opment, was founded with the same
object: but, successful as it has been in other respects, it cannot
be said to have altogether attained this.

'St. Mary's College was founded by private enterprise with a
different view, and to meet the wants of those who objected to the
Collegiate School.

'It has long been felt the existence of two Colleges--one, the
smaller, almost entirely supported by the State; the other, the
larger, wholly without State aid--was objectionable; and that the
whole question of secondary education presented a most difficult
problem.

'Some saw its solution in the withdrawal of all State aid from
higher education; others in the establishment by the State of two
distinct Denominational Colleges.

'I have elsewhere explained the reason why I consider both these
suggestions faulty, and their probable effect bad; the one being
certain to check and discourage superior education altogether, the
other likely to substitute inefficient for efficient teaching, and
small exclusive schools for a wide national institution.

'I knew that, whilst insuperable objections existed to a combined
education in all subjects, that objection had its limits: that in
America and in Germany I had seen Protestants and Catholics learning
side by side; that in Mauritius, a College numbering 700 pupils,
partly Protestants, partly Roman Catholics, existed; and that
similar establishments were not uncommon elsewhere.

'I therefore determined to endeavour to effect the establishment of
a College where combined study might be carried on in those branches
of education with respect to which no objection to such a course was
felt, and to support with Government aid, and bring under Government
supervision, those establishments where those branches in which a
separate education was deemed necessary were taught.

'I had, when last at home, some anxious conferences with the highest
ecclesiastical authority of the Roman Catholic Church in England on
the subject, and came to a complete understanding with him in
respect to it. That distinguished prelate, himself a man of the
highest University eminence, is not one to be indifferent to the
interests of learning. His position, his known opinions, afford a
guarantee that nothing sanctioned by him could, even by the most
scrupulous, be considered in the least degree inconsistent with the
interests of his Church or his religion.

'He expressed a strong p