Library from McTavish Street. 
 
 A. T. TAYLOR, ESQ., Architect. 
 
Opening 
 
 OF THK 
 
 New Library 
 
 McGill University, Montreal 
 
 CONTAININC; THE 
 
 Addresses Delivered on the Occasion 
 
 WITH 
 
 A Description ok the Buildino ; Some Points in the 
 History oe the University; 
 
 In Memoriam. 
 
 October 3 1 st 
 
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List of Illustrations. 
 
 Library from McTavish Street - Frotitispiece 
 
 Portraits of His Excellency the Earl of Aberdeen, 
 
 Sir Donald Smith, K. C. M. G., LL. D., page. 
 
 Peter Redpath 5 
 
 Entrance Hall and Staircase 11 
 
 Delivery Counter 13 
 
 Fireplace and Mantel in Reading-Room 15 
 
 Cataloguing Room 17 
 
 Exterior View of Library from the Museum 19 
 
 Stack Room 21 
 
 Presentation of the New Library to the University 23 
 
 Library from the College Grounds 25 
 
 Reading-Room 27 
 
 Three-Light Window and Key 28^29 
 
 Portraits of the Deans 31 
 
 McGill Buildings 33 
 
 P'ive-Light Window 35 
 
preliminary. 
 
 In 1891, Mr. Peter Redpath, Senior Governor of McGill University, addressed to the Chancellor the following letter : — 
 
 Montreai., Nov. 12, 1891. 
 
 Dear Sir Donald Smithy 
 
 I have had a plan prepared for a library building, which, with the consent of the Governors, I propose to have erected on the grounds of McGill 
 University and for its use. The plan has been adapted to the site immediately below the Presbyterian College, which I have been led to understand is available for 
 the purpose. I have endeavoured to make provision for all the requirements of a university library. 
 
 If the proposal be accepted by the Governors, I venture to suggest that they should appoint a small committee of members of the university to examine 
 the plans on the return, at Christmas, of Mr. I'aylor, the architect, now absent from the city. Should any modifications be suggested, I shall be glad to consider 
 them. If the report be favorable, as I trust it will, arrangements will be made for commencing to build as early as possible next spring. 
 
 The control of the building and its contents will rest, of course, absolutely with the authorities of the university. 
 
 I am. 
 
 Dear Sir Donald, 
 
 Yours very sincerely. 
 
 The Hon. Sir Donald A. Smith, K.C.M.G., PETER REDPAIH. 
 
 Chancellor, University of McGill, 
 
 Montreal. 
 
 This gGiiGrous offer wb,s gr3.tefully H-Ccepted, 3.s Rdditiona.! 3.cconimod<ition for both books and readers was, at the time, 
 greatly needed. In the early Spring of 1892, the foundations were laid, upon ground that had recently been purchased at a 
 cost of some $50,000.00, and presented to the University by Mr. J. H. R. Molson. Work was continued through the year with 
 all practicable speed, and it was intended that the new building should be inaugurated during the first week of October, 1893. 
 
 Finally, however, the 3rst October was fixed upon for the opening of the building, and 'I'heir Excellencies the Governor- 
 General of Canada and the Countess of Aberdeen graciously consented to preside on the occasion. 
 
 A sufficient number of volumes was moved into the building to show what the arrangement would be upon the shelves 
 both of the ‘stack ” and of the main reading-room. Upon the day appointed. Their Excellencies, who paid their first official visit 
 to the University at this time, were received in the William Molson Hall by the Governors, Mr. and Mrs. Redpath, the Vice- 
 Principal, Members of Convocation, and the invited guests. After the presentation of an address of welcome to Their 
 Excellencies, the entire company proceeded to the new library building, where^ in the absence of the Chancellor Sir Donald A. 
 Smith, Mr. J. H. R. Molson spoke as follows : — 
 
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 We are assembled here to-day to receive from our old and valued friend, Mr. 
 Redpath, the deed of this beautiful building, and without more words, as we have 
 much to do, I will ask Mr. Redpath to address us. 
 
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 I beg Your Excellencies to accept my most sincere thanks for the honour con- 
 ferred by your attendance on an occasion which it has been my privilege to create. I also 
 thank His Honour the Lieut.-Governor of the Province of Quebec and the distinguished 
 company around and before me, for the interest manifested in the function of to-day. 
 There is always a feeling of satisfaction in the mere doing of what one considers will 
 be of benefit to the university and the city, and possibly beyond it. But it is pleasing 
 also to have the approval and sympathy of those who feel an interest in the object we 
 have in view. 
 
 We mourn to-day the loss of a very eminent public man, who had an official 
 connection with this university. It would have been gratifying to me, had circumstances 
 permitted, to have postponed the proceedings for a few days. 
 
 The conventional few words which arc now expected from me will be devoted 
 entirely to matters relating to the building in which we arc assembled. The necessity 
 for largely increased accommodation for the library of McGill University has been 
 manifest for .some years past. I believe that this building, with its po.ssible extensions, 
 will provide space for all the books that the university is likely to own for many years 
 
 Entrance Hall^ and Sfaitxase. to come. It is the result of as much care and attention as the architect and myself 
 
 knew how to bestow upon it. The plans of many other libraries were examined, 
 and many other libraries were visited both by myself and the architect, with a view to 
 arriving at the best possible plan for this building on this site. The newly-appointed librarian, too, gave many valuable suggestions in matters 
 of detail. I know that we have not attained perfection ; but experience will show how far we have advanced towards that end. In no ca.se 
 has utility been .sacrificed to architectural or a^sthctical effect, yet I believe that the architectural design and the ?esthctical effects have met with the 
 general approbation of the comparatively few persons who have hitherto had an opportunity of .studying them. I remember a meeting of Convo- 
 cation a good many years ago at which Principal I)aw.son, in a general appeal for aid to the university, de.scribed the library shelves as “gaping 
 for books.” The shelves then “ gaping ” have been filled, and the books have overflowed. But now the shelves here will absorb them all, and there 
 will still be shelves gaping for more. Let me here take the liberty of saying to those who may desire to present collections of books to the univer- 
 
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 sity, that they should not diminish the value of their gifts by requiring that the books should be kept together as special collect.ons. The hbranan 
 ought to have, and, in fact, must have the liberty of classifying all the books under his charge and placing those on the same subject together, from 
 whatever quarter they may come, otherwise some confusion and expense will be caused, and the donor may in that way be disappointed. The only 
 features in the building to which 1 will make special reference are the painted windows at each end of the hall. They are the gift of my wife, w o 
 has heartily encouraged me during the whole progress of the building. I have much pleasure in acknowledging her and my obligations to Messrs. 
 Clayton & Bell, of London, the designers, who have expressed the sincere pleasure they had in executing the work. They were willing to accept 
 suggestions, and my previous experience of their work led me to confide in their scholarly care and artistic taste. 1 hope that the result, consMermg 
 that they had no Raphael to consult, will be considered satisfactory. The decorations are not quite completed. There arc spaces in the windows 
 which will hereafter receive inscriptions and texts, which may be strewed around to teach the civic, as well as the rustic moral ist-not to die, but to 
 live. Ml-: President, I have no deed of gift to offer to-day. I know what follows when a man knowingly builds upon ground belonging to another. 
 This building already belongs to the University, without any gift from me. I know that it is only a convenient shelter for its more valuable 
 contents ; but students will, I hope, appreciate the facilities here offered, and the pleasant surroundings I have endeavoured to provide. 
 
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 In the absence of our honoured Chancellor, Sir Donald A. Smith, who expected to be here to-day, but who has been unavoidably detained 
 in England, the duty has devolved upon me of accepting, on behalf of this University, the magnificent building in winch we are now assembled. 
 
 I know it would be anything but agreeable to my old friend and schoolfellow, Mr. Redpath, if I attempted to say how much we appieciate the gift 
 with which he has endowed us. He has contributed to every branch of the university work. He has seen and known the necessity of education and 
 the wants of the students, and he has ever been foremost in supplying their wants, both by his sound judgment and by his financial aid. I am here 
 to-day to thank him, and to accept his gift on behalf of this University, and I do so. 
 
 The two magnificent buildings-the museum on our right, and this building-are but the visible signs of the great good we have received 
 from him. Long and faithfully has he done his work, and he has done it in the best way ; and we now have to thank him, remembering that 
 the man who does good for posterity is a real benefactor. How long and how faithfully he has worked for this institution, only those 
 who have been associated with him can know. He has been ever present with us when on this side of the Atlantic, and since he has been called 
 away to live the greater portion of the time in Europe, he has never forgotten us. His constant contributions to this library, for which he has now 
 provided a building, are but too little knowm to the outside public. 
 
 As we have but little time to spare, and men more able and eloquent will address you, I will merely conclude by thanking Mr. Redpath, on 
 behalf of this University. The whole university-the university of the present and the university of the future-will honour the name of our 
 venerable and esteemed colleague. I can say “ venerable,” because he is my senior. When very young and for years afterwards, we were at 
 school together, and I learned to love him and to appreciate him for his many excellences ; and although I have called him my “venerable’ 
 friend, I do so not because of his years, but on account of valuable assistance contributed to me and to everybody with whom he came in contact. 
 Once again I thank Mr. Redpath in the name of the University, and of the citizens of Montreal. He is one of ourselves, a citizen of Montreal, born 
 in Montreal, and educated here, though not at McGill. In those days McGill was fighting for its existence ; but it is now strong and vigorous, and 
 it is through such men as Sir Donald Smith, Mr. Redpath and Mr. McDonald, that we can offer to the young men of this country an education 
 w'hich will enable them to make their mark in any occupation in any part of the w'orld. 
 
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 I beg Your Excellency’s acceptance of a full-sized gold model of the key providing entrance to this building. It is not so big as the key 
 of the old Tolbooth prison I saw in Abbotsford, but it is big enough to open the front door lock of this building. I ask that you will declare the 
 building ready for occupation. 
 
