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few of their ablest men; while business men in large numbers trace their success in life to the training which they received in that institution.

DALHOUSIE COLLEGE.

Until 1860, though chartered for more than a quarter of a century, Dalhousie College stood, with the exception of a few years, with closed doors. In the above named year the provincial government of— fered to any religious denomination which would en« (low a chair the right of nominating a professor and a governor, the institution to be conducted upon the non-sectarian principle. The Synod of the Maritime Provinces closed their seminary at Truro and trans- ferred three of their professors, viz., Ross, Lyall and McCulloch, to Dalhousie College, Halifax. The Church of Scotland also endowed a chair and nom- inated a professor and a governor, and from that date nearly all our theological students received their arts course in Dalhousie, now one of the best endowed and most efficient colleges in the Dominion. Its most princely benefactor, the late George Munro, publisher, of New York, was a graduate of that in- stitution, as was also Rev. Dr. Forrest, its present principal.

Rev. James Smith, D. D., one of the theological professors, died in the year 1868, and for the next three years Dr. McKnight taught exegetics as well as Hebrew. In the year 1871 Rev. Dr. King, who for many years had with great ability and with marked success filled the highest chair in the school

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