Special attention is given to the application of exercise in treating cases of weakness or deformity.

The Wicksteed silver and bronze medals for physical culture (the gift of Dr. R. J. Wicksteed), are offered for competition to students of the graduating class and to students who have had instruction in the gymnasium for two sessions, the silver medal to the former, the bronze medal to the latter.

(2) THE ROYAL VICTORIA COLLEGE GYMNASIUM.

Instructor:-Miss E. H. Cartwright.

Classes for women students are conducted in the gymnasium of the Royal Victoria College, at hours arranged to suit the convenience of the students, all of whom are required to pass a satisfactory medical examination before engaging in basket ball, or other exercises, in the gymnasium. Undergraduate students of the First Year are required to take regular physical exercise in the gymnasium amounting to two periods per week; undergraduate students of the Second Year for two short periods a week; undergraduate students of the Third Year for one period a week.

The Strathcona prizes of $20 and $10 are open for competition to students of the Second and Fourth Years respectively.

STUDENT SOCIETIES.

In addition to the Clubs mentioned under the head of the "University Athletic Association" on page the following student organizations exist within the University:

(1) The Students' Society.

(This is intended to promote the interests of the student body as a whole. The executive of this Society shall be the only recognized medium of communication between the students, on the one hand, and the University authorities and the general public, on the other, and shall also act as a Court before which any student may be called to account for a misdemeanour.)

(2) The McGill Union Club.

(3) Undergraduates' Literary and Debating Society.
(4) Arts Undergraduates' Society.

(5) Applied Science Undergraduates' Society.

(6) Medical Society.

(7) Undergraduates' Society in Law.

(8) Cercle Français.

(9) Physical Society. (10) Chemical Society.

(11) Electric Club.

(12) Mining Society.

(13) Historical Club.

(14) Delta Sigma Society (For women students).

(15) Société Française.

(16) The Readers' Club.

(17) Philosophical Society.

(18) Young Men's Christian Association.

(19) Young Women's Christian Association.

(20) Rifle Association.

(21) Glee and Mandolin Club.

(22) Western Club (composed of students from the West).

(23) Royal Victoria College Athletic Club.

THE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS.

The Centre Building. This is the oldest building of the group. It contains the lecture rooms of the Faculties of Arts and Law, as well as the Botanical and Zoological Laboratories and the offices of the Administration.

The New Medical Building.-A magnificent up-to-date building, costing about $600,000, is now in course of construction. It will be formally opened in June, 1910, and will be ready for the reception of students at the commencement of next session (October 1st, 1910).

The Macdonald Engineering Building. This replaces the building destroyed by fire in April, 1907. It is designed to provide accommodation for six hundred students. The Departments of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Transportation are permanently provided for in this building, while the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering are given temporary accommodation until such time as independent buildings can be provided for their growing numbers, but this temporary accommodation is for the present quite ample. The ground floor is given up to the Civil Engineering, Geodetic, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Laboratories and is for the most part 23 feet in height. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Laboratories and the Workshops also occupy the three lower floors of the Workman Building. The centre portion of the second floor is used for purposes of administration (Faculty room, offices, library, etc.). The front parts of the second and third floors are occupied by eight class rooms which contain 470 sittings, while the upper floors both of the Engineering Building and the Workman Building are devoted to drafting rooms containing over 500 tables.

The building throughout is of the most approved fire-proof construction, not only in the matter of materials, but in arrangement as well, the several floors being divided by fire walls and fire doors into separate sections.

The building has been erected at a cost of about half a million of dollars and is considerably larger than the old one. Very little of the splendid laboratory equipment in the old building was destroyed, and as a great deal has been received

in the shape of donations and acquired by purchase in the meantime, the laboratories will, generally speaking, be much better adapted for teaching purposes than they were before.

The Macdonald Chemistry and Mining Building. In addition to the large lecture theatre which seats about 250 students there are here four lecture rooms for smaller classes, and a number of offices. There are also three large general chemical laboratories (each with a floor space of about 2,400 square feet and accommodation for 200 students at a time), large laboratories for assaying, ore dressing and metallurgy, with a very complete equipment, and a number of smaller rooms and laboratories for special purposes, including research work. The reference library contains about 1,400 volumes.

The Macdonald Physics Building. This building is five storeys in height, each floor having an area of 8,000 square feet. Besides a lecture theatre and its apparatus rooms, the building includes an elementary laboratory nearly 60 feet square, large special laboratories, a range of rooms for optical work and photography, separate rooms for private work, and two large laboratories arranged for research, provided with solid piers and the usual standard instruments. There are also a lecture room for mathematical physics, a special physical library and convenient workshops. The equipment of the Physics Building is exceedingly valuable and complete.

The Redpath Museum.-The Museum occupies a commanding position at the upper end of the campus, and besides its central hall and other rooms devoted to the collections, it contains a large lecture theatre, class rooms and work rooms. The collections in botany, palæontology, geology and zoology are very full and admirably arranged for teaching purposes.

The University Library. This building is a fine example of the Romanesque style of Architecture. The general reading room is 110 feet long, 44 wide and 34 high, and will seat 150 readers. The book stack, four and five storeys in height, has a working capacity of 250,000 volumes. There are now in the Library over 118,000 volumes and 20,000 pamphlets.

The Observatory is well equipped for instruction in the use of meteorological instruments and in astronomical work.

The Royal Victoria College. This is a residential College for the women students of McGill University. It is situated on Sherbrooke Street in close proximity to the University build

ings and laboratories. On the ground floor are the offices of the administration, lecture rooms, students' common room, and a spacious dining hall. On the first floor are other lecture rooms, the library, reading room and a handsome assembly hall. The second and third floors are given up entirely to rooms for resident students. These rooms are handsomely furnished, as indeed is the whole building. The rates for board and lodging are very reasonable. Full information on all points can be obtained from the Warden.

The McGill Union stands at the corner of Sherbrooke and Victoria Streets, within two minutes' walk of the College gates. The building measures 93 feet by 71 feet and consists of three storeys and a basement. On the main floor are the dining and luncheon rooms; on the second floor, billiard rooms, a news hall, a reading room and library, a study and a lounging gallery (88 ft. by 21 ft.). The large hall is situated in the top storey. It measures 88 ft. by 45 ft. and has a seating capacity of 400. There are also smaller rooms for society meetings, etc. In the basement are baths, locker rooms and an exercise room (24 ft. by 38 ft.). The Union is the social centre of the University, the common meeting ground for the students of all Faculties. It is intended to promote a broad and true University spirit.

Strathcona Hall is the home of the Young Men's Christian Association of the University. The building is 55 feet by 110 feet, and is five storeys in height. The three upper storeys are arranged to afford residential accommodation for about sixty students. On the ground floor are the Secretary's office, sitting rooms, cloak rooms and a hall capable of seating 350 persons. The second floor contains a large reading room, a large game room, and five small rooms for the use of clubs and societies.