 Ibis lEyccUenc^ tTbc (5overnor=*(5eneral of Canaba, 
 
 VISITOR OF THE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Mr. Principal., Your Honour, 
 
 Mr. Redpath, Ladies and Gentlemen — 
 
 Once more the governing body and friends of this University 
 have assembled to receive and to celebrate a magnificent contribution to 
 the equipment and material for its work. McGill College has, indeed, 
 become in a real and active sense a monument of the enlightenment and 
 generous public spirit of .several of the most successful and esteemed of the 
 sons of Montreal. I trust it will be a cause of happiness to Mr. and Mrs. 
 Redpath, as it will assuredly be to their friends, that they are personally 
 present on this occasion. Many’ years of a successful and upright career, 
 and of much public usefulness, have rendered the worth and the name of 
 Mr. Peter Redpath .so familiar that it is unnecessary, nor would it in his 
 presence be acceptable to himself, to dilate upon his claims to public 
 esteem and goodwill ; and now, si monumentum requiris, circumspice. I con- 
 fess that I regret somewhat that there was no actual deed of conveyance 
 from Mr. Redpath by way of outward sign and .symbol of this splendid 
 gift ; but, after all, we have this golden model of the key. I confe.ss I did 
 not quite understand Mr. Redpath’s reference to the risk of dealing with 
 land not absolutely in one’s own possession. I do not think that there 
 need be any misgiving on that account. I can, if I may quote once more, 
 mention a favorable example where no difficulty has arisen. I refer to the 
 case of the University College of Oxford, which 1 claim as my Alma 
 Mater. That college was founded by King Alfred. On the one thousandth 
 anniversary of that foundation many men of mark were present, among 
 them being the late Dean of Westminster, Dean Stanley. He entered 
 into a very learned disquisition as to whether King Alfred actually had 
 been the owner of the land and the founder of the college, and I am afraid 
 
 le did not absolutely argue in favor of that. Lord Sherbrooke, who was pre.sent, said that he had nexer ^ because 
 
 .he Dean. »,„,hing up .ended ,o incredibili.p, because he had re.narked .ha. probably ,. was no. ; „ 
 
 he land did no. belon- to him bu. was in .he hands ot the Danes. Mr. Lowe said : “Th.s .nerea.ses my cone, Con, beca ■ 
 
 ne lanu aia nor ocion^ lu i . , , , Whatever mav be the conditions as to the land, 1 am 
 
 ilways easy to give away wh.at belongs to us, but it is easy when it belongs to somebody else. y 
 
 Delivery Counter. 
 
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sure the building placed here will be secure, and I trust that it will remain as long as the world lasts. It is not necessary to enlarge upon the personal 
 aspect of this noble gift to the University, but we may, at least, remark that Mr. Redpath’s munificence may be justly regarded as, on the one hand, 
 in some sense the result, and, on the other hand, certainly a conspicuous token of the earnest appreciation of education and knowledge that prevails, 
 not only in this city of Montreal, but throughout Canada as a whole. This fact is full of hopeful significance. 
 
 Mr. Molson has already alluded to the unavoidable absence of the esteemed Chancellor of this University, and I am sure we all regret, and 
 none more than Mr. Redpath, his absence on this occasion. Sir Donald A. Smith is a man whose name has become a household word for energ}', 
 for public spirit, and e.specially for practical and princely generosity in promoting works of public utility and benefit ; and that is nowhere more fully 
 exemplified than in the case of this college, in which he so worthily occupies the position of Chancellor. 
 
 The roll of former students of McGill who have attained to mark and merit is already considerable, and none surely will rejoice in the fact 
 more than the learned Principal, who, for so many years has ably presided over the work of the college, and who, on his retirement from the active 
 duties of his position, will be followed by the warm and grateful good wishes of his colleagues and many friends. 
 
 I think I see some of the present students of the college in this hall, and I should like to take this opportunity of thanking you, gentlemen, 
 for the cordial welcome which you extended to Lady Aberdeen and myself upon our arrival. Will you also permit me to thank you, not only in my 
 own name, but in the name of this large and brilliant assembly, and I would venture to say in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, for the manner 
 in which you rendered the National Anthem on the entrance of the procession into this hall. The words and the melody of “God Save the Queen” 
 are tolerably familiar, but there is a right way and wrong way of singing it, as well as a right and a wrong way of understanding the principle 
 represented thereby. Therefore, I appreciate such a rendering as that you gave, which was not only characteristic of the evident spirit of strength 
 which entered into the singing, but of the correctness of time, measure and expression. Well, gentlemen, I need not, I think, attempt 
 to address to you words of exhortation or incentive. You are doubtle.ss actuated by a .sen.se of the far-reaching importance and responsibility of the 
 opportunities for your equipment in the great work of life which arc here provided for your use. Any utterance which I might venture to offer to 
 you would, therefore, be that of congratulation and of confident expectation. Surely we may say in the words of the text inscribed on that mantel- 
 piece “Happy is the man that findeth wi.sdom and the man that getteth understanding.” In acquiring knowledge there is happine.ss’ and real 
 conscious satisfaction. At all times and everywhere the work of education is of sacred importance ; but if any condition of things could enhance 
 its value, it is the ca.se of a young country with vast capabilities and .scope for future development and influence. Nor should we forget that every 
 intellectual or scientific advance, in this or any other country, is not for the benefit of that country alone, but indirectly, and .sooner or later, for the 
 benefit of the whole human race. 
 
 And again, with reference to this fair land, the fact that she is within the British Empire in no way detracts from the distinction accruing to 
 Canada by reason of the success of her sons in any branch of literature, science or art. The Canadian student, author, poet, scientist or theologian 
 who rises to eminence does so as a Canadian, and brings fame to his country as such, becau.se of the happy combination of Canadian nationality 
 and patriotism with attachment to the mother country and her constitution, in harmony with which Canada may look forward to an ever-increasing 
 influence and success. 
 
 Mr. Principal, it is impossible to sj^eak in public to-day, especially in connection with this college, without reference to the announcement 
 which has reached us this morning, and which necessarily imparts a sombre hue to this gathering. The distinguished man who has just passed 
 away was one of the most eminent of the many who have claimed McGill as their Alma Mater. The close of Sir John Abbott’s career has taken 
 place in the midst of the sympath}^ and sorrow of many attached friends, and with the respect and esteem of the public at large. His loss is 
 mourned ; but here especially, in this centre of preparation for future work, we must not use language of gloom or despondency. The former Prime 
 Minister of Canada would have been the first to recognize and rejoice in the fact that when the worker resigns his commi.ssion of .service in this 
 world, others are coming forward to fill up the ranks of the great army of all who, in whatever sphere, are striving to press on in the service of God 
 by serving their fellow-men. No better wish can be expressed for this college than that such a spirit ma)^ be the key-note of its operations and its 
 influence. I now declare the new library building to be opened. 
 
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Sir Milliam Dawson. 
 
 Vour Excellency^ Your Honour^ 
 
 Members of Convocation^ Ladies and Gentlemen : — 
 
 The occasion on which we are to-day assembled, brings before us thoughts that relate to the past, the present and the future of this 
 University. Some of us here remember the time in 1855, when, with the exception of a few books in the possession of the Medical Faculty, there 
 
 was no Univ'ersity library. Our first beginning of a library was made in the session of 1855-6, by the purchase of a small number of books, mostly 
 
 on English history and literature. When, in i860, we moved up to these buildings 
 from our temporary lodgings over the old High School on Dorchester street, we 
 carried here some 1,500 volumes ; and when in 1862, Mr. William Molson, who next 
 to Mr. McGill, stands at the head of our benefactors, undertook to complete for us 
 our unfinished buildings, a part of his plan was to provide a library room, in which 
 he placed shelves sufficient to accommodate some 20,000 volumes. At that time we 
 could put into those shelves only about 2,000 volumes, and hence the allusion by Mr. 
 Redpath to an old and half forgotten address, in which I spoke of the shelves of the 
 
 library as “gaping for books.” We had the shelves, but the books were few and far 
 
 between ; and some of our friends laughed at our beggarly array of empty shelves and 
 at our calling the place a library. But it acted as a stimulus to many benefactors, 
 and donations of books and of money came in, so that the library grew at a rapid rate. 
 In 1870, we had nearly 10,000 books; by 1880 or 1882, we had reached about 
 20,000, and now we come into this building with, at least, 35,000. Long before we left 
 the old building, the shelves that had been “ gaping for books,” were filled to over- 
 sowing ; and we had to enlarge the shelves and extend the librarv' into other rooms. 
 So much for the past. With regard to the present. Your Excellency has spoken of 
 Mr. Redpath’s noble gift and of the benefits to be derived by students in this building; 
 and those only who have had experience in educational work can fully understand 
 what those benefits will be. Hitherto we have had to do reading under disadvan- 
 tageous circumstances. We had no special reading-room, but merely a part of a 
 single room overcrowded with books, and very often with readers, with little light and 
 ventilation, and little to induce any one to linger long over even attractive literature 
 Now you have this magnificent room, unsurpassed anywhere on this side of the 
 Fire-place and Mantel, Reading Room. Atlantic for its beauty and utility. I have no doubt that students, as well as others, 
 
 will fill this room and avail themselves of the facilities it offers, and that the use of 
 books will increase in the university, and that study and original research will be 
 greatly promoted on the part of our students and of the community as a whole. A student in this room, with the books we can offer him, will have 
 very little to desire ; and when he becomes fatigued with his studies he can turn and see looking down upon him the faces of those representatives 
 of literature, seience and art, who are so beautifully portrayed on the windows of this room. The windows have already been referred to as the 
 gift of Mrs. Redpath, and we recognize in them not only her affection for the university, but her regard towards the students ; and in this handsome 
 gift, as beeomes an excellent woman, she has put the crown upon the work of her husband. What shall we say of the future? That, of course, we 
 
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cannot penetrate ; and those of us who are old have not a very great length of time to look forward to ; but 1 think we may fairly anticipate that 
 history will repeat itself in regard to the enlargement and extension of our library. When we went into the old library provided by Mr. William 
 Molson, we had ten times more space on our shelves than we had books to put on them. Mr. Redpath has not been quite so liberal in that respect, 
 for we have only accommodation for about four times the number of books we possess at present. Therefore, I should not wonder if Mr. Redpath’s 
 library should fill up even more rapidly than Mr. Molson’s. But we can only wish that Mr. and Mrs. Redpath may live to return, and to see the 
 shelves filled and many books demanding additional space in our stack-room. 
 
