Subjects suitable for 'teacher-training' of a useful type were taught in a preparatory department. It is said to have fallen short in academic aims, and possibly on account of this it had a hard time to keep going. During the first war it lost scholars and after some years of allowance by the government its charter was surrendered in 1915. The following brethren got a good start there, as is common in small efforts, and doubtless went much farther than their alma [148] mater took them: J. W. Hayter and Fred Wallace (both in Maritime churches and long recognized as efficient preachers); also C. G. McPhee and E. Gaston Collins, who both preached in Ontario.