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Charities distributed by clergymen are described as productive of no larger amount of good. Instead of promoting religion, it is the testimony of a clergyman that they do great mischief. "I have no hesitation in saying,' says the Rev. W. Poole, who for some years had the administration of charities, "that, unpopular as the step would be, it would be positive benefit to be rid of these charities altogether.".

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ing urgently for a solution more definite than class-work, viz., lateness, inattention, and that which has hitherto passed current. Ex- want of preparation. In a good school these ceptional cases apart, it is impossible to charge faults will be comparatively small in amount, the public with having shown anything like for the pupil will have no motive to commit dogmatism or intolerance on this subject. them, but the reverse. They are all mainly Recognizing the importance of the teacher's traceable to want of interest in the school office, they have, with a forbearance which it work, which it is for the teacher to remedy were ungrateful not to acknowledge, given full rather than the pupil. Where the organization latitude to his discretion, and have not cared is judicious and the instruction intelligent, it to scrutinize too closely cases in which scrutiny will be found that a comparatively small marmight have been deemed almost a duty. The gin remains for such faults; and the teacher results of this attitude have been, on the whole, should be able gradually to make this smaller satisfactory. The more humane and enlight- as he advances in experience and skill. Where ened views of discipline which now prevail they are fairly chargeable upon the pupil— among teachers, could not have diffused them-as, of course, they often are-they should be selves more rapidly under any other circum-checked in the first instance by reproof, and With regard to other charities-their object, stances; we may say, not so rapidly; and it the two last-mentioned by the loss of place in it is remarked, have in many instances failed. is undoubtedly better that improvement should the class (when place-taking is practised) Such is one for the discharge and relief of be grounded on the convictions of the profes- which they naturally entail; if these fail of persons imprisoned for small debts, the trustees sion itself, than imposed on it from without. effect, the teacher may fairly require the pupil of which have now in their hands more than The elementary teacher, as a member of so- to make good at his leisure time the lesson he 100,000l.; and charities for the kindred of the ciety, has shared in the advance which society has lost or neglected, or, where that is not founder, where relationship can no longer be itself has made in its views of all questions practicable, to perform an equivalent amount said to exist. Such also are loan charities, relating to life and upbringing; whilst, as a of work in another form. This penalty is which are greatly abused, and those for the professional man, he has been led to reflect much objected to, on the ground that ordinary payment of apprenticeship fees, which are now more on the resources of his own art. Much school work should not be prescribed as punishin little request. Yet the aggregate income of has been done; much-though, as we think, ment. But is such an exercise ordinary school the last is estimated at 50,000l. For the bene- less-remains to be done; and we are per- work? The stimulants of intelligence and ficial conversion of such and all others of a suaded that what is required is being at- curiosity are entirely wanting; the mere mesimilar character, the authority of the Charity tempted, and will, ere long, be accomplished. chanical occupation remains. It seems to us Commission is inadequate. It is therefore All writers on education agree that the best to differ from school work very much as the recommended that these, as well as the educa- punishment of a fault is the natural incon- labour of the tread-mill differs from free and tional charities, should be brought under the venience which results from it; e.g., that spontaneous physical exercise. The principle jurisdiction of the Privy Council; and that the falsehood should lead to a distrust of the of the penalty is just; and the penalty itself, if Privy Council should be empowered to proceed offender's word, coarseness to a withdrawal only inflicted with calm and passionless pertito the better application of charitable funds, from his society, and unpunctuality to the loss nacity, is of a nature which can hardly fail to and their conversion, where it may be right of some enjoyment fixed for a particular time, secure its end. The deprivation of playtime is and expedient, to the purposes of education, by or to the enforced performance at leisure hours an intolerable burden; nor is the sacrifice comthe methods above proposed. "If," says the of the work which may have been evaded. pensated by any public credit resulting from Commissioners, 66 our suggestion is adopted, Hence in family education, where the educator the performance of the exercise prescribed. the Committee of the Privy Council on Educa- is in circumstances to choose what is abso- The punishments which have been mentiontion will become the Committee of the Privy lutely the best for individual pupils, when ed should serve the purposes of correction in Council on Education and Charities. The punishment is resorted to at all, it is for the the general case; but there will come emerCharity Commission will cease to exist as a most part of this kind. The judicious teacher gencies in the life of every school, in which, if separate legal body, and become a department of a school will employ it as far as he can; the teacher's authority is to be maintained at of the Privy Council under the Education and but to rely on it entirely would be virtually to all, recourse must be had to severer measures. Charities Committee, in close connection with let many faults go unpunished. From the con- Corporal punishment or expulsion must be at the existing Department of Education, and stitution of the school, he must use expedients hand as an ultimum supplicium. The difficulty subject to the same control. The measure for punishment on whose operation he can is to ascertain their relative positions and their here suggested no doubt is extensive, but the count with certainty, yet without sacrificing respective limits. He who denounces corporal objects to be gained are also great, both as to offenders that precious time which should be punishment easily avoids the necessity of using regards the promotion of what is good and given to the work of instruction. Our concern it, by dismissing any pupil who appears inthe suppression of what is evil. Nor is any at present, then, is, not with what may be sinsible to the motives which he conceives himinnovation in point of principle involved in the called the natural punishment of faults, self at liberty to present. But the problem of suggestion. The authority conferred by the though that is a matter deserving of constant punishment is not thereby solved; for we wish legislature on the Charity Commission is feeble reflection from every teacher, but, mainly at to know, not whether corporal chastisement can and ineffectual in its operation, but in its scope has long sanctioned, and for which no adequate discipline ought to dispense with it for such an and ineffectual in its operation, but in its scope least, with the artificial penalties which time be dispensed with in this way, but whether a good it extends as far as the utmost changes we have here suggested. We merely desire to substitute has yet been suggested. carry out by a more effectual method, and through a more influential organ, and one better known to the constitution, improvements which Parliament has already, in principle, sanctioned."

