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fessor Ross for his eflicient management of the insti— tution, and the hearty expressions of gratitude to the Great Head of the Church for the wonderful suc- cess with which he had crowned their labors. And well did the hard working professor merit the com- mendation of his brethren and of the church at large. It is safe to say that no minister or professor in the Presbyterian Church of the Maratime Prov- inces, or of the Dominion, with perhaps the excep- tion of Dr. Thomas McCulloch, ever accomplished, single handed, as large an amount of thorough, solid and efficient work, or made greater personal sacri- fices for the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, than did the Rev. James Ross, D. D., the late principal of Dalhousie College; and few men re- ceived less remuneration in proportion to their labors than did he, especially in the earlier years of his pro— fessorship. At no time during the seminary’s loca- tion at the West River did he receive more than would new be regarded as a fair salary in an ordi- nary country charge; and yet for seven years, until the appointment of Professor McCulloch to the chair of Latin, mathematics and natural science, he con- tinued to perform efficiently the work of four or five men in our modern colleges. He taught five days every week from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m.———two hours’ intermission at noon; and the course embraced Latin, Greek, Hebrew, natural and moral philoso- phy, logic, chemistry, algebra and mathematics. In addition to his professorial duties he preached twice every Sabbath to his congregation and attended to

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