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Excerpt from Address at the Convocation of University College, Toronto: October, 14th, 1887
Other changes are not less noteworthy. In the Faculty of Arts the Classical Department is to be placed on a more efficient basis by the appointment of separate professors and lecturers for the Greek and the Latin Languages, and for Ancient History. The requirements for the Modern Languages have received like recognition. Special instructors are now provided in German, French, Italian, and Spanish and a chair of the English Lan guage is to be forthwith equipped, in addition to the lecture ship already provided in that important branch. Physics and Mathematics are now, for the first time, to have their respective professors and lecturers with the promised addition of chairs of Astronomy and Civil Engineering. The Physical Laboratory has been furnished with a valuable collection of apparatus for instruction in Mechanics, Acoustics, Light, and Heat; and further important additions are now being made in Electricity. The department of Mathematics is a'lready known for good work accomplished in the past. When fully equipped, both in Mathe maties and Physics, on the scale authorized by the Legislature, it cannot fail to commend itself to the Province by the fruits of its liberal training.
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