ON SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS.
(BY THE REV. JAMES CURRIE, M.A.)
(From the "Museum.")

The punishments commonly relied on in elementary schools are four-reproof, impositions, corporal punishment, and expulsion.

alternative. He who resorts to it looks upon expulsion as a far more serious penalty, and a frequent recourse to that step is attended with evils greater than any that are involved in corporal punishment; and he feels it incumbent on him to try the remedial power of this corrective, before publicly branding a pupil as one who is unworthy to remain in the society of his fellows.

Reproof by the teacher suggests itself as the punishment to be first resorted to for faults, both of school-work and of general conduct, which are free from any special aggravation. It may be administered in private or in public, at the teacher's discretion, and in various de- The first question to be answered with regrees of severity, from the simple admonition spect to the employment of corporal punishNOTWITHSTANDING all that has been so ably fore the whole school, which shall carry with entitled to use it in any circumstances? The up to the energetic condemnation uttered be- ment in school is one of right,-Is the teacher and earnestly written on the subject of disci- it the entire weight of the school opinion association of bodily pain with wrong-doing, pline, the question of school punishment must against the culprit. Where the teacher has so far from being unnatural as a means of disstill be considered as open for further discus-gained an ascendancy over his pupils, and ad- cipline, is manifestly in analogy with the mode sion. There are wide differences of opinion as ministers reproof in a judicious spirit and with in which nature herself deals with children to the propriety of nearly all the minor forms judicious graduation, this punishment will while they are acquiring their first knowledge. of it in common use; and, in particular, as the suffice as the ordinary means of correction for But with whom rests the responsibility of public and the teaching profession have been school faults. making this association? It would be premore than once of late painfully reminded, the The imposition of an exercise to be per-posterous to maintain that any one who has great problem of corporal punishment is press-formed during the pupil's leisure is a form of the oversight of a child is free to resort to it at punishment applicable to offences incident to his pleasure; the rights of tender childhood

