ds the establishment!

But whilst your memorialists complain that the very intentions of
this Act have thus been disregarded and defeated, we avow our
desire to be the same now as it was more than ten years ago, in
favour of the establishment of a Provincial University, unconnected
with any one college or religious persuasion, but sustaining a
relation of equal fairness and impartiality to the several
religious persuasions and colleges, with power to prescribe the
curriculum, to examine candidates, and confer degrees, in the
Faculties of Arts, Law, and Medicine.

We also desire that the University College at Toronto should be
efficiently maintained; and for that purpose we should not object
that the minimum of its income from the University Endowment should
be even twice that of any other college; but it is incompatible
with the very idea of a national University, intended to embrace
the several colleges of the nation, to lavish all the endowment and
patronage of the state upon one college, to the exclusion of all
others. At the present time, and for years past, the noble
University Endowment is virtually expended by parties directly or
indirectly connected with but one college; and the scholarships and
prizes, the honors and degrees conferred, are virtually the rewards
and praises bestowed by professors upon their own students, and not
the doings and decisions of a body wholly unconnected with the
college. Degrees and distinctions thus conferred, however much they
cost the country, cannot possess any higher literary value, as they
are of no more legal value, than those conferred by the _Senatus
Academicus_ of the other chartered colleges.

It is therefore submitted that if it is desired to have one
Provincial University, the corresponding arrangement should be made
to place each of the colleges on equal footing according to their
works in regard to everything emanating from the state. And if it
is refused to place these colleges on equal footing as colleges of
one University, it is but just and reasonable that they should be
placed upon equal footing in regard to aid from the state,
according to their works as separate University colleges.

It is well known that it is the natural tendency, as all experience
shows, that any college independ