 
 perance and i>urity of life ; and in fostering habits of diligent 
 study. No system, not even that of home, with all its sacred- in- 
 fluences, is an absolute safeguard aga-inst the temptations to 
 which youth is exposed at this most critical period of life. But, 
 imperfect as the best regulated College Residence must be, no 
 parent can imagine that the cure for its defects is to be found 
 in a hired lodging, among chance strangers, and emancipated 
 from all restraint. 
 
 8, The statement has recently been made that no system of 
 Residence exists in the American Universities. The system 
 adopted Uiere differs from ours, as from that of the English Uni- 
 versities ; but at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and other 
 
American Universities, tiioro are Dormitories on p large scale, 
 erected on the Univcr.sity grounds, and with an organized system 
 of boarding. Benefactors have liberally contributed to their 
 erection ; and when, after tli(! late American war the Graduates 
 of Harvard University erected a memorial in memory of those 
 of their number who hud fallen in Hie war, it assumed the form 
 of a Memorial Wall for the boarding of the resident students. 
 
 9. In the (\)llege Hesidence there is daily prayer, with read- 
 ing of the Scriptures, morning and evening. From atten<lanee 
 on this dail_y servicf ('xoniptOu is given on conscientious grounds, 
 but on none other. No ri-sidont Student cnn remain out after a 
 fixed hour in the evening witho it permission of the Dean; and 
 no disorderly conduct is !dlovve<l within the Uesidence. 
 
 10. I sincerely trust that tlie reasons which I have thus 
 advanced, l)ased on the expericMice of many years, and confirmed by 
 the approval of my colleagues, the hearty advocacy of parents whose 
 sons have enjoyed the ]u-otecting care of the College Residence ; 
 and of gi-aduates who now, in mature life, look back with 
 grateful remembrance to the years spent under the sheltering 
 guardiansliip of the College Home, will induce the Legislature 
 not only to refrain from any action calculated to interfere with 
 the successful working of this important l)ranch of university 
 organization; but may be the means of leading to the enlarg'^ment 
 of tho Residence, and its thorough equipment on a scale .>r fed 
 to the requirements of the University and the Province, 
 
 I have the honor to be, Dear Sir, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 DANIEL WILSON, 
 
 President. 
 
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 THE FACULTIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 
 AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. 
 
 As members of the Faculties of the Univei-sity of Toronto 
 rnd University College, we unite in expressing ouv extreme 
 regret at learning that a proposal has been made to abolish the 
 College Residence. 
 
 We believe that the Residence is an important adjunct to 
 the University ; and that it should not only be maintained ; but 
 that it would be in the interest of the students if it could be 
 greatly extended. 
 
 Daniel Wilson, LL.D., President. 
 Edward J. Chapman, LL.D., Ph. D. 
 R. Ramsay Wkight, M.A., B.Sc. 
 James Loudon, M.A. 
 Maurice Hutton, M.A. 
 William H. Pike, M.A., Ph.D. 
 Alfred Baker, M.A. 
 William H. Ellis, M.A., M.B. 
 W. J. Alexander, B.A., Ph.D. 
 , I. F. McCuRDY, Ph.D. 
 
 W. H. vander Smissen, M,A. 
 
 William Dale, M.A. 
 
 W. J. Loudon, B.A. 
 
 A. B. Macallum. B.A., Ph.D., M.R. 
 
 David R. Keys, B.A. 
 
 Hugh H. LangTon, B.A. 
 
 H. Rushton Fairclough, M.A. 
 
 J. McGowAN. B.A. 
 
 G. A. H. Fraser, B.A. 
 
 G. Chambehs, B.A., M.B. 
 
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 The members of the Board of Trustees of the University of 
 Toronto learn with much regret that a proposal has been made to 
 abolisli the College Residence. 
 
 The present is a most unseasonable time for raising such a 
 question, as it is calculated seriously to impede the collecting of 
 funds by private subscription for a new Convocation Hall. 
 
 From the information they have received they are strongly 
 impressed with the conviction that the abolition of the College 
 Residence would be an injury to the University. 
 
 Edwahd Blake. 
 
 WlLlAkM MULOCK. 
 
 Daniel Wilson. 
 . Larrat W. Smith. 
 C. S. GzowsKi. 
 John Hoskin. 
 James Scott. 
 E. B. Osler. 
 William Christie. 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND FOR THE RESTORATION 
 
 OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 To tlie Honourable the Attorney-Genei'al and tlie Members of tlie Govertir 
 ment of the Province of Ontario : 
 
 The undersigned are all contributors to the funds for the restor ition of the 
 University. 
 
 Immediately after the disastrous fire of the 14th of February it was announced 
 that tne buildings were to he restored. 
 
 Committeee were at onoe formed to appeal to the Graduates and the public 
 lor aid ia the work of restoration, and a large sum has already been subscribed to 
 assist in the work. 
 
 Wheu we were called upon for subscriptions, and gave them willingly, it was 
 not represented to us that the work of restoratioi- would involve abolishing the 
 University Residence. 
 
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 We lea'-n with great regret that, although our subscriptions were given upon 
 the faith of a restoration of the University iTuihlings to their original atate, there 
 is a movement on foot which has in contemplation the sweeping away of the 
 Rt-siflenoo wing. 
 
 We beg to represent that, in our opinion, this would be most injurious to the 
 best interests of tiie University, and to the work of securing further gifts, and 
 would involve the withdrawal of many subscriptions already obtained. 
 
 We are confident that tiie proposed abolition of Residence is opposed to the 
 wishes of the large majori'y of the Graduates of the University and to its friends, 
 and we appeal to the past iiistory of the College Residence in its support. 
 
 We are confident that it has promoted a true University sentiment, and sent 
 out into the world Ils Residents as larger minded und better men than they other- 
 wise would iiave l)ecume, and we most earnestly press upon the Cioverument the 
 desirability of amplifying and improving instead of destroying it. 
 
 It has never yet been managed for tlie purpose of making it yield a revenue, 
 but it lias been for some time paying its expenses, and has never at any time 
 formed any cDnsidcrable l)uiden on the University funds. Tiie experience of all 
 such institutions has always been, that the largi • they are (within, of course, due 
 bounds), the more revenue they will yield, besidtis exercising to a greater degree 
 that influence on tiie character of the students whicli is so beneficial to them, and 
 tliroiigh tlieiu to Ihcir country. 
 
 We lielieve tiiat if eii'ect lie given to our views, and if a proper portion of the 
 restoration fund Ije applied to tlie extension of Residence, private lienefactions will 
 be attracted which will make Residence a more marked feature of the Univerity 
 of Toronto tlian even it is at the present time. 
 
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 'W. f'l. Falconljridge, 
 Walter llarwiek, 
 A. J{. Cieelirian, 
 Z. A. Lasii, 
 A. 1). Aylcsworth, 
 W. D. Gwynne, 
 
 J. (r. .Scott, 
 
 A. H. Marsh, 
 Daniel Wilson, 
 W. J. Alexander, 
 R. Ramsay Wriglit, 
 T. D. Delamere, 
 ^V. H. Ellis, 
 F. A. Drake, 
 H. C. Hammond, 
 W. J. Franks, 
 W. H. Irving, 
 
 C. R. Boulton, 
 A. Elliott, 
 Goodwin Gibson, 
 Edmund B. Osier, 
 Y\ R. C. Clarks ,, 
 William Creeln n, 
 Alfred Baker, 
 
 D. A. 0'Sulliv..u, 
 Beardmore & Co., 
 William Dale, 
 
 J. Loudon, 
 
 W. A. Murray & Co., 
 
 John Kay, Son & Co., 
 
 J. Galbraith, 
 John Hoskin, 
 R. M. Wells, 
 
 - H. T. Canniir, 
 H. W. Mickle, 
 H. H. Dewart, 
 G. G. S. Lindsay, 
 
 V N. W. Hoyles, 
 
 - Angus MacMurchy, 
 J. A. Boyd, 
 
 - B. B. Osier, 
 
 Andrew .Smith, F.R.C., V.S., 
 
 Philip Jamieson, 
 
 Eby, Blain & Co., 
 ■^ Maurice Hutton, 
 
 W. F. Maclean, 
 
 - B. E. Walker, 
 
 Kerr, Macdonald, Davidson & Patterson. 
 
