The University of Toronto and Its Colleges, 1827-1906 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... * Where the whole year 2s blank the figures are not attainable. t The decrease 1n 1112 1sdue to the transfer of the Summer Matriculation Examinations to the Department of Education. J.--The Univers1ty Act Of 1906. The new constitution which has been given to the University by the recent Act of the Legislature is essentially an attempt to introduce organic unity into a body which has been built up by successive accretions, and which has suffered in the past from a resulting division of authority. It is therefore easier, in spite of the length of the Act (147 sections), to give a brief statement of the new system of government than it would have been to frame, in the same space, an intelligible outline of the system now superseded. A running comparison of the new with the old will serve to show how it is proposed to remedy defects that experience has brought to light. Under the former regime the Crown, as represented by the Minister of Education, was, sometimes explicitly, but more often implicitly, a final arbiter, and even an active participant, in the government of the University. Now, the Crown has but one responsibility, the appointment, at stated intervals, of the members of the Board of Governors. Having selected the persons to manage the affairs of the University for the prescribed term of years, the Government of the Province ceases to have a voice inUniyersity matters, except that its sanction must be obtained to any proposed impairment of the University endowment. The Board of Governors is to be the lineal successor of the old Board of Trustees, but with vast difference in powers. The authority of the Board of Trustees was strictly limited to the University finances; but the Board of Governors, while still absolute in financial matters, has the tremendo...