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must be stringently guarded. The answer is power of performance; endeavour to estimate the self-consciousness and reflection of a clear. The parent who is responsible for the his motives correctly; manifest a desire to have man. existence and upbringing of the child, is re- the pupil on pleasant terms with himself, It is generally conceded, where corporal ponsible also for the discipline employed to rather than to catch at his failings, and find punishment is used at all, that it should be forward his education. Nature has given him in them opportunity for censure; appeal to his used for the correction of offences against mothe strength of affection which is required to better feelings to the utmost extent that he can, rality. And certainly falsehood, dishonesty, make the child's happiness his supreme consi- and rely on them to the utmost extent that he impurity of speech, cruelty, and the like, meet deration, and has thus placed the responsibility dare; concern himself with his general welfare their deserts when subjected to the strong in safe hands. But this natural right of dis- and happiness; and, when difficulties arise, check which it involves. Only we assume cipline does by no means belong to the teacher deal with him openly, justly, and resolutely. that there is a clear understanding between in virtue of his office. The parent alone has He may thus hope to establish for himself a the teachers and the pupils as to the features of received it, and it is for the parent to determine strong personal ascendancy over his pupils, temper and conduct to which the penalty is whether he shall delegate it or not. The ques- which will make itself felt to the furthest attached. Where there is no law, there is no tion as to the teacher's right, therefore, resolves limits of their duty; and in his school a transgression; justice requires, therefore, that itself into this, whether the parent has dele- healthy public opinion, which will dispose all the law be clearly promulgated, whether in the gated it to him at the same time that he dele- to be guided by him, to regard not only his re- course of general moral instruction, or in the gated the duty of instruction. In delegating gulations, but his wishes, as their law, to covet form of specific and intelligible enactment, bethe latter he does not necessarily delegate the his approbation as their highest happiness, and fore violation of the law is punishable. There former in some countries he has not done so. to shrink from his censure as the source of their is the greater necessity for this, considering In this country without doubt he has. So- greatest uneasiness. If, in addition to all this, that in dealing with such offences the passage ciety has sanctioned the teacher's use of cor- he set before them a good and consistent ex- is abrupt from minor punishment to severer poral punishment. And individual members ample, he has in operation a series of educative there is here no medium between censure and of society are not entitled, against the general influences which will, in the general case, keep chastisement, a penalty of the nature of an voice, to impose restrictions on the teacher of a the moral machinery of the school in sound imposition being evidently irrelevant to the common school; they may propose, but he is and vigorous operation, and which will keep case, and no other adequate penalty being free to decline. The right of this punishment punishment in the subordinate place which practicable. When the moral requirements in being thus delegated by society to the teacher, belongs in education to corrective stimulants, school are clearly understood, censure is the he is amenable to public opinion for the use he as the remedy for exceptional or abnormal teacher's first resort, gentle or severe, as the makes of it; and he cannot successfully plead acts and dispositions. When he has done all case may require; and he may find it often the dictates of his own conscience against the this, the minor penalties still stand between advantageous to add to this public censure the convictions of the public conscience. him and chastisement. Let him not make up weight of private expostulation. This expeOn the question of the expediency of using his mind, as a matter of course, to the use of dient carries great influence with many pupils, corporal punishment in the common school, chastisement, because thousands before and from the evident tenderness and regard which whilst we are not prepared to deny that its around him have used it; but let him act on it evinces on the part of the teacher for their action will be found salutary in certain cases, the conviction that other means of influence character. But where the violation of law is we hold that in a good system of discipline it and restraint are open to him, which, as many flagrant, or where infirmity threatens to bewill be altogether a rare and exceptional resort. have found sufficient for their purpose, he may come a habit, even though without deliberate We may remark at this point, that, in much find sufficient for his. Let him aim at pru- intention, his course is clear; the penalty of that has been written on the opposite sides of dence, patience, firmness, and diguity in ad- the law should be steadily administered. There this question, it has seemed to us that there ministering these: prudence to adapt them in is a limit to persuasion and remonstrance: it would be found less difference in the practice of kind and degree to the various offences he has only weakens the power of the law to enthe disputants than their argumentation would to check; patience and self-control to restrain cumber its penalties with them, where there is lead us to suppose. We can see the difference the passion of the moment, and to exhaust the no room for misunderstanding or palliation. between the position of him who would inter- influence of the minor penalties his law allows But is corporal punishment to be confined to dict the use of all chastisement whatsoever, him, remembering that discipline attains its offences of this sort? Offences incident to and of him who works his discipline through ends by the certainty of reasonable penal- school-work, such as have been adverted to its instrumentality; but it is less easy to dis-ties, and not by harsh and sudden strokes; above, do, when pushed to extreme, become cern the practical difference between those who firmness to disregard the promptings of parti- if not offences against morality, at least of adopt intermediate positions between these ex-ality on the one hand, and of caprice and hu- fences in which there is an element of moral tremes. One maintains strongly the inexpe- mour on the other; and dignity which shall delinquency. They resolve themselves into diency of chastisement, but allows of some banish from the judgment-seat everything like acts of disobedience. We would certainly not exceptions; another maintains strongly its a flippant and jesting spirit in the serious work expediency, but intends it to be confined to of discipline.

