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SAPIENT ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS
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who wanted credit for a standard they had not reached,
and who showed slackness and insincerity in their work.
But he was the ready, unfailing friend of the deserving.

The extensive mineral collections he made for class
and laboratory instruction, and the splendid gift of
the Nicol Hall to provide facilities for the study of
mining and metallurgy, are memorials of his generous
and practical interest in the development of valuable
industries, and in the welfare of his Alma Mater.
The Board records its deep appreciation of the exemplary
career, as teacher, and citizen, of Dr. Nicol, and of the
University's loss by his sickness and death in mid-career,
And, further, the Board extends to Mrs. Nicol, his faithful
helpmeet, its profound sympathy in her bereavement."

Also, at a meeting of Senate, held today, April 1st,
the following resolution was passed with reference to
the late Professor Nicol, and ordered to be inserted
in the Doomsday Book:

"The Senate of Queen's University desires to place on
record its sense of the distinguished services rendered
to the University by Professor William Nicol, LL.D., whose
death occurred on February 23.

"This son of Queen's and Kingston was an all round
student, winning prizes in History and French, but
his special interest and delight was the out-of-door
world. In his student days at Queen's he tested his

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