 Allusion has been made to the loss we have sustained, and which has cast something of a shadow over this meeting. Sir John Abbott was 
 our oldest living graduate on our list of Doctors of I.aw. He stood at the head of our list of graduates in course, with the exception of his brother 
 Christopher, who passed away some time ago. Not only so, but when, shortly after the reorganization of the university in 1852, the Board of 
 Governors were desirous to establish a Faculty^of Law, they selected Mr. Abbott, then quite a young lawyer, who had only been admitted to the bar 
 four or five years before, and appointed him dean of the new faculty. Judge Day, Judge Dunkin and many able men of that day were upon our 
 Board of Governors, and the choice was a recognition on their part of his early merit, and showed their prescience in regard to the career of one of 
 the young graduates of that time. Many of our graduates have since followed in a like course, not only in law, but in other professions. When, at 
 a later time, public employment obliged him to relinquish his position in the Faculty of Law, he was invited to become a member of the Board of 
 Governors ; and although he has not been able to attend many of our meetings, I can testify that he was always ready to give aid and sagacious 
 counsel in every circumstance where any difificulty arose. I can look back to many occasions on which he gave time and thought to the interests of 
 the university in a manner not acknowledged in any public way. It is well for us, therefore, to remember him on an occasion of this kind ; but, as 
 Your Excellency has very well said, it should not cast any gloom over us. He is gone from us, but we know that if he were here he would have 
 rejoiced as we do on this occasion, for he was a man who loved books and who loved learning for its own sake. 
 
 In conclusion, I think I may say, on behalf of every professor, every instructing officer, every graduate and every student, that we most 
 sincerely thank Mr. Redpath for the wise, judicious and liberal manner in which he has furnished us with this great and noble addition to our 
 university work. 
 
 Your Excellency^ Members of Convocation^ 
 
 Ladies a7id Gentleme7i : — 
 
 Hlcyanber Johnson, lEsq., XX.D. 
 
 VICE-PRINCIPAL OF McGILL UNIVERSITY. 
 
 I would ask permission to preface my own remarks by reading a letter I have received from a gentleman whom we hoped to have had here 
 to-day, a former student of McGill, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper. He says : — 
 
 “ I find that the Hamilton ceremony for the unveiling of Sir John Macdonald’s statue takes place on Wednesday. Of course, I must be there. This prevents me from attending on 
 Tuesday night the opening of the Redpath Library at dear old McGill. I am very sorry. I wished most sincerely to he with you, to join in your rejoicing, and to say how much Mr. Reripath’s 
 public and generous spirit is to be admired. McGill University is not only flourishing among Canadian schools of learning, but it can now claim to be one of the best on the continent of America ” 
 
 That is the opinion and feeling of one student, and I feel certain that the expression of gratitude to the donor which it contains, will be 
 echoed by every student and every professor of the University. Every one of us knows and feels the value of this important part of the university, 
 for the expansion of which such noble provision has now been made. Its importance cannot be over-rated. In fact, if I were asked to name the 
 three chief parts of a university, I would be inclined to say the professors, the students and the library. I do not forget the graduates in saying this 
 for every graduate who consults the library is a student. We can see the value of the library most readily when we remember that one great function 
 
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 of a university is to maintain the continuity of human knowledge ; to preserve the knowledge which has been evolved by the labor of man’s intellect 
 through thousands of years in the past ; to collect the great additions to that mass which are being made from day to day in the present, and to 
 transmit it, with all our care, to posterity. With this idea before us, the function of the library is obvious ; it is the storehouse of that intellectual 
 food from which the professors draw those supplies required day by day for the needs of the students. If I might be allowed to use a scientific term 
 in describing the treasure-house, valued equally by scientific and by literary men, I would call the library itself potential knowledge ; that is, 
 knowledge which is stored up and available for human needs, but which is not actual knowledge until men come to it and set it going, put it in motion 
 if I may use the expression, among their fellow men, 
 that is, the professors first among the students, the students 
 afterwards carrying it abroad and spreading its benefits 
 among other men, among thousands, who are influenced in 
 this way by the university, while, probably, unconscious C)f 
 the influence. The knowledge thus brought into action 
 might be called kinetic knowledge, and did time permit, 
 a great deal might be said under this head of the debt due 
 to a good library. Few could appreciate this so well as 
 those who, like myself, have been acquainted with our 
 present library in its earlier stages. It is not large now, 
 quite the contrary, still it is tolerably useful. But there 
 was a time, when after some experience, I laid it down as 
 a general rule for my own guidance, that any book which 
 I desired would certainly fiot be found in our book-cases. 
 
 I tested the rule often, and found it so invariably correct, 
 that I acted on it afterwards. It saved me a great deal 
 of time. 
 
 I have been speaking of the value of a library 
 more than of the splendid home which Mr. Redpath has 
 provided for our library. I think that we owe our warmest 
 thanks to Mr. Redpath, not only for this building, but 
 also for the very significant hint which he has given us, 
 one that cannot be overlooked, viz., that our present library 
 should be greatly enlarged. He has himself shown the 
 v/ay in that fine historical collection to which he is con- 
 stantly adding. This building may be called a suggestion in stone on a magnificent scale, and I feel certain that the citizens of Montreal, when 
 they see the vacant spaces in the interior, will not fail to interpret the suggestion aright. 
 
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 PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA- 
 
 IVM your Excellency^ s permission^ 
 
 Mr. Principal Ladies and Gentlemen. 
 
 In the course of the excellent speeches that have been delivered to-day, there was one remark that interested me exceedingly, and that was 
 made by Mr. Molson — it was that speeches should be short. I shall accept the hint with a great deal of pleasure to myself, and, perhaps, also to you. 
 Indeed, I am sure if there is one thing I have learned in my life, sitting at the head of the table of the House of Commons, it is to be exceedingly 
 careful of what I say in public. There is another thing I might also add, and it is that politicians learn — my distinguished friend. Mis Honour the 
 Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, will agree with me — that “ speech is silver, but silence is golden.” But at the same time I admit 
 there are some occasions when it would be almost criminal to be silent, and one of the.se occasions is the present. It is an exceeding gratification to 
 me to be present here to-day. When I first came in this afternoon, I was told I should be called upon to make a few remarks. I rather regretted it, 
 for the reason I have already stated, but especially as I was placed at some disadvantage. I think it is always usual when you are going to present 
 an address to anybody, to send a copy in advance, so that the answer will be carefully prepared. I thought if I was called upon to make a few 
 remarks in the presence of so many scholars and dignitaries I should be placed in the same favourable position ; but it is to your advantage, perhaps, 
 that I should have no special opportunity of claiming your indulgence. There are many reasons why I am glad to be present here. Whilst a 
 good many of my hours, especially at night, are spent among politicians, there are also much more pleasant hours spent among my books. I frankly 
 confess that I have found them the true friends of my life. I have had the advantage in my life of making many acquaintances and many friends. 
 Yet friends sometimes forget you, and even your first love marries somebody else. But Shakespeare, Milton, Moliere, Victor Hugo are always 
 near. 
 
 On one account I am peculiarly gratified to be here to-day. When I was a youth I am a Nova Scotian by birth, like the gentleman to 
 whom allusion has already been made. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, the son of the steadfast friend of my life — there was one name especially, which, 
 as a Nova Scotian, I learned to respect. We have had many distinguished Nova Scotians, statesmen and men of letters. But the name I 
 learned to esteem was that of Sir William Dawson. In my later years, since I came to this part of Canada, it has been my good fortune to 
 make his personal acquaintance, and I have grown not merely to esteem but to admire him, and have found that in forming the estimate I did of 
 him in my youth, I was not wrong. I congratulate him that at the close of his connection with McGill, he should see the most conspicuous labor of 
 his life so satisfactorily crowned. In this institution he may assuredly say that his life has not been unsuccessful. I congratulate also the citizens of 
 Montreal on having amongst them men of such enterprise, energy and worthy ambition as Mr. Redpath, Mr. Molson and Sir Donald Smith. If there 
 is one thing I admire amongst our American neighbours, it is that in every small town and village in New England I see a beautiful library, a 
 monument of architectural art, well filled with books all given by the rich men of that enterprising and great country. I am happy to say their 
 example is being followed here. It is men like those to whom I have alluded that are a credit to this country. Let the cities of Toronto, Hamilton 
 Halifax and Quebec imitate them, and then I will be able to say what I have never been able to say hitherto, that we have great libraries in this 
 country. We are behind our neighbours in this respect. In Toronto you have an inferior building in which is hou.sed a considerable number of 
 books, but not the number which should be there. In Montreal you have a praiseworthy attempt at a museum of art ; in Toronto there is no such 
 thing. Libraries and museums should be the objects of the ambition of every city and important town in the Dominion. Many gentlemen have 
 made suggestions ; I also have one to make ; and that, a very practical one. This library has to be filled with as little delay as possible. 
 I believe that there are only in it, at present, 35,000 books, which is not a great number for a library of this kind. You can go to the 
 cities of New England and find that even antiquarian, historical and other societies have three or four times the number of books you 
 
 have here. A great institution like this should have a library of over 100,000 volumes at least. Let every man and every woman and I appeal to 
 
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the women especially, because I know their great influence 
 on everybody’s life — leave this building with the deter- 
 mination to make this library the best in Canada. Give 
 us one great public library, not simply a university library, 
 but one where facilities will be given to students from 
 wherever they come. Let every man and woman go away 
 and say, “ I shall give five, ten or twenty books before 
 the year is out.” Choose these books carefully — after 
 consultation with the authorities and librarian when 
 possible — and there will be no difficulty in the future. Let 
 this be a positive pledge to himself or herself, and this 
 library will not only be of great use to McGill and 
 Montreal, but a credit to Canada. I have, perhaps, said 
 more than I intended when I rose a few minutes ago. 
 I desire to see McGill in every sense a national university. 
 I am connected with Trinity in Toronto, and I can sin- 
 cerely say she holds forth the hand of fellowship to McGill, 
 and wishes every prosperity to an institution which is 
 truly an honour to this noble city, crowned by its beautiful 
 mountain — to this city, where two races are living side 
 by side in amity, where one can learn so much from the 
 other— from the innate courtesy and culture of the French, 
 from the steadfast purpose and energy of the Anglo- 
 Library from Museum ; March^ 1^93' Saxon. 
 
