University of Toronto - Torontonensis Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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YC N NIV ERSITY College is the complement to the University of Toronto in the Provincial system of University education in Ontario. The University teaches the expensive or laboratory subjects, and also-for reasons chiefly local and accidental and without basis in educational or other broad principle-History, Econo- mics and Mathematics, and linallyffor more obvious reasons, the less imperative languages, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, the College teaches Classics, Modern Languages, Hebrew, Ethics, and-as an optional subjectABiblical Literature. ' This division leaves out Philosophy: but inasmuch as Philosophy involves, among other things, Psycho-Physics, a laboratory subject, it is assigned to the University. The arrangement though illogical, as are most of the arrangements among a practical people more concerned ,to suit the convenience of the hour than logic, is not in practice so different from the system of the old Universities of Great Britain as at first sight may appear. The same need for economy in laboratory subjects has compelled the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to teach the Natural and Physical and Chemical Sciences through the Universities, while the Colleges teach, broadly, the Humanitiesg the same need further has given to the Universities the out-of-thefway or recondite languages-Chinese, eg.: Ethics again belongs to the Colleges on account of its close association with Theology, and to University College because a State University, in- cluding students of all theologies, and none could hardly with propriety include itg on the other hand, so long as the civilization of Ontario is distinctively based on Christianity, there is sufhcient reason for including ml mi TT N' Mfl 'l' both it and the undenominational teaching of Biblical Literature in the State College. Probably the service rendered to the State by the in- telligent teaching of the last named subject in University College is, in this age, one of the best services which the College can render. - The number of students in University College is approximately nine hundred and fifty, with one hundred oecasionals, about one-fourth of the total are women. 1-rmfapin of imawf.iiy College 2

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