Word: mcgill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of admitting women to McGill University, Montreal, has been discussed a good deal lately by the college authorities, and although some are in favor of admitting them, there seems to be considerable objection to it. In the mean while, Dr. Dawson, the president, has gone to Europe intending to make inquiries on the subject, and the faculty have decided to await his return before making any move...
...McGill University, Montreal, was visited Monday by Lord Lansdowne, to whom the students presented an address of welcome...
...course of a reply to an address from McGill University recently, the governor-general of Canada stated that he was struck by the obvious desire of the authorities to spread their advantages as widely as possible over Canada; not to make them the privilege of the few and wealthy. In this way they were not following the old English universities, but those which had left on the Scottish character an impress which was ineffaceable, and which had contributed to place Scotsmen in the foremost place in every country they visited. He was also struck by the elasticity of their system...
...best inter-collegiate records, Harvard holds seven, Columbia five, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell and Princeton each two and McGill...
...McGill University has granted the honorary degree of LL. D. to the Marquis of Lorne...