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842 career. I have been an Undergraduate of a University, a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, a Bellow of a College, and a Member of Convocation. But a Chancellor I have never been until to-day—and perhaps when Sir Francis Maclean and I some years ago entered Parliament together—a situation which is not very productive of academic repose—we little thought that a day would one day arrive when, clad in fine raiment, we should appear upon a dais side by side as the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of a University. I must be allowed to congratulate you upon having secured the service of Sir Francis Maclean as your Vice-Chancellor. That a Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta should be the de facto head of your governing body seems to me a very fitting exemplification of the harmony that should prevail between two cognate branches of human knowledge and learning. And may I be allowed also io congratulate myself upon a discovery which I have made from a study of the proceedings on previous occasions, namely, that, while but few observations are expected from me this afternoon, the real burden of the performance will fall upon shoulders that are so well fitted to bear it; in other words, upon the Vice-Chancellor himself. Though I am but a new comer in this country, I am yet not so ignorant of its educational system as not to know that when I speak of my own connection