The Alexander T. Fulton Scholarships in Science, R. R. Hart, H. A. G. Willoughby, T. W. Dwight. The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto Scholarship in the First Year of the Commercial Course, no award. Second Year. The John Macdonald Scholarship in Philosophy, G. G. D. Kilpatrick. The S. B. Sinclair Prize in Philosophy, F. C. Gullen. The William Mulock Scholarship in Mathematics and Physics, F. Robinson. The Edward Blake Scholarship in Physics, no award. The Edward Blake Scholarship in Biological and Physical Sciences, J. M. Livingston. The Edward Blake Scholarship in Biology and Geology, no award. The Edward Blake Scholarship in Chemistry and Mineralogy, T. Firth. The Alexander Mackenzie Scholarships in Political Science, G. M. Smith, E. F. Raney Third Year. The Kirschmann Scholarship in Philosophy (for Optics), A. A. Scott. The A.A.A.S. Scholarship in Mathematics and Physics, A. M. Simpson. The A.A.A.S. Scholarship in Physics; no award. The Daniel Wilson Scholarship in Biological and Physical Sciences, J. C. Watt. The Daniel Wilson Scholarship in Biology, W. A. McCubbin. The Daniel Wilson Scholarship in Geology and Mineralogy, no award. The Daniel Wilson Scholarship in Chemistry and Mineralogy, L. V. Redman. The Alexander Mackenzie Scholarships in Political Science, W. Martin; H. L. Griffin; C. W. Milburn. Post Graduate. The Ramsay Scholarship in Political Science, no award. The Rhodes Scholarship for British Columbia, Thorleif Larsen, B.A. PRIZES. The gift of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Italy. Italian Prize of the Fourth Year, Miss M. E. Montgomery. FACULTY OF MEDICINE. Faculty Gold Medal, G. C. Gray. First Faculty Silver Medal, C. S. McVicar. Third Faculty Silver Medal, O. A. Cannon. SCHOLARSHIPS. First Year, S. B. Peele, H. E. Alexander. Second Year, W. J. M. Marcy, W. F. M. Adams. Post-Graduate Scholarship. The George Brown Memorial Scholarship in Medical Science, A. G. Huntsman, B.A.; E. C. Cole, BA. (proxime accessit). FACULTY OF HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE. The Mrs. Hart A. Massey Medal, Miss H. S. Graham. The American Law Book Company's Prize, I. S. Fairty, B.A., LL.B. PRIZES. French Prose Prize, Miss M. H. Millman. German Prose Prize, Miss E. E. van der Smissen. The Frederick Wyld Prize for English Essay, J. F. Kenney. The Toronto Alumnae Prize in English Composition of the Second Year, Miss E. Mathieson. MEDALS. Governor-General's Medal in Modern Languages (Fourth Year), Miss M. H. Millman. McCaul Medal in Classics, W. A. Rae. The New York Alumnae Medal, no award. SCHOLARSHIPS. The William Dale, for Classics (Junior Matriculation), W. N. Sage. The McCaul, for Classics (Junior Matriculation), Miss A. L. Smithson. The Moss, for Classics (First Year), W. N. Sage. The Edward Blake, for Moderns (First Year), Miss M. I. Whyte. The Wood, for Biblical Literature (Second Year), A. G. Hooper. The Prince of Wales Gold Medal (1st in General Proficiency), C. J. Ford. The Prince of Wales Silver Medal (2nd in General Proficiency), I. W. Kilpatrick. The Governor-General's Silver Medal (1st in Honour Course), W. T. Brown. The Governor-General's Silver Medal (Honourable Mention), L. N. Richardson. The J. J. Maclaren Gold Medal (in Moderns), (Moderns and History), Miss M. E. Birnie. The S. H. Janes Gold Medal (in Moderns), (Moderns and History), Miss M. N. Dafoe. The Edward Wilson Gold Medal (in Moderns), (Teutonics), F. Owen. The E. J. Sandford Gold Medal (1st in Philosophy), W. T. Brown. The S. H. Janes Silver Medal (2nd in Philosophy), W. L. Hiles. The G. A. Cox Gold Medal (Natural Sciences), M. E. Wilson. The S. H. Janes Silver Medal (Mathematics), L. N. Richardson. The W. J. Robertson Prize (Canadian Constitutional History), I. W. Kilpatrick. Third Year. The Nelles Scholarship (Moderns), Miss E. L. Hildred. The Hodgins Prize (Pass English), F. H. Langford and F. S. Albright. Second Year. The Scholarship in Classics, F. C. Moyer. The Massey Bursary (English Bible), W. G. Shaw. The Webster Prize (Pass English), Miss C. M. Birnie and Miss C. B. Dunnett. The Robt. Johnston Prize (Pass Hebrew), G. E. Gullen. First Year. The Robertson Scholarship (Classics), A. J. Watson. The Class of 1902 Prize (Pass English), C. C. Washington. English Essay, Miss B. M. Dunham English Essay, Miss C. B. Dunnett. IV.-AWARDED BY TRINITY COLLEGE. PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS. Jubilee Scholarship for Honours in the Fourth Year, G. E. Simmons. The Dickson Scholarship in Modern Languages (Div. I. and II.), Second Year, R. K. Gordon. The Dickson Scholarship in Science, Third Year, L. V. Redman. The Bishop Strachan Scholarship in Classics, D. P. Wagner. Wellington Scholarship in Classics, First Year, J. H. Dixon MATRICULATION, JULY, 1906. Wellington Scholarship in Classics, D. P. Wagner. Bishop Strachan Scholarship in Classics, Miss A. G. Rothwell, J. H. Dixon (reversion). Dickson Scholarship in Modern Languages, Miss A. G. Rothwell. Burnside Scholarship in English History and Geography, Miss L. E. O'Gorman, Miss R. F. Alley reversion). Wellington Scholarship in Mathematics, Miss F. L. Dingle. THE GRADUATING DINNER. "A good dinner is the centre of the circle of the social sympathies.”