suggest corporal punishment as a restraint upon lateness, inattention, and the like; but exceptional cases. To what purpose is an Supposing the master to act thus prudently we would conceive ourselves free to adopt it in argument between the two, when they are in general discipline, will there still remain the exceptional case of a pupil wayward enough practically in agreement? It is as likely to any necessity for using chastisement at all? to absent himself repeatedly from school withperplex as to edify. It may interest many of We think there will with boys of exceptional out reason assigned, or of one who seemed our readers to recall the fact, that the present character and disposition. Will the master ambitious to acquire the character of a misquestion was keenly canvassed at the time necessarily forfeit the respect and goodwill of chief-maker during school hours. Thus it is when the only educational journal of which his pupils by having recourse to it? Neither not so much to any particular kind of offence this country has had to boast (we trust the necessarily nor probably so we think it more that chastisement should be applied, as to a opprobrium will shortly be removed) was reasonable to suppose that the character he particular degree. But we would point out to finishing its course, now a quarter of a century has established for himself will sanction the the teacher the responsibility that lies on him ago, and that it was argued in the concluding punishment in the eyes of the school, and even to exercise discrimination in estimating the numbers in a very able and interesting manner. of the offender himself, rather than that the acts and tempers of his pupils with a view to But a careful perusal of these articles leaves punishment will destroy the character which punishment, so that he may have a reasonable on our mind the impression of a disputation as he has established on so good a foundation. Is confidence that it is viciousness he is dealing much as of a discussion. We think it neces- such a punishment degrading to the pupil? with, and not merely dulness, natural defect, sary, then, to lay down our position clearly, Degrading certainly, in so far as it must be or disadvantages incident to the home-life that in maintaining the expediency of excep-accompanied by a deep sense of shame at and we would further suggest to him that, tional resort to chastisement, we may not be having deserved it from a master who acts to- from the absolute authority which he is in the charged with advocating a system of govern-wards his pupils in so good a spirit of disci-habit of exercising, he is not free from temptament by blows. Before resorting to corporal punishment, we it is so to the adult, who, even when deserving dren. Accurate observation of character and pline; but not degrading in the sense in which tion to substitute his own personal feelings for his laws, and to exaggerate the faults of chilshould expect the teacher to use all the educa- punishment of some sort, feels that physical circumstances, and vigilant self-control, can tive influences which are at his disposal. Let coercion is an unworthy form of it to be ap- alone preserve him from such injustice. the general work be made interesting, by ap- plied to a rational being of matured underpealing to the pupil's intelligence and engaging standing, and who is therefore either broken in his activity. Then, let the teacher deal with spirit by it or driven to desperation. We are him generously regulate exactions by the not to speak of the child or the youth, still in *Quarterly Journal of Education. the sensuous stage of his being, as if he had

One limit which should be imposed on corporal punishment is obviously suggested by the obligation under which the teacher lies to preserve the bodily well-being of his charge.

gentle measures.

October next to five Demyships and two Exhibitions,

There will be an election at Magdalen College in

Weak health, in any of its forms, it can hardly is rather a morbid action of the temper. Such On Saturday, the 19th of October, there will be an be necessary to remark, should be sacred from a disposition is not to be softened by chastise-election in Exeter College to Three Scholarships, two the touch of the rod. But a pupil in vigorous ment; the only result of which will be, that, of the value of £70, and one of the value of £50. per health may be injured by rashness and indis- like the traveller in the old fable of the contest members of the Church of England, and under twenty annum, tenable for five years. Candidates must be cretion in the mode of applying chastisement. between the rain and the wind, it will wrap years of age, and if born in the diocese of Exeter, or The teacher who sees occasion to resort to it, itself up still more closely in the mantle of its educated in any school therein for the last three years, should resolve to apply it by stripes on the insensibility. It will maintain the struggle have a prior claim to the Scholarship of £50. per hand alone; and he should discard every in- without yielding a hair's-breadth, but at an annum, provided that in the judgment of the electors strument but the leathern taws. Indiscrimi- expenditure of vital and moral force which it There will be at the same time an election to four exthey are qualified to be scholars of the College. nate beating of the person can hardly fail to is appalling to contemplate. It is a fatal error hibitions, restricted to persons in need of assistance lead to injury in some cases; and, as he should in the schoolmaster to try his strength and at the University. The sons of clergymen resident well remember, still more frequently to the ap- resolution in the use of physical coercion in Somerset or Devon have a prior claim to one, and pearance of injury; in both of which eventua- against a temper of this kind; and a duty of persons born in Devonshire, or educated for the last lities he exposes himself, beyond hope of satis- corresponding obligation on him to be vigilant to another of the exhibitions. Further information three years in any school therein, have a prior claim factory defence, to public reprobation, if not to in exercising that discrimination of character may be obtained from the rector. Candidates are legal penalty. It is not for the schoolmaster and constitution which may save him from desired to call on him on the evening of Monday, the to complain of being subjected to the same re- making it. Violence is here out of place; 14th day of October. sponsibility as the law of the land and public whatever can be effected is to be effected by opinion have imposed on the parent himself. The limit which it is most difficult for him of the value (room, rent, and tuition included) of £75 The punishment of expulsion we must disper annum, and tenable for five years from the day of to perceive clearly is the degree in which he miss in a sentence. The very constitution of election. Of the Demyships, three will be classical, should persevere with this punishment in par- the common school implies, as we have seen, one mathematical, and one in natural science. Of ticular cases. We do not here refer to the a large toleration of individual faults, and the Exhibitions, one will be classical, the other mathecalm and steady repetition of a moderate in- therefore it is that all other expedients should matical. No person will be eligible who shall have fiction, as often as the offence requiring it is be tried with the view of reforming an offender the mathematical and and natural science demyships) attained the age of twenty years, and (in the case of committed by a pupil whose bodily and mental before resorting to expulsion. But occasions who is not sufficiently instructed in other subjects to vigour removes all thoughts of danger, but to will occur when the step becomes imperative, matriculate as a member of the College. And no those cases in which he is tempted by the ap- and, as with corporal punishment, not so much person will be ineligible or entitled to preference by parent failure of his correction to increase it in for any particular kind of fault, as for extreme proportion to what he deems the obstinacy of degrees of all. Whenever a pupil has estabthe scholar. Under this temptation he is in- lished himself as being beyond the teacher's sensibly drawn into a contest which every con- influence or means of restraint, this is the only sideration of his dignity and his usefulness resource that remains; and it may be emshould lead him to decline. It is at once need-ployed with a clear conscience on this ground, less and ineffectual; for if chastisement does that the injury it may entail on the one who is not produce the desired result when adminis already depraved is as nothing compared with tered in reasonable measure, the fact is a suffi- the injury from which it is his duty to preserve cient indication that it is not the remedy to be the whole school. In carrying out this penalty, relied on in the circumstances. Let him pause, however, it would be wise in the schoolmaster then, before committing himself to the issue of to obtain the sanction of the school authosuch a contest. Obstinacy is either a vice or rities; as their act, it would carry with it a a weakness. It is a vice as exhibited by a weight which his position does not always pupil of full intelligence and health, who per- enable him to attach to it. sists in deliberately contravening the require[We have given this article from our conments of morality; and as such it should be punished. It is & vice, moreover, as exhibited temporary entire, as it deals in an eminently by a boy of similarly sound constitution, who clear, practical, and judicious manner, with is mischievous rather than bad, who has a will one of the most difficult questions of school of his own which he proposes to follow, who management.-ED. E. T.]

