The presentation of the needs of the university has been made in writing by the officers of the university, whose special duty it is to prepare its budgets and superintend its finances.

A committee of the trustees, with the president, have annually conferred, at a fixed time, with our Department of Benevolence, as to its needs.

Their conclusions have generally been entirely unanimous and I have found no occasion hitherto seriously to depart from their recommendations.

There have been no personal interviews and no personal solicitations.

It has been a pleasure to me to make these contributions, but that pleasure has arisen out of the fact that the university is located in a great centre of empire; that it has rooted itself in the affections and interest of the people among whom it is located; that it is doing a great and needed work--in fine, that it has been able to attract and to justify the contributions of its patrons East and West.