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SAPIENT ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS
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1923-1924.

There is a slight advance on the registration of
the preceding session. And while classes are never so
full that there is not room for more, possibly the
numbers now, extra-mural and intra-mural, are
as large as can well be cared for. The Staff is large,
and exceedingly well manned, but if registration
is to continue mounting, more teachers and more
revenue must somehow be secured. Success is not
without its anxieties.

The Session of 1923-24 closed with a well-grounded
note of satisfaction and optimism. Changes in
Staff and administration, of much interest, and
likely enough of far-reaching importance, took place.
Our Chancellor, Mr. E.W. Beatty, K.C., retired, and
Sir Robert Borden was elected in Succession.

During his term of office Mr. Beatty was a good
friend of the University, but the head of the Canadian
Pacific Railway found himself with too many
responsibilities on hand adequately, as he thought,
to do justice to his high academic office in Queen's.

The Council was fortunate in securing Sir
Robert Borden, who will be installed at the Autumn
Convocation; and a man of his distinction and
wide experience "may be counted on" (in the words
of the Principal) to give Queen's the advantage of

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