1. Civil Engineering. 2. Mining Engineering. 3. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. 5. Analytical and Applied Chemistry. For Calendar apply to A. T. LAING, Registrar When writing advertisers kindly mention the MONTHLY SAVE FUEL BY USING BABCOCK BOILERS, STEAM SUPERHEATERS, AND MECHANICAL STOKERS BABCOCK & WILCOX LTD. LONDON AND GLASGOW Head Office for Canada-NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING, MONTREAL OUR SANITARY PLUMBING FIXTURES are the best. OUR WORKMANSHIP cannot be beaten, and will stand the test of time. OUR ELECTRIC LIGHT FIXTURES are the finest specimens of the designer's art. OUR AIM is to give satisfaction. OUR DESIRE is for you to visit our SHOW ROOMS. 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. THE THE NEW PRESIDENT. HE Presidency of the University of Toronto was formally offered to the Rev. Robert A. Falconer, M.A., B.D., LL.D., Litt.D., and accepted by him at a special meeting of the Board of Governors of the University on Friday, June 14, 1907. It is expected that the installation of President Falconer will take place in the latter part of September. The University and its graduates are pleased to know that the important position has been filled by a gentleman of such high reputation as President Falconer has everywhere gained. During his years of university experience, President Falconer has proved his possession of marked executive ability, intellectual vigour and rich personality, and these qualities pre-eminently fit him to deal with the problems of teaching, administration, and development with which he will be confronted as President of the University of Toronto. At the same time as the installation of the President, it is expected that the new Physics Laboratory will be opened with a eries of interesting lectures by distinguished physicists. As is well known by the alumni, the position of President of the University, since the resignation of President Loudon in July, 1906, has been filled by Dr. Maurice Hutton, Principal of University College; and the thanks of the University are due him for the able and efficient manner in which he has filled the office during the year. It has been remarked by all that he presided over the Senate and Council with dignity and impartiality; and he has devoted himself with self-denying energy to the duties assigned him by the Board of Governors. The Board of Governors regards his services to the University of such value that it has appointed a committee to give its appreciation suitable expression. A ADDRESS BY DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL, LL.D. In response to the toast "Sister Institutions," at the Annual Dinner to the FEW years ago people on both sides of the line believed it desirable and possible that but one great nation should exist in North America. It was to be bounded on the south by Mexico and on the north by the Arctic Pole, from which should fly the flags of Canada and the United States. No thoughtful man to-day thinks this desirable or possible. We are two kindred nations. In Lower Canada we are annexing the French and teaching them English. In the West there is a drift of Americans into Canada. This is all the annexation we or you want. This inorning you annexed me and so as a Canadian I am set free to talk as one of you. May I venture as the first use of this freedom to say that I feel a little more at home here than in Lower Canada and recognise most easily here the multiple connections of commercial and financial interest which, had we free trade by all and with all, would be deprived of occasions for annoyance and opportunities for the creation of ill-feeling between the nations of the world, new and old. Is it a dream? May that day soon come. Among the binding ties between us which have no drawback none is more close than the fellowship of the great guild of Medicine. The disputes and commercial wrangles leave our unity undisturbed and everywhere we acknowledge one object and obey a creed of morals old when Christ was born. When George Washington regretted that Canada did not join the colonies in their struggle for independence, he said that Canada would in the future be to us "always a trouble and sometimes a danger." The latter, a danger, we found to be the case in the war of 1812; and as to being a trouble, I fancy you may at |