DRIFT TOWARD EDUCATIONAL UNITY 835
This university has a magnificent plant, and an equipment and endowment representing some four or five million dollars. It has a faculty of fifty-eight instructors, covering the fields of arts, science, medicine, engineering, dentistry, and pharmacy. Grouped about this central university, and using its libraries and laboratories, are five denominational colleges namely, Meth- odist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Church of England, and Low Anglican. Three of these maintain only theological schools ; the other two the Methodists and Church of England offer a full arts course in addition to theology. They maintain the arts course, they say, because they believe this course offers "those subjects which influence more largely the formation of character and the style of the man."
Discipline and government of the university are in the hands of a senate, in which all the faculties as well as graduates of the university are represented. This is the legislative authority of the university. The executive control is in the hands of an executive council, in which the various colleges are represented, which deals with all cases of discipline of an intercollegiate nature, as well as the arrangement of time-tables for lectures, and other matters which effect the harmonious working of the institution. Each college attends to the discipline and super- vision of its own students, and is, in all matters of internal economy, entirely independent. Each preserves its own complete identity. Victoria College (Methodist) reports but one case of discipline in twelve years. President Bunvash writes:
The moral and religious tone of our students have given us great satis- faction. We think our system gives us all the advantages to be derived from denominational colleges, with comparative freedom from the narrow- ing influence of a small and sectarian institution. It does not make the necessary educational work unduly burdensome to the church, while it furnishes the sons and daughters of the church with the best educational advantages that the country can afford. At the same time it surrounds the state university with the moral and religious influences of the churches as represented by their colleges.
Many Methodists of Canada strenuously opposed this move- ment when the proposal came up some dozen years ago to remove their school from Cobourg to Toronto. "The principle is being
