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1926

WITNESS PRINTING HOUSE. MONTREAL.

[All articles and literary communications should be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, 802 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, or to the Secretary, Royal Victoria College, Montreal. Annual subscribers who wish to renew their subscriptions are requested to fill up the enclosed form, and send it, together with one dollar, to Mr. A. T. Chapman, Publisher, 2407 St. Catherine Street, Montreal. The next issue of The McGill University Magazine, being the second part of Vol. III., will appear on or about March 25th., 1904.]

THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.

The McGill University Magazine begins its third year of publication with a hopeful outlook. Those who are concerned with publishing it may be excused if they magnify its importance, but even a sober judge will, we think, admit that it is by no means an ineffective agent for broadening and consolidating University influence.

Early in the session a meeting of the first year students in all Faculties was held in Molson Hall for the purpose of strengthening a desire of unity by academic years. There was a time when we had hoped to see some such gathering, but we had almost come to despair of its ever taking place. At length the undergraduates have moved of their own accord, and apparently in the best of temper, towards the goal indicated by Principal Peterson some years ago as desirable, and we may congratulate him and those to whom he addressed himself on a happy result. Still, while we welcome this spirit of union and maintain that the true conception of a university as an interdependent whole rises far above attachment to any particular Faculty, however conspicuous and assertive, we readily acknowledge that there must exist a true Faculty affection—a true Faculty affection as opposed to a false Faculty feeling. Every Faculty has its own abode, its own history, its own distinguished names and its own courses of study. Students cannot, if they would, obliterate such a truth from their minds, for they see around them day by day evidence that they belong to a particular section of the undergraduate body. They have a perfect right to be proud of themselves as members of a distinctive set, and to regard the achievements of their Faculties as an incentive to

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