 IPcter 1Re^patb, lEsci. 
 
 I rise to supply an omission in the remarks I previously made. I think I ought to have acknowledged, in the terms which I feel are due, 
 the services of the architect, Mr. Taylor. I do not think that I could have had a professional man, either on this side the Atlantic oi the other, who 
 could have taken more interest in the matter, or produced a better result. I would also like to say a few words about the newly appointed 
 librarian, Mr. Gould, He took some months to study his duties, and he has entered upon them with the utmost zeal. I am sure that McGill 
 will have no reason to regret his appointment. 
 
Ibon. 3. S. Iball, 
 
 May it Please Your Excellency, Your Honour, treasurer of the province of Quebec- 
 
 Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Members of Convocation, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 
 
 I am sure it would be idle for me to .say that it affords me pleasure, or that I fully appreciate the honour it does me to be here as a 
 graduate of this University, to say a few words on behalf of the graduates of the University, upon an occasion when we are receiving such a handsome 
 donation as we do to-day from Mr. Repath. No doubt Your E.Kcellency, as patron of the University, will have occasion in a short time to visit the 
 other buildings and to see the donations of Sir Donald Smith. Mr. Macdonald, Mr. Molson, Mr. Workman, Mr. McLennan and some of the other 
 Governors of this University, and you will be able, perhaps, to bear testimony to what we are proud of, that through the benefactions of the citizens 
 of Montreal to McGill, the Univer.sity, for its age, stands unrivalled on the continent of America. 
 
 Sir William Dawson has given you a short history of the library in connection with the University. It was my privilege in 1870 to enter 
 the Faculty of Arts as an undergraduate, and, going through that faculty I was made aware of the great advantage it was to a student to have access 
 to a library, m which he could con.sult the books. It is not my place to minimize any department of a university, but there can be no doubt that a well- 
 stored library is one of the most valuable things a university can have. No matter how ably lectures arc delivered or how well professors may do 
 their duty or how carefully the student may take note.s, for advanced study he must have recourse to a library such as we have in preparation for us 
 here. I do not remember the shelves in the William Molson Library “ gaping for books,” but I do remember when there were only a very few books 
 there. I also remember that not many years ago, I was sitting as a member of the Corporation of the university, when the building had become too 
 small for the books we had. I am glad to say that the Corporation was relieved from the difficulty by (1 was going to say, our old friend, and I will 
 say it, though in using this word, I do not refer as some might think, to his age) Mr. John Henry Molson, who came forward and gave us the ground 
 upon which this building is situated. When Your Excellency walked over to this building to-day, and saw the museum that stands hard by, erected 
 by Mr. Peter Redpath, you must I am sure, have felt that the measure of benefaction had reached its limit. But not content with that, and still 
 keeping warm his interest in the city of his birth, (for he was born and brought up here, though, of late, he has been separated from us), Mr. Redpath 
 has now given us this magnificent building in which to store our books. Your Excellency must have been struck as we all were with the ornate 
 exterior of the edifice, and with this beautiful interior, graced as it is by the two splendid windows which Mrs. Peter Redpath,— for you see. Your 
 Excellency, we always have the ladies with us at our meetings,— has generously given, in order to make the library additionally inviting. 
 
 I must not. Your Excellency, occupy your time very much longer. Perhaps, however, I may say a few words to the graduates who are 
 here. I will call their attention to the number of vacant spaces upon the shelves about us, and remind them that in 1876 we started a library fund 
 which has grown to certain dimensions ; and I think in view of the magnificent donation we have received to-day, it behoves the Graduates’ Society 
 and the graduates generally, to .see if they cannot contribute something towards the purchase of books. This would be a practical, and 
 It seems to me, the truest way of showing their appreciation of Mr. Redpath’s liberality. For it is difficult to find words to express what the 
 graduates really feel towards Mr. Redpath and those who have so generously built up this University in our midst. I can only say that the graduates 
 (and I speak for all of them), are to a man proud of their University ; and I think I may add that McGill has nothing to be ashamed of in her list of 
 graduates. In looking through that list. Your Excellency, I see names of familiar friends, names of men with whom I have corresponded and of 
 men whom I have met casually in different parts ; but I will say that, widely as they differ in other respects, and .scattered as they are over Canada 
 and Europe, I find one common feeling among them, and that is a deep feeling of loyalty to their Alma Mater. I find another feeling amone 
 them : it is not merely a feeling of gratitude ; it is .something more than that.-stronger than gratitude.-which the graduates feel towards the 
 Board of Governors and the Benefactors, for what they have done in establishing such a centre of learning as we have in McGill • and a feelin<T 
 of deep satisfaction that they are sons of a University holding a place so highly honoured through the whole Dominion and the world.’ 
 
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 1 bi 0 Eycellcnc^ ZTbc (5overnor^(5eneral. 
 
 Mr. Principal, Your Honour.^ Ladies and Gentlemen . 
 
 I hope you won’t think that a very dangerous precedent is being set if I inflict myself upon you for a moment once more. In fact, I 
 believe it is one of the several prerogatives the Governor-General of Canada has, that he may rise a second time in a Canadian community without 
 
 being greeted with cries of “ Spoke.” I heard no such utterance proceed 
 from any one in this hall when I rose again. I wish to be allowed to 
 express in a more definite manner than I did before, because I did not 
 quite realize the significance and extent of it, my gratitude for the beautiful 
 and handsome present I received from Mr. Redpath ; I mean the golden 
 key. It bears an inscription, the reading of which conveys to me the 
 certainty that it is not merely a model to be placed in some conspicuous 
 place in the library, but is to be carried away by me as a souvenir of 
 a most interesting event. The inscription reads: — “To His Excellency 
 the Right Honorable the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor-General of Canada, 
 from Peter Redpath.” On the beautiful box in which it is placed are the 
 arms of the university, with the words: “McGill University Library.” 
 I need hardly say that it is a most valuable token of his kindness and of 
 this memorable occasion. I only hope that the librarian will not look 
 upon it with any misgivings so far as I am concerned. We all know that 
 libraries are afflicted with people who have a way of taking out books and 
 not returning them. I must not forget that I am now’ a Visitor of this 
 college, and if at some unreasonable hour I make use of the key and 
 extract a book, it might happen that this would cause .some difficulty, but 
 I trust that if on any occasion a book should be missing, none of the 
 students will suggest to the librarian that the Governor-General is the 
 culprit. Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure that the excellent hint thrown 
 out by Mr. Molson at the outset, that the speeches should be short, has 
 been admirably followed. Indeed, I could have wished myself that wc 
 could have heard a little more of that silver speech to which Dr. Bourinot 
 alluded, and of which he gave us such an excellent specimen. Perhaps he 
 was unconsciously speaking of some I see upon this platform when he 
 spoke of silence being not golden, but criminal. But we mu.st feel that the 
 Stack Room. proceedings have been most pleasant and attractive. My reason for rising 
 
 is that I have to make an intimation, and it is that I hope I may be 
 
 allowed, as, I think, my predecessors have been, to present a gold medal for competition by the students of this university, by some test to be 
 arranged by the governing body and professors, if they will give me the satisfaction. I am only sorry that the students of this university have reached 
 tho.se riper years of discretion which would make anything like the suggestion of a holiday superfluous and out of place. I suppose the best thing 
 I could do would be to ask that the profe.s.sors should arrange for an extra course of lectures. But, perhaps, the professors would demur to an 
 addition to their labors. However, I again beg to thank those who have arranged these proceedings for the interest they have taken in them. 
 
 Lady Aberdeen wishes me to thank the students for the handsome bouquet they pre.sented to her on her arrival. 
 
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Ibis Ibonour 3. a. dbapleau, 
 
 ' LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 
 
 Your ExceUmcies, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, 
 
 Mr. Principal, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 
 
 I think it wrong on my part to rise, after having done what I did to-day— excused myself and apologised to the Vice-Principal for not being 
 able to make an address. I think I was right when I wrote, and wrong when I rose to attempt to speak in this temple of learning, of knowledge, 
 and of unmerciful criticism ; because the attempt should not be made except by one w'ho can speak “ from the book,” or “ like a book,” and neither 
 of these can 1 do. Therefore, 1 have to apologize now : but I could not refuse the call made on me by those present here to say a word or two, if 
 only in the official capacity I occupy in the Province of Quebec, and in my own name, as a fellow of another university, not a rival to this, but a 
 friend, to congratulate you all upon this occasion ; and it is with pleasure that I do so. Happy are those who can receive such princely gifts as 
 the one that has been given you, and which is the cau.se of this demonstration, and happy and happier still are those who can make such gifts. 
 The names of these benefactors will remain in history and in the hearts of the people of the country where they have lived ; and they 
 will live to such an extent and to such a length of time that it will never require the re.searches of a learned man like Sir William Daw^son to speak 
 of them in the future as he spoke in his interesting lecture of last evening, of a certain people, as an extinct, as a forgotten race. 
 
 Mr. Redpath, you have pre.sented His Kxcellency w'ith a golden key to open this establishment : you have kept one in your possession 
 w'hich is not made of gold, but w'hich is more precious than any precious stone of which it could be made, and that is the key of .sympathy with 
 which you go to the hearts of the people of this university. You have donated to this great and noble university a magnificent building for a shelter 
 for its “ potential knowledge.” You have done a great and noble work in continuing the great and noble work of your predece.s.sors, the other 
 benefactors of this university and this country. 
 
