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For inclusion in etropolitan ual Report.

ir ueorge 1111ams College and chools:

In co n with other Canadian eduoational institutions,

Qir George illiams College has been feeling the etteots ot the

•r to a greater extent than at any tie since 1939. Q.uite

drastic etfecta hav been registered upon the student body, the

atatt, the programme, and the general managem nt, in spit ot

whioh the Colle e has continued the steady growth wh1oh baa

characterized it during the pe.st two deaades.

in the ere were registered

in the f1Ye unite ot the Colle e- a tal ot ,502 individual

tudenta, an increase ot 6 over the previous year. In addition

396 meni>ers ot the armed toroes were given instruction 1thout

tu1 t1on tees 1n the various J'9SU].ar oles e of the Colle e, ing

a total ot 3,898 persons a ned during the year. ot the regular

elll'Ol.ment, 82 was in the nen1 division; 51 were , 49 women.

A auaoesstul summer sea ion wa held w1 th 538 s tudents en1'0lled.

Registration in the rious units of the College and ohool• was

as follows: ening

Division Division Total

Coll e ( l!aoul ty ot Arts , o1enae & C erae) ~5 1010 12 5

Hi ochool ·-- 780 785 lementary chool - 133 135

Business uchool 262 876 1158 rt chool 71 118 189

Total Reg! trat1on 578 2924 :502 ed Forces (gratis) - 396

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At the graduation ceremony ot the Colle e, in June, 49 r oeived

Bachelors' degrees in Arts, cienae and Commerce, 38 received As ooiate

Diplomas, and 3 Diplomas in soci tion cienae.

Durill6 the year 8ll importeJ: t addi t1on was made to the holdings

or the College library, in the acquisition or more than 1,000 volumes

ot Canadiana. 1th these additions the College now has one or the

better collecti ons in this t'ield, particularly from the standpoint ot

the needs ot t he undergraduate student.

Already some indication or the educ tional needs or the poet-war

period is b 1 provided by the number ot ex-service men and women being

registered in the various courses or the Colle • This number has been

increasing in recent months, and lends emphasis to the continued thought

being given this subject by start nnd Board ot Governors. There is nery

indication that the College an its as ociated s chools will be called

upon to play an important part in an educ tional prog e which will

tax the resources ot the whole country on the oessatio ot hoatili ties.

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REGISTRATION IN THE COLI.EGE AND SCHOOLS

Academic Year 1943- 44

(Comparative figures for previous year) given in each case in parenthesis )

Day Evening Division Division

College (Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce) 245 ( 226) 1010 ( 1022)

High School 785 ( 727) Elementary School 135 ( 114) Business School 262 ( 323) 876 ( 765) Art School 71 ( 39) 118 ( 98)

Total Regular Registration - 578 (588) 2924 ( 2726)

Members of Armed Forces , without tuition fee.

TWENTY-TmmE YEARS' PROGRESS IN ENROLMENT

1921-22 - 500 1922-23 - 560 1923-24 - 583 1924-25 - 606 1925-26 - 702 1926-27 - 808 1927-28 - 905 1928-29 - 1020 1929-30 - 1206 1930-31 - 1233 1931-32 - 1141

X

1932-33 - 1003 1933-34 - 849 1934-35 - 948 1935-36 - 1023 1936-37 - 1238 1937-38 - 1618 1938-39 - 1749 1939-40 - 2083 1940-41 - 2498 1941-42 - 3153 1942-43 - 3314 X

+943- 44 - 3502 X

Total

1255 (1248)

785 ( 727) 135 ( 114)

1138 (1088) 189 ( 137)

3502 ( 3314)

396 ( 310)

3898 ( 3624)

not including Active Serve Bursaries

Sir George illiams College & Schools of the Montreal Y • • c •. .

Review of the year 1943-44

I t seems fitting and useful at this first ee ting of the Board of Governors for the academic year 1944-45 to preface our approach to the problems of a new term by a brief revue of the academic year just olosed. For several years past we have not i s sued anything in the nature of a forma l annual report , due largely to the crowded nature of the a ,endas at the sprin_ meetings of the Board and to the uite close contact maintained by the Board with the work of the College throughout the year . This brie f review, therefore , might be con­sidered as a substitute for such a report .

he College i s now entering upon its tenth year under the administration of the present Dean and rincipal . It is natural , therefore , for th i s resume to make reference to charges which have taken place in that nine-year period since the summer of 1935 . In that time the enrolL~ent has almost quadrupled--from 948 in 1934-5 to 3 , 502 last year . Most of the five unit s of the College have contri­buted to this expansion , but the greatest growth has occurred in the College proper (the Faculty of Arts , Science and Connnerce) . It will be recal l ed th t the entir e senior college deve l opment in this unit has taken place since 1935 ~ In that ye a r , f or the first time , third year cou rses were added to the t wo-year Junior College progranune which had been in operation since 1929 , and had enrolled less than 300 students compar ed with the 1255 wh ich now constitutes it s student body . ( ee attache d Table ) . ttendant upon this growth , the full - time Faculty has increased f rom two to nine; part-t i me staf f from about 40 to mo re than 100 ; laboratories from three t o five with comple t e new equipment for advanced col le ge work in the Sciences; librar y holdings from a f ew hundre d vo l umes to more than 11 ,000 housed in new and attractive reading rooms ; eleven additional classrooms have been put to use in this building and in the Annex opened thr ee years ago ; extra-curricular student a ctivities have grown from almos t zero to a compl ex struc ture of organizat ions and pr ogramme rivalling in extent the regular a ct ivity of a large YMC. br anch ; the Business School has been compl etely re - equipped , in­c l uding a modern business machines r oom, and its whole curriculum reconstructed , and in many other ways real pr ogress steadily achieved .

