Hastings, W. J. Malloch, J. H. McConnell, D. W. McPherson, W. Nattress, L. L. Palmer, B. L. Riordan, G. A. Clendenan, H. Hunt, C. J. Currie, Mr. E. J. and Miss Towner, Mr. and Mrs. Niellar.

The company viewed the new ward with much interest, and then proceeded to the reception-room, where the oil painting of Lieut.-Col. Pellatt was unveiled. It is by Mr. J. W. L. Forster, and is an excellent likeness of the Colonel in the uniform of commander of the Queen's Own Rifles. Mr. Gurney briefly welcomed the distinguished guests, and His Excellency in reply expressed their pleasure in participating in a function of that nature. Lady Minto then presented diplomas to the following graduating nurses: Misses E. Cornell, L. Baird, I. Robinson, A. Chant, O. B. Hutchinson, E. Worden, M. A. O'Byrne, M. Sclater, II. Macpherson.

BANQUET OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI SOCIETY. PRESIDENT LOUDON, of Toronto University, presided at the banquet of the Alumni Society, held in the gymnasium, on June 12th. Among those who surrounded him at the head of the table were: The Lieutenant-Governor, Chancellor Meredith, Hon. J. M. Gibson, Hon. R. Harcourt, Dr. Gilman, Dr. Hoskin, Dr. Reeve, Chancellor Burwash, Dr. Goldwin Smith, Dr. C. D. Massey, Mr. Irving II. Cameron, Prof. Ramsey Wright, Principal Sheraton, Mayor Urquhart, J. Herbert Mason, Principal Hutton, J. II. Nairn, J. II. Coyne (St. Thomas), Principal Galbraith, Principal Embree, Rev. J. A. Macdonald and T. Arnold Haultain.

The hall was handsomely decorated and covers were laid for 300 guests. The first toast, of course, was that to His Majesty the King, who is an undergraduate of the college. The toast was enthusiastically received.

Dr. Reeve, dean of the medical faculty, proposed the toast of "Alma Mater," a toast, he said, which aroused many emotions, many reminiscences, in the mind of every graduate. He dwelt on the great progress of Toronto University, comparing her to a mighty oak, which from the tender seedling had planted its roots deep into the soil, and spread its branches to all parts of the country, and was now a strong, vigorous tree, destined to be a landmark for centuries yet to come. He spoke of the financial clouds of the past, now so happily cleared away, and commented favorably on the intense loyalty of the alumni for their beneficent mother.

In replying to this toast, the Lieutenant-Governor grew reminiscent, and spoke of the University in 1859, when there was no medical faculty, no law faculty, and the growth of these powerful branches of the University had been for him a most interesting and delightful study. His Honor emphasized the axiom that the success of a university depended on the esprit de corps of its

alumni, and he said he had no doubt of the future of Toronto. There could be no reason for pessimism.

Hon. J. M. Gibson, who also replied, said that he had been a student in the King's year. He warned the University against looking to the Government for everything. There must still be effort by the friends of the institution, but if that effort fell short the Government would stand ready to prevent disintegration from financial embarrassment. Nor did the Government desire to claim any political credit in the matter. It was simply a case of reasonable and proper administration in regard to which there was no divergence whatsoever between the parties in the Legislature.

The speaker concluded by saying that any Government in Ontario, if properly approached from the front, not by a flank movement, would consider most favorably the University's needs.

The

Hon. Richard Harcourt said that the Government was convinced that only one university should be State-assisted. In this they were supported by the Opposition, and hereafter that question would not come up again. It would be a plank in the platform of whatever party might be in power. A generous response might be expected whenever any reasonable demands were made. Act of the Legislature in setting aside a part of the public domain for the benefit of the women's residence was commented upon, and the intimation made that when the friends of the men's residence had done all they could to provide this so great necessity there would be a way found for completing the work.

When Dr. Goldwin Smith rose to speak in reply to the toast, "Our Guest," the diners rose en masse and cheered him and Mrs. Smith most heartily. They have been generous to the University, and made up the last $5,000 for Convocation Hall. The doctor, after expressing his thanks, spoke of the growth of University federation. Now the consummation was at hand, and Toronto University could hold its head high among the great educational institutions of the world.

He had been sorry to see the residence abolished, but he hoped for another in the future, as something was needed to cultivate the social side of university life. That something was supplied in Oxford and Cambridge by the colleges, and in the American colleges by the Greek Letter Societies, which he believed did more good than harm.

BREFNEY ROLPH O'REILLY, M.D., C.M.

(Gold Medallist in Medicine, Trinity University, 1903.)