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAY 30.

The Craven Scholarships have been awarded to
Mr. R. S. Wright, B.A., Fellow of Oriel College, and
Mr. H. Nettleship, Scholar of Corpus.

The Chancellor and Newdigate Prizes have been
awarded as follows:-
English Verse (Newdigate), -Mr. John White,
Scholar of Balliol.

Latin Verse.-Mr. William Liscombe Stonhouse,
Commoner of Brazenose.

English Essay. Mr. R. S.Wright, Fellow of Oriel.
Latin Essay.-Mr. James Lee Warner, Scholar of
Trinity.
JUNE 2.

aims at being the hero of the school, and who
finds in the sympathy which he believes to
exist in the breasts of his comrades for his
fortitude, a sufficient motive to brave the terrors
which bodily pain carries with it in the general
case. We think that there will not be much
attempt at this serio-comic chivalry when the
teacher's character is respected as it ought to
be in school; but we would by all means leave
the teacher free to suppress it by chastisement,
if he can find no other means effectual. Only
we think a little strategy would attain this
end better than an open assault. It is clear
that he cannot continue to keep any pupil in
his school who is strong enough to share
authority along with him. But there is an-
other kind of obstinacy which is not a vice;
the manifestation of a temper clouded and
sullen from constitutional defect or from early
mismanagement; in which nature has been
sparing of mental endowment, but in which
the confidence and presence of mind to use
even the little she has given have been eradi-
cated by irrational discipline. This morbid
state we call stupidity, and, nicknaming it so,
The Eldon (Law) Scholarship has been awarded to
think that we have thereby justified unlimited Mr. H. A. Giffard, B.A., of Corpus. Mr. Giffard
recourse to severe measures. Doubtless it is obtained double first honours at the Michaelmas Ex-
painful and trying to find the same immovable amination before Moderators in 1858, and the Junior
front presented to all our admonitions and Mathematical and Taylorian Scholarships in 1859.
exhortations. But we are not here dealing He also obtained the first place at the examination
for the Indian Civil Service in 1860. It is understood
With a sound mind in a sound body; and we that he has resigned the appointment thus gained, and
are not to treat as voluntary resistance what does not intend proceeding to India.

The Gaisford Prizes have been awarded as fol-
lows:-
Greek Verse.-James Bryce, Scholar of Trinity
College.

Proxime Accesserunt.-C. Bigg, Scholar of Corpus;
A. H. Strong, Corpus.

Greek Prose.-C. Bigg, Scholar of Corpus.
Proxime Accessit.-E. H. Lockhart, University.
A Denyer Prize has been awarded to the Rev. C.
The other Denyer

J. Abbey, of Lincoln College.
Prize was not awarded.

reason of his place of birth. Testimonials of good
conduct will be required, and a certificate of baptism,
the 21st of October, between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m.
which must be presented to the President on Monday,
Candidates for the Exhibitions will be required to
show that they are in need of support at the Univer-
sity. Particulars relating to the examination of na-
tural science and mathematics may be obtained by
applying to the President or Senior Tutor.
There will also be an election to a Fellowship in
Magdalen College in July next. The examination
will be chiefly in subjects recognized in the School of
Litteræ Humaniores; and no papers will be given in
mathematics or natural science. Candidates must
versity of Oxford or the University of Cambridge for
have passed all the examinations required by the Uni-
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and must not be in
possession of any ecclesiastical benefice, or of any
life or during good behaviour, (not being an academi-
property, Government pension, or office tenable for
cal office within the University of Oxford,) the clear
annual value of which shall exceed 2301. They must
also produce testimonials of their fitness to become

Fellows of the College as a place of religion, learning,
and education, and a certificate of baptism, to be pre-
sented to the president on Monday, the 15th of July,
between the hours of 1 and 6 P.M. The Examination
will commence on the following day.
JUNE 7.