 W. H. P. Clement, 
 
 Ernest F. Gunther, 
 
 H. W. Nelson, 
 
 John Martlanci, 
 
 A. H. Young, 
 ■*■ Stephen B. Leacock, 
 
 W. H. vandeivSmissen, 
 -^ Dougald J. Mac^Iurchy, 
 -'W. Beattie Nesbitt, M.D., 
 
 J. H. Cameron, .^ 
 
 *" C. Egerton Ryerson, 
 
 Louis B. Stewart, 
 
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 N. Gordon Bigelow 
 John T. Small, 
 
 — George A. Cox, 
 
 ^ Charles MosSj 
 Henry J. Wr.i^lit, 
 S. C. Smoke, 
 -S. H. Blake, 
 Douglas Armour, 
 A. C. Gait, 
 Thomas Langton, 
 Charles Millar, 
 W. T. Ashley, 
 
 H. R. Fairclough, 
 
 H. H. Langton, 
 "W. J. Loudon, 
 '-Joseph Blackstock, 
 
 George Diclrson, 
 
 William Webb, 
 
 J. K. Berkeley Smith, 
 
 Fred. E. Mauley, 
 
 Theodore S. Covernton, 
 
 A. H. Wright, 
 
 John J. Mackenzie, 
 
 Charles Carpmael. 
 
 • GRADUATES OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 To the Honorable the AUorney-General and the Jfeiiibers of the Govern- 
 ■nieytt of the rrovlnce of Ontario. 
 
 YOUR PETITIONERS have heard with alarm, that it is proposed to take the 
 retrograde step of abolishing the Residence connected with University ('ollege, and 
 we beg respectfully to represent that, in our opinion, this wonhl be most iujurious 
 to the best intei-ests of University education. 
 
 The system by which undergraduates are rei(uired or enaliled to live in the 
 College Hesidence, and subject to more or less supervision, is the one wliieh has 
 been adopted in all the more iinportant English and American I'niversitics, as well 
 as by the great majority of deuominational Colleges in (Janiida. None of tliese 
 entertain any idea of a change, anil their long experience has, we do not hesitate to 
 say, demonstrated that that system is by far the most valuable factor in tlie edu- 
 cating of students in tlio true sense of the word. The iionrly inteicourse which 
 they thus obtain with tlieir fellow students, not merely in the prescribed studies — 
 but in all their other pursuiis and even amusements, sliews them as iu)thing else 
 can, wherein their own strength and weakness consist, and l>y developi.ig the one 
 and correcting the other, imperceptibly build them uji at an ago, when it is not too 
 late to mould character, into liberal-minded men and useful citizens. 
 
 Wr are Conkidkxt that none who have experienced or who really appreciate 
 the benefit of a College Residence can do otherwise than feel as we do, dismay at 
 hearing that its destiaiction is seriou.sly contemplated. That this has been proposed, 
 makes it apparent that some difference of opinion must exist on the subject (as was 
 recently shewn to be the case in regard to the very similar question of the main- 
 tenance of a large residential public school); but that a difierence of opinion exists, 
 is all that can be said. Any preponderance of opinion is most assuredly on the side 
 of the maintenance of an efficient residence for the accommodation of the sons of 
 those who stand by undenominational secular education. No public demand for 
 anj different system has ever been made, to justify the extinction of the present 
 Residence. The proposed change can only be regarded as an experiment, which, 
 even though unsuccessful, would make the return to the residential system — for 
 financial reasons— probably impossible. 
 
 AuAiN, EVKBY BELiEVEK in Undenominational secular education will, in fully 
 considering the subject, see that with the abolition of the Residence, would go 
 almost the only remaining visible proof of the existence of University College. 
 We believe that most parents— not residing in Toronto — would prefer entering their 
 sous at a denominational College possessing a Residence, to turning them adrift 
 
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 into the temptations of City life, without any restraint from their College beyond 
 the walls of the Lecture Room ; but if students should not thus gradually distribute 
 themselves among the various denominational College Residences, University 
 College, as a part of our undenominational system of education, can only have a 
 paper existence us a roll of students, almost strangers to one another, meeting only 
 m the Lecture Room, and with scarcely a bond of any kind to unite them. 
 
 Wk believe also in the desir.^bility of fostering in all possible ways, public 
 spirit and etprit de corps, as tending to advance truly national aspirations : but 
 if reasons of the kiiid be- not deemed of weight there are others of a more evidently 
 practical character. The proposed alterations, we are informed, are for thr pur- 
 pose of furnishing necessary accommodation for the University Prjfessors in the 
 Departments of Science, who'require Laboratories or rooms for experiments. We 
 arc assured, however, that the present Residence either cannot be altered so as to 
 provide the required kind of accommodation, or can only be so altered at a cost of 
 a sum sufficient to erect both new buildings for suitable Laboratories, etc., and 
 also to considerably enlarge and improve the College Residence. 
 
 We are confident that the proposed abolition of the Residence, it opposed to 
 the wishes of the large majority of the graduates of the University throughout 
 the Province, and we appeal to the past history of the College Residence in its 
 support. We are confident that it has promoted a true University sentiment and 
 sent out into the world its residents as larger minded and better men than they 
 otherwise would have become, and we most earnestly press upon the Government 
 ^the desirability of amplifying and improving instead of destroying it. 
 
 It has never yet been managed for the purpose of making it yield a revenue, 
 but it has been for sometime paying its expenses, and has never at any time formed 
 any considerable burden on the University funds. The experience of all such 
 institutions has always been that the larger they aro (within of course due bounds) 
 the more revenue they will yield, besides exercising to a greater degree, that influ- 
 ence on the character of the students, which is so beneficial to them, and through 
 them to their country. 
 
 A. J. Gattanach, M.A. 
 T. D. Dalamere, M.A. 
 
 A. H. Marsh, B.A., LLB. 
 
 B. E. Kingsford, M.A., LL.B. 
 Walter Barwick, M.A. 
 
 A. B. Aylesworth, M.A. 
 Edward J. Bristol, B.A. 
 J. H. M. Campbell, M.A. 
 A. E. O'Meara, B.A. 
 Thomas Langton, M.A., LL.B. 
 W. H. C. Kerr, M.A. 
 -J. F. Smith, LL.B. 
 
 C. %erton Ryerson, B.A. 
 W. H. Ellis, M.A. 
 
 John Boyd, M.A. 
 R. Zimmerman, M.D. 
 G. A. Radenhurst, 11. A. 
 J. L. G. McCarthy, M.B. 
 Wm. Boys, TvL.B. 
 Hamilton D, 8tewart, LL.B. 
 H. B. Spotton, M.A. 
 •G. M. Wells. M.B. 
 Richard Snelling, LL.D. 
 F. A. Drake, B.A. 
 
 E. Coats worth, jr., LL.B. 
 
 G. G. S. Lindsey, B.A. 
 
 A. G. F. Lawrence, B.A. 
 
 H. A. Reesor, B.A. 
 
 D. A. O'SuUivan, M.A. 
 
 J. A. Boyd, M.A. 
 
 W. B. Northrup, M.A, 
 
 W. G. Eakins, M.A. 
 
 Henry J. Wright, B.A. 
 
 John P]. Bryant, M.A. 
 
 W. H. Clement, M.A., LL.B. 
 
 Ernest F. Gunther, B.A. 
 
 M. S. Mercer, B.A. 
 
 H. W. Mickle B.A. 
 
 n] G. W. Master, 322 East 15th St., N.Y. 
 
 City. 
 W. Allaire Shortt, M.A. 
 John Muir, M.A., LL.B., Hamilton. 
 W. Fred Walker, M.A., LL.B., " 
 H. S. Brennan, U.K., " 
 
 James White, M. A. , M. D. , " 
 
 Algernon Woolverton, M.A.,M.D., " 
 I. B. McQuesten, M.A., " 
 
 Jaa. Chisholm, B.A., " 
 
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 H. H. Dewart, B.A. 
 Edward Bayley, B.A. 
 J. H. Thorn, M. A. 
 JohnT. Small, M.A. 
 ' W. G. McWilliams, B.A. 
 H. J. Scott (per W. B.), B.A. 
 P. 0. Oonstantinides, M.D., M.E.C.S. 
 J. H. Cameron, M.B. 
 
 A. H. Wright, M.B. 
 W. H. B. Aikins, M.B. 
 S. G. Wood, LL.B. 
 Clarkson Jones, M.A. 
 Hector Cameron, M.A. 
 C. E. Englibh, M.A., LL.B. 
 J. C. Hamilton, LL.B. 
 W.N. Miller, LL.B. 
 G. F. Cane, B.A. 
 James Baird, B.A. 
 W. H. Blake, B.A. 
 R. S. Cassela, B.A. 
 Douglas Armour, B. A. 
 L. M. Sweetman, M.B. 
 Thomas Mulvey, B.A. 
 Allan Cassels, B.A. 
 
