. Sandford Fleming, empire builder . ought and of happiness for all the days of your life. Youwill be the possessor of a trained and cultivated intellect,ready to do honour to the highest or the humblest calling,and able to leave your race and the world better than youfound them/ Fleming is still Chancellor of Queens University, havingbeen elected again and again to the high office. In his variousaddresses at convocation he has touched upon a wide varietyof subjects, and has managed to put into them all the samespirit of broad-mindedness, tolerance, and kindly keen interest in the
. Sandford Fleming, empire builder . ought and of happiness for all the days of your life. Youwill be the possessor of a trained and cultivated intellect,ready to do honour to the highest or the humblest calling,and able to leave your race and the world better than youfound them/ Fleming is still Chancellor of Queens University, havingbeen elected again and again to the high office. In his variousaddresses at convocation he has touched upon a wide varietyof subjects, and has managed to put into them all the samespirit of broad-mindedness, tolerance, and kindly keen interest in the university, and all that it standsfor, has never slackened. In a characteristically unos-tentatious way he has helped the institution financially onmany occasions, and has always been ready and willing togive his time and thought to any movement looking to itsbetterment. In April 1908 Queens recognized his services to theUniversity and the nation by conferring upon him the degreeof He had already received the same distinction. Sandford Fleming, Chancellor op Queens QUEENS UNIVERSITY AND THE CHANCELLOR 249 from St. Andrews University in 1884, and from ColumbiaUniversity in 1887. While upon the subject of honours, itmay be convenient to mention here the fact that, in recog-nition of his public services, he was created a Knight Com-mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the RoyalGeographical Society, the Geological Society, the RoyalHistorical Society, and the Victoria Institute, and a memberof many historical, scientific, and engineering societies. As Chancellor, Fleming has always been careful, whilehelping the university in any way within his power, to avoidinterfering with the functions of the Principal. The framingof policy he left to the Principal, but in many ways, bothinside and outside the university, he found it possible to beof very real service. His position and influence were ofservice outside, a
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