—Thackeray. AMONG the many changes and chances in the strange, eventful history of the University of Toronto, one custom has been preserved with characteristic English conservatism-the celebration of Commencement Day by the graduation dinner. Yet even this good custom has been improved upon in certain respects so that the older alumni are able to detect, here, too, the growth of that feeling of harmony, sympathy, and solidarity for which all are now striving. For whereas in earlier days the members of the graduating class were often unable to attend it, the modern method of making all the class the guests of the evening has greatly increased the percentage of attendance and the sentiment of good-fellowship. The presence of the distinguished recipients of honorary degrees and the quality of their addresses gave dignity and grace to the occasion. The speeches made by the graduates of 1907 were full of a tone of confidence and pride in their alma mater, which argues Iwell for their future interest in the institution. This year another novelty was introduced which gave an opportunity for the acting-President to show his knowledge of human nature and to make one of those humorous speeches which have relieved so many academic functions. The professor of shorthand having taken it down verbatim, it is possible to reproduce the ipsissima verba which, like few articles and still fewer addresses, require no editing. Introducing the toast of the evening, "The Graduating Class," President Hutton spoke as follows: "I have an apology to make to the members of the graduating class. This evening the Senate, Faculties, and Governors have taken into dinner the ladies of the graduating class, whom in previous years the men of that class have taken in. You all know the reason. The rivalry, and feud, and bitterness arising from the competition for the right to take in those ladies has been so keen as to suggest bloodshed, and the Senate, Governors, and Faculties, having to prevent bloodshed, appropriated the ladies, themselves. If I owe an apology to the men of the graduating class, doubly then to these ladies. They have had to listen to Professors-Professors Professors every day of every week of the Session, and now they have Professors served up to them as part of the menu of their last and graduating dinner. It is hard on them and they have borne it nobly. I am aware other objections also were added to this change. One objector said that if the wives of the Governors, Faculties, and Senators arrived in the gallery before the ladies of the graduating class,withdrew to the same gallery from the dinner tables, and if the wives of the Governors, and Faculties, and Senators, peering through the rails of the gallery, descried their husbands blooming and blossoming afresh in the autumn of their days amid the white-clad maidenhood of the girl graduates, there might steal a shadow of doubt and of disquiet across the calm of their matronly brows, and a hue more akin to green might mingle with the robust damask of those matronly cheeks. I repudiated the suggestion. I answered that the wives of the Governors, Senators, and Faculties have had unlimited confidence in their husbands for some years past and I repeat the assertion now, though the Chief Justice at my elbow has pointed out to me that one Rev. Senator has been detained in the gallery since an early hour in the evening, 'like a spirit,' says the Chief Justice, 'arrested at the very gate of Paradise.' This happy shaft of the Chief Justice recalls the brilliant manner in which the late Chancellor Moss presided over the writer's graduating dinner in 1878. How great the change since then! One table held all the graduates of the year, of whom scarce a score were present. Girl graduates there were none. Nor were there any honorary degrees, save an M.A. to Professor Ramsay Wright. The Arts Faculty was all alone and University College claimed the allegiance of every graduate present, although the silver-tongued orator of the year, Duncan McColl, was a Knox College man and a worthy representative of his class. This year nearly three hundred out of four hundred and fifty graduates of the year were present at the dinner. Arts, Medicine, and Practical Science each had their representative, and Victoria and Trinity Colleges took part in the banquet of the University. The note of union was more than inter-faculty, more than inter-collegiate; it was international. This was due to the presence of Dr. Weir Mitchell, on whom the Senate had conferred the degree of LL.D. honoris causâ, as at once a distinguished physician and an eminent author. His address, which appears elsewhere in this number of the Magazine, proved him a worthy congener of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. John Brown of Edinburgh, and possessed of that Falstaffian quality of humour which brings it to the surface in other men. His tribute to the late Dr. Drummond, himself an honorary alumnus of Toronto, was such a high requiem as would not misbecome the lips of the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Not less characteristic was his epigram: "No great nation ever did live alone by the ledger and the day-book." Perhaps his most effective utterance was the verdict upon the invention for which Dr. Bell will surely get a "hallo" (halo) round his head-"the insolent obtrusiveness of the telephone, the most accursed of all the blessings of civilisation." Fortunate it is that the University has annexed Dr. Mitchell, and we may assure him that henceforth others will be yearning for his return even more than the salmon of the Cascapedia. |