 B. B. Osier, LL. B. 
 
 William F. W. Creelraan, B.A., LL.B. 
 W. A. Reeve, M.A. 
 Geo. M. Evans, B.A. 
 A. M, Denovan, B.A. 
 Spencer Love, B.A. 
 W. F. Maclean, B.A. 
 R. O. McCuUoch, B.A. 
 P. W. H. McKeown, B.A. 
 R. M. Wells, B.A. 
 
 C. R. W. Biggar, M.A. 
 Nicol Kingsmill, (per A.J.C.) M.A. 
 T.H. Bull, B.A. 
 H. T. Machell, M.B. 
 A. D. Passmore, B.A., Windsor. 
 Ernests. W^igle, B.A. , 
 J. C. Stuart, B.A., ** 
 T. E. Ewen, M.A. 
 Geo. S. Wright, M.A. 
 J. J. Baker, M,A. 
 W. N. Ponton, :j.A- 
 P. E. O'Flynn, B.A. 
 John Armstrong, B. A. , Barrister at Law 
 
 Owen Sound. 
 L. H. Alexander, M.A., Collegiate Insti 
 
 tute, Owen Sound. 
 Charles E. Barnhart, M.B., Owen Sound 
 John Somerville, M.A., " 
 
 John A. Creasor, B.A., " 
 
 Alfred D. Creason, B.A., " 
 
 C. J. Macgregor, M.A. 
 M. C. Moderwell, B.A. 
 John Idington, LL.B. 
 John A. Davidson, B.A. 
 
 J. A. Culham. M.A., Hamilton* 
 
 Harry B. Whitton, B.A. , '• 
 
 Charles Miller, B.A., " 
 
 J. Irving Poole, B.A. 
 
 Fred. W. D. Hill, B.A. 
 
 A. D. Crooks, B.A. 
 
 W. W. Baldwin. B.A. 
 
 D. J. G. Wishart, B.A., M.D. 
 
 John Kyles, B.A, 
 
 Robert Baldwin, B.A. 
 
 G. R. Micklc, B.A. 
 
 Alfred Buell Cameron, B.A. 
 
 Colin G. Campbell, B.A. 
 
 A. H. Campbell, jr., B.A. 
 
 C. R. Boulion, B.A. 
 
 T. C. Milligan, B.A. 
 
 J. H. Burns, M.B, 
 
 H. B. Bruce, B.A. 
 
 R. K. Spraule, B.A. 
 
 W. B. Willoughby, B.A. 
 
 G. S. Wilgress, B.A. 
 
 F. N. Kerrison, B.A. 
 A. MacNab, xM.A. ' 
 
 G. W. Evans, B.A. 
 W. D. Gwynne, B.A. 
 W. H. Hunter, B.A. 
 R. J. Duff, B.A. 
 T. G. Blackstock, B.A. 
 Dugald J. MacMurchy, B.A. 
 A. C. Gait, B.A. 
 H. T. Beck, M.A. 
 J. H. Morris, M.A. 
 Arthur Steven.son, B.A. 
 W. C. Widdifield, B.A. 
 J. E. Dickson, B.A. 
 Thomas J. Robertson, B.A. 
 W. H. Bentley, M.B. 
 R. M. Coulter, M.B. 
 J. E. Eakins, M.B. 
 Samuel J. Bull, B.A. 
 Colin Fraser, B. A. 
 Francis James Roche, M. A. 
 Henry E. Morphy, B.A. 
 Fred F. Manley, M.A. 
 John J. Wash, B.A. 
 William Hemes Oliphant, ALB^ 
 
 ,J. H. McGeary, M.A. 
 W. Barclay McMurrich, M.A. 
 R. A. McArthur, B.A. 
 H. E. Buchan, M.A., M.D. 
 .F. W. Cane, M.B. 
 T. F. McMahon, M.B. 
 W. McBrady, B.A. 
 J. G. Holmes. B.A. 
 •Charles McLollan, M.B. , 1872. 
 •Stephen J. Young, B.A., 188U 
 T. A. O'Rouko, B.A., 1878. 
 Arch. Abbott, B.A., 1887. 
 
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 <5oodwin Gibson, M.A. 
 
 H. L. Dunn, B.A., Windsor. 
 
 J. W. Delaney, B.A., 1879. 
 D. C. Little, B.A., 1887, 
 
 i* 
 
 The subscribers are oi opinion th.at the greatest good in the direction of 
 wtSp^vifir'*^" "'"^ ^"^^^^"* Hcc?.nmodatL for all stuEtsThaU 
 
 Alfred M. Lafferty, M.A. 
 Geo. B. Douglas, B.A. 
 John Coutts, 1).A. 
 J. B. Rankin, B.A. 
 
 C. J. O'Ndll, LL.B. 
 
 D. S. Skiuncr, H A 
 
 W. J. .1. Twohey, M.A. 
 
 W. (i. P. Cassels, B.A. 
 
 W. G. Falcoubridge, M.A. 
 
 J. H. Bowes, B.A. 
 
 vVm. Davidson, B.A. 
 
 W. Macdonald, M.A. 
 
 John A. Patersun, M.A. 
 
 John Kerr Fi.skin, B.A. 
 
 W. A. Foster, LL.B. 
 
 J. Albert Page, B.A. 
 
 J. B. Clarke, LL.B. 
 
 T. C. L. Armstrong, M. A., LL.B, 
 
 Marcellus Crombie, M.A., LLB 
 
 li. McGee, B.A. 
 
 A. G. Smith, B.A. 
 
 John S. MacLean. 
 
 A. F. May, B.A. 
 
 A. B. Hudson, B.A. 
 
 W. E. Hodgins, M.A. 
 
 J. MacMillan, B.A. 
 
 C. J. Hardie, B.A. 
 
 F. B. Kenrick, B.A. 
 
 W. H. Walker, B.A. 
 
 ArundaleC. Hill, B.A., 1867, M.A. 
 
 James H. Coyne, B.A., 1870 
 
 Honace Harvey, B.A., 1886. 
 
 JNoah Quance, B. A., [S6l. * 
 
 A. F. Ames, B.A., 1882. 
 
 W. B. Doherty, LLB., 1880. 
 
 t" i- ^'^:\«'^"r<l. M.A., Brockville 
 
 J. 1. l^otheruigham, B.A. 
 
 A. W. Burt, b!a. 
 
 J. M. McWhinney, B.A. 
 
 D. 0. Cameron, B.A. 
 
 J, M. Palmer, B.A., LL.B. 
 
 A. F. Lobb, B.A. 
 
 R. C. Donald, ]i.A. 
 
 H. T. Canniff, B.A. 
 
 W. W. Vickers, B. A. 
 
 W. H. Irving. B.A. 
 
 S. C. Smoke, B.A. 
 
 W. A. Standish, LL.B. 
 
 A. E. K. Grier, B.A. 
 
 Edward B. Browne, B.A 
 
 Angus MacMurchy, B.A.' 
 
 J. F. Grieraon, B.A. 
 D.S. Hoig, M.B. 
 
 A. Henderson, B.A. 
 Lyman English, LL.B. 
 
 James Rutledge, B.A. 
 
 D. Ormeston, li.A. 
 
 John E. Farewell, LL.B. 
 
 John Hampton Buruham, M.A. 
 
 T. Arnold Haidtain, B.A. 
 
 J. H. Long, M.A., LL.B. 
 
 W. Fitzgerald, M.A. 
 
 T. C. Boville, B.A. 
 
 J. H. Balderson, B.A. 
 
 J. H. Rcid, B.A. 
 
 J. Fletcher Cross, LL.B. 
 
 F. Nelson, B.A. 
 
 Mc. L. Stewart,"M.A. 
 
 J. Beaufort Hurlbert, LL.B. 
 
 W. E. Thompson, B.A. 
 
 A. J. Forward, B.A. 
 
 Herbert Collin, B.A. 
 
 Jolin Henderson, M.A. 
 
 Lucius S. Oille, M.A. 
 
 J. P. x\rmour. MB. 
 
 Andrew xMurdoek, M.A., LL.B. 
 
 J. W. Morrice, B.A. 
 James Gray, M.A. 
 
 J. J. Kingsmill, B.A. 
 J. Morgan, M.A. 
 ,1868. George H. Kdmer, B.A. 
 A. Collins, B.A. 
 W. F. Freeman, M.B. 
 M. Stalker, M.B. 
 W. A. Frost, M.A. 
 