 I have read somewhere that the three great enemies of libraries are moths, mildew and fire. You have provided by your prudent gift a 
 shelter against one of the.se ; the students will themselves take care to provide against another, and the high spirit of this country will preserve it 
 from the third. I thought when reading the names of the.se three great enemies of public libraries, that they represented something of which, 
 fortunately, our country is now free— moths, which are prejudice and bigotry, working sedulously, hypocritically, to destroy the good things that the 
 most noble efforts of humanity have built ; mildew, which is ignorance or negligence, and which may cau.se the destruction of such a monument as 
 this ; and fire, which is fanaticism ; fanaticism that has cau.sed in years past, according to history, the destruction of such great libraries as that of 
 Alexandria, by Caliph Omar, and also the destruction of the great treasures of Greece and Rome by the invasions of fanatical barbarians. 
 Fortunately, our country has got rid of all that. The good spirit of the fellows, professors and students of this institution will prevent mildew from 
 causing any damage to your establishment. This excellent building and the assiduity of the professors and students, will prevent moths, and the 
 high spirit of our country will ever preserve from fanaticism or bigotry the name of this building, 
 
 I would add only one word, and that must be of complaint against my friend. Dr. Bourinot. He has seen me .so long in the House of 
 Commons at Ottawa, that he has appealed to me as one of the politicians. He apparently does not know that 1 abandoned tLt interesting and 
 talkative body nearly twelve months ago ; and, therefore, it could not have been to me he alluded when he said that politicians should keep silence. 
 If I wanted to keep silent to-day, it was not as a reformed politician, but as one who is not a scholar and not enough of a learned man to address 
 such a meeting as this. 
 
 I thank Your Excellencies, and you, ladies and gentlemen, who have listened to me, and I again apologise for occupying your time. You 
 will understand from my remarks that I am a good deal like the little girl who was to present a compliment to her mother. She had thought over 
 it with a great deal of care— it was to be a long and beautiful compliment— but when she saw her mother, who, with tender eyes, was looking lovino-ly 
 at her, .she .said : “Mamma, I had very good thoughts ; but I have forgotten everything. But I love you very much more’than I can tell you ” 
 
 I can say this, for my part h'orgive me for my poor address, but be sure of one thing, you gentlemen of this university, I love it and 1 have 
 admiration for it as I have love and admiration for its benefactors. ’ ’ 
 

 II-. 
 
 Library^ from College G rounds 
 
 description of H^ew Xibrar^ Buil^ino. 
 
 The inequalities and narrow limits of the site influenced somewhat the arrangement ; difficulties, however, are only incentives to exertion, and the architec- 
 was faced by this most interesting as well as complex problem : how to obtain on the site a commodious, convenient, well-planned, well-lit library, which would also 
 allow of easy expansion, and be at once collegiate, dignified, monumental and beautiful. There are many magnificent, hoary and time-honored library buildings in 
 the Old World, in which the precious legacies of the past have been preserved and treasured up ; but wants change with the ages, and in the altered and special 
 circumstances of to-day some other arrangements than these old buildings afford seemed desirable. In the United States, great interest has recently been taken in 
 the planning and fitting up of library buildings, and considerable ingenuity and skill have been displayed in the designing of such. One of the points of divergence 
 from the old examples is in the position of the books. In many new libraries, the general books are not placed in the reading room, but in a “ stack room ’ 
 
 *Kindly furnisned by the Architect, Andrew T. Taylor, Esq., F.R.I.H.A., R.C.A. (of Messrs. Taylor & Gordon), Montreal. 
 
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adjoining, and it is claimed that this arrangement has several advantages over the old system, in affording greater protection to the books from heat, dust, fire, etc 
 After much consideration, the architect adopted the “stack” system as the best arrangement for the books. All librarians are of course familiar with this 
 
 system, but to those who have not had the opportunity of examining it, a brief explanation may be of interest. The books are placed by themselves in a large lofty 
 
 chamber, well lit from two or more sides, and sometimes also from the top. This chamber is made absolutely fire-proof, and cut off by fire-proof doors from the 
 
 rest of the building. It is divided up in the height into several storeys by open gratings, or by iron and thick rough plate-glass; these storeys are generally not 
 
 more than 7 feet to 8 feet high, so that the librarians can reach any book on the shelves without the aid of a ladder. The book-cases are generally of iron with 
 shelves sometimes of iron and sometimes of wood. Various patents have been taken out for these book-cases or stacks, differing more or less from each’other. 
 Access is obtained to the different storeys by light iron stairs, either straight or circular. In this particular instance, stacks were selected of the “ Library Bureau ” 
 type, with uprights of grooved steel, in which bracket ends slide up and down, being fixed at the required height by a wedge easily adjustable. The pattern of ihe 
 bracket ends was specially made for this library; the shelving is of polished oak. This stack room has four storeys, with straight stairs, and a lift for books • on each 
 storey there is a wide bay window, back and front, for special privileged readers, where they can consult any of the books on the spot, and not obstruct the passage 
 
 ways between the books. In the future, when the stack room requires to be enlarged, these bays will form the centre of the stack, and the accommodation ufill 
 be thus nearly doubled. 
 
 In the basement or lowest floor, which is entirely above ground with the exception of a small portion on one side, five studies or seminary rooms are 
 arranged for special studies; fitted up with tables, chairs, and book-cases for books bearing upon these special subjects. These can be reached by a separate door 
 from the campus, or by the mam entrance. At the other end of the building is a wide entrance for the reception of boxes of books, which opens into the 
 unpacking room From here the books are then taken to the cataloguing room immediately above, by a lift in a small projecting wing in which also a staircase 
 IS arranged, for the exclusive use of the librarians. The rest of this floor is occupied by the caretaker’s house, lavatories, heating chambers and coals 
 
 principal feature is the great reading room, no feet long, 43 feet wide, and 44 feet high to the top of inner roof, with a high open 
 timber roof having the hammer beams ornamented by carved heads of grotesque animals. At the further corners are lofty oriel windows with seats round same 
 In the centre of the S. L. side is a recessed fireplace or inglenook, with a red stone mantel inside, having the following motto cut in relief in a panel • “Cease not 
 to learn until thou cease to live.’ At the entrance to the inglenook is a large massive carved oak mantel-piece about 14 feet high, with the following quotation from 
 he Proverbs cut on the carved frieze : “ Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.” On the opposite side^of the reading 
 room IS a lofty square recessed window with seats round. A large wide level gallery has been arranged at one end, which may be used for thedi^pl iy 
 Illuminated books manuscripts and missals in glass cases, and other purposes, and from which visitors can obtain a good view of the reading room 
 disturbing the readers. Below this gallery, the Librarian’s room and the cataloguing room are obtained, divided by an ornamental glass screen from the 
 room_ Ihis IS the working deparPnent of the building, where all the books are catalogued and arranged; contiguous to this is the attendant’s counter 
 distribution of books, and from tms is the entrance to the stack room already referred to, protected by steel fire-proof doors. Between the cataloguing room 
 and the reading room are placed the Card Catalogue cases, opening on both sides, so that the cards may be placed in the drawers from the one side, and consulted 
 by the readers from the other. The remainder of this floor is taken up by a well-lit room for periodicals, and by cloak-rooms. In the tower is placed the 
 aircase, opening into the entrance hall and into the reading room by ornamental arches. The vestibule and entrance hall have marble and oak dados respectivelv 
 and both have marble mosaic floors. 1 here is also a special Muniment vault for the care of precious books and muniments. On the upper floor in additiL to t Je 
 g ery are a Professors rooni, and a large room or hall with a high ceiling for architectural casts, sculpture, etc. The fittings of the reading room are all of oak 
 
 fo,:2eTc:itr"" ““ “■* it:- 
 
 Ik The windows are glazed with leaded lights in geometrical patterns, having panels in same for quotations and inscriptions. It is the intention to hav^ all 
 
 ese panels filled in with suitable mottoes painted on the glass as soon as a selection can be made. At present only a few have been painted on in thp fK i 
 
 entrance hall and staircase. Those selected are as follows i-“ “Crafty men' contemn^tudies, s^rmT adml them^ 
 
 men use them. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge, it is thinking makes what we read ours.” “Reading maketh a full nrr^ 
 conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” “ And out of olde bokes in good feith, cometh al this newe science that men lere ” 
 
 strange seas of thought alone.” “ Ars longa, vita brevis.” “ Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.” “ Bibliotheca in nuibus talaT^'"® T® 
 priscorum sanctorum reliquite, virtutis plente, condita; sunt.” Special attention has been given to the three-liaht window facimr ih.. o ^ mausol^is 
 
 .indow a. .he o.he, end or ,h. ,oo„. These have been «„ed .Uh bea„.ir„,‘*p,i„.ed g JS";: of h.r S/Redl'h ' ’ 
 
 Wished to be associated With her husband in this magnificent expression of regard and sympathy for McGill University ^ The three liffht winH^ ’ ’u* 
 
 elaborate, having a number of groups of the men great in art, poetry and music. In all cases every effort has been ma^ to obtah^ m. k t ^ 
 
 celebrities. The lists of their names are given in the key-plan accompanying the illustration of the window. The five light window is not rol'bomra^the^^h^ 
 
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 of rare 
 without 
 reading 
 for the 
 
and the colors were purposely kept lighter, so as to obstruct the light as little as possible. 'Fhese windows are respectively dedicated to law, history, philosophy, 
 astronomy, medicine, and have medallion portraits of the great masters in each subject, as follows : — Law — Solon, Justinian, Edward I., Grotius. History — 
 Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Caesar, Nicholas Machiavelli, Edward Gibbon, Leopold von Ranke, Charles Simonde de Sismondi. Moral and Natural Philosophy — 
 Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, St. Augustine, Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant. Astronomy — Thales, Claudius Ptolemy, Nicholas 
 Copernicus, Galileo, John Kepler, Isaac Newton, Peter Simon de Laplace, Frederick William Herschel. Medicine -Hippocrates, Galen, Harvey, Jenner. 
 
 Reading Room. 
 
 For artificial light, electric lamps are used entirely, and in addition to handsome polished antique-brass electroliers suspended by chains from the roof, the reading 
 room is lit by standards, with green shades, placed on each table. The walls of the reading room are colored a soft shade of green, relieved with gold, so as to 
 be restful to the eye, and yet not too absorbous of light. The walls of the entrance hall and staircase are coloured a dull soft red. All the floors are covered 
 with cork carpeting to deaden the sound. The heating is entirely by hot water on the direct radiation system, which is considered the healthiest, the simplest 
 
 and the best. 
 