Members of Convocation have been informed by a circular sent round to Common-rooms that the Rev. Osborne Gordon, B.D., of Christ Church, is a candidate for the Camden Professorship of Ancient History, now vacant.

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's prizes for the ensuing year, viz.,-For Latin Verse, Cæsar in Senatu interfectus." For an English Essay, "An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times." For a Latin Essay, "Quæritur quisnam sit finis statuen. dus in egenis publice aut privatim sublevandis."

Sir Robert Newdigate's Prize for the best compo-
sition in English verse, not limited to 50 lines, by any
Undergraduate who, on the day appointed for sending
the above exercises to the Registrar of the University
shall not have exceeded four years from the time of
his matriculation; "Julian the Apostate." It is re-
quired that the poem shall be in heroic couplets.
The subject proposed for Earl Stanhope's Prize for
the year 1862 is "Cardinal Wolsey."
JUNE 8.

The subjoined Class-List has been issued by the
Moderators in the Classical School:-
CLASS I.
Barton, Alfred T.
Boyle, Robert F.
Cheyne, John
Duncan, Viscount
Fearon, William A.
Kekewich, George W.

Lloyd, John H.
Merriott, John M.
Reichel, Oswald J.

Corpus Christi College.
Balliol College.
Trinity College.
Balliol College.
New College.

Balliol College
Balliol College.
Merton College.
Queen's College.

Shadwell, Charles L. Christ Church.
Shorting, Chas. G. H.
Thursfield, James R.
Turner, Edward J.

Abbot, Hon. Regi-
nald C. C.
Appleton, C. E. C. B.
Bousfield, James H.
Burnett, John D.
Cary, George
Eyre, George E. B.
Fawssett, John B.
Harrison, Edward H.
Jacobson, William
Martin, Charles
Mason, Frederick L.
Morgan, Henry T.
Mylne, George F.
Parker, Arthur W.
Phelps, Philip A.
Roe, Charles A.
Tahourdin, Chas. J.
Thornewill, Chas. F.
Tomkinson, James

Corpus Christi College.
Corpus Christi College.
Wadham College.
CLASS II.

Christ Church.
St. John's College.
Queen's College.
Balliol College.
Wadham College.
Balliol College.
Exeter College.
New College.
Christ Church.
New College.
Corpus Christi College.
Trinity College.
Balliol College.
Lincoln College.

Queen's College.
Merton College.
Lincoln College.
Corpus Christi College.
Balliol College.
CLASS III.
Christ Church.
Exeter College.
Wadham College.
Corpus Christi College.
Brasenose College.
Merton College.
Exeter College.
Merton College.
Brasenose College.
Exeter College.
Wadham College.
Brasenose College.
Pembroke College.
University College.
Exeter College.
Magdalen College.
Exeter College.
Magdalen College.
O. GORDON,

Bagwell, Richard
Berry, William A. B.
Brierley, Joseph H.
Copleston, John H.
Crosthwaite, R. J.
Franklin, T. M.
Galton, Charles A.
Hannam, Andrew
How, George A. M.
Johns, George St.
Laing, Robert
Lister, John M.
MacGill, William E.
Poole, Robert B.
Reade, Richard B.
Wigram, Ernest
Woodward, W.
Wylde, John

J. E.T. ROGers,

J. Y. SARGENT,
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An election to four Scholarships at this College
(two of 60l., one of 401., and one of 201.) will take
place at Michaelmas next. The examination will
commence on the 14th of October. It will be open
only to persons who have been previously admitted
at the College with the intention of commencing resi-
dence in October, and who are under 20 years of age.
Of the four Scholarships, one will be awarded chiefly
for classics, and one chiefly for mathematics. For
particulars with respect to the subjects of examina
tion, &c., application must be made to the Tutor.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE.

The prizes annually awarded for the best English
essays have been awarded as follows:-3rd year,
Alfred King Cherrill; 2nd year, George Austen; 1st
year, James Forbes Bassett Tinling.

JUNE 3.

Mr. H. C. Turner, from Kensington Proprietary
School.

Mr. T. Longley, from Leeds Grammar School.
Mr. G. W. Botham, from Wisbeach Grammar
School.

Mr. J. W. Wayman, from Bury School.
TANCRED STUDENTS.

