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UNIVERSITY of TORONTO and ITS COLLEGES, 1827-1906 THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: PUBLISHED BY THE LIBRARIAN, 1906 MORTH YORK PUBUC LIBRARY MAINC PREFACE THE Senate of the University of Toronto, at its meeting on motion of Professor Wrong, 1 January 8th, 1903, adopted of a committee seconded by Professor Ellis, the report special "that the recommending that in consideration of the fact present of the opening of King s College, year is the sixtieth anniversary of the University and the fiftieth anniversary of the organization an a volume should be prepared, giving on its present lines," its actual condition. account of its past history and made the of this volume A long series of delays has publication ; and, although coincident with a real epoch in University history not reach the date 1906, owing the lists, statistics, etc., do quite before the recent to the fact that the book was in print important and in the financial condition of the changes in the government afford a of the devel University, the following pages conspectus from its some eighty years opment of the institution beginnings, of the labours of the Commission in the ago to the close Act of The several chapters passing of the University 1906. of have been contributed, as indicated in the table Contents, by and its Federated various members of the staff of the University in different and Affiliated Colleges. Many other persons have, of this book, among whom the ways, assisted in the preparation mentioned: Mr. H. H. Langton following may be specially the Professor Keys, Mr. C. C. James, (Librarian of University), of the University), Dr. S. M. Wickett, Mr. J. Brebner (Registrar C. and the Secretary of the Alumni Association (Dr. J. McLennan) Provincial s office, Mr. Thomas his staff, the staff of the Secretary " Dr. G. his Documentary Hodgins, K.C., J. Hodgins (through of Education the Society of Canada, Sir George History )," Royal to his of Sir Daniel Reid (by his permission reproduce portrait Abbott and Mr. S. Plaskett, for ser Wilson), and Dr. A. H. J. the vices in connection with the views of buildings. W. J. A. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, August soth, 1906. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE 3 CHAPTER I. Origin and Development of the University of Toronto. By N. Burwash, President of Victoria College ..... 9 CHAPTER II. The Development of the University, 1853-1887. By N. Burwash, President of Victoria College ....... 39 CHAPTER III. The Development of the University, 1887-1904. By N. Burwash, President of Victoria College 57 CHAPTER IV. Outline of the Financial History of the University. By F. A. Moure, Bursar of the University 71 CHAPTER V. The Arts Faculty. By R. Ramsay Wright, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and the General Editor, W. J. Alexander, Professor of English in University College ....... 78 CHAPTER VI. The Arts Colleges : University College. By Maurice Hutton, Prin cipal of University College, and the General Editor . 100 CHAPTER VII. The Arts Colleges (continued) : Victoria College. By A. H. Reynar, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Victoria College . .124 CHAPTER VIII. The Arts Colleges (continued) : Trinity College. By T. C. Street Macklem, Provost of Trinity College . -137 CHAPTER IX. The Faculty of Law. By J. McGregor Young, Professor of Consti tutional and International Law in the University of Toronto . 149 5 6 CONTENTS CHAPTER X. PAGE The Faculty of Medicine. By A. Primrose, Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine . .168 CHAPTER XL The Faculty of Applied Science. By W. H. Ellis, Professor of Chemistry in the School of Practical Science . .180 CHAPTER XII. P. of The Theological Colleges. By J. Sheraton, Principal Wy- cliffe as their College ; assisted, regards respective colleges, by William Caven, Principal of Knox College, F. H. Wallace, Professor of Biblical Greek, Victoria College, and T. C. Street Macklem, Provost of Trinity College. .184 CHAPTER XIII. Affiliated Institutions. By James Loudon, President of the Univer . .201 sity of Toronto .... CHAPTER XIV. the Buildings and Equipment. By James Loudon, President of University of Toronto 206 APPENDICES A. A List of the Members of the Governing Bodies of the Officers of Administration, and of Instruction, etc., in the Year 1905 .219 B. Publications by Members of the Staff. Compiled by Professor A. B. Macallum, University of Toronto . 230 C. Studies Published by the University .... 254 D. Ph.D. Theses ... .256 E. Benefactions ....... .257 F. Table of the Number of Graduates in each year, 1844-1904 . 259 G. Table of Number of Candidates Examined at Various Epochs . 260 H. Table of Attendance of Students on University College . .261 /. Table Showing the Number of Bachelors of Arts Graduating in 262 various Departments . Librarian of the /. The University Act of 1906. By H. H. Langton, University ..... 