The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-21

.'ph we ilHu apout 10 Undergraduates
IN arts, after twelve years experience
we nave now 800 Undergraduates In
arts, aud come $50 to 500 students in
hfts, aud Il total IN arts and theology
this Year of considerably over 400. 1T
VIII be seen that we are not at all
losing our students. When we entered
me federation onc-linlf OF the Metho-
dlst students III the province were in
inc provincial university and We had
the other half Now we have nearly
four-ftftlts of the Methodist students
or the province in our own college,
and our college spirit and the attach
mont of our students to their college.
as wei as to the church. was never
stronger than 1t Is to-day. The re-
iigious spirit Of our college has grown
with the years; in fact. II seems to
be stimulated by our touch with other
denominations. We have Il university
Y. NJ G. a., as well Us n Y. NJ. c..
y. in our own college; n collcgeimis
sionary society. volunteer band and
our college class meetings. and we
maintain large classes for Bible study
and missionary study ali Of which
tends to maintain the internal spiritual
life OF our own college and our hold
as church upon our own young men,
We certainly hold our young people
to Msthodsm very much better under
this system than was Mt all possible
the university, and its larger adtan-.
tages drew away many of our stu
dents. Again. since this arrangement
has been effected the religious life of
the university has been largely up
lifted Before we came up here things
IN the provincial university seemed
to be ut low-ebb morally and re-
ligiously Now We have university
sermons, q university Y. NJ. C. A..
Bible study classes, into which a large
body. not only OF arts and theological,
but medical and engineering students,
are gathered. We have in the univer-
sity this year in the three faculties
nearly 5000 students. In the three
affiliated theological schools there
Will probably be over 200 theological
students. The majority of the univer-
sitv students are under strong re-
lisious influence and are leading godly
lives. This, in itself you will see. is
matter Of gratitude to every Christian
in the country. We have not had any
difficulty as between the students Of
the several colleges. That. of course.
depends upon the discipline of each
individual college. Our students be-
have themselves and let the others
alone, and while there have been con-
iiicts between arts, medical and en-
cheering. we have been able to keep
our students completely free from
the friction that has from time to
time arisen. and the same is true OF
The Church of England College. 1
omitted to mention that the State
maintains a college teaching the same
subjects which are taught in the arts
colleges OF the churches, and, of
course. the State college in its stu
dents is entirely distinct from our
college, and the only interchange of
work Is in some advanced subjects
where the faculties of the three col
leSes divide the work between them,
aud in that way specialize more fully
than they could do if they had to
cover the whole field. With this eX-
ception. our students take no lectures
from the State college, but in the sub
jccts Which are distributed amongst
the colleges the students of the State
college come to our college for certain
branches. and ours go over to the
State college for others The main
advantage of being in this federation
is that the entire resources of tho.
churches ana of the state are united
i'll maintaining one strong institution
with collegiate branches, rather than
being spread over the whole field of
university work. The State contributes
this year an income of between four
and five hundred thousand dollars for
university purposes. Our Methodist
Church contributes for the support of
it's college nearly $4,000. The Church
of England College is not quite so
strong, but from these various sources.
combined with the fees of students es-
pecially of the medical and engineer
ing, we have an income of between
five and six hundred Thousand dol
lars available for carrying on the
work of the university. and our stu
dents have thus brought within their
reach university advantages. such as
we could not possibly give them We're
we to cndeavor to cover the whole
field. I may say that. financially, our
removal to the capital of the province
has been of very great advantage to
us. When we We're in Coburg our en-
tire property, including buildings,
library. furnishings and endowment,
was in the neighhorhood of 100000.
We now have buildings. grounds. lib
rary and endowment approaching
million and u quarter almost the
whole of which has beer contributed
by our people within the last twenty
wears. very largely by wealthy men
in the city OF Toronto. The property
which we had in Coburg brought us in
but very little, as old college buildings
and lots in a small town proved to
be of very little value when put in
the market, and our endowments were
in part absorbed by incidental, eN-
penses in the process of removal. Our
people, as a while. and by Il consid-
cradle majority, were In favor of our
removal from Coburg totToronto, yet
it was very strongly opposed by the
great body of our graduates at the
time but now there arc very few that
do not admit that it was the best
thing to do, and that the results have
been Very satisfactory.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Signcd) N. BURWASFI,
Chancellor.
p. S. Our animated colleges-Albert
and others--scrve as feeders prepar-
ing students for matriculation and
sometimes carrying them through the
first year, and do an excellent work
with good religious results. Albert
has 500 students,
Randolph Macon College.
Ashland, Va. March A. 1907.
Dr. A. c. Mckay, Chancellor, McMaster
University, Toronto Canada:
Dear Sir,-It Is proposed that our
college (Methodisb and Hampden-
sidney U'reshyterinn) move to Rich
mond, Va. and ioin with Richmond