gave the highest praise to the course.

A most interesting part of the ceremony was the presentation, by the late Mr. Timothy Eaton, of the keys of the building to the Principal, Mrs. Scott Raff. By a quaint device they were given in the form of a large silver door key, which, upon being opened, disclosed a golden latch-key. A pathetic interest attaches to this event as it was the last public act of Mr. Eaton, whose family name is thus permanently connected with the University Toronto.

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The need of such an adjunct to University work is obvious. Half the clergymen of England, said Thring, fail in their preaching because they cannot read. Nothing is of more value to the future preachers, teachers, lawyers, and statesmen, who are being trained in our various colleges, than the ability to express

their views in good literary form whether speaking or writing. And that true ease in speaking as in writing comes from art, not chance, many a public man's utterances prove. In the multiplicity of modern subjects there has been danger of overlooking this art of expression, one of the oldest of them all. and proper it was that this art. which is the co-ordination of all the culture arts, should owe its home to one who was so marvellous a master of the executive or co-ordinating art in business.

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We hope that the favourable auspices under which the school opened will continue to influence its work, and that the gifted Principal may be a very Fors Fortuna clavigera, bearing not only the silver key, symbol of eloquence, but the inner golden key, betokening that power of literary interpretation by which alone the works of the world's greatest geniuses give forth their highest value. Let us hope that the generous gift which so fittingly crowned the career of Toronto's successful merchant may be an inspiration for others to go and do likewise.

D. R. K.

New Branches of the Alumni Association

Information has recently been received by the Secretary of the formation of branches of the University of Toronto Alumni Association at Detroit and at Bristol, England.

The officers of the two branches are as follows:-Detroit: President, J. V. White, M.B.; Vice-President, J. Playfair McMurrich, M.A., Ph.D.; Secretary-Treasurer, J. A. MacMillan, M.B., 666 Woodward Avenue. Bristol: President, the Rev. J. G. Inkster, B.A.: Vice-President, W. A. MacKinnon, B.A.; Secretary-Treasurer, J. W. McBain, M.A.

Annual Meeting of the Wellington
Alumni.

The branch of the Alumni Association of the County of Wellington held its annual meeting in the Carnegie Library, Guelph, on Thursday evening, February 7. A paper on "The Metre of Shakespeare, read by Professor J. B. Reynolds, who sought to show the development in the art of the dramatist by means of various internal tests applied to the versification, was of exceptional interest to those present.

Arrangements were made for the annual dinner which will probably be held towards the end of March, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year -Honorary President, the Rev. R. W. Ross, B.A.; President, W. H. Day, B.A.; Vice-President, Miss A. Rowsom, B.A.; Secretary-Treasurer, R. L. McKinnon, B.A., LL.B.; Councillors, Miss E. Taylor, Mus. D.; E. L. Hill, B.A.; H. Leadley; G. P. Hamilton; S. B. McCready, B.A.; J. B. Reynolds, B.A.; Auditor, D. Foster, D.D.S.

The University of Toronto Club of
Ottawa.

The University of Toronto Club of Ottawa held its annual At Home on Friday evening, February 15, in the Normal School building. The rooms were beautifully decorated,

refreshments were served in the Domestic Science 100m and an orchestra discoursed sweet music in the Assembly Hall.

The University of Toronto was represented by the acting President, Professor Hutton, Ottawa University by Rev. Father Murphy, Queen's University Club by Principal Putnam of the Model School, and McGill University Club by Dr. Taggart.

The President of the Club, Dr. Sinclair, was in the chair and in his address of welcome drew attention to the fact that every citizen of Ontario, no matter what his creed or College, is a shareholder in the Provincial University, and should be therefore correspondingly interested. in its success.

Principa! Hutton delivered a comprehensive address on "The University of Toronto as at present constituted." He described in detail the existing conditions, and the proposed changes, dwelling at some length on the new departments of Education, Forestry, and Domestic Science.

The University of Toronto Club of Ottawa has been for many years a flourishing institution and this year has added a new and unique interest by having. at monthly meetings, rapers presented by members of the Club, dealing with research problems and followed by dscussion. At the last meeting the President dealt with "The Genetic Functional conception of the Thought Process"; and at the next meeting Dr. LeSueur will present a paper on "Responsible Government, its Theory and Practice."

The Annual Dinner of the University

of Toronto Club of New York.

The University of Toronto Club of New York held its fifth annual dinner on the evening of January 31 at the Hotel Astor. In all respects it was one of the most successful in the history of the Club. The attendance was large, and the Club

was honoured by the presence of several prominent guests.

It had been expected that the Hon. J. P. Whitney, LL.D., Premier of Ontario, would have been present, but at the last moment he was forced by the urgency of his parliamentary duties to send a letter of regret. However, Toronto and the University were well represented by Dr. John Galbraith, Principal of the School of Practical Science, and by Professor Alfred T. Del.ury of University College. Among the other guests of honour were Mr. Miles M. Dawson, New York's leading actuary, Dr. Wm. Ferguson, representing MeGill, and Dr. F. J. McCammon, representing Queen's.

President T. Kennard Thorason, S.P.S., '86 presided, and, after proposing the toasts of "The King" and "The President," called upon Mr. Miles M. Dawson to propose the toast of "Canada." This the latter did in an eloquent speech in the course of which he gave evidence of an intimate knowledge and keen appreciation of Canadians and their country. In replying to this toast Dr. E. R. L. Gould, President of the 34th Street National Bank and a graduate of the University, showed that he had not ceased to have a deep feeling for his native country and his Alma Mater.