This recital of changes in the past ten years is presented here to indi­cate not merely the immediate background from which the present College and its School s have e.volved , but to emphasize the rapidity with which t he evolution has occurred . Thi s rapidity of recent growth is very much a art of our present frame ­work, and the source of many of the problems which we are called upon to solve . Such growth does not take place evenly and uniformly at all points in our organ­izat ion . Each succe ss ive stage of growth disturbs adjustment at other po i nts , and calls for constant attention by Board and Staff .

The past year has been the fifth i n which the problems of war have dis­turbed the student body and the admini stration of the College (the sixth if one recalls the constant unselltement of the academi c year 1938-39 following the Munich aff air) . It has been our peculiar lot that the period of our most rapid expansion has coincided with the incre sing demands of the war effort upon students and Faculty , multiplying many fold the difficulty of obtaining increased staff , e uip­ment and suppl ies , and requiring a ma j or portion of administrat ive time for the

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fulfillrpent of official ,nan power orders and regulations . During the past year this has increased still further .

The war years have increased the ·proportion of women students in the College from less than 30% to practically 50% . They have very substantially lowered the average age of students in all units of the College & Schools ; and have increased the demand for scientific and technical training , as opposed to the ge neral or liberal a s . They have also led to the inauguration three years ago of a wartime summer session which t fiis year enrolled some 600 students and has met a re~ponse which will likely result in its retention as a permanent part of our programme.

The attached record of registration shows the distribut ion of enrollmemt in the College and its four ssociated Schoo l s durin the academi c year 1943-44 . It will be seen that we are still a predominantly evening inst i tution t with about five times as many students in the evening as in the day divisions . It must be remembered , however , that even the day enrollrpent of 245 full-time students in the F ulty of Arts , Science and Commerce makes this unit alone larger than the ma jor­ity of Canadian degree-granting colleges .

It is of special interest to note the enrollment of 396 members of the armed forces in the regular classes of the Co l lege , without tui t ion fee , as com­pared with 310 the previous year . This service which the College has rendered since the beginning of ~he war has thus attained a considerable volume , and should be considered an important part of the war service contribution of the Montreal Y.M. C • • (The value, in regular tuition fees , of the courses for which these men and women r egistered would e n excess of 0 ,000 ).

It cost 174 ,465 . 00 to operate the College last year , a inst which it received 153 , 324 . 74 in tuition and other income. The balance of '21 ,140 . 86 was provided by the Metropolitan Joint Fund of the ontre 1 Y ... c. , in addition to the centralized accountin and other administrative services .which the etropolitan ffice provides to all its branches and wh ich do not a pe r on the ollege financi 1

statement . (It is of interest to note that the total expenditures of the al lege in 1934-35 were 47 , 789 , and receipts 0'42 , 369-- about one- uarter of the present figures ) .

(-'xtracts from reports of academic uni ts submitted by the ) (Den , Headmaster of the High School , Director of the ) Business School and Director of the School of Art . )

At the expense of unduly prolonging this supposedly breif survey I should mention some of the more pressing of the problems which face us as we enter a new academic year :

1 . Spa ce : Committee now at work . taf f studies .

Architects summary . Hopes for a new building whenever :possible .

2 . ecognition : henomenol pro ress , against difficult i es

However--st illvNo points at which recognition not yet achieved- ­law and high school te cher ' s diploma .

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II cond Charter" re uired .

3 . ost w r rehabil i tation period : ro gramme

Space--rented uarters essential for the immediate post- w r reh bilit tion period .

4 . taff problems have been solved as we have come to them--but ~~ do need now , additional hel in the follo wing spheres :

xecutive , ommerce , Chemistry , Guidance , ersonne l .

t this stage in our evelopment we should , I believe , take enough t ime in th i s Board during the next f ew months , to pause and review not only our hi s to ry but our function . Wh t is the j ob whi ch we , as a Y. ,1 . C •• College , have set out to do in thi s city? r e we do ing it? There is constant d nger as we grow art icu­larly at the unive rsity level , that we may take on new func tion s and new tasks without considering t oo well whether they ronform to our establi she d policy , and to our concept of our t skas a certain kind of educational inst itution .

This College has , in the past , made a rather uni ue contribution to edu­cation--not merely in that it has provide d for thousands of young people opportuni­ties f or education whi ch were open to them in no othe r lace --but that it has pro­vided in many cases a dif f eren t kind of education . I t has deveolped a fairly uni~ue blend of the pr a tical and the cultural which refuses to set these two aims of education up as opposite oals , each to be achieved at the expense of the o ther . I t has adopted , throughout the 71 ye rs of it s history the belief that ~ocational competence was a laudabl e aim of education , and has acted accordingly . But it h s also st ted that man does not live by bread alone , that personal self-realization can come through work skillfully done , t hat cultural values can be woven into pract ical subjects , and that so-called cultural sub j ects . are t he me r est froth if the y are not firmly based in the practical affai r s of d' ily living . This funda­mental philosophy has r esulted in many unique aspects of curriculum and organiz tion i n th is college--aspects wh ich I believe we should take time to study as we l ook forward to further years of instituti onal1 growth .