EDUCATION AFTER THE REBELLION--THE EDUCATIONAL ACT OF 1846--THE PERSONNEL OF THE FIRST CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT COMMISSIONERS--NORMAL SCHOOLS--THE AMENDED SCHOOL ACT OF 1868-69--THE CHARTER--THE PROTESTANT HIGH SCHOOL--THE PROTESTANT COMMISSIONERS, 1869-1914--HISTORY OF SCHOOLS--LIST OF CATHOLIC COMMISSIONERS, 1869-1914--PRESENT SCHOOLS UNDER COMMISSION--INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC SCHOOL COMMISSIONS--THE ORGANIZATIONS COOPERATING WITH THE CENTRAL COMMISSION--“NUNS”--“BROTHERS”--“LAITY.” NOTE: SECONDARY EDUCATION--TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL--VOCATIONAL 305 CHAPTER XXVIII UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT I. M’GILL UNIVERSITY THE ROYAL INSTITUTION--JAMES M’GILL--CHARTER OBTAINED--THE “MONTREAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE” SAVES M’GILL--NEW LIFE IN 1829--THE RECTOR OF MONTREAL--THE MERCHANTS’ COMMITTEE--M’GILL IN 1852--THE HISTORY OF THE FACULTIES--BUILDINGS--DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1895--RECENT BENEFACTORS--MACDONALD COLLEGE--THE STRATHCONA ROYAL VICTORIA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. NOTE: THE UNION THEOLOGICAL MOVEMENT--THE JOINT BOARDS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL, ANGLICAN, PRESBYTERIAN AND WESLEYAN AFFILIATED COLLEGES. II. LAVAL UNIVERSITY (MONTREAL DISTRICT) THE STORY OF ITS COMPONENT PARTS--EVOLUTION FROM THE “ECOLES DE LATIN”--COLLEGE DE ST. RAPHAEL--ENGLISH STUDENTS--COLLEGE DECLAMATIONS--THE PETIT SEMINAIRE ON COLLEGE STREET--THE COLLEGE DE MONTREAL--THE SCHOOLS OF THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY, CLASSICS, LAW AND MEDICINE--THE APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION “JAM DUDUM”--DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS--AFFILIATED BODIES--THE FACULTIES AND SCHOOLS. NOTE: NAMES OF EARLY “ENGLISH” STUDENTS AT THE “COLLEGE” 325 CHAPTER XXIX GENERAL CULTURE I. THE LIBRARY MOVEMENT FRENCH:--L’OEUVRE DES BONS LIVRES, 1844--THE CABINET DE LECTURE PAROISSIAL, 1857. ENGLISH:--“MONTREAL LIBRARY” AND MONTREAL NEWS ROOM, 1821--MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, 1844--THE FRASER INSTITUTE, INCORPORATED 1870--ITS EARLY LITIGATIONS--ITS PUBLIC OPENING IN 1885--OTHER LIBRARIES. II. LITERARY AND LEARNED SOCIETIES THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1827--THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE, 1828--LA SOCIETE HISTORIQUE, 1856--CONFERENCE DES INSTITUTEURS, 1857--THE “INSTITUT CANADIEN”--CERCLE LITTERAIRE DE VILLE MARIE, 1857--UNION CATHOLIQUE, 1858--(THE GUIBORD CASE)--THE ANTIQUARIAN AND NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION, 1862--THE “ECOLE LITTERAIRE” 1892--ST. JAMES LITERARY SOCIETY, 1898--THE “DICKENS’ FELLOWSHIP” 1909--OTHER LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS--THE “BURNS SOCIETY”--THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE--THE CANADIAN CLUB, 1905. III. ARTISTIC ASSOCIATIONS FOREWORD:--INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC EXCLUSIVENESS.