Looking Back #112 - Newfoundland -- New Provisional

Newfoundland -- New Provisional

Newfoundland issued a new provisional toward
the end of March. Stocks of the 30¢ carmine,
Memorial University College design, were
surcharged "TWO CENTS" in two lines in black.

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J. K. Sissons writes that 500,000 were printed
and the entire issue "cornered" almost
immediately. The speculators, he writes, are
demanding several times face value for the
stamps and openly boast of their achievement.

Since $10,000 would cover the face value of the
issue, a corner would not have been difficult.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
April 20, 1946

Note: The stamp (Scott 269) now catalogues at
25c mint or used - mint NH catalogues at 30c.

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The main building of Memorial University College
in 1948.

Memorial University College, St. John's,
Newfoundland, conceived as a memorial to the
Newfoundlanders who fought and particularly
those who died in World War I, was opened
in 1925 as a national junior college. Its
founding was due principally to the efforts
of Dr. V. P. Burke, deputy minister of education,
Dr. W. W. Blackall, Church of England
superintendent of education, and Dr. Levi Curtis,
Methodist superintendent of education.
The building was begun in 1922, opened in 1924
as a normal school, and in September 1925,
with fifty-seven students in addition to
teachers-in-training, opened as a junior
college. Two-year courses were offered
in arts and sciences, three-year courses
in education and engineering, and various
summer courses and night courses have been
developed. A school of navigation, conducted
mainly for seamen who wish to qualify for
certificates, had a registration of
seventy-five in the 1946-47 term, and
sixty-five certificates were awarded.

Affiliations have been entered into,
with various Canadian and American
universities, by which students
admitted to those universities receive
full credit for work they have done
at Memorial University College. Also,
a measure of affiliation has been
established with Queen's College,
St. John's, and with St. Bride's
College, Littledale, whereby students
taking some courses at one of those
colleges and some courses at the
Memorial College may qualify for
the Memorial College diploma.

For several years, the expenses
of administration were met out
of funds supplied by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, but the
institution is now maintained by
the government of the province.

The governing body of the college,
at first, was the bureau of
education, consisting of the
prime minister, the secretary
of education, the three
superintendents of education,
and six other persons. The
bureau was replaced by a
board of governors, constituted
in 1935, with Dr. V. P. Burke
as chairman. The first president,
J. Lewis Paton, retired in 1933
and was succeeded by A. G. Hatcher,
a native Newfoundlander.

Annual registration has grown,
between 1925 and 1948, from 57
to more than 1,000, and the
1949-50 calendar lists the names
of almost 900 graduates.

By one of the first acts of
the provincial legislature in
1949, Memorial University
College was raised to the
status of a degree conferring
institution.

See M. F. Harrington, The
Newfoundland - Memorial University
College. in J. R. Smallwood (ed.),
Book of Newfoundland (St. John's,
1937); A. G. Gillingham,
Memorial (Atlantic Guardian 1 1947).