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* This bracketed clause was added by Principal Campbell on his visit to Kingston in June 1872 and is incorrect. The senate first met in a house on the [strikethrough] West [/strikethrough]North side of Colborne St. The second session of the College was held in the house described in the above clause.
J. B. Mowat Registrar Oct. 4, 1880
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At Kingston the Seventh day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Two.
The Senatus Academicus of the University of Queen's College, met for the first time in a house hired for the temporary accommodation of the Classes, (situated on the South side of Princess Street, opposite to St. Andrews Church.)
Sederunt, the Reverend Thomas Liddell, Doctor in Divinity of the University of Edinburgh, Principal of the University of Queens College, the Reverend Peter Colin Campbell, Master of Arts of the University of Edinburgh, Professor of Classical Literature, with the Reverend John Machar, Master of Arts of the University and King's College of Aberdeen Minister of Saint Andrews Church in Kingston, the Honorable John Hamilton Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada and Francis Archibald Harper, Esquire, Members of the Board of Trustees of Queens' College appointed at the last meeting of the Board, in conformity with the requirements of the Royal Charter of Incorporation to form in the mean
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time the College Senate along with the Professors.
The Senate was constituted by a solemn prayer to God for a blessing on the Institution by the Principal. The Reverend Professor Campbell was appointed Secretary.
The Principal in the name and on behalf of the Senate informed the Candidates for admission to the University that an Examination would immediately take place for the purpose of ascertaining who among the Candidates were fit to be Matriculated, and in what classes they ought to be ranked.
The following applicants then presented themselves for examination and having been examined were ranked in the order in which their names stand viz.
1 Georgius Bell on the ground of a certificate fom the Presbytery of Bathurst was admitted as a Student in Divinity of the second year.
2 Joannes McKinnon as a student of the third year’s Class in Arts.
3 Thomas Wardrope as a student of the third year’s Class in Arts.
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3 Aeneas McCole as a Student of the third year's Class in Arts 4 Gulielmus Arid Ross as a Student of the second Class in Arts Sachlanus McPherson as a Student of the second year in Arts 6 Robertus Wallace as a Student of the second year in Arts 7 Joannes Bowes Mowat as a Student of the first year in Arts 9 Hunter Richardson [Tarnden?] as a Student of the first year in Arts 10 Joannes Bournes, First year in Arts. The Senate having examined Joannes Watson and Joannes Harvey Conates were of opinion that their qualifications are not such as that they can be admitted to matriculation this Session with profit to Themselves and credit to the University, but considering the urgent solicitations of their friends and that there is as yet no satisfactory school established in Connection with this College, agreed to admit them to share in any benefits which their state of advancement may enable them to reap from
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attendance on the classes of the first year in Arts and also agreed to represent to their friends the necessity of their securing for them the services of Private Tutors.
The Senate adjourned to meet again at the call of the Principal.
March Eighth, One Thousand and Eight hundred and Forty Two. The Senate met at the call of the Principal for the purpose of admitting the Candidates who have been found qualified to matriculation, and the above [superscript]ten[/superscript] Candidates whose names are recorded in the minute of the Sederunt of yesterday were matriculated, after which the Principal delivered an address to them as members of the University.
It was agreed that the Principal and Professor Campbell should draw up such regulations for the government of the College as might for the present be found necessary, and that they should examine applicants and admit such as they might find qualified to matriculation.
