PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

and an instructor to the youth of this prov- ince. Sir Louis H. Davies, K. C. M. G., judge of the supreme court of Canada, and the Island’s greatest living statesman, termed Doctor Anderson “the Arnold of Prince Ed— ward Island”; and the brilliant and world renowned Dr. J. G. Schurman, president of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, thus expresses his deliberate opinion: “The high educational position of Prince Edward Is- land is a matter of universal recognition among all competent to pronounce an opin- ion. What is not perhaps so generally known, though it is equally certain, is that this splen- did work has been brought about almost en- tirely by a single man. If there be today in Prince Edward Island a good school system, good machinery, good teaching, good schol— ars, it is all due, directly or indirectly to his genius for education. Most of the work has been done by himself, the fest has been done by men whom he tumed out. Now, be not deceived in this matter. I am as confident of what I am saying as of my own existence; Professor Anderson is incomparably the greatest benefactor the Island has had within the period of my recollection. I have sat under many instructors—speaking in differ- ent languages—German, English, French, Italian, but I have never yet met such a great teacher as Professor Anderson; and calmly reflecting on the matter, I believe there is none to whom, all considered, I personally owe so much as to him.”

‘ Testimonials of this character could be multiplied, all charged with the same senti- ment. The names of some of the more emi-

nent scholars and statesmen who have thus expressed themselves may be mentioned as

follows: Alexander Johnson, Esq., LL. D., lately professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, McGill University, Montreal;

, free education in this province.

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the late Charles McDonald, M. A., professor of mathematics, Dalhousie College and Uni- versity, Halifax; John Johnson, M. A., late professor of classics, Dalhousie Collegeand University; the late Philip Kelland, M. A., F. R. S., professor of mathematics; the late P. G. Tait, M. A., F. R. S., professor of nat— ural philosophy; the late Sir Lyon (after- ward Lord) Playfair, F. R. S., professor of chemistry; the late P. C. McDougall, Esq., professor of moral philosophy; the late W. E. Aytoun, professor of rhetoric, belles-let- tres and English literature; the late J. S. Blackie, professor of Greek; Hon. L. H. Davies (now Sir‘Louis), then premier and attorney general of Prince Edward Island; the late Hon. Senator Haythome, formerly premier of Prince Edward Island; the late Hon. I. H. Peters, master of the rolls; the late Hon. Justice Hensley; the late Malcolm MacLeod, Queens Counselor, leader of the bar of this province; the Hon. David Laird, P. C., formerly editor of The Daily Patriot, minister of the interior, governor of the North West, and now Indian commissioner for Canada; the late Sir Robert Hodgson, chief justice and lieutenant governor of this

Island. The life and work of Doctor Alexander

Anderson and the history and progress of education in Prince Edward Island are one and inseparable. As a member of the board of education, as principal of the Prince of Wales College, as superintendent of educa- tion, Doctor Anderson has not only incalcu— lably raised the status of education here, but to none is due greater credit for the striking success that has attended the introduction of As head of our chief educational institution—the Prince of Wales College, which under his principal- ship was distinguished throughout Canada