Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 11: From the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876; 1853 1855 It' is satisfactory to know, that the greatly increased interest felt by the public in the active educational movements of the day met with a practical re spouse, in regard to the subjects of study, on the part of the Educational Authorities of other Colleges and Universities in the Province. Asa further evidence of the impulse which the subject of Higher Education had received during these years, Charters were applied for to the Legislature in 1854 and 1855, on behalf of three new Colleges in Upper Canada; - two of which Charters were granted, the third failed, - its promoters having neglected to observe the Rules of the House of Assembly applicable to such cases. One interesting incident, in regard to the finances of the University of Toronto, occurred in 1855, to which no reference is made in the Minutes of the Senate of the University, or in any of the Senate Reports to the Legislature Excepting in the Bursar's Financial Statement, the following is the only record of the incident which I have been able to discover. 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.