Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada (Volume 11)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...of our Church, we are thankful to know, fail not to commend themselves to your continued patronage. The attendance at the University of Victoria College presents an increase over the preceding year. The total number of Graduates at the recent Convocation, in the several departments of Arts, Law and Medicine, was sixty. We rejoice also to believe, from the interest manifested, that it is taking an increasingly strong hold of the minds and hearts of our people throughout the Country. During the past year an effort has been made to secure subscriptions in order to free the College from debt and, while much has been already done, still there remains yet much to be accomplished. The Conference has specially felt its indebtedness to the energy, activity and faithfulness of the Agent, the Reverend Doctor Aylesworth; and, as he must still continue to prosecute his labours, we beg to commend him again, and his Co-Agent, the Reverend Charles Fish, to your kind attention, and trust that ere long, by your liberality, the College will be placed in circumstances of ease, and thereby become more efficient than even heretofore, in affording a liberal education to the youth of our Country. The Female College in the City of Hamilton still maintains its exalted position in presenting opportunities to obtain for your Daughters instruction in all the higher branches of education, ornamental as well as useful, not disassociated from that moral and religious culture, which must ever be, to the Christian Parent, of primary importance. IT. THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (OF SCOTLAND) REPRESENTING QUEEN'S COLLEGE UNIVERSITY, 1864. I. Proceedings Of The Synod Of The Presryterian Church (of Scotland), 1864. Note: In 1864, --owing probably to the lamented deatl of Principal Leiteh, --there was ...