Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-02
m,GILL UNIVERSITY.

Some Interesting Facts About the Col.
 Iege With Which Rev. Dr. Barbour,
 Late of Yale, is Prominently Con-
 nected.
 The Hon. James McGill, who was born at Scotland. 9th Oct, 1744, and died at Montreal 18th Dec, 1913, by his last will and testament, under date 8th Jan., 1911, devised the estate of Burnside, near Mon treal, containing forty-seven acres of land, with the Manor house and buildings thereon and also the sum of ten thousand pounds in money, "to erect and establish a university or college for the purpose of education and the advancement of learning in the province
 of Lower Canada, with competent number
 of professors and teachers to render such es-
 tablishnent effectual and beneficial for the
 purposes intended; requiring that one of the
 colleges to be comprised in the said uniVersi-
 ty should be named and perpetually known
 and distinguished by the appellation
 of McGin college"
 The value of this property, at the date ot
 the bequest, was estimated at a hundred and
 twenty thousand dollars.
 Unto this first bequest have been added
 dowments-the William Molson Hall being the west wing of McGill college, erected In 1861, and the Peter Redpath Museum, erected in 1882, being worthy of particular mention. Among the endowments of more recent years the most noticeable is the Donalda en- dowment by Sir Donald A. Smith, Mon. treal, of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars fer the higher education of women This fund constitutes a separate course ol college for women in the arts up to the standard of the examination for the bachel or's degree.
 In respect to attendance the medical de. partment of McGill university has the lead at present, no less than 236 medical students being enrolled for the session. The arts course has 153, exclusive of the women Applied science enrolls 56 and law 10. The special course ior women presents many tea lures of interest to those seeking sclu ton ot the problem of co-eduoation. Nearly hundred bright young women are in daily attendance at the college classes. At great tax to the professional staff separate instruc ton is still insisted on for those in the two lower classes, but of late those attending the two higher classes are admitted to the regular lectures with the young men. The genera law on the wearing of the academic cap anc gown while in attendance at college is il force only over those in full standing for th' bachelors degree. For the first time those young collegians who are to graduate in 1SSs and those to follow them in 1889 availee themselves of their privileges at recent col \ lege gathering and walked up the aisle t. their seats in the academic dress, and for al | the ''breeze'' among the boys as the. took their places any impartial on \ locker must have been most favorably i'm ' pressed with their appearance, the Oxfort ' cap and gown becoming them to nicety \ And to the credit of these twenty-one "fal pundits" they bore themselves most admira ply in leading the future lady graduates int convocation in full costume At the close o \ the principals address, after the boys ha \ greeted him with college songa cry was raise | "A song from the girls!' to which, yer \ properly, they made no response. lndee the propriety and dignity of their bear1n ' eIicited praise from all who saw it.
 Thus far nothing but good has Tesulte from this experimental experiment 1t be-
 and at the coming graduation of those com pleting the college course there Is no doub N that the lists of the successful are to contail \ more than one lady's name.
 K It is to the credit of the McGill authoritie \ that they have made not only all the academi | degrees, but all the honors, prizes and medal equally open to students of both sexes. Tn H only reservation is an election to become V tfellow" of the university; for the presen such an honor is not within the reach of tn gentler sex.
 Another feature peculiar to the econom \ of McGill university is it's affiliated colleges Of these it has two academic and four theo \ logical. Concerning the academic college \ the following may be quoted from the annua X calendar:
 \ Students of affiliated colleges are matric ulated in the university and may pursue thei course of study wholly in the affiliated col lege or in part in McGill college, and ma come up to the university examinations O. \ the same terms with the students of McGil A college. Of these two academic colleges on N is in Quebec-Morrin college-afhliated in s far as regards degrees in art and law: tn \ other is in Richmond-St. Francis college affiliated in so far as regards the intermed
 ate examinations in arts. Besides these \ McGill has an affiliated normal school pro ' viding for the training requisite for teacher of elementary schools and academies \ Teachers trained here are entitled to provir
 cial diplomas"
 Of the four theological colleges the oldes
 is the Congregational, with its faculty head \ ed by Principal Barbour. The largest is th \ Presbyterian, under Principal McVicar. Tn
 Diocesan (EpiscopaI under Canon Tender
 son and the Wesleyan under Principal Doug
 lass complete the fraternity. Nearly hun | dred students are in attendance at these the ological schools, all having the right to tn \ advantage of the university in so far a \ any of it's courses or lectures may furthe \ their studies.
 It may be added to this notice of McGi ' that no one stands higher in the esteem 0 | both students and teachers than Princips Sir William Dawson, who has Geen this grea | institution into it's best life and who is stil ' to see it-as we all hope-into further eff ciency as an educational power in this Do minion. W. NJ. BARBOUR.