AT the recent final examinations in medicine at Trinity University, Toronto, for the degree of M.D., C.M., Mr. B. R. O'Reilly obtained the highest honor conferred in medicine, winning the gold medal and a certificate of honor. He also passed the final

examination for Trinity Medical College Fellowship Degree, taking first-class marks and certificate of honor; in his second year he obtained two certificates of honor, and in his third year obtained the highest marks in the class. Dr. O'Reilly was educated at Upper Canada College, from which institution he

matriculated before entering Trinity Medical School in 1899. During his course at Upper Canada, Dr. O'Reilly took prizes in natural science, history and geography; and in athletics in 1890 won the silver cup (first prize) in the twelve-year-old class for "hundred-yard race."

We congratulate Dr. Charles O'Reilly (Toronto General Hospital) on the high standing his son has taken in the profession, which seems almost hereditary in the O'Reilly family.

Dr. B. R. O'Reilly's grandfather, Dr. Gerald O'Reilly, practised in Hamilton from 1834-1861, and when a student was a room-mate of the late Sir Charles Lever, M.D., for many years in Dr. Stevens' Hospital, Dublin. His uncles are Dr. Gerald O'Reilly, of Guelph, and Dr. E. B. O'Reilly, Hamilton. His great-uncle, Dr. John O'Reilly, F.R.C.S.I., was a prominent surgeon in New York, and contributed largely to medical literature in his day. One of his great-great-uncles was surgeon-in-ordinary to George IV., and resided in Windsor Castle. On his mother's side the Rolphs have had many notable representatives in the medical profession, both in Canada and in England. His greatgreat-grandfather, Dr. Thomas Rolph, of Thornbury, England, became a member of the "Corporation of Surgeons," England, 1790, and practised at Vittoria, County Norfolk, in the old Long Point District of Upper Canada. Before settling in Canada, he practised near Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination, with whom he was very intimate. His eldest son, the late Hon. Dr. John Rolph, was a distinguished and well-known practitioner and politician in Canada, and was also a member of the "Inner Temple," London (1821), practised both medicine and law in Dundas for many years, and was the founder and dean of "Rolph's Medical School" in Toronto,

Dr. O'Reilly occupies a very unique position, having been born within the precincts of the General Hospital, where he has lived continuously during his minority, and is, perhaps, the only man in the profession who has enjoyed the great privilege of residing so close to his practical work from his youth to the end of his medical course, which has just been completed with such honor to himself and credit to his teachers and his Alma Mater.

UNIVERSITY FEDERATION.

announcement

MORE than once within the past three or four years the federation of Trinity with Toronto University has been announced as practically an accomplished fact, but each has been premature. Though time and again negotiations to that end when apparently on the eve of consummation have failed, the who have had disinterestedly at heart the interests of higher education in Ontario have not been discouraged; they have continued to work steadily, and now again the successful conclusion of their labors appears to This time the federation inbe only a question of a few weeks.

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cludes the faculties of art and medicine.

Last year the negotiations for the amalgamation of the medical faculties of Toronto University and Trinity College came to nothing, because the Trinity men thought the amalgamated faculty, as proposed by the Toronto representatives, was not fair and equitable. Negotiations were then undertaken for a closer union between Trinity University and Trinity Medical College, with the result that an arrangement was come to by which the medical college was to become the medical faculty of Trinity University, and the University was to raise $250,000, with the principal portion of which a new building, with the finest modern equipment, was to be built for the purpose of the medical faculty in the vicinity of the General Hospital. Of the quarter of a million asked $160,000 was raised, and on the strength of that an agreement was entered into between the faculty of Trinity Medical College and Trinity University, under which a certain time was allowed for the completion or abandonment of negotiations looking to the federation of the universities, in those negotiations the University to act, with some reservations, for the medical college. If federation was finally abandoned the University was to build for the medical faculty a new building, at a cost of $100,000.

The erection of such a building, it was seen, would be a great obstacle in the way of federation. The knowledge of that, the increasing strength of Trinity, but still more the increased sentiment in favor of federation, led to the reopening of negotiations by the University of Toronto a short time ago. The matter was left to a Committee, composed of Mr. Byron E. Walker, Dr. John Hoskin, President Loudon, Provost Macklem, Dr. J. A. Worrell, Dean Reeve, Mr. I. H. Cameron, Dr. Sheard and Dr. J. A. Temple, now dean of Trinity Medical College. The draft of an amalgamated faculty of medicine was prepared, and was submitted to and apIt was subproved by the Trinity medical faculty two weeks ago. mitted to the medical faculty of Toronto University a few days later, and though not officially announced as yet, we understand has been accepted. Members of both medical faculties are considered deserving of praise for the readiness with which they were prepared to make considerable personal sacrifice to further the cause of medical education in Ontario, as they will lose considerable by amalgamation. Ex-Dean Geikie, at the outset of the present negotiations, declared himself opposed to them, and sent in his resignation, which was accepted with regret.

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

AS ALREADY announced through the columns of this Journal, the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association will take place at London, Ont., on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th