SAVE FUEL BY USING BABCOCK BOILERS, AND MECHANICAL STOKERS BABCOCK & WILCOX LTD. LONDON AND GLASGOW Head Office for Canada-NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING, MONTREAL THE THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO MONTHLY is published during the college year in nine monthly issues. The subscription price is ONE DOLLAR a year, (single copies FIFTEEN CENTS). All subscriptions are credited November-July, unless otherwise ordered. All remittances and corresponde ice of a business nature should be addressed to J. C. McLennan, Ph.D., Secretary-Treasurer of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, Dean's House, University of Toronto, while communications intended for the MONTHLY should be sent to the Editor, J. Squair, B.A., at the same address. UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS. Just on the point of going to press, we are informed that, at the regular meeting of the Board of Governors of the University of Toronto, on April 25, it was unanimously decided to offer the position of President of the University of Toronto to the Rev. Robert A. Falconer, M.A., B.D., LL.D., Litt. D., Principal of Pine Hill College, Halifax. Dr. Falconer was born in Prince Edward Island, and received his early education at Queen's Royal College, Trinidad, and there passed the Cambridge local examination with firstclass honours. He matriculated into London University, receiving the Gilchrist scholarship and he graduated there, with honours in Classics and Philosophy. After leaving London he studied at the University of Edinburgh, obtaining the degree of Master of Arts, with honours in Classics; and later, the degrees of B.D., and Litt. D. Subsequently Dr. Falconer spent some time in Germany, and studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Marburg. Among a number of other appointments, made at the same meeting, was that Mr. J. C. McLennan, B.A., Ph.D., for several years Associate Professor of Physics, to be Professor of Physics in the University of Toronto. Professor McLennan is well known to the readers of THE MONTHLY for his untiring efforts to promote the interests of the Alumni Association of the University of Toronto, of which he has been Secretary since its inception in 1900. |