艑tautahi Christchurch and the wider Canterbury Province has benefitted from countless teachers, artists, musicians, journalists, doctors, scientists, and engineers that Canterbury College had a hand in teaching. John Macmillan Brown clearly knew this would be the true measure of the University鈥檚 success when he told students in 1878 that 鈥榳e cannot, then, look for manifest proof of the success of our work in the immediate present; to the future, perhaps the far future, we must look; in your careers, in your afterlife it is we hope to find a more enduring monument of our labours鈥.
- MB157, Ref FD856.0005.0003.0006, procession of graduands, Macmillan Brown Library