At a meeting of the governors and trustees of Tancred's Charities on Friday, May 31, the following were elected Tancred's Students:

In Physic.-Francis John Ramsbotham.
In Common Law.-Edward George Clarke; John
Cyprian Thompson, St. John's College, Cambridge;
Robert Wilkinson, Jesus' College, Cambridge.

At Whitsuntide, 1862, there will be an election of one student in Common Law.

The present annual stipend of each of the Tancred Students in Divinity and Physic is 1071. 8s., and of each of the students in Common Law 871. 8s.

Forms of petition, with the regulations of the studentships, and all other information respecting Tancred's Charities, may be had on application to the clerk of the governors and trustees, Mr. Bartle J. L. Frere, 6, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, London.

On Thursday last Mr. James Orr (for six years a pupil at Bromsgrove School) was elected to a founda. tion scholarship at Jesus' College, Cambridge. On the same day Mr. Joseph Brettell Housman, of Bromsgrove School, was admitted to a scholarship on Sir Thomas Cooke's foundation at Worcester College, Oxford.

AD EUNDEM.

The portions of the classical authors selected by the Board of Medical Studies for examination in the ensuing Academical year are-Hippocrates.-The 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th sections of the Aphorisms. Aretaus.

"On the Causes and Symptoms of Acute Diseases." The 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th chapters of the second Book. Celsus.-The 3rd and 4th Books. JUNE 14. LIST OF ORDINARY DEGREES AT THE BACHELOR OF ARTS' COMMENCE. MENT, JUNE 14.

The subject of the Thesis forming part of the viva voce examination of candidates for Honours in Law is the following maxim of the United States Government: "That, to render a blockade real and effective, there must be a competent force stationed and present at or near the entrance of the port." Moderators. (See 1 Kent's Commentaries. Part I. Lecture vii.) Ds. Atkinson, F.H. Caius Ds. Newman. Cath. The Essays must be sent in to the Regius Professor of Laws at Downing College on or before Saturday,

The Examiners in the Final Mathematical School the 19th of October, together with the particular have issued the following Class-list:

Giffard, H. A.

Matthews, J. E.

Mend, C. S.

Morris, R. L.

Bengough, E.

Hesketh Fleetwood,

P. L.

Martin, W. W.
Sellon, E. E.

Wicksteed, J. H.

I.

Corpus Christi.
Pembroke.

II.

University.
III.
Pembroke.
IV.
Oriel.

New Inn Hall.

Brasenose.

St. Edmund' Hall.
Worcester.

J. A. DALE,

G. S. WARD,

C. J. FAULKNER,

CLASS LIST.

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Examiners.

question of Law selected by each candidate for his
viva voce examination.

The examination will be held on Wednesday, the
23rd of October, and the following days, according to
a programme to be affixed to the door of the
University Schools some time before the 23rd of
October.

The following have been elected scholars of Em-
manuel College :-First class, Tonge and Wallace, to
Scholarships of 60l. a year. Second class, Lamb,
Lee, and Wood, to Scholarships of 301. a year.
The following scholars of the first class have also
been elected to Thorpe Scholarships of 301. a year,
viz., Chapman and Rose.

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The Examiners in the School of Law and History Lincoln, for the foundation of a prize, to be called the have issued the following Class-list :

CLASS I.
CLASS II.

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Kaye Prize, to be given every fourth year to the
graduate, of not more than ten years' standing from
his first degree, who shall write the best English dis-
sertation upon some subject or question relating
to ancient Ecclesiastical History, or to the Canon of
Scripture, on important points of Biblical Criticism.

The prize to consist of the accumulation of
interest on the capital sum during the four years pre-
ceding, and the successful candidate to print and
publish his dissertation at his own expense, and to

Godfrey, F., Lincoln. Thomas, G. G. T., Balliol. send ten copies to the Cathedral Library at Lincoln,

R. MICHELL,

M. BERNARD,

W. W. SHIRLEY,

JUNE 15.

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and one copy to the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Pro-
fessor of Divinity, and each of the two examiners.

The subject of the dissertation is to be given out by
the Vice-Chancellor in the month of December, and
the exercises sent in on or before the 31st October

The Mathematical Moderators have this day issued next following. the subjoined class-list :

CLASS I.

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The adjudicators of the prize are to be two persons nominated by the Regius Professor of Divinity, and approved by the Senate.

JUNE 7.

The following gentlemen have been elected Scholars
of Magdalen College, Cambridge:-

Mr. G. H. D. Wilson, from Eton College.
Mr. T. S. Gleadow, from Shrewsbury School.
Mr. R. G. Glenn, from Christ's Hospital.

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The following gentlemen have been elected Foundation Scholars :- Catton, Fynes-Clinton, Dinnis, Gwatkin, Laing, Sephton, Spencer, Torry, Whitworth, and Williams, of the third year; Falkner and Hockin, of the second year; and Strickey, of the first year.