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 1 he construction is as nearly fire-proof as possible, and the stack room is entirely so. I'he whole of the main floor is of steel beams and porous terra cotta’ 
 arching. I he other floors and the roofs, where not of this material, are of solid oak beams, and flooring on the slow combustion principle. The stairs are of 
 iron and slate. Externally, the building is constructed of the Montreal limestone, of a whity-grey colour in dressed ashlar work, except the basement, which is of 
 rock -faced ashlar. The roofs are of blue Rockland slates and copper. The doors are of polished oak with wrought-iron grille work and fittings. The style 
 adopted is a free treatment of Romanesque, which lends itself to the requirements of such a building, as being at once dignified and yet picturesque. The tower 
 rises to a height of about 90 feet. I he salient points of the design are accentuated by stone carving, embracing suitable subjects such as the symbolic figures 
 of the four Evangelists, the College arms, the crest and motto of the donor of the Library. Convenience of arrangement and suitability for its purpose, combined 
 with substantiality and solidity of construction, were the desiderata ; afterwards came in the elements of beauty, proportion and grace, and it is hoped that, in 
 some measure, all of these have been attained without the sacrifice of one to the other. 
 
 ART. 
 
 Section /. 
 
 Ictinus. 
 
 5. Fra Angelico, 
 
 Pisano. 
 
 6. Zeuxis. 
 
 Mantegna. 
 
 7. Phidias. 
 
 (JltiTTO. 
 
 
 
 Section 2. 
 
 Michael Angelo. 
 
 5. Holbein. 
 
 Raphael. 
 
 6. Leonardo da Vinci 
 
 Rubens. 
 
 7. Albert Duuer. 
 
 Titian. 
 
 
 
 Section 3. 
 
 Reynolds. 
 
 s. Watteau. 
 
 Fla.xman. 
 
 6. Vela.s(.)uez. 
 
 Ho(;arth. 
 
 7. Rembrandt. 
 
 Wren. 
 
 
 
 POETRY. 
 
 Section /. 
 
 Hesiod. 
 
 David. 
 
 SaI'I'HO. 
 
 .'I^'SCHYLUS. 
 
 1. VlROII.. 
 
 2. Ariosto. 
 
 3. Chaucer. 
 
 4. Hktkach. 
 
 vSoi'HOCLES. 
 
 Lucretius. 
 
 Aristohhanes. 
 
 Homer. 
 
 Section 2. 
 
 5. Dante. 
 
 6. C.-EDMON. 
 
 7. Tasso. 
 
 8. Horace. 
 
 <s^ 
 
 
 
 B ^ 
 
 Section ?. 
 
 Moi.irre. 
 
 Pope. 
 
 (jRAY. 
 
 Milto.n. 
 
 1. Goethe. 
 
 2. Victor Hugo. 
 3- Wordsworth. 
 4. Prowning. 
 
 1. St. .Ambrose. 
 
 2. (JuiDo d’Arezzo 
 
 3. Palestrina. 
 
 4. Pergolesi. 
 
 1. Beethoven. 
 
 2. Schubert. 
 Handel. 
 
 4 (iLUCK. 
 
 1. Mendel.s.sohn. 
 
 2. Weber. 
 
 3. Auber. 
 
 4. Meyerbeer. 
 
 Section 4. 
 
 MUSIC. 
 
 Section /. 
 
 Sect OH 2. 
 
 Section j. 
 
 I )ryden. 
 
 Ben Jon.son 
 Burns. 
 
 Shakp:spkare. 
 
 5. P>YR N. 
 
 6. Tennyson. 
 
 7. .Shelley 
 
 5. Purcell. 
 
 6. .Montevkrde. 
 
 7. Corelli. 
 
 8. Bach. 
 
 Cherubini. 
 
 Haydn. 
 
 Mozart. 
 
 5. Rossini. 
 
 6. Verdi. 
 
 7. Wagner. 
 
 'The collection of books, for the housing of which such careful and excellent provision has been made, consists of about 55,000 volumes and a lar e 
 number of pamphlets. Not more than 35,000 volumes are, however, at present placed in the new library building. 'The remaining 20,000 volumes are distributfd 
 among departmental libraries in the buildings of the Faculties of Medicine, Uw and Applied Science, and in the laboratories. A few are also kept in the Museu 
 and at the Botanic Gardens. Some of these departmental libraries, notably that of the Faculty of Medicine, are large and complete Indeed it ma ^be sr^^d 
 that the University library is, on the whole, an excellent one for its size : and its books are chiefly such as are required by students, the proportion of wwks o^ 
 and light literature being exceptionally small. Its strongest feature is an especially good collection of works bearing upon, and materials for BrV 
 Canadian history. For this it is indebted mainly to Mr. Peter Redpath, who has, almost from the day he identified himself with the University ’b 
 generous donor of histories. His gifts of books now amount to fully 3,500 volumes (almost all of them rare or expensive works), besides nearly as man ^ 
 
 It should be added that, before formally presenting the new library building, Mr. Redpath, with his accustomed forethought, ’ stated his intention^m 
 annually the sum of five thousand dollars towards salaries and other expenses in connection with the maintenance of the Library in order that his 7 
 
 become a charge upon the revenues of the University. 
 
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 DtANOrTHC FACUUTV OF. ARTS 
 
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Some point0 in tbe Ibistori^ of flDc(Bill TiDlniversit^- 
 
 FROM THE ANNUAL UNIVERSITY LECTURE/ 
 
 Mc(}ill University, like many of the greater universities and colleges of other countries, originated in private endowment. It i-s, however, almost alone m 
 this respect among the colleges of Canada, and owes much of its prosperity and success to this fact, more especially in connection with the unique position which 
 it occupies as the highest educational institution of an influential, progressive and intelligent minority in this city and province. ... 
 
 The founder of the university, James McGill, was born on the 6th October, 1744, in Glasgow, Scotland. He received his early education and training m 
 that country but of these little is known. He arrived in Canada before the American revolution, and appears, in the first place, to have engaged in the Northwest 
 fur trade then one of the leading pursuits in Canada. Subsequently he settled in Montreal, and, in partnership with his brother, Andrew McGill, became one 
 of the leading merchants in the little town of about nine thousand inhabitants which then represented our commercial metropolis. His settlement m Montreal, 
 and his marriage with a lady of French parentage, the widow of a Canadian gentleman, occurred a little before the beginning of this century, and from that time 
 till his death in December 1813, he continued to be a prominent citizen of Montreal, diligent and prosperous m his business, frank and social m his 
 habits and distinguished for public spirit and exertion for the advancement of the, city. His name appears ip several commissions relating to city 
 for instance that for removing the old walls of Montreal, He was Lieutenant-Colonel and subsequently Colonel of the Montreal City Militia and m his 
 oM Tge on the breaking out of the American war of 1812, he became Brigadier General, and was prepared in that capacity, to take the field in defence 
 o his country He reprLented for many years the West ward of Montreal in the Provincial Legislature, and was afterwards a member of the legislative 
 - r t- /pnnnHk Mr McGill is described by his contemporaries as a man of tall and commanding figure— in his youth a very handsome man, and becoming 
 r/r his „,d : He”f a p/lnen. ^elber of ,he "ssoda.ion of for magnaf.s known as .he - Bea.e, Cuh.- In , his connection i, n,a, s.a.ed .ha, 
 
 M MoGi Ut^iltion .0 dispose of his property in this way was no, a hasty death-bed resol.e, but a mature and del, berate dee, sion. He had taken a hvel, mteres, 
 Mr. McGills resolut P establishment of an educational system in the Province of Quebec, and had mentioned, many years before his 
 
 in the measures then be endowment in aid of a college, if these measures should be carried out by the Government. But many delays 
 
 eat , IS ° jQ establish the “Board of Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning” was passed, until the time of Mr. McGill’s 
 
 deat " *e penirtent opposition on the part of the leaders of one section of the people to any system of governmental education, and the apathy of some o t e 
 death the persistent ° appointment of the Board, or the completion of the liberal grants of land and money for educational purposes which 
 
 members of the council P ,^eary of these delays, and feared that he might be cut off by death before he could realize his intentions. He had 
 
 had been ^ private LdowLnt might force the reluctant or tardy hands of the members of Government to action. Accordingly in h^ will, 
 
 also the sagacity to foresee a p bequeathed his property of Burnside, and a sum of ten thousand pounds m money, to found a college m 
 
 prepared in L more than two yt ^^e Board^o Institution; but on condition that such college and university should be 
 
 the contemplated provincial university, g Montreal, the Honorable James Richardson, James Reid, Esq., and James Dunlop, Esq., and 
 
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 -Delivered by the Principal, Sir William Dawson, Nov. x6. 1888. 
 
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 he could have anticipated. Mr. McGill merely expressed a wish to found a college in connection with a university already provided for by the generosity of the 
 British Government. But the grants promised to the university were not given, and the English settlers in the Province of Quebec were deprived of the provisions 
 for education made by the liberality of the Crown in the other colonies. In the providence of God, Mr. McGill’s bequest intervened to avert some, at 
 least, of the evils arising from this failure. In consequence of his will, a pressure was brought to bear on the Government, which resulted in the appoint- 
 ment of the Board of Royal Institution in 1 8i8, and though, from the refusal of the French to take part in it, it was almost entirely English in its compositi( n, 
 it proceeded to the establishment of non-denominational schools. These schools were never very numerous— about eighty being the maximum number '• 
 but they formed the beginning of the present school system. The Royal Institution, being a Government board, had, on that account, too little of the popular sym- 
 pathy, especially among the settlers in the Eastern Townships ; and the Local Legislature practically refused to acknowledge it, and set up in opposition to it a 
 denominational system of “ Fabrique schools ” in the French parishes ; and finally, its functions were restricted to the McGill College alone, by the new educational 
 act which followed the rebellion of 1837. 
 
 In so far as McCiill College was concerned, the Royal Institution at once took action in applying for a royal charter, which was granted in 1821, and 
 prepared to take possession of the estate. This, however, owing to litigation as to the will, was not surrendered to them till 1829. I'hey also demanded the grants 
 of land which had been promised, and received fresh assurances ; and, as an earnest of their fulfilment, the Government cf the day was authorized to erect a building 
 for McGill College, and to defray the expenses out of the “Jesuits’ estates.” But the hopes thus held out proved illusory, and the college buildings had to be begun 
 with the money left by Mr. McGill, and were at length completed only by the liberality of another citizen of Montreal, the late William Molson. 
 
