APPENDIX F. CENTENNIAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. Addresses of Welcome and Congratulatory Speeches Delivered in the ADDRESS OF CHANCELLOR HARRISON, LL. D. It has seemed good to the Senate and Faculty as well as to the Alumni and undergraduates to hold a centennial celebration. The College of New Brunswick was founded 100 years ago and now the horologe of time strikes the full century with a solemn chime, and summons together within the four walls of this noble room ambassadors from great Universities, delegates from Colleges and learned societies, cultivators of knowledge from far and near, representing altogether a mass of brain power that is simply appalling, and certainly unequalled in the annals of this Province. The College of New Brunswick, let it never be forgotten, sprang originally from the cultured minds of our Loyalist forefathers. Very soon after their arrival in this country, then a wilderness, those far-seeing and enlightened men conceived the lofty ideal of a Provincial Seminary of arts and sciences to be situated at Fredericton. There have been three attempts to realize this ideal. 1st, there was the College of New Brunswick with its Provincial Charter granted in 1800 and with the Rev. Dr. Somerville for its central figure. 2nd, there was Kings College opened in 1829, for which Sir Howard Douglas had obtained a Royal Charter. The Rev. Dr. Jacob, sometime Fellow of Corpus, was acting head of Kings College from first to last-1829 to 1859. Then came the University of New Brunswick with Dr. Brydone Jack of St. Andrews University for its central figure. Of the founders of what is known to the present generation as the University of New Brunswick, His Honor the Lieut. Governor, our honored visitor could speak from personal knowledge. He is the last survivor of that brilliant band of Legislators, who sat in the House of Assembly in 1859, when by a vote of 21 to 13 the House decided on the 8th of April that there should be a University, which shall be a body corporate under the name and style of the University of New Brunswick. All honor to the Legislators of 1859. All honor to their successors in 1900 All honor to our venerable Chief Magistrate, our official visitor to day, on behalf of Her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. The University is now part of our system of public instruction. The Elementary Schools prepare for the High Schools, and the High Schools prepare for the University. It is open to all who have brains and character. It is emphatically the College for a man of limited means. If a kind Providence has blessed a poor man in his family, with what the Scotch call a "laddie of pregnant parts" it is to the Provincial University he most naturally looks for his son's education and here the "laddie" is welcomed, however straitened his circumstances, however humble his origin. If asked what the University has been doing all these hundred years I answer she has been growing; preparing for the future. All commencement is difficult; the beginning is half the whole work. For the accomplishment of the best results years of preparatory growth, perhaps of slow and painful growth, may, be necessary. There is an Eastern saying that all hurry came from the devil; slowness came from God. If we take refuge in this proverb to explain the slowness of our growth in the first 100 years there is one prediction we may confidently make and that is that the work of the second century upon which we are now entering will immeasurably transcend that of the first. The time to favor our Educational Zion, yea the set time is come. On Thursday we expect to lay the corner stone of our new science building. After the lapse of 100 years the old Loyalist ideal is taking new form and substance. The Alumni and undergraduates are showing favor to their Alma Mater and are setting up a noble and useful memorial of our Centennial celebration. But while we have reason to believe that the work of the second century of the life of this University will far surpass that of the first we must be careful not to undervalue what has been done. It is impossible to read the centennial answers of the Alumni from all parts of the world; it is impossible to read the gracious answers of our sister colleges without feeling profoundly the greatness of the work that has been already accomplished. We do not like to boast, but I may whisper to the Hon. Minister of Militia, who has favored us with his presence, that it was in the University of New Brunswick that the Hon. Geo. E. Foster received his collegiate training. He was a "laddie of pregnant parts" whom nature and Sir John Macdonald afterwards chose to be Finance Minister of the Dominion of Canada. What other Canadian University can summon to her centennial celebration such Alumni as Professor McCurdy, of Toronto University, Professor Goodspeed of McMaster University, Principal Sheraton, of Wycliffe College, Principal Parkin, of Upper Canada College? Once they dwelt in cold obscurity down here by the sea, now they are famous dwellers by the lake and bask in the sunshine of the Queen City of Ontario. From what source did our Sister Acadia obtain for her University Professors