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nor should appoint ten persons, in addition {to the Chief Justice, ' I

the President of the Legislative Council, and the Speaker of the House of Assembly, to be trustees and governors of the college. 2 There were to be two chairs or professorshipsf—one .of the Latin and Greek classics, with the French and German languages, mathematics and Natural Philosophy ;‘ and the other of meta— physiCs, logic, rhetoric, political economy and , history—~— “both to possess first-class certificates of qualification and, if

practicable, diplomas from the senatus of one or more of ‘i the

colleges or universities of Great Britain or‘Ireland, or of any of the British Provinces of North America.” It was also provided that there should be six scholarships of twenty pounds each; two for each County, together with free tuition in all branches of learning taught in the college. ,

Prince of Wales 'College was forthwith established. Dr. Alexander Inglis was its first Principal and Mr. William MOnk, of the Normal School, was promoted to the position of second professor. In the years that followed many changes, improve- ments and enlargements in the curriculum and staff of the College were made. Dr. Inglis resigned and returned to Scotland in the summer of 1868; and Mr. Alexander Anderson, who had for sev- eral years been second professor, was placed at the head of the

institution. Messrs. Leander G. McNeil], Thomas W. May, Alexander Lowe and I. C. Dunlap, Thomas A. . LePage~ and Wellington Dixon, W. J. Alexander and A- Borthwick became

professors successively until the year 1879 when the Normal School was amalgamated with the college.

The Normal School for the training of men and women’ ' teachers was, in the year 1861, placed directly under the c0ntrol '

0f the Board of Education. For the pupils in this school there were two teachers, first and second masters, appointed by the Board. The children in attendance were to be taught, by those under training as well as by the masters, all the ordinary branches Of education usually taught in the public schools; and the pupil- teachers were to receive “a thorough and competent knowledge 0f the best methods of conducting a common district school," particularly “the art of communicating the several branches of

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