 J. N. Marshall, B.A. (Tor.) Brockville. 
 Albert A. Macdonald, M.B., Toronto. 
 A. A Ad.ims, B.A., Toronto. 
 H. M. Deroche, B.A., Napanee. 
 J. H. Madden, B.A., " 
 
 LL.B., «« 
 J. A. Preston,' B. A., «« 
 
 G. D. Cowan, M.B., «« 
 
 S. A. Henderson, B.A. 
 A. B. Welford, M.B. 
 A. A. Cameron, B.A. 
 J. O. Garvin, B.A. 
 T. W. Taylor, M.A. 
 A. C. Killam, B.A. 
 George Patterson, M.A. 
 T. H. Gilmour, B.A. 
 J. A. M. Aikens, M.A. 
 
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 Charles B. -Tackes, B.A. 
 Theodore 8. Covernton, M.D. 
 T. McKenzie, M.A., M.B. 
 Frank T. Shutt, M.A. 
 Colin G. Snider, B.A. 
 K. 11. L. Cameron, M.D. 
 J. F. Brown, B.A. 
 James H. Richardson, M.D. 
 James Smith, B.A. 
 James Thorhurn, M.D. 
 Thomas Hodyins, M.A. 
 H. Yale, B.A. 
 J. P. Campbell, M.A. 
 John McKeown, M.A. 
 R. G. Macdonald, B.A. 
 Robert Balnier, B.A. 
 
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 Horace E.Crawford, B.A. 
 
 W. R. Mulook, B.A. 
 
 A. E. Richards, M.A. 
 
 Hugh J. Macdonald, B.A. 
 
 Ghent. iXavis, B.A. 
 
 Fred. N. Wade, B.A. 
 
 J. D. Cameron, B.A. 
 
 W. E. Perdue, B.A. 
 
 Herbert Archibald, B.A. 
 
 S. 0. Boys, B.A. 
 
 Henry Mason, B.A. 
 
 Richard B. Oummings, B.A., M.D. 
 
 W. Cook, B.A. 
 
 Edward H. Smythe, LL.D, 
 
 LETTERS 
 
 Sir William Mum, K.C.S.I. 
 
 Principal of the University of Minhurgh. 
 
 4th October, 1887. 
 My Dear Sir. — So far as this University is concerned, you cannot speak too 
 atrongly of the want felt of suitable places of Residence for tlie students. Efforts 
 are on foot to set up College Houses or Hostels, for students from a distance, but 
 without endowment or State aid, it is an up liill attempt, and after alia poor 
 substitute for what (as I understand) you already have. It would be a retrograde 
 step, indeed, to give this up. I will scud you two addresses in which the subject 
 is mentioned, and 1 puriJoso alluding further to the subject in the address which 
 I am to give in a few weeks at tiie opening of the Winter St-.ssion. 
 
 I am yours sincerely, 
 Daniel Wilson, LL.D., W. Muir. 
 
 Prealdtnt University Cofkije, Toronto. 
 
 Sir William Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., 
 Principal McHill Univeridly, Montreal. 
 
 MoNTiiEAL, September l'2th, 1887. 
 
 Dear Dr Wilson,— It is quite true that we have at present no College 
 Residence for Students in McGill. and though I have on several occasions brought 
 this matter under the notice of our friends no peciuiiary aid for the purpose has 
 yet been forthcoming. Within the last two years I "have thought it best to 
 restrict my demand to a College Dining Hall, as I find it is easier tor students to 
 obtain lodgings than board ; but so far I have been unable to obtain the necessary 
 means even for this. I am, however, not withouv hope of succeeding. 
 
 I may add that some relief is given to us by the fact that our four affiliatect 
 Theological Colleges, give board and lodging to most of their students, and thus 
 proyide for those Arts men who are also taking theological lectures. 
 
 It has been proposed to convert the east wing of our buildings into a Residence 
 for students, but it is not well suited to the purpose, and I shouhl prefer a separate 
 building of more modern construction. 
 
 I remain yours sincerely, 
 
 J. Wm. Dawson. 
 
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 Thk late Rev. Canon O'Meara, D.D. 
 
 Hector of Port Hope. ^ 
 
 The Rectory, Port Hope, Juno 22nd, 1887. 
 My Dear Dr. Wilson : — I received your note yesterday, and hasten to reply. 
 I am sorry to hear that there is any movement on foot for the abolition of 
 residence at University College. Three of my sons have, I can testify, been 
 partakers of the l>enefit8 imparted by the privileges afforded by residence at the 
 College, and the fourth lias all through his course at Wycliffe College been greatly 
 benefited by similar privileges afforded him there. I should, therefore, rather 
 have looked for a proposal to largely extend those benefits than, as apj^ears from 
 your letter, to abridge or abolish them. I think the parents of most young men 
 who have been residents would agree with me in this respect. The accommodations 
 to be had at lodging houses in the city are very inferior to those which the College 
 has furnished at a nmch less expense ; and the difficulty of close application to 
 study in such lodging houses would, I hold, be a very considerable obstacle to a 
 young man completing a successful course. My own College experience does not 
 bear on the <piestion, as, during the whole of my course at Trinity College, Dublin, 
 I continued to reside with my mother in the city. But, from my experience with 
 reference to my sons, I would hold uj) both my hand^ for the continuance, and 
 even for the extension, of Residence. I therefore sincerely trust that you will lie 
 successful in yov.r opposition to any reversal of the long-continued practice in this 
 particular. 
 
 I remain, my dear Dr. Wilson, 
 
 Yours very tnily, 
 
 Fred'k a. O'Meara. 
 Daniel Wilson, Esq., LL.D. 
 
 Rev. E. p. Crawford. M.A., 
 Hector of Church of the Ascension, Hamilton. 
 
 Brockville, June 22nd, 1887. . 
 
 My Dear Dr. Wilson. — I have, by no means, lost my interest in Alma. 
 Mater, but my interest is rather reviving, inasmuch as some of my spiritual sons- 
 are now attending the University. 
 
 I believe it would be most disastrous to the interest and welfare of the 
 students attending the College from a distance to aboHsh the Residence. The 
 •wholesome restraints, and disciplinary influences, much more effectual now, I be- 
 lieve, than when I lived there, are very essential to the moral well-being of the youths 
 who go up from town and country Schools, and more than that the Residence 
 has really the strongest influence in the cultivation and preservation of that ' esprit 
 de corps' so necessary in every public institution. In fact I look upon the Resi- 
 dence as the centre of the real College life, and I would solemnly protest agauist 
 its extinction. 
 
 You are welcome to use this letter in any way yon like, and also to command 
 my influence and help in the cause in any way in which I can be useful. 
 
 I am, my dear Dr. Wilson, 
 
 Ever faithfully yours, 
 Db. Wilson, E. P. Crawford. 
 
 President UnijersUy College, 
 
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 J. H. Long, Esq., M.A., LL.B. 
 Principal of the Collegiate Imtiiute, Peterborough. 
 
 Pktkrboroooii, June 24th, 1887. 
 Daniel Wiusok, Emq.. LL.D.. President University College, Toronto: 
 
 I remain, dear Sir, respectfully yours, 
 
 J. H, Long. 
 
 W. Dale, Esq., M. A. 
 Lecturer in Latin, University College. 
 
 St. Mary's, 25th June, 1887. 
 in fh^L^r*" J^«-,^ViwoN -During my undergraduate conrse I was a Resi.lenfc 
 in the College, as the J^es.dence at that time afforded advantages both 1^X82 
 of study and intercourse among students not otherwise obtainable! ^ 
 
 The Resident students were under the oharce and oversii/ht nf fha non„ xr 
 
 contnJ S h' n ''"'^''1 *'^ ^'''' ^'"'^ '■''' !>■•" -^thoS :^e af £ J edge a^S 
 wf u- ^T' """f ^^^Y '*"'^""* ^'^^ ^^P«^t«^l t" attend at least onofeverv 
 Sunday his own place of worsliip. With respect to attendance on Lectures the 
 students were under the ordinary discipline of College authoritfes! '^ectures, the 
 
 The intellectual iiitiuences were certainly good and in conjunction with nf>,«.,. 
 influences, stimulated to study and emulation. " t-onjunction with other 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 William Dale. 
 
 Walter Barwick, Esq.,. M.A. 
 Barrister. 
 
 Toronto, July 12th, 1887. 
 
 »„^n i^*^^^^'!'^'*" Wilson. -I lived in the College Residence for four years as 
 an undergraduate, and I continued to reside there after I had taken my Decree 
 1 L^l""^ l^ack now upon the years spent there as the happiest years of my life* 
 hirt I mean thir^'''''''" "" any meaningless way. but from the botto,7of my 
 As I write I think with pride oi the friendships I made with hundreds of men 
 WM them '° R^«"l««««. or who made it a rallying place during the time ? 
 
