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SAPIENT ET DOCTRINA TABILITAS
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1923-1924.

powers in Chemistry and the different branches of Natural
Science, winning the Gold Medal in Chemistry, the Silver
Medal in Natural Science, and the Gowan Prize in Botany,
and finally after some time spent in Germany, under
the famous Goldschmitt of Freiburg, gave himself to the
study of Mineralogy. By his extraordinary diligence and
devotion he succeeded in making that department
famous all over Canada and beyond.

"Absorbed though he was in his subject, he exerted
himself to widen the influence of his Alma Mater, and
with his first wife (Miss Forbes of Guelph) planned to
erect a building, which she did not live to see, where
Mineralogy might be adequately handled. The "Nicol"
building is a monument to their loyalty and zeal.

It was a great loss to the University when Professor
Nicol was compelled through illness to give up his Chair,
and we extend to Mrs. Nicol, his faithful helpmeet through
his long period of enforced inactivity our deepest sympathy
in her bereavement."

And this from the Faculty of Applied Science:

"After a long and painful illness, William Nicol,
M.A., LL.D., for twenty-five years Professor of Mineralogy
in Queen's University, died February 24th, 1924. He
was born at Cataraqui, Ont., on February 18th, 1861.
He was educated in the public and high schools of
Kingston, entered Queen's University in 1879, and was

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