 I he value of the property bequeathed by Mr. McGill was estimated at the time of his death, at ;^3o,ooo ; and it has since become much greater, owing to 
 the growth of the city. The sum was not large in comparison with many other educational bequests ; but it would be difficult to estimate its value to Canada in 
 general, and to Montreal in particular. Gathering around it the gifts of other liberal men, it has sustained the McGill University, and carried it on to its present 
 point of usefulness and success as a source of literary and scientific culture. Hundreds of professional men in all parts of Canada bear testimony to its value; 
 and the city derives from it much of its higher character as a centre of learning and practical science. Indire^-tly, it has benefited the cause of common and 
 Grammar school education, through the action of the Royal Institution, through the services of students and graduates as teachers, and through the McGill Normal 
 school, which, though supported by Government would scarcely have been established but for the influence of the college. Those who have in these ways received 
 its educational benefits are to be found in all parts of the country, contributing by superior skill and intelligence to the common good, If the future may be 
 anticipated from the past, its utility will, in the time to come, go on increasing and widening, growing with the growth of our country and pervading all departments of 
 useful and honorable occupation. The experience of older nations has shown that such educational endowments survive all changes, and go on, bearing fruit from 
 age to age. It will, doubtless, be so here also, and the time will come when the original endowment of McGill will appear but as the little germ from which a great 
 tree has sprung — or as the spring which gave birth to a mighty river. 
 
 Under the charter granted in 1821 were carried on for thirty years the early operations of the university — embarassed by pecuniary difficulty, owing to the 
 failure of the Government to give the promised public aid, and by the structure of the charter itself, which was cumbrous and unwieldy, and unsuited to a small 
 college in the circumstances of this country. The result was that, after nearly thirty years of struggle, the university, with the exception of its medical faculty, 
 was almost extinct, and that it was without sufficient income even to sustain the scanty staff which it then possessed in the faculty of arts. Its existence at this time 
 seems to have been largely due to the persistency with which the late Vice-Principal, Yen. Archdeacon Leach, clung to its interests. It was then that several 
 gentleman, citizens of Montreal, assumed the responsibility of its renovation, and secured an amended charter under which its later work has been carried on. 
 
 Of the noble band of men who at that time undertook this herculean and, in the view of many, desperate task. Day, Terrier, McGill, Anderson, Davidson 
 Coffin, Ramsay, Holmes, Robertson and Dunkin, deserve special mention and remembrance. 
 
 I urning now to the constitution as it exists under the royal charter, the first fact which meets us is that the supreme authority in the university remains i 
 Is of the Crown, and is exercised by His Excellency the Governor-General as Visitor. This is a special and’important feature of our constitution. It gives u 
 
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 an imperial character, and removes us at once from any merely local or party influence, while it secures to us the patronage of the head of our political system, and 
 this has always been generously and judiciously given. 
 
 It is popularly supposed that the Governor General has no power in educational matters, but in our case this is a mistake. He has not only a substantial 
 veto in matters of appointments and of new statutes, but a positive power in aiding us in many important ways, and we owe much to the countenance of our successive 
 Visitors since the office was established under the charter of 1852. 
 
 Next to the Visitor, the highest governing body of the University is the Board of Royal Institution, Governors of McGill College, whose president is ex officio 
 our Chancellor. The Board of Royal Institution at one time had charge of all schools in this province, but its function is now limited to the administration of 
 McGill College and of such other colleges as may be connected with it ; and all endowments given to it for educational purposes are held by it as royal endowments. 
 
 The vacancies m the Board are filled by nomination of the remaining members, with approval of the Visitor, who has power to appoint without any 
 
 
 
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 nomination if the niimoer of members falls below ten. But the nominations are made under certain restrictions. The gentlemen appointed must be residents of 
 Montreal. They must be laymen not deriving any emolument either directly or indirectly from the college. They must be Proiestants, and as far as 
 possible must represent all the Protestant denominations. These qualifications probably give the highest security possible in a community like this for an efficient 
 non-academical governing board, and hitherto their working has been successful. I doubt if any body of men discharging any public duty in Canada has been 
 more efficient and influential or more respected and trusted than the Board of Royal Institution, and I have reason to know that this has tended, by the confidence 
 it inspired, to attract endowments to the University. The Principal under the old charter was one of the Governors, but under the new charter he is a salaried 
 servant of the university, appointed in the same manner with the professors, by the governors, and holding office during their pleasure. He is, ex-officio. 
 Vice-chancellor and a member of the corporation. Except in his capacity of member of the corporation he has no legislative function, and is merely an 
 administrative officer, under the statutes and regulations passed by the governors and corporation, beyond the enforcement of which his powers do not extend. 
 He is entitled to preside at all meetings of the faculties and at meetings of the corporation in the absence of the Chancellor, and may discharge teaching duties 
 as assigned to him by the governors. He has general superintendence of the university, and is the ordinary medium of communication between the university and 
 other bodies, and between the different portions of the university itself, and he acts for the university in the public conferring of all degrees. Practically in McGill 
 the substantial power resides with the governors, the corporation and the several faculties; the Principal has merely to see that all members of the 
 university obey the regulations, to harmonize as far as possible the interests of different departments, and to keep up their united working for the common good, 
 as well as to attend to all emergencies of a general or indefinite character that may occur, and to such public reports, exercises or cases of discipline as may affect 
 the whole university or more than one faculty. His position is thus much less autocratic than that of a president of an ordinary American college, and his largest 
 opportunities for usefulness depend on his personal influence and on his right to be the official medium of communication between different parts of the university, 
 which makes him the link of connection between different departments, and enables him to smooth asperities and to prevent conflicts of jurisdiction. Incidentally 
 it falls to him to extend, as far as possible, the hospitality of the university to its friends and to strangers, and to give or cause to be given to students and 
 intending students such aid and general guidance as they may require, while no inconsiderable part of his time is occupied with attending in various ways to the 
 interests of individual graduates, students and other members of the university, who may apply to him for testimonials, assistance and guidance under a great 
 variety of circumstances. The Corporation of the university is the highest academical body, properly so called, and with reference to educational powers.. 
 It consists of Governors, Principal and Fellows. The two former have been already noticed. The latter are not, as in some universities, the recipients of 
 handsome annual stipends, without obligation to work, but men held to do work for the university without special remuneration, and who are selected with 
 reference to the representation of all the faculties and departments, as well as of some bodies only indirectly connected with it. At present there are thirty-six fellows, 
 constituting two-thirds of the corporation, and whose representative capacities may be stated as follows Deans of Faculties, 5 ; Elective Representatives of 
 Faculties, 7 ; Representatives of (graduates, 9 ; Representatives of Affiliated Colleges, 7 ; Representative of the Normal School, i ; Representatives of the Donalda 
 Endowment, 2 ; Governors’ Fellows, appointed on account of services to the university, 5. 
 
 The powers of the corporation are fixed by the statutes, and include the framing of all reguHtions touching courses of study, matriculation and graduation, 
 and the granting of degrees, the public conferring of such degrees in convocation being merely formal and consequent on their being granted by the corporation, 
 which must, however, either act on the reports of the faculties, or in the case of ad eundem and honorary degrees which may originate in the corporation, must give 
 opportunity to the faculties to make representation. I he corporation is intended fairly to represent all parts of the university. It cannot, of course, do this on 
 any merely numerical standard, but this matters little in a body whose members may be supposed to have regard to the general interests of the university as well as 
 to those of the special part of it which they may happen to represent ; and there is no member of the university who has not through the principal, the representa- 
 tives of colleges, faculties and graduates, means of access to the corporation in relation to the exercise of any of its powers that may affect him. On the other hand, 
 no regulation or action affecting any department can be carried out in corporation without the cognizance of representatives of that department. The function of the 
 corporation is purely educational. It has no control of property, income, salaries or appointments. Its members may thus be salaried officers without any suspicion 
 of interested motives in their action. Its regular meetings are only four in each session, but it may hold special meetings for certain purposes, and it has several per- 
 manent committees which carry on important parts of its work in the intervals of its meetings. 
 
 The several Faculties of McGill College have large independent powers. This grew up in the old condition of the university, when the faculty of medicine 
 had to sustain itself and to carry on its own affairs almost independently, and the autonomy which it possessed has in many respects been extended by the statutes to 
 the other faculties. Each faculty has independent powers of framing regulations as to details of the course of study, examinations, admission, discipline and govern- 
 ment of students, fees, and in general all things relating to the internal government and discipline of its portion of the university system. It has also judicial powers 
 of hearing and determining complaints as to violation of its rules. These wide powers are limited only in two ways. New regulations or repeal of those in force must 
 be approved by corporation, and no student can be expelled without consent of corporation. The functions and powers of individual professors are determined in 
 
the first instance by the terms of their appointment by the governors, and as to details by the rules and action of their taculty. The dean of each faculty has the 
 same general supervision in the faculty which the principal has in the university ; and the dean of the faculty of arts is ex-officio, vice-principal. 
 
 There are at present five faculties, those of Law, Medicine, Arts (including the Donalda special course for Women) Applied Science (including departments 
 of Civil, Mechanical, Mining, and Electrical Engineering and Practical Chemistry,) and Veterinary Science. 
 
 The above portions of the constitution relate to the university and to McGill college, which is the University College properly so called : all others being 
 affiliated colleges of the university, though the charter gives power to have other colleges co-ordinate with McGill, should endowments provide for them. 
 
