Excerpt from Thirty-Eight Years of McGill: Being the Annual University Lecture of McGill University, Montreal, for the Session of 1893-94

Ou the other hand, I found in the Board of Governors a body cl' able and earnest men, aware of' the difficulties they had to encounter, fully impressed with the importance of theends to be attained, and having sufficient culture and know ledge of the world to appreciate the best means for attaining these ends. They were greatly hampered by lack of' means, but had that courage which enables risks to be run to secure important objects. I may mention here a few of these men. Judge Day was a man of acute legal mind, well educated and well read, a clear and persuasive speaker, and wholly devoted to the interest of education, and especially to the introduction into the college course of studies in science and modern liter ature. Christopher Dunkin was a graduate of' the University of London, educated first in Glasgow, and afterwards in Uni versity College, and who had held a tutorial position in harj vain before he came to Canada. He had made college work and management a special study, and was thoroughly equipped to have been himself a college president or principal, had he not had before him the greater attractions of legal and politi cal success. Hew Ramsay was an admirable example of an educated Scotsman of literary tastes and business capacity. David Davidson was also a product of Scottish college training and a warm and zealous friend of education, with great saga city and sound judgment. James Ferrier should have been mentioned first He was a member of the old Board of Royal Institution and senior member of' the new, but voluntarily re signed the presidency in favor of Judge Day, in the interest, as he believed, of the University. He was longer with us than any of the others, and no man could be a more devoted worker in the cause of education, Such men as these and their colleagues ensured public confidence and a wise and eu lightened management.

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