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Dr. Galbraith proposed the toast of "The University" and gave an interesting account of it from the time he came in touch with it in the sixties. He explained that there a grave danger that it would soon outgrow entirely its present buildings, and hinted at the possibility that it might even be expedient at no very distant time to consider the question of moving the University from its present location to some less congested part of the city. Following Professor Galbraith, ProfesDeLurv spoke to the toast of "The Faculty." He once and for all captured the good will of all present by declaring that he would willingly

have followed the Club to China if it had decided to hold its dinner among the Celestials. His speech was a dignified and worthy tribute to the Faculty as well as a message from that body to the Club. He told of the hopes and the prosperity of the University, and carried his hearers back in memory to many a happy day and night-spent there. His. words were aptly termed by a succeeding speaker as an account of the poetry of the University.

More of the poetry of the University was heard in the speech of another University graduate, Dr. Sykes of Columbia University, in proposing the toast of "The Graduates." He made an eloquent plea for a proper understanding of the true relation of the University graduates in the United States towards Canada and the country of their adoption. They were not false, he declared, to Canada; for their mission was to interpret the people of the United States to those at home, and in turn to interpret Canada. her people, and her institutions to the people to the south of the Great Lakes. In conclusion he made a beautiful application of the words of Matthew Arnold on Oxford to the University's beloved main building.

Dr. Ling, a former President of the Club, proposed the toast to "Sister Societies," and took occasion also to bring to the attention of the Club the fact that it was to lose one of its most valued and energetic members, Mr. John A. McKellar, its Vie President, who was leaving the city .immediately to become State Actuary of Iowa. This announcement was greeted with expressions of mingled regret and pride. Mr. McKellar in a brief speech thanked the members of the Club for their good wishes.

Singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Auld Lang Syne," the members of the Club dispersed, all feeling that they owed a deep debt of gratitude to the dinner committee,

composed of President Thomson, Vice-President McKellar and Seeretary Ballantyne, for a very enjoyable evening.

Other Meetings During Christmas Week.

Another meeting held in New York conjointly with the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was that of the American Anthropological Association, which Professor Henry Montgomery attended as the representative of the University of Toronto. Professor Montgomery read a paper before a combined meeting of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Anthropological Association, and took a prominent part in discussions upon Primitive Man in Nebraska," The Early Cretans," and other papers read at the meetings. He was a guest at an important dinner and exhibition given by the New York Ethnological Society, and was also present at the unveiling of the marble busts of ten famous scientists in the American Museum of Natural History.

Providence, Rhode Island, the home of Brown University, was also the place of meeting, during Christmas week, of a number of associations engaged in closely related branches of work,-the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Political Science Association, etc. Among those in attendance were Dr. James Bain and Professor Wrong of Toronto, Professor Shortt of Queen's, Professor Leacock of McGill. etc. The papers call for no special mention. They are, in truth, a relatively unimportant feature of such meetings, the thing really helpful is the personal intercourse and the personal discussion of educational problems and methods. It is perhaps a mistake to have so many associations meeting in one place. The distractions are too numerous. But Brown University was a charming place of meeting. It is a much smaller University than is Toronto, yet in some ways it is more de

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Mr. Bourassa's recent visit to Toronto, and more especially his address on Integrity in Public Life,' delivered before the Political Science Club on January 22, has afforded good opportunity for a college audience to obtain some understanding of the things for which he stands. His address traversed familiar ground. In it he enunciated positions to which practically every one gives an abstract assent. That the judiciary should be free from any suspicion of political bias; that our Civil Service should be organised on a business basis; that the spoils system should be eliminated; that our politicians should not be mere opportunists, but should have before them high national ideals; that our politics should be free from corporation influence, have long been axioms of our abstract political geometry. But his treatment of these subjects was characterised by a fervour of utterance, an enthusiasm which vivified his remarks, and above all by a Gallic tendency towards generalisation which served to give accepted positions a more tangible form. But while aiming at raising the tone of our public life, the

speaker showed himself a practical idealist, for he recognised that in any movement for reform the essential compromises of life must be considered.

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It of necessity happened that, in the development of his material, attention was paid to the things for which the presence in our country of Canadians speaking French was responsible. And in the development of this the question of Canada's future, which to-day engages so much attention, was touched upon. For the French-Canadian he claimed a more undivided loyalty to Canada than exists in the case of the English-speaking Canadian. Not that he asserted that the English-speaking Canadian is lacking in loyalty to Canada. But it has happened that the fortunes war cut off the French-speaking Canadian from the old world a century and a half ago. Forced to content himself with new world conditions, he has been forced to develop a trend of thought and life indigenous to the soil. To Mr. Bourassa it would appear that the French-Canadians have had to hold that, in the words of Wilhelm Meister, our America is here or nowhere." The English-speaking Canadian has given of his energy, life. and thought to the building up of the Dominion. But there has persisted a division of sentiment due to the sentimental bonds which have united him to the older world. Long ago the French-Canadian manifested his unwillingness to be absorbed into the American Republic. Absorption into the United States, or, as he phrased it, acceptance of American civilisation. Mr. Bourassa pushed aside. But while independence is manifestly before him as an idealhis answer to the question when is not yet.

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