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 One great mlvantage I gained in Residence was the opportunity of making 
 friendsliips at a time of life wlum lasting friendshipa are niado. Tliere are few 
 towns in Ontario where I have not a friend made while I live<l in Hesidence. 
 This perhaps sounds far fetched. It is not. I know that my room was always 
 p rallying place for three or tour — perha[)8 more — outsidiiH, good hard-working 
 students, who ideutiiied themselves with Kosidence ; and each other room in the 
 place had its adherents. 
 
 I know that during my time- and since, too, for that matter — Residence men 
 were fortiiioat in everything appertaining to University matters,. In the Literary 
 Society, in the Modern Language Society, upon (Conversazione Connnittees, Gamo 
 Committees, Foot Uall, andCricket Clubs, th(y usually took the initiative, and when 
 1 remend)er the lionors many of my old friends gained in the Examination Hall, I 
 can safely say tlie Itcsidenco men were foiemost in the van when tlie class lists 
 were posted in the Entrance Hall. 
 
 A custom existed in my time (and I learn upon enquiry that it still exists), which 
 made Hesidence attractive for reading men. This was, a nuui was never as a rule 
 disturbed if he were known to be reading there. There might be a jirotestingkick 
 on the panel of the door, l>ut there it ended, and this custom led men to remain 
 in Residence aftijr taking their degrees, if they intended to enter upon the study 
 of one of tlie l^rol'essions. It was tliis wliich induced me to remain in Residence 
 after taking uiy degree. 
 
 My experience of Residence leads me to believe that life there is an advantage to 
 men intellectually and morally; there they meet their fellows in daily life; their 
 intercourse is not contined to the class room, their habits are subject to keen 
 criticism ; and they are suliject to a control which cannot be exercised on v^c.n 
 scattered in isolated boarding houses throughout the city ; the tendency of life 
 there is to mfib' men. 
 
 I look iioon any attempt to abolish Residence as a blow at the most important 
 element in University College training, and I knowthat men who have spent years 
 there, aj I did, will agree in all that I have written above. 
 
 I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, 
 
 Waltkr Barwick. 
 
 W. G. Eakins, E.SQ., M.A., 
 Editor of the Mail. 
 
 Toronto, July 19th, 1887. 
 Dr. Daniel Wilson, Piesident of University College, Toronto : 
 
 Dfe.\R Sir — Myjopiinon, based upon my own experience, of the value of 
 University College Residence, both intellectually and morally, may be learned 
 from the fact that my advice to all young men about to take the College course, 
 whom I may know, lias always been to live in Residence if possible. Almost 
 eleven years have ela))Sed since I left the institution, and 1 have never yet had 
 any reason to change the opinion formed during my stay there, that Residence 
 life ''s a mo3t valuable factor in the education of the "University student. On the 
 contrary, I have become strengthened in that belief as I have grown older, and aa 
 my ideas have become matured. 
 
 My}whole University life was spent in Residence. I graduated in 1876, and 
 suice then, with the excei<tion of about three years, I have lived in the city, and 
 have always been intimately acquainted with some of the residents— both gradvi- 
 ates and undergraduates. 
 
 I consider my father's action in placing me in Residence after my matricula- 
 tion as one of the best things he ever did for me, and I have never ceased to 
 coiigratulate myself upon the fact that I was not sent to a boarding-house in th6 
 
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 city. I have roivson to believe that had the hitter course been taken, my Uni- 
 vertiity <!areer and my HubniHiiient life would have boon very difVorent. 
 
 The^followiiit,' are some of the reasons, briefly stated, for my high opinion of 
 the value of Hcsidenoe : 
 
 1. I found myself at once intimately asaooiated with a number of experienceil 
 students, whose example and advice wore of the {greatest value to me. I lourned, 
 even without asking, how to use my time to the best advantage ; and tin; daily 
 intercourse between my fellow-students and myself, being largidy on the s\d)ject of 
 our studios, was often of as much valin; to me as the guidance of a tutor woultl 
 have been. Had I lived elsewhere I would have received the bonelit of the 
 experience of others oidy in stray hrturs between lectures. 
 
 2. The more fact of the University building being my home was in itself a 
 great eonvenienee. If an hour intervcued between leotr.res, i et.uUl at once repair 
 to my room and use the same to advantage. At examination times especially was 
 this convenience felt. 
 
 3. 1 became almost innnediately interested in the various College fjoeietios and 
 sports, and my interest was ever stimulated and fostered by constant association 
 with m.'uiy of the leaders in tlieni. The non-resident, of course, takes, part in 
 these affairs, but, unless he l)e prediMpoaed to do so, it is often a year ov so before 
 he becomes fully identiH<;d w itii them. 
 
 4. It seldom happens that souio of the stud uts at lease in Residence are not 
 at work at their studies, and the tirst or seeond year student who may l)e tempted 
 to idle away his time is thus strengtiienod against the temptation. The .student 
 living in a boardiiii; iionse, on tln^ Mther haml, is often led to east aside his books 
 when he finds that all the other inniaLes of the house are anuisiug themselves. 
 
 o. Residence helps to strengthen th'.i character. The fre-^hman is thrown into 
 contiet with men of all years and is largely intluenced by his seniors whoso eliai' 
 actors have been siniiliarly developed in the past. The net results of that influence 
 are very largely good. The non-resident, as a rule, mingles chiefly with the men 
 of his own year only, 
 
 6. Kesiilence makes a man of the boy. It is a world of itself in which the 
 b(ij', frosii Ironi school, has to fight^his way. He becomes sidf-reliiut without 
 being self-opinionated. Cimstaut tou'.Ji with his fellows rubs oil' his rough cormrs 
 and he receives a certain polish of mind as well as of manner. He learns to think 
 and act for himself, being at the same time restrainjul by consideration fur his 
 companions. Tin; latter are ever-present examples to him. He cannot avoid see- 
 ing the failings ol some, the good qualities of others, and he learns many a lesson 
 that would not otherwise ))e brought home to him until he had gone out into the 
 World. The non-resident, as a rule, misses the experience and his character is left 
 to mould itself. 
 
 7. 1'he student in Residence forms lasting friendships among those with whom 
 he spends his years there. I cannot sulliciently emphasize my appreciation of the 
 importance of this fact. My dearest atul most valued fritiuds are those that I 
 made there and those to whom I there became attached. Ui' ail that I acquired 
 at the University I value nothing more highly than their friendship. Many of 
 them are young men who have already achieved unusual success, and many of 
 them, I feel confident, will yet be prominent in their several walks in life. If my 
 course at the University had brought me nothing more than such friendship, it 
 would well have repaid me the time spent upon it. Had I been a non-resident I 
 am confident that no such bond of affection would have been created betwc^n my- 
 self and ray fellow students, 
 
 8. The intellectual influence upon my life in Residence may be gathered from 
 the foregqing remarks. 1 may say, however, that in my time. Residence men 
 always took even more than their share of the honours in comparison M^ith their 
 numbers. A hasty glance at the records shew me that the men who lived in 
 
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 Resldt'Mce <1iiring any poitinn (»f the four ycnra thiit I WftH thrro carriod o(T twenty- 
 four tntiiltilH. I may be piirdouiul mentioning, as further proof, tluit I touU. four 
 Hcliolarsiii))H iiml a uiedal after matriculation. Some of my contcmporaricH in Ketii- 
 dtiice did l)ctter still. 
 
 \K The morals of Btudent.s in rchidenue are (juite as j^ood at least as those of 
 non-rosidout students as a whole, so far aa I know the habits of tlie latter. Tlioy 
 a:i; l»otter than tho.se of one class of the latter. The (dass lists aH'ord one proof of 
 this • the fact that former residence incju send their sons tliercs anotiier. If I 
 thought that any boy of my'acciuaintame would be exposed in Kt^idDnoe to any 
 ure;iter temptation tlian in a boarding-houae, 1 would never think i>t advising that 
 he sh(»uld lie sent to the former. In fact, I believe that there is far more thmger 
 in life in a boarding house, free from all restraint, than in Residence. 
 