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EXAMINERS.-The Professor of Divinity; the
Rev. H. L. Mansel, B.D., Magdalene College, Ox-
ford, Waynefleet Professor of Moral and Metaphysical
Philosophy; the Rev. C. J. Ellicott, B.D., St. John's
College, Cambridge, Hulsean Professor of Divinity.
Bell, Henry, University College.
Bethell, William, Bishop Hatfield's Hall.
Farmer, John, B.A., University College.
Gill, William, Bishop Hatfield's Hall.
Lennard, Dacre B., M.A., University College.
Taylor, William F., Bishop Hatfield's Hall.

PRIZES.

Graduate, D. B. Lennard, M.A.
Non-Graduate, William Gill.

PUBLIC EXAMINATION IN MEDICINE.
EXAMINERS.-Wm, Dawson, M.D., M.R.C.S.;
Thomas F. M'Nay, M.D., M.R.C.S.; Samuel Fen-
wick, M.D., M.R.C.S.

FOR A LICENCE IN MEDICINE.

R. F. Cooke, Newcastle-on-Tyne Coll. of Medicine.

FOR THE DEGREE OF M.D.
Thomas Thompson Pyle, M.B., Bishop Cosin's Hall.
William Young, M.B., Newcastle-on-Tyne College of

Medicine.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.

Of the Freshmen of the ensuing year the following have been elected:-A. Marshall, from Merchant Taylors' School, to an open exhibition of 401. a-year, tenable for four years; Barlow, from Marlborough School, to an exhibition of 50l. a-year, tenable for three years, Cust, from Durham School, to an exhibition of 301. a-year, tenable for four years, with an addition of 201. a-year for two years; Levitt, from Pocklington School, to an exhibition of 40l. a-year, tenable for three years, with an addition of 201. for two years; Walker, from Christ's Hospital, to an exhibition of 301. a-year, tenable for two years; Watson, from Stamford School, to the Marquis of Exeter's exhibition of 20%. a-year, tenable for three (A) A List of the first two Candidates in each subject vears, with an addition of 201. a-year for two years; and J. R. Wilson, from St. Peter's Collegiate School, London, to an exhibition of 50%. per annum, tenable for two years.

PUPILS' EXAMINATION.
MIDSUMMER, 1861.

1. Amos, H.

of Examination.

I. PUPILS EXAMINED AT THE COLLEGE.
English.
Principals.
Mr. Morley, Bromley
Academy, Kent.
Mr. Foy, Seymour House,
West Brompton.
Mr. Freeman, Stratford.

Cope, from Rugby School; Roach, from Marl- Pupils.
borough College; Kenneth Wilson, from Leeds
School; and Wiseman, from Oakham School, were
elected to minor scholarship of 50l. per annum,
Grants of 30%. each were made to Sephton, Laing, 2. Beddow, J.
Main, Jones, Bateman, Graves, J. D. Evans,
Hockin, Snowdon, Cotterill, Pooley, Stuckey, Baron,
Ewbank, Sutton, Smallpeice, and Moss.

æq.

Palmer, C.

A grant of 50% was made to Groves; grants of 401. 1. Duff, C. P. ' each to Stevens, Rudd, Archbold, and Ingram; of

Scripture History.

204 each to Cherrill and Warmington, and a grant of 2. Bradbury, E. A. 177. was given to Terry.

JUNE 17.

TRINITY HALL.

1. Bradbury, J. F.

1. Bradbury, E. A.

At a meeting of this society on the 15th instant, Frank Lawrence Hopkins, B.A., 11th Wrangler, 1859, 2. Bradbury, E. A. was elected a Fellow of the College; and Robert Augustus Bayford, B.A., 36th Wrangler and firstclass of the Law Tripos of 1860, was elected into the vacant Law Studentship. The following gentlemen were at the same time elected Scholars:- J. W. Teevan, of the second year; S. Tennant, H. S. Boys. A. F. Millett, and D. L. Alexander, of the 1st year. JUNE 18.

The following have been elected Minor Scholars of
Trinity College:-

George Samuel Brown, City of London School.
Basil Edward Hammond, Rugby School.
John Maxwell Image, Brighton College.

Henry Charles Watson, University Coll., London.
James Westland, Wimbledon School.

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Mr. Ireland, Elm House,
Edmonton.

Mr. Long, Clapham New
Park.

English History.

Mr. Long, Clapham New
Park.

Mr. Long, Clapham New
Park.

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PUBLIC EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF B.A.1. Foster, R. le Nève
EXAMINERS.-The Professor of Greek; the Pro- (Mathematical Prize.)
fessor of Mathematics; the Rev. John Mitchinson, 2. Shaw, W.
M.A., Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford; the Rev.

Dr. Pinches, Clarendