232
_From a painting by John Phillips_, 1861

PETER REDPATH 236
_From a painting by Robert Harris_

SIR WILLIAM MACDONALD 238

SIR WILLIAM PETERSON, PRINCIPAL 1895-1919 240

JOHN H. R. MOLSON 244

DEAN ALEXANDER JOHNSON, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1885-1903 248

PERCIVAL MOLSON 252

LORD STRATHCONA 254

DR. CHARLES E. MOYSE, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1903-1920 258

SIR ARTHUR CURRIE, PRINCIPAL 1920- 266

DR. FRANK D. ADAMS, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1920- 268

MCGILL IN 1921 272

_The photographs from which the prints were made are the
work of Norman and of the Rice Studios._

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

CHAPTER I

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

The Charter under which McGill University was established, was obtained
on March 31st, 1821. The century mark in the University's history has
now been passed. One hundred years is a long period in the life of a
nation or a country; it is a longer period still in the life of an
individual; but it is perhaps longest relatively in the life of an
educational institution, particularly if that institution had its birth
in struggling pioneer days. It is a period in university life which
sees, as a rule, an undreamed of growth and development from small
beginnings to unlimited influence, from scanty resources and great
disappointments to a large if not always adequate endowment and
equipment, from a merely local service to a national and even a world
educational power. This is distinctly true of the century of McGill
University's story. It began as a College, intended to minister to a
very small community. It has grown in one hundred years to serve the
world. It has graduated over twenty-five hundred Bachelors, over
thirty-three hundred Doctors of Medicine, over nineteen hundred
Engineers, over eight hundred Lawyers besides holders of higher or
graduate degrees; it has given hundreds of graduates to high positions
in the Church, the State, and industrial and educational institutions.
It has drawn its students from all lands, and it has sent its products
in