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[?] the Board to advance this amount, the A.M.S. guaranteeing to put the grounds in good condidtion, to pay interest at 5% and to give a first lien, or charge thereon. The application was remitted to the Estates Committee, to issue the [?]ame, if it saw fit to do so, sports having their place in College life. During those years, and with the expansion of the University, it had been growingly noticeable how much of the business administration of the University was handled by the Finance and Estates Committee. And this was inevitable. In the intervals of the Board meetings new questions and urgencies would arise which must be promptly dealt with, and the Committee must act, later reporting everything done in detail to the Board for confirmation. The astronomical Observatory being a scientific appendix to the University, and also a source of some revenue from the Government for services rendered, and its housing being inadequate, the Finance and Estates Committee was instructed to provide it with suitable quarters. This was promptly done, and the well designed substantial stone building now stands on the corner of Stuart St., and University Avenue, a site donated by the Chairman, Hon. Justice Maclennan.
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For the first time, mention is made of the need of a residence for the College girls, and the reference comes from the University Council, and is left with the finance and Estates Committee to look into. Later, as this record will show, the Alumnae Society of the University took up the new and adventurous proposition, and faced its implications bravely, gathered $80,000 for the cause, and the Board promising dollar for dollar, $160,000, this year of grace 1923, are available, and building may be undertaken in the autumn. With a view to giving under publicity to the excellent spirit and work of the University, and afford necessary and valuable information to the many interested friends and prospective students of the Institution, it was decided to have the Annual Reports of the Principal, the Science Professors, the Librarian, and such other departments as might submit reports, published in the Quarterly. It was left to the meeting of the Board to be held 16th May to prepare the usual Report to the General Assembly. Two delegates from the Student Body, James Wallace and H.H. Harpell, appeared before the Board, and told of a most commendable project that they had in hand, being no less than the erection of a new Convocation Hall, to be called the "Grant Hall." Already they had subscriptions to the amount of nearly $34,000, over $12,000 of which
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was from the students themselves, and $4,500 from the Professors. And they asked the Board to undertake the erection of the new hall. The report from the students was cordially received, satiffaction expressed at the initiation and sucess of the venture, and thanks given to them for the loyalty and zeal shown to extend the plant of the University, and do honor to the name of their destinguished Principal. Later, the Building Committee would prepare the inscription for the corner stone.
The Theological Professors, who had assumed for the session the Principal's class-room duties in his illess, were duly thanked for their ungruding and valuable service. And the Board would assure the Principal himself how much he had been missed during the meeting of their heart-felt sympathy with him in his illness, and of their sincere hope the God would be pleased to restore him soon to his wonted health and usefulness. The Chancellor was requested to convey to him this assurance of deep personal sympathy and regard.
The Report to the General Assembly, among other things, dealing with the proposed changes in the Consitution of the University, was adopted, and the Chairman and Rev. Dr. Milligan were appointed to present it to that Court at its approaching meeting.
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The appointment to the Chair of French Language and Literature, which was vacant since the diversion of the Chair of Moderns, was now made, the choice falling on Mr. P. G. G. Campbell, B.A. of Oxford at a salary of $2,000 per annum. Mr. R. A. Wilson, M.A, was appointed Fellow and Tutor in Mental Philosophy, James Wallace, M.A., in Hebrew, and J. M. MacEachran, M.A., in Moral Philosophy, each at a salary of $400.00 for the ensueing session. Their duties would be to examine essays, both extra-mural and intra-mural, do such tutorial and other teaching as the Professors of those subjects might direct, and also pursue some post-graduate study free of expense. Notwithstanding Prof. Dupuis' omnivorous passion for work, the rapidly increasing numbers in the study of mathematics and astronomy made an assistant imperatively necessary, and Mr. John Matheson, M.A., a graduate of distinction, and of professional standing, was given that important position, beginning with a salary of $1,000 a year. On the need being mentioned, a Transit Instrument for the Astronomical Observatory was procured, and several small appropriations were made the other departments to meet pressing necessities.
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The darkling shadow which, for some time, had been hanging over the University, and which all had hoped would have passed away, fell suddenly, to the deep sorrow of Queen's and all her friends. On the 10th May Principal Grant died. Surgical and nursing skill could do not more. The end had come. Intimately Dr. Grant belonged to Queen's, but he was a man of national reputation who had always kept high educational, national and moral ends in view, and at his funeral there were many from far and near, representing various churches and institutions, present along with all of Kingston to express their sympathy with the bereaved and pay their tribute of respect to the memory of the departed. The Board of Trustees was convened, and put this resolution of the minutes: "We feel that we cannot allow our first meeting since the death of Principal Grant to pass without recording the great sorrow with which we miss the familiar face of one who for twenty-five years sat at the Board, guiding us by his far-seeing counsel, and inspiring us with something of his own consuming zeal. And we desire to convey to the relatives of our beloved friend the great sympathy
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