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I. THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING 15

II. THE DAWN OF MCGILL 29

III. DELAY AND DIFFICULTY 44

IV. THE COLLEGE OPENED 73

V. ANXIOUS YEARS 102

VI. THE COLLEGE IN THE FIRST MCGILL BUILDINGS 155

VII. THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE 184

VIII. COLLEGE LIFE IN MID-CENTURY 212

IX. SIR WILLIAM DAWSON AND THE MAKING OF MCGILL 221

X. HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMEN 248

XI. THE LARGER MCGILL OF OUR DAY 256

EPILOGUE 271

APPENDIX A. (THE WILL OF JAMES MCGILL) 277

APPENDIX B. (THE CHARTER) 281

APPENDIX C. (THE DAWSON MEMORIAL ADDRESS) 291

APPENDIX D. (THE PETERSON MEMORIAL ADDRESS) 299

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JAMES MCGILL, FOUNDER _Frontispiece_
_From painting attributed to Gilbert Stuart_

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MONTREAL IN THE DAYS OF JAMES MCGILL 32
_From a print in the collection of Sir Frederick
Williams Taylor_

THE BURNSIDE ESTATE, JAMES MCGILL'S HOME 42

THE REV. DR. G. J. MOUNTAIN, PRINCIPAL 1823-1835 74

DR. A. F. HOLMES, THE FIRST DEAN OF THE MEDICAL SCHOOL 86
_Copy by R. Harris of painting destroyed in fire at Medical
Building. Artist unknown._

THE REV. JOHN BETHUNE, ACTING PRINCIPAL 1835-1846 102

PLAN OF MCGILL GROUNDS 118

PROPOSED ORIGINAL BUILDING 134
_H. B. Parry, Architect_

THE REV. ARCHDEACON W. J. LEACH, VICE-PRINCIPAL 1846-1886 180
_From a painting by Wyatt Eaton_

E. A. MEREDITH, PRINCIPAL 1846-1851 184

MCGILL IN 1855 212

SIR WILLIAM DAWSON, PRINCIPAL 1855-1893 222
_From a painting by Wyatt Eaton_

WILLIAM MOLSON