Wortman, Kierstead and Jones and for her seminaries Miss McLeod and Mr. Brittain? Their names are familiar to me from the roll call of the old college on the hill back of Fredericton. Dalhousie has won from us our own Prof. Murray and Mt. Allison has Prof. Paisley and Principal Palmer. few of our old graduates have become professors for a longer or shorter time in their Alma Mater, Mr. Geo. Coster, Mr. W. P. Dole, Mr. Geo. E. Foster, Dr. H. S. Bridges, Mr. B. C. Foster, Mr. A. W. Duff, Mr. W. K, Hatt, Mr. Walter C. Murray, Mr. W. T. Raymond. But I must not stay even to mention those who have become eminent in law or in medicine or in the Christian ministry or in politics or in letters. The President of the Alumni Society, Mr. J. D. Hazen, a most loyal and gifted son of his Alma Mater, will I trust supply some of my omissions in his words of welcome to our distinguished guests. Contrast the isolation which Dr. Somerville felt and deplored in the early part of the century with the University of New Brunswick of to-day, honored. by the presence of representatives of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin and St. Andrews, of Harvard and Cornell and Brown, of Bowdoin, Bates and Colby, and our friendly neighbor, the University of Maine. Canada is represented here from the Queen City of Ontario all the way eastward to where the Atlantic wave rolls foaming on the shores of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. An old graduate in Newfoundland sends hearty congratulations. To most of us here present the dearest place in the world is Canada. In Canada we were born or else in Canada we expect to find the grave of our rest. Here we must think and act and drink the mingled cup of pleasure and pain during our mysterious life journey to the undiscovered country. The welfare of Canada then is our welfare. Fed by her food, hurt by her calamities, warmed and cooled by her summers and winters, it becomes us to look upon Canada and her universities and her public men not with the coldness and indifference of cynics and critics, but with the ardor and attachment of patriots and lovers. In the name of our University I bid you all welcome, thrice welcome, to our Centennial celebration. Address of J. R. Inch, LL. D., President of the Senate. May it please your Honor : On behalf of the Senate of this University, it is my pleasing duty to add to the Address of Chancellor Harrison a few words of welcome to the distinguished visitors who honor us by their presence on this auspicious occasion. The historical records of this Continent reach back at the farthest but a very few centuries. It follows that any Institution in America which has reached the period of its Centennial Anniversary may claim the regard due to age, even though its growth may have been comparatively slow, and its history comparatively uneventful. On this ground, if on no other, the University of New Brunswick may complacently accept the homage of a large majority of the Colleges and Universities in Canada and the United States. Le Grand Seminaire de Quebec, now Laval University, and King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia, are the only existing degree-conferring seats of learning in British America whose founding antedated that of the University of New Brunswick. There are now more than four hundred Colleges and Universities, of various ranks, on this Continent-all of which, with the exception of about twenty, have been established since the beginning of the century. Most of them, indeed, have existed less than fifty years, and even during the last two decades, a score of powerful Universities have sprung into existence, Minerva like, fully equipped and richly endowed, from the heads and the hearts and the pockets of our American Jupiters of finance. From these lusty young giants, as well as from most of her other cis-atlantic sisters, the University of New Brunswick may demand the precedence due to seniority. But the complaceny with which we might be disposed to regard our status, on the ground of priority in time, as compared with our younger sisters, gives place at once to the diffidence of mere childhood when we find ourselves in presence of the representatives of Universities some of which were hoary with age long before the Continent on which we dwell was revealed to the eyes of Columbus. What shall we say in presence of Oxford and Cambridge whose traditions reach back to the days of Alfred and the Plantagenets, whose great names include those of Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, Occam, Alfred of Beverly and others, the very mention of which to most of us, calls up from "the dark backward and abysm of time" nothing more substantial than shadows? What shall we say in presence of the representatives of the historic Universities of Scotland and Ireland—of St. Andrews and Glasgow, of Aberdeen and Edinburgh and Trinity-whose records for centuries have been jewelled with illustrious names, whose sons, dispersed under every sky, have widened wherever they have gone the domain of Science and Art, of Philosophy and Literature, of Economics and Statecraft? In presence of these venerable Institutions the University of New |