 10. Life in residence especially fosters es/irif. ib' corps and love for Ahna 
 Mater, I need not tell you, .Sir, nor any one else who lias had an opjiortunity of 
 testing the strength of such sentiments, what tht^ir prtvetical value to the (College 
 is. Anything,' that ttiiids to strengthen the tie between the C(dlego and its stiulenta, 
 between the University ami its alumul, is of inestimable value, es[)e»;ially at a time 
 vlien the rivals of tho.'^^^e institutions arc Ix'condiig more niid moi'c »'ig(U'oua ; and 
 nothing that I know of is better :alculatcd ti> do so tlian borne life within the walls 
 of the old Iniilding. 1 do not know an old reHidcuce man, no matter how far back 
 his degree may ilate, who wouUl not feel as if a very important link in the chain 
 of his cfmnection with the University and U(dlege hail b«in broken if the Residence 
 were ab(»lislied, and whose inteiest in tlic two institution?* would not be by so much 
 diminished. It has always been a ehcrisheil hope of mine, and, I believe, of many 
 University men, that at some day tlie Residence would b»^ so enlarged as to admit 
 a far greater number of students. Such a stop would be a grand thing for 
 University ( Ollege. 
 
 1 have given you, hastily and imperfectly, a few of the reasons for my high 
 opinion of tiie value of lU'sidence, and I am only sorry tliat I have hail neither the 
 time nor the connnand of language sutiicieut to express sentiments more clearly 
 and more strongly. 
 
 I can only assure you, in conclusion, that I am not alone amf)ng the graduates 
 in the belief that theal)olition of lieaidence would be a calamity, the elfectof which 
 University C'(dlege would feel for many years to come. 
 
 ] am, Sir, yours respectfully, 
 
 W. a. Eakins, 
 
 Rkv. Cai^on James O'Meara, M.A. 
 Dean of St. John's Cofk'/e, Winnipeg. 
 
 The Lodge, St. John's College, 
 
 Winnipeg, July, 19, 1887. 
 
 Daniel Wilson, Esq., LL.D., President, University College, Toronto : 
 
 My Deak Dr. Wilson — I i.,m to-day in receipt of your favor of July 13th, and 
 hasten to reply. You are good enough to ask me my opinion aa to the wisdom of 
 doing away with the Residence. Let me frankly say that I can inuigaine no step 
 more fatal to the truest interests of the University, or more utterly subversive of 
 the objects v'hich the University seeks to attain than the contemplated step to 
 which you refer, I base the stnmg opinion which I liold on this subject on two 
 grounds, viz. : on my own remembrance of the value of residence to myself when 
 a student, and the experience gained in my position as Deputy Warden of St. 
 John's College. If the value of a University education is to i)e measured by the 
 standard of the definite number of facts crammed into one during the four years of 
 
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 one'a course, then perhaps ReRideiice mi^ht Haf^ly be done away with, but if the 
 vahio of a Univors ;y <(>urHe hos largely in tlu! nioiitiil iliscipline, tlie cultiiro, the 
 
 f)roparation for life obtainable from continual contact with one's fello'v Htuilenta 
 and «uoh I know to bo the eaae), then full half the beneht of a University training 
 iH loHt by breaking them up into the little groupH that gather in isolated boarding 
 houses, instead of allowing thoni to form tiiat nucleus of University life in all its 
 best doveh)pmont, which a wll managed Residence will furnish. I kiiuir that more 
 than hay the benefit roceir i by mo at the University of Toronto, arose from the 
 moral and intellectual dis> |>lino of my former life in Residence. I have always 
 regretted that tlu; Kosideir a Toronto was not larger ai 1 more worthy of the 
 Alma Mater of whom all hei children are so justly proud. My ex{)erienr!fe in 
 training young men !n!re has confirmed in mo the views I have mentioned above. 
 I have had men come to me raw, uncouth, uninformed, utterly unpi-cpared to go 
 out into life itnd do credit to themselves, or their college. And I liave watched 
 the inHuences of college life, and ])y college life f mean licHiilcnce life, 1 have 
 watched thoHC intluenccH moulding them, and maturing them till they have gone 
 forth from us witli tiie pnjmiae or success upon them. And I am sure that only 
 half tlii.s result was accomplished by the work of myself or my coilegues. It is 
 true witii lax or careless discipline Hesidences may bciome ii centre of dangerous 
 influence, l»ut surely the remedy for tins is not to abandon the Hesidenoi', but to 
 strengthen the di-iciplino. In my time I know tliere was a thoroughly manly and 
 moral tone in the budding, and I havooio reason to believe that any other condition 
 prevails at present. I «io ainoerely hope the Minister of Kducation, wlio I am 
 convinced is deeply anxious to do his best for the truest intercuts of education, 
 may hesitate a long while before he takes away a part of the University which has 
 gathered round it the kindly memories of so many of our Uraduates. 
 
 With kindest reganls, 
 
 I remain, sincerely yours, 
 
 J. I). O'Mkaba, 
 Dep. Warden and Vice.-Chancellor of ,^t. John's College, 
 
 A. H. Maiwh, Usq., M. a., LL.B. 
 
 Barrister. 
 
 My Dear Doctor Wil.son. 
 
 Toronto, 20th July, 1887. 
 
 I received your note asking me to state my opinion, based upon my own 
 experience, of the value of the Hesidence both intellectually and morally. 
 
 It is with the deepest regret that I have heard of the proposal to abolish the 
 residence in connection with University College. 
 
 During the whole of my undergraduate course I lived in Residence, and T can 
 express my opinion of Residence in no more practica! way than by saying that if 
 I had a son old enough to go to the University, he should most certainly be sent 
 into Residence, and if there was no Residence to receive him at University Col- 
 lege, he should go to some other College that had one. 
 
 A great mistake is not infrecjuently made by University men, as well as others, 
 in supposing that an education fitted to supply the needs of a University graduate 
 can be obtained from books and lectures alone. I am far from meaning to imply 
 that living in Residence will wholly supply the indefinite and almost indescribable 
 something which books and lectures are unable to furnish, but I do say that, all 
 other things being equal, I think there can be* no doubt that the University man 
 who lives in Residence during his undergraduate course, will be better equipped 
 in this respect than the man who spends his years floating from boarding-house to 
 boardiug-house throughout the city. There is an influence in Residence which 
 
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 tends to knock off a man's angles and smooth down his rough corners, and to make 
 polished men out of material which was originally " rough, r&v, and democratic."" 
 It is perfectly true that many men live in Residence, and take their degrees, and 
 an'^' remain yahoos at the end, while many other graduates, who are polished and 
 scholarly gentlemen, have never had the advantage of living in Resiclence, but all 
 other things being equal, the cliances are in favor of the Residence men. 
 
 There is another feature which, in my opinion, is of great importance. An 
 English Jurist, speaking of the impersonality of corporations, reminds us that 
 they " Have neither bodies to l)e kicked nor souls to be damned," and it may be 
 added that tlxey can be made so impersonal that there will be very little about 
 them to be loved. There is great danger that University College may be placed in 
 this latter position. Even though a nun may be of an enthusiastic temperment, 
 yet he ordinarily re(|uires that upon which he places his affections to be definite 
 and tangible. I will venture to say that with the majority -of Residence men the 
 Residence has been the definite tangible thing which has in their mind been made to 
 stand for University College. It may be said that this is all sentimentalism, but 
 sentiment is a great motive power in this world, and when University College 
 conies into competition with other Colleges whose friends are animated by sectarian 
 enthusiasm, she will find that sentimentalism among her friends is a thing much 
 to be desired. 
 
 I have scarcely patience to deal with the moral aspect of the question. The 
 enemies of Residence appears to forget tliat Residence is neither a Sunday School 
 nor a Young Ladies Seminary, but that it is a place where men are made. I have 
 seen not a few caHts vvhere Residence Students have wrecked themselves and have 
 gone to the bad, but the fault was in the material, not in the Residence ; they 
 would have ended the same no matter wliere they went. I wonder if the slander- 
 ers of Residence have ever seriously thought over the ennol)ling, chastening, and 
 restraining influences of a down-town boavding-house, for let them remember that 
 that is the cmly sul)ctitute they have to olfer for Residence. 
 
 When human nature has become entirely changed, and all evil passions have 
 died out, and envy and malice and hatred have become tlungs of the past, we may 
 hope to have a Residence with the aesthetic code of morals which some gentlemen 
 would now prescribe for the existing Resideuee ; but in the meantime we had 
 better deal in business-like way with linman nature as we find it. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 A. H. MARSH. 
 
 James H. Coyne, Esq., R.A. 
 County Registrar, St. Thomas. 
 
 St. Thomas, July 22, 1887. 
 Daniel Wilson, Esq., LL.D., President of University College, Toronto: 
 
 Dear Sir, —Your letter, in which you ask me to state my opinion, based on 
 my own experience, of the value of the University College Residence, intellectually 
 and morally, is to hand, and I hasten to comply with the request. 
 
