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100 alternating scenes of plenty and desolation. Vessels running in at the flood are left careening on the ground when the tide slips from their keels. One goes to sleep with the moon shining on the wave, and wakens to a terra cotta waste bared by truant waters to the glare of the sun. Little boys paddle about the glistening bed of bay or river digging for shell-fish; an hour or two later, perched on a pier, they are angling for trout newly arrived from the sea

A few years after the eviction of the Acadians, the village of Windsor was populated by British officers who had completed their term of service. Formerly, Windsor and Falmouth were known by the name the Indians had bestowed, Piziquid, "joining of the waters." In 1789 Bishop Inglis and seventeen clergymen organised Kings College, a sectarian institution whose matriculants were originally required to sign and subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of the Established Church. The main building was completed in 1794. Early in the next century the college received the royal charter of George III. It is not only the oldest of Canadian universities but also of all colonial universities within the Empire.

The present group of buildings, comprising the original hall, with pillared portico and a new wing, the Chapel, the Convocation Hall, the Library, the dormitory, the gymnasium, the houses of the professors and the Collegiate or Preparatory School,