263 K. Report of the Commission of 1905-6 . 265 and Z. An Act respecting the University of Toronto University 6 College 3 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - The Main Doorway Frontispiece The Right Rev. John Strachan The Rev. John McCaul The Hon. Edward Blake - Sir William Mulock The Main Building - The Library Building Rear View of the Main Building oo The Rev. George Paxton Young Sir Daniel Wilson 1 as the Students Scene from the "Antigone of Sophocles, presented by of University College in 1894 - James Loudon, LL.D. Victoria College The Rev. Egerton Ryerson Trinity College " " the Students of Scene from the Frogs of Aristophanes, as presented by Trinity College The Residence Garden The Medical Building The Entrance Hall of the Main Building Plan of the University Park Convocation Hall THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND ITS COLLEGES CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO THE Province of Upper Canada was founded under the Constitutional Act of 1791. During the preceding seven or eight years a United Empire Loyalist population had been set tling on the banks of the St. Lawrence, on the shores of the Bay of Quinte, in the Niagara Peninsula, and on the coast of Lake Erie. When the government of the Province was organized its population numbered sixty-five thousand. The first governor of the new province was Col. John Graves Simcoe, who had been a conspicuous leader of the Loyalist volunteers during the Revolutionary War. His early life and education were those of an English country gentleman of the eighteenth century, and his ideas and tastes corresponded to the age and the environment of his youth. He looked forward to the development, in the new province, of the same social conditions as existed in the old land; and, accordingly, in taking thought for the well-being of the young colony, proposed to himself that provision should be made out of the public funds for the maintenance of religion and the promotion of higher education. This religion was to be Protestant, as that of the adjoining province of Lower Canada was Roman Catholic; but instead of tithes collected from the people, its support was to be furnished from one-seventh of the lands of the country. From the public lands also was to be " derived a fund for the education, especially of the more respectable class of people by the erection of free grammar and in course of time of a schools, college or university." In these views the Imperial Government readily concurred. As the Province was surveyed, every seventh lot of land in each township was set apart for "the support of the Protestant The educational clergy." part of Simcoe s programme was not carried into effect until after his departure from the country. 9 I0 THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO the Council and In response to an address from Legislative " waste lands House of Assembly asking an appropriation of the of the crown for the establishment and support of a respectable or grammar school in each district, and also a college university enabled to them where the youth of the country may be perfect his selves in the different branches of liberal knowledge," his inten Majesty, under date of November 4th, 1797, expressed " the establish tion of complying with their wishes: First, by in which ment of free grammar schools in those districts they the estab are called for. Secondly, in due course of time, by lishment of other seminaries of a larger and more comprehensive moral and nature for the promotion of religious and learning This was com the study of the arts and sciences." message municated to the House of Assembly on the 8th of June, 1798, from the Colonial Secretary for the together with a request the Executive Council, of the appointment of a committee of of the Crown to on the judges and of the law officers report be made. extent and character of the appropriations to acres of committee recommended that five hundred thousand of which one- land should be devoted to educational purposes, that the univer half should be reserved for the university, and at and that, at certain places named, sity should be located York, About this time grammar schools should be established. schools were founded at and accordingly, grammar Kingston and York. But the Cornwall, and, a little later, at Niagara were as unproductive lands set apart for these purposes yet the sch and no funds were forthcoming for the support of turned its attention to the When in 1809, the Legislature again four new schools, provision for subject and founded grammar than the lane maintenance had to be made from sources other needs of education endowment. Meanwhile, the more pressing e were met by the establishment, through purely voluntary received recognition f of elementary schools, which legislative the first time in the Act of 1816.

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