University Gazette, Vol. 12

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Excerpt from University Gazette, Vol. 12: McGill College, December 1st, 1888During the fourth year, lectures are delivered in Universal history, and the B. A. Classics comprises ancient history. Greek, Latin, English, French, and German languages and literature, all have their places in the calendar, while in the whole course no men tion is made of our country, or its raison d'etre. Stay there is an honorable exception, the fourth year lec tures in geology and mineralogy bear witness to the fact that of the ten professors in the faculty of Arts, two, at least, are Canadians.Should not Canadian history and literature be taught in our colleges? Our country is young, says the quibbler Her history is comprised in a few volumes which anyone can read for himself, as for literature, comparatively little is heard of Cana dian writers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.