 Affiliated Colleges may be of different kinds, but they all differ from faculties in being independent bodies, with distinct acts of incorporation and 
 government, and having connection with the university only in so far as its university powers are concerned. An affiliated college in arts of the first class is on 
 having a sufficient staff to bring up students for the degree examinations. An affiliated college of the second class is one competent to present students for 
 the intermediate examination. Morrin college, Quebec, is an example of the first, St. Francis college, Richmond, and the Stanstead Wesleyan College of the second 
 On similiar terms, schools of theology become affiliated colleges, and our system in this respect has met with marked success and is deserving of imitation elsewhere. 
 An incorporated school of theology of any Protestant denomination having an adequate staff of instructing officers may become affiliated, and its students may 
 obtain not only the education of the faculty of arts but exemptions from certain studies in the arts course and exemptions from fees, while the college, is entitled 
 to a representative in the corporation and to reports as to the examinations of its students. By this simple arrangement any theological college established sufficiently 
 near to the university can relieve itself from the burden of maintaining classes not strictly theological, and can obtain for its students, practically without expensee 
 the whole benefits of the staff and appliances of the university, and the inestimable benefit of the association of its students with those of other denominations. 
 The four theological colleges now affiliated, and representing four of the most important Protestant denominations, are all highly successful and are growing rapidly in 
 importance. While they add by the number of students to the prestige and to the usefulness of the university, it is not too much to say that the reputation 
 
 of the university greatly tends to their success. , r r ^ • r«- , ^ 
 
 The McGill Normal School is affiliated to the university as a training school for teachers. Its higher teachers have the title of professor, and it is in rea y 
 professional college for one of the most important of all professions. The arrangements which we have recently made for admitting the students of its advanced class 
 
 to the course -in arts while increasing its scope and efficiency, tend to connect it more closely with the university. , j , r •• 
 
 I astly there are Affiliated Schools, both in Montreal and in other parts of the Dominion, providing a course of study sufficient to tram smdents for junior 
 senior .^wklTon and en.i.led ,o exariina.ion and cedilica.es, and ,o such privilege, in respec. .0 frc, rui.ions, etc, as .he u„,.e,s,.y may be able tron, bare 
 
 to time •» Sradb University has had the greatest cause .0 be thankrul for the enlightened liberality ot the citisens oh Montreal, and it has often seemed as 
 
 •f u i-K b rfoHhcomim. \Jt at the iunctur^es when some pressing want was staring us in the face, without means of meeting it. I he original endowment of 
 'm M ™tn,ra 1 Is' „ th adaroTITs prov.nce, »l.n them .as danger that no ade<,ua.e provision .ould be made for the educa.tonal .ant. of ... 
 
 F , h nnLX on I can never forget the liberal subscriptions of ,856, which, headed by the endowment of the Molson chair of English, gave the first augury of 
 English population. I ca ; ® „„der its new charter. The completion of our university buildings by Mr. Wm. Molson in 1861, came at another critical time^ 
 
 success in f Logan, and John Frothingham chairs in 1871-73. gave another stimulus and accession of force when our progress seemed 
 
 1 he endowment of the e f J ^ placed one important department in advance of every other Canadian university, 
 
 arrested by want of mean. 1 P Greenshields endowments of 188.-84 were just in time to prevent contracUon of our 
 
 and made way for extension m other direc .u r „ vvf interest 'I’he hree endowments to the medical faculty m 1884-5, met necessary 
 
 work under the great diminution of income arising from the fall in the rate of interest. 1 he \ ^^^dents. The endowment of ,the 
 
 expunciou of its tcching po.c, and of its rooms .„d l.bot. tones, "o enter on this .ork .i.hout, adequate 
 
 Hon. nonaldA.Smi.h,for.hehighereduca.,onof women, was offered a, he moment when the umvemrty seemed McDonald, Mr. 
 
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 While the foregoing pages were in press the sad intelligence was received of the sudden decease of him whose benefactions they commemorate. Mr. 
 Peter Redpath died at his home, the Manor House, Chislehurst, Kent, on February ist, 1894, hardly more than three months after he had publicly handed over the 
 new library to the university. In him, the University has lost a friend, chief among whose gifts, many and great as they have been, must be reckoned his keen and 
 active interest in and his personal influence upon all matters connected with the University work; an interest that was manifested only in part by such noble 
 benefactions as that of the Museum, and of the building that has been described in the preceding pages. 
 
 A memorial service was held in the reading-hall of rhe new library building, on February 6th, at 9 o’clock in the morning. It was attended by members 
 of the university and many other friends of Mr. Redpath, and in the course of the service the Rev. Dr. MacVicar spoke as follows : — 
 
 “ We unite this morning at the same hour in which his funeral service is being conducted at Chiselhurst, England, in a public tribute of respect and honor 
 to the memory of Mr. Peter Redpath. He was born of godly parents in this city, in 1821, where he received his early education, his business training being com- 
 pleted in England. He was a man of good ability, sound judgment, refined and elevated taste, and excellent culture — a lover of literature and art, and, what 
 is infinitely better, a lover of truth and the God of Truth. He was probably as widely read as most of his mercantile contemporaries. 
 
 “After a long and successful career, having retired from business, he removed to England, and devoted several years to the study of law, and was admitted 
 to the Bar as a barrister of the Middle lemple. Both in this city and the old land he was deservedly called to occupy many positions of trust and responsibility. 
 In business he was uniformly characterized by indefatigable diligence and unswerving integrity. His yea was yea, and his nay, nay. Gentle, amiable, and con- 
 siderate of the opinions and feeings of others, ever ready to take a broad and generous view of their actions, yet when purity and principle were concerned he 
 was as firm as a rock. It was vain for those who had sinister ends to serve to attempt to turn him aside from truth and righteousness. In these respects he 
 furnished a notable pattern which young men and all others may do well to imitate. 
 
 As a philanthropist he took rank with the foremost in our land. His benefactions in various forms to McGill University and other public institutions 
 bear witness to his unstinted liberality. The Museum and this Library whic'h bear his name will perpetuate his memory amid the respect and gratitude of genera- 
 tions of students and citizens through coming centuries. He had grace and wisdom given him to administer his large resources in his lifetime for the good of his 
 fellowmen . and this fact deserves to be emphasized. His last public appearance amongst us was in this very hall three months ago, in the performance of a crown- 
 ing act of educational usefulness. 
 
 But let it not be suppo.sed that all his benevolence took visible forms like those just mentioned. He was naturally unobtrusive, strongly averse to all 
 ostentatious displny and vulgar advertising of the good he purposed or accomplished. His unreported charities were numerous and wisely distributed. He sought 
 to do his alms before Ciod, and not before men to be seen of them, d'he Father who seeth in secret alone knoweth in what abundant measure he gave help and 
 comfort to others. 
 
 As a Christian, he was devout, conscientious, consistent. His Christianity was a life and character rather than a demonstrative profession. He detested 
 quackery and sham in religion, and he was right. I had opportunities of knowing his views on these matters intimately. For many years he was an exemplary 
 member and office-bearer of “ 1 he Free Church, Cotte Street,” now Crescent Street Church. He served with me there most faithfully as a deacon during my 
 entire pastorate, and was twice elected as an elder, the duties of which office, through his modest e.stimate of his own ability, he judged himself unable to undertake. 
 
 His simple trust in the word and in the Christ of God was the secret of his meek and quiet spirit, unfailing generosity and sterling worth. And I must 
 add that in all his Christian service and public munificence he was lovingly aided by his partner in life, with whom in her great bereavement, we to-day deeply 
 sympathize. Finally, in this hour of sorrow over one of Montreal’s noble benefactors, let us seek through the mediation of Jesus Christ the help of His Holy 
 Spirit, that we ma) emulate the eximple of the removal of one wffiose meiuory we honor. Amen.” 
 
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 Almighty (lod our Heavenly Father, in whom we live and move and have our being, give us grace at this time that we may worship 'I'hee acceptably with 
 reverence and with godly fear. We thank Thee that though Thou art so great and so highly exalted. Thou art ever ready to hear the prayer of Thy 
 children, and to comfort them in the hour of their sorrow and to help them in their time of need. Thou art the Lord and (liver of Life, with all its responsibilities 
 and opportunities for doing good and becoming good ; I'hou art also the Lord and Giver of Death, so that it cometh not by chance unto us. We thank Thee that 
 death has been robbed of all its terrors by the glorious light which shines forth from the cross of Thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, who by his death hath brought 
 life and immortality to light, and that to all who believe in Him death has become the portal to a new and blessed life in Thy presence for evermore. Graciously 
 regard us at this hour as we are met together to pay our tribute of love and respect to the character and life of our friend and benefactor, whose departure 
 we mourn. With the words of sorrow and regret at the heavy loss sustained by us and all his friends, we desire to unite our thanks to Thee for all that 
 by 1 hy grace he was enabled to do and to be in the furtherance of high and noble aims in the cause of learning and knowledge, especially to this University 
 which has been so largely benefited by his wise beneficence. We thank Thee, too, for his attachment to the cause of truth and righteousness, and for his 
 generous aid extended to the promotion of all wise and good objects for enhancing the happiness and well-being of his fellow-men. We thank Thee for his 
 unostentatious Christian life, whereby he was enabled to adorn the doctrine of God his Saviour, and to commend the religion of Christ to the hearts and consciences 
 of men. We rejoice that death, though sudden in its approach, found him ready for the great change, and in the assurance that an entrance has been ministered 
 unto him abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our l.ord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And now that we shall see his face no more, grant that he being dead 
 may still speak unto us, by his deeds of beneficence and the rich example of his pure and guileless life ; and that we may hear and heed his voice, and strive to 
 follow m his steps, imitating him in all the excellences of his character as a consistent Christian and honourable and patriotic citizen. We pray also that Thy rich 
 blessing may rest upon and abide with her who, through a long life, has been his loving and worthy helpmate, sharing his joys and encouraging him in his purposes 
 and deeds of benevolence. May her stricken heart be comforted with the peace and consolation which Thou only cinst give, and may she be spared for many years 
 to see and enjoy the rich results of the life of him who has been taken from her. And now, in sympathy of thought and sentiment with those who at this hour 
 are standing beside the open grave, let us say : 
 
 Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to 
 earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto His glorious 
 l)ody, according to the mighty working, whereby He is able to subdue all things to Himself. 
 
 Our hather, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily breath And forgive us our 
 trespasses, as we orgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdoni, the pow'er, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen, 
 
 Closina ib^tnn. 
 
 The sands of time are sinking ; 
 
 The dawn of heaven breaks ; 
 
 The summer morn Tve sighed for. 
 
 The fair, sweet morn awakes. 
 
 Dark, dark hath been the midnight, 
 
 But dayspring is at hand. 
 
 And glory — glory dwellelh. 
 
 In Immanuers land. 
 
 Oh ! Christ, He is the fountain, 
 The deep, sweet well of love ; 
 The streams on earth I’ve tasted. 
 More deep I’ll drink above : 
 There to an ocean fullness 
 His mercy doth expand. 
 
 And glory — glory dwelleth 
 In Immanuel’s land.