Excerpt from Report of Royal Commission on University Finances, Vol. 1 To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor: The Commissioners appointed by Your Honour to inquire into and report upon certain financial matters relating to the Provincial University; Queen's University, Kingston, and Western University, London, have completed their labours, and respectfully beg to report to Your Honour the results of their inquiries and such recommendations in regard to financial aid as they deem to be warranted, together with certain other recommendations which they consider advisable. The terms of the Royal Commission dated the 27th day of October, 1920, authorized and empowered your Commissioners "(a) to inquire into and report upon a basis for determining the financial obligations of the Province toward the University of Toronto, and the financial aid which the Province may give to Queen's University of Kingston and the Western University of London: (b) to recommend such permanent plan of public aid to the said Universities as shall bear a just and reasonable relation to the amount of the legislative grants to primary and secondary education, and (c) to make such suggestions on any of the above subjects as may seem, in the opinion of the Commission, to be desirable." Course of the Inquiry. In order that the inquiry might be as careful and comprehensive as possible, it was decided to request the representatives of the Provincial University and of Queen's and Western Universities to appear before your Commissioners on certain dates, and to present full information on their financial resources and needs, on their academic work, on the number of their student body, and on any matters of general University policy on which it might be deemed desirable to consult them. Your Commissioners decided to visit each of the three Universities and to make themselves personally familiar with buildings, equipment, staff, actual conditions of work, and location of proposed new buildings. Advertisements also were inserted in the local papers of each city inviting communications from educational, industrial, scientific or other public bodies, which might desire to make representations to the Commission in regard to University matters. We visited the Western University on November 18th, the University of Toronto on November 19th, and Queen's University on November 22nd, 1920. Representatives of the Universities and of various organizations connected with them appeared before us on the following dates: University of Toronto, December 6th. 1920. Western University. December 8th. 1920. Queen's University, December 13th, 1920. We desire to hear testimony to the zeal and efficiency of the members of the staffs of the various Universities whom we interviewed on our tour of investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.