The faculty of agriculture mentioned, at St. Anne de Bellevue, dates from 1907. The department of music, as conducted in the conservatorium of music, was established in 1904. The Graduate school for advanced students was established in 1906. In 1907 a course in military science, a school of commerce, and several summer schools were added, and several extension courses have been added, notably in political economy, commercial law and accountancy.
The Donalda movement for higher education of women, which, as stated, was promoted by Sir William Dawson, was furthered by the chancellor, Lord Strathcona, who made it possible to establish, in 1884, courses leading to a degree, and to whose further generosity it was that the Royal Victoria College was opened in 1899, being founded and endowed by him at the cost of $1,000,000. His object was to establish an institution which should afford the opportunity of residence and college life to women students of McGill University, working in accordance with the system previously organized in a special course in arts, but under greatly improved conditions. By his recent death McGill University has lost a great patron.
There is no theological faculty as such, though four of the leading Protestant denominations, the Presbyterian and Congregationalists on the one hand, and the Episcopalians and Wesleyans on the other, are affiliated in the arts course. A further movement among these four bodies in cooperation within the last year or two has resulted in a Union Theological College.
McGill University has a great influence on the life of the city. Its professors keep in touch with civic affairs. In consequence the relations of town and gown are amicable. The merchants are proud of the city’s world-famous university and generally came forward to relieve it in its growing pains.
The following table of 1913 shows its growth:
M’GILL UNIVERSITY (FOUNDED 1821)
Chancellor—The Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., LL. D.
Principal and Vice Chancellor—William Peterson, M.A., LL. D., C.M.G.
Number of students, 1,644.
| Faculties. | No. of Students. | Matriculation. | Non-Matriculation. |
| Arts | 490 | 391 | 99 |
| Applied Science | 558 | 521 | 37 |
| Agriculture | 95 | 95 | — |
| Graduate School | 112 | 112 | — |
| Law | 64 | 64 | — |
| Medicine | 304 | 287 | 17 |
| Music | 21 | 8 | 13 |