 My experience, as a student at Toronto, was about equally divided between 
 the Residence and private boarding houses. Of my University course, I passed 
 the first year in a priv ite boarding house, and the last three years in Residence. 
 Afterwards, as a student at law, I boarded for two years at a private house. In 
 expressing an opinion on the subject, therefore, I am guided by the facta of my 
 own experience and observation. 
 
 It was the almost universal feeling among College students of my time, that 
 better work could Ije done in Residence than outside. The following dtatiBtics of 
 University distinctions won by Residents and Non-residents respectively amongst 
 the men of my own year would seem to bear out that opinion. 
 
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 In the seconvl year, of the five scholarships awarded, three were taken by 
 Residents, and two by Non-residents. One of the latter, who won the (Jlassical 
 Scholarship, was the son of a Toronto clergyman of high classical attainments, 
 and therefore possessed special advantages in his chosen department over his 
 competitors. 
 
 In our third year, the five Scholarships were -.ll carried off by Residents. 
 One of them having taken a double Scholarship was entitled under the statutes to 
 only one-third of the value of the second Scholarship, and the remainder 
 went to a Non-resident. Besides the above honours, tlie (Tcrmau Essay Prize 
 went to a Resident, and the Greek Verse Prize to the clergyman '.s son aljove 
 mentioned. 
 
 In our last year, the Prince of Wales Prize, all the Gold Medals, (tivo in 
 number), six Silver Medals, and three other juizea, were taken by Resident men, 
 whilst five Silver Medals were won by students not in Residence. 
 
 I should add that the students of our 
 between the Residents and the "outsiders." 
 
 year were about equally divided 
 
 The Resid.mte was not injurious in its effects upon our standing as students. 
 On the contrary, we gained distinct advantages in the prosecution of our studies 
 from living in Residence. This is indicated by the statistics 1 have given. But I 
 have no hesitation in saying that the moral advantages were still greater. 
 
 Students living outside of the (,'ollege are practically under no control. 
 Temptations of all kinds are nearer at liand. Other boarders in the same houses 
 may be engaged in various a-ocations in the city, or may be unemployed. Tho 
 tendency is, with those who are not students, to give up their evenings to recrea- 
 tion and amusement. Their influence upon students in their work is not likely to 
 be favourable, especially upon those who are naturally lazy or without force of 
 character. The latter are more exposed, and more likelj' to yield, to tlie tempta- 
 tions of the city, when not under the influence of life in Residence. The moderate 
 discipline, the regular hours, the crprit de corptt, the constant control exercised 
 over conduct and manners, not only by the recognized authorities, but also by the 
 example of the general body of the students, the more bracing atmosphere of work, 
 the association of the students in their studies, the knowledge of methods thereby 
 acquired, the repeated interchange of friendly oliices, all these were moral influ- 
 ences for good, which were continually operating, and which in the nature of 
 things placed the Resident students at an advantage over those who boarded out- 
 side the College. I have often heard the latter regret that their College course 
 had consisted merely of study and examinations, and, that they had missed the 
 collegiate life which they might have had in Residence. One decided advantage 
 of the University College Residence is the fact, that j'ouths of all religious 
 denominations are bron^'-t together in the most intimate friendly intercourse as 
 one conmion family. 1 believe that the tendency in this Province towards a union 
 of the various Christian communions has been greatly forwarded by the friendly 
 relations thus brought about. 
 
 After se%'enteen years of opportunity for consideration, since leaving College, 
 I am moie than ever convinced of the great value of the Residence. For real 
 educational benefit, intellectual and moral, I would not if it were in my power 
 exchaug} the benefit I have derived from living in Residence for all the other 
 advantages of the University and College course. Living in Residence does not 
 injure men religiously or morally. Four of my fellow Residents of my own year 
 are honoured ministers of the Gospel. The remainder are engaged in various 
 occupations.' None has brought discredit on his alma mater. There have been no 
 moral wrecks among them. All are, 1 firmly believe, better men and better 
 citizens for having lived in the University College Residence. 
 
 It will be a great calamity not only to the University and University College 
 but to the Province at large, if anything should be done to impair the Residence 
 
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 as an integral part of the College. I sincerely hope that instead of being abolished 
 the Residence may be enlarged, or an additional one constructed, so as to enable 
 a larger number of our young men to share iu the advantages of real college life. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 James H. Coyne. 
 
 Wm. Allaire Shortt, Esq., M.A., 
 Coutisellor'at- Laiv. 
 
 35 Broadway, New York, October 22nd, 1887. 
 
 My Dear Dr. Wilson. — I am exceedingly sorry that my professional duties 
 should have been so engrossing that three weeks have run by since 1 received yo • 
 note asking for ' ' my opinion, based on my experience, of the value of the KesidencL 
 moral and intellectual." 
 
 My belief is that I feel every day the influence of the four yeai-s I was enabled 
 to spend in an atmo.sphere avowedly scholastic and intellectual. Those years have 
 been the only ones 1 iiave ever known in a society where one was never considered 
 a prig for using the Ijest English he could command, or a bore for insisting on the 
 the severest logic he knew, or a pedant for broaching a subject a little more recon- 
 dite than current i>olitios. My experience shews me that Residence afforded the 
 opportuuity to apply directly, in daily life, what was being learned at lectures or 
 from books, so as to make it one's own in a way it could never otherwise become ; 
 that in thiit fraternal intercourse with men following evt^ry branch of study, one 
 rea(;hed a wider and juster view of the world and history than by any other means 
 is possible, ajid acquired a taste that no intercourse more restricted or less intimate 
 could give. 
 
 The alternative of Residence is the private boarding house, and the characteristic 
 of the private boarding house is .. society so small as to deprive every member of 
 the opportunities both lor universality and specialty — the number being too small 
 to give him companions in all courses or a choice of those in his own. 
 
 New York is a place of cosmopolitan interests, and growing into a literary 
 centre ; yet my experience here with mep trained at Columbia or the University 
 of New York, at neither of which is there a residence, assures me further of the 
 importance of living in a building devoted to learning, and in a society exclusively 
 composed of students. 
 
 Kven the two or three men in University College Residence in my time who 
 never opened a book and never attended an examination absorbed considerable 
 knowledge, acquired a great respect for it, and received a sort of culture. 
 
 I am told that since the abolition of Residence at Lehigh University the 
 undergraduates have taken to living at ihotels, with disastrous results, both moral 
 and intellectual. A friend of mine, who"designed his son for that University, has 
 decided to send him elsewhere (afber a visit to Lehigh). 
 
 Bor my own part, I believe that I am a vastly better companion, friend, and 
 citizen, with a truer sense of myself and my relations and duties to my kir.d, for 
 the moral discipline of the Residence — the self-imposed discipline of the under- 
 graduate democracy where every member is subject, magistrate, policeman, and 
 legislator, not in turn, but all at once. 
 
 The sins of the Residence are more visible and more talked about, but not 
 wor.se or more numerous than those of the small boarding house, as my experience 
 since leaving it convinces me ; on the contrary, they are limited in kind and num- 
 ber by a Residence public opinion, while those of a private house are nobody's 
 business. I never knew a man detected in a dishonourable act to whom life was 
 thereafter- tolerable in the Residence ; such a man invariably moved to a private 
 boarding house where he was more comfortable. 
 
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 .v.. "^^1"^*^"^ *^^^* y*'" '"•'^y succeed in saving the dearest, and perhaps the best 
 thmg about the College, and thanking you for your efforts in its behalf, 
 
 ^ . I am, faithfully yours, 
 
 Wm. a, Shortt. 
 
 • CoLiK G. Snider, Esq., M.A. 
 
 Cayuga, 28th July, 1887. 
 Daniel Wilson, Esq., LL.D., President University College, Toronto: 
 ^ Dear Sir,— I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., i 
 have been away from home, and so have not answered jjrornptly. 
 
 I regret very much the course proposed to be taken in reference to the College 
 Residence. I lived in Residence during my whole undergraduate course, from 
 Autuiun 1869 to Spnng 1873. I took jwrt actively in all the sports and amuse- 
 ments among the students, and looking back on my experience there, after fourteen 
 years subsequent experience of active bu.siness life, I feel tliat if I had 7iot been in 
 Residence my college life would have been robbed of half its charm, and certainly 
 half its usefulness to me. 
 
 I know of no incident during t'.ie whole time the occurrence of which I have 
 any cause to regret. I do not know of one sii.gle man Avho contracted a bad 
 habit of any kind owing to his living in Residence. 1 liave boarded in private and 
 public houses, in various town and cities, since I was sixteen years old, and I 
 think the University Residence (juite as safe morally as any private boarding house 
 life is. I have a son and hope to have him go tl.iough the Arts Course at Univer- 
 sity College, and I shall certainly send him into Residence if it is continued, 
 because I feel certain his moral welfare is quite us safe there as in any ))oarding 
 hotise, indeed I think safer than hunting amusement through the town, plenty of 
 which he finds among his fellow students at home in Residence. Intellectually 
 his chances are far better in Residence in my opinion. 
 
 I earnestly hope your influence may be used to preserve the Residence, and 
 that it may be continued. 
 
 Youra very truly, 
 
 Colin 6. Snider. 
 
 Hon. Mr. Jcstice Palconbridge, M. A. 
 
 IS and 20 King Street West, Toronto, 27th July, 1887. 
 Daliel Wilson, Esq., LL.i>., President, University College, Toronto. 
 
 My Dkar President, —On my return to town I am in receipt of your note of 
 the 13th instant. I entertain very stnmg views on the subject of the proposed 
 abolition of the College Residence. I do not think that any person who had 
 ever been in Residence himself, or who had any University degree, would for a 
 moment entertain the idea of abolishing the Residence. 1 consider the training 
 to be received there of at least as great value both intellectually and morally as 
 that received in the Lecture Room. 
 
 I think that my allegiance to the University and to University College is as 
 strong as that of any graduate, but unless I see great reason to change my mind, 
 if there is no Residence in University College when the time arrives for my 
 children to matriculate, I should certainly send them to Trinity College, Toronto, 
 if I cannot afford to send to Oxford or Cambridge. You are, of course at liberty to 
 make any use of this letter that you think proper. 
 
 I remain, my dear Dr. Wilson, yours sincerely, 
 
 W. G. Falconbkidoe. 
 
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 Talbot Macbeth, Esq., M.A., 
 
 Bai-rialer. 
 
 London, July 29, 18S7. 
 
 My Dkar Sir, — I regret very much the delay ,in fynswering your letter of the 
 13th inst. I have been out of town for the last tliree weeks, and your letter, 
 arriving during my absence, was unfortunately mislaid, and did not come to my 
 hands until to-day. 
 
 With regard to the College Residence, I am utterly at a loss to understand 
 by what arguments any one lias been led to believe that it ia useless or injurious 
 in its inHuence on the students. It is my conviction, based on my own experience 
 as an undergraduate and a.s a graduate, that the Residence is of great value to 
 University C'ollege, and that its influence is felt not only by the inmates but by 
 the whole body of students. 
 
 The Residence is the centre of all College l-fe and thought and sentiment, a 
 boml of uidon, as it were, for all classes of students, and a most important factor 
 in pronioting friendly intercourse and good-fellowship among them. 
 
 Students in Residence have, in my opinion, g'-eater facilities for study than 
 can be obtained elsewhere, and enjoy in a special degree all tiiose intellectual and 
 moral advantages arising from familiar association with their fellows. 
 
 I would gladly see the Residence eidai'ged and im})roved, believing that such 
 a step would be in the bes^ interest of University College, an. I I sincerely trust 
 that the Minister may be persuaded to abandon hia proposal for its abolition. 
 
 Yours, very truly, 
 
 Taibot Macbeth. 
 Dr. Wilson, i 
 
 President, University College, Toronto. 
 
 Rev. a. C. Hill, M.A., 
 
 Rector, Epificopal CInirch, St. Thomas. 
 
 290 SiMCOE S'i'REET, TORONTO, August 8th, 1887. 
 
 Daniel Wilson, Esq., LTj.D., President University College, Toronto : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I arrived in this city this morning, on my way homo after a trip to 
 the Maritime Provinfos, and found your favour of duly 13th awaiting me, which 
 had been forward i'roni St. Thomas. With regard to the prciposcd abolition of 
 the College Residence, I have already signed a petition against it, and am fully 
 in accord with the views therein expressed. Your ask me to state ray opinion, 
 based on my experience, of the value of the Residence, both intellectually and 
 morally. In reply I would state, that I consider the Residence to be of great 
 value, both intellectually and morally to students of the University. It is often of 
 great advantage to students in I'eading up for lecture or examination to work 
 together. The mutual help afforded in, and the stimulus given by, united work 
 tends to make the aeqv'sition of knowledge easier and more pleasant, and to give 
 to the workers a more mtelligent and retentive grasp of the subject studied. The 
 Residence affords opportunities for this reading together which are not to be found 
 in a private boarding house. The objection may l)e raised that there are idle rest- 
 less students to be found in Residence, who will interrupt the reading of the 
 studiously inclined. Such characters were indeed to be found in Residence when 
 I was an under-graduate (and I have no doubt that there will be always such 
 found there, and in private boarding houses also) but my experience was that if a 
 man really wanted to read he vVas not molested. If a man once let it be under- 
 
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 stood that he was in earnest about his studies, the idle ones left him in peace, and 
 sought more congenial society. With regard to the moral value of the Residence, 
 there Qan, I think, bo no question. The fact that men must be in tlie Building at 
 a certain hour at night, and that the Dean exercises supervision over their moral 
 conduct, church attendance, &c. , tends certainly to SMve them from the temptations 
 which beset men in boarding houses, where there is no strict regulation as to hours 
 of admission at night, and wliere all the inmates of the house are not University 
 students, are not, sometimes, all of them of the. ntcrncr xi'x. Some of the pleasant- 
 est rssociations and brightest memories of my under-gradutc course are connected 
 with the Residence, and I trust that it will always form part of my Altna Mater. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 Akundkl C. Hill. 
 
 J. H. Bowes, xM.A., 
 
 Barrister, 
 
 Toronto, September 15th, 1887. 
 Dear Dr. Wilson. — In answer to your note regarding Residence, I would 
 say ; As to the intellectual i.ifluence of Residence upon the student, speaking 
 from my own experience, and from observation of its effects upon others, 1 believe 
 that it has a marked effect for good. The intiinatu ajsociation of forty men 
 pursuing difierent courses, but all engaged in University work, tends to broaden 
 the minds of the students and enables them to understand sometliing of studies 
 outside of their own specialty. The emulation also, existing among them is health- 
 ful and useful. I might renu'rk that Residence men have an inci(lental advantage 
 from the proximity of the building to the library, which makes it ex(;eedingly easy 
 for them to make use of its books and reading-room. As to tlie mc-al influence 
 (speaking again from my own experience) I cannot believe that it is anything but 
 for the good. The Residence forms a mi nature world, and the student there 
 learns to meet w:th men, and to exercise his judgment and moral force. 
 It has been said by some that Residence men are wild and disipated. Those 
 who know best do not say so ; on the contrary, life in Residence tends to 
 to the formation of decided cb" ;ctor and determination. There are black sheep in 
 every flock, but the assertion i,iiat the ordinary Residence man is a black sheep is 
 most unjust. I might also advert to the great social advantages that Residence 
 possesses, and the esprit de corps for which }ts member.s have been noted. It may, 
 however, be unnecessary to do so. I will only add that, on the point of leaving 
 Canada, I am sure not only that I will find myself far bettei- equiped for the 
 struggle of life from my Residence training, but also that the recollection of the 
 years that 1 spent there will always be a bright spot in ray life. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 J. H. Bowes. 
 
 E. H. Smytue, Esq., LL.D. 
 
 Barrister, Kingnton. 
 
 Wkllinqton, August 15th, 1887. 
 My Dear Dr. Wilson. 
 
 I received yours of the 13th ult., at this place where I am spending a month 
 vacation. 
 
 From my own experience I regard the maintenance of the Residence as most 
 important. I believe it affords safe-guards for the moral welfare of the Student, 
 which are not to be found in boarding-hcuses scattered through the city. I hope 
 before long to have sons of my own at the University, and would much ^.refer 
 
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 that they should reside in the College preciiiuta under the supervision of a wiae 
 and judicious Dean, such as Prof. Loudon proved to be iu my time. 
 
 I am strongly in favour of the Residence on another ground. It was an intel- 
 lectual centre, and afforded a nucleus for the University life which the English 
 system is such a successful exponent of. Even the non residents participated in the 
 benefit of it. It raised the standard of College culture very measurably. I think 
 its aLolition a step in the wrong direction. It should rather be extended. I have 
 had ample opportunities of observing the effect of the non-resident sys^m at 
 Queen's, and in the result I have not been favourably impressed with it. 
 
 A Residence under proper discipline ought to be a sure guarantee to parents 
 that their sons keep proper hours, and have such restraints placed upon them as 
 young men need away from home. 
 
 in fine, I am an enthusiastic supporter of the '* College Residence." 
 I am, my dear Dr. Wilson, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 E. H. Smythe. 
 
 
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