Documentary history of education in Upper Canada : from the passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the close of RevDrRyerson's administration of the Education Department in 1876 . e Committee. The Synod appointed the following members as the College Committee for the ensuing year:—The Moderator the Reverend William Rintoul, Convener ; the Reverend Doctor Burns, and theReverend Messieurs Esson, Harris, Gale, Stark, Cheyne, Roger, Reid, Alexander, Hamilton,Gordon, Leishman, Clugston, Ministers ; and Messieurs Westland, Paterson, Burns, Davidson,Redpath, Elders, and John McMurrich, Esquire,
Documentary history of education in Upper Canada : from the passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791 to the close of RevDrRyerson's administration of the Education Department in 1876 . e Committee. The Synod appointed the following members as the College Committee for the ensuing year:—The Moderator the Reverend William Rintoul, Convener ; the Reverend Doctor Burns, and theReverend Messieurs Esson, Harris, Gale, Stark, Cheyne, Roger, Reid, Alexander, Hamilton,Gordon, Leishman, Clugston, Ministers ; and Messieurs Westland, Paterson, Burns, Davidson,Redpath, Elders, and John McMurrich, Esquire, Treasurer :—seven to be a quorum for ordinarybusiness, and nine a quorum for the Meeting, at which a Master for the Academical Institutionshall be elected, while the Committee shall not proceed to make an election till thirty days shallhave elapsed after a Resolution to elect such Master shall have been come to, or, until after theChairman has summoned a Meeting for this purpose, through the Presbyterian Record, or other-wise. , * This Report will be found on page 236 of the Fifth Volume of this Documentary History. 102 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. 1846. t?*5 Mil I-^ Chap. V. PAPERS RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KINGS COLLEGE. 103 The Reverend Henry Esson, in name of the Committee on the admission of students to theTheological College, gave in a Report on the course of study to be pursued in that College, -whichwas read and sustained, when it was resolved to refer the same to the College Committee for theirguidance in the interim, with instructions to them to revise the same, and submit it to the Synod?Commission for their approval. In his historical paper, relatiug to Knox College read at semi-centenary of that College, in September, 1894, the Reverend Doctor William Reid said:— Hitherto the Reverend Henry Esson was the only Professor permanently engaged in con-ducting the classes ; but, in 1846, a ter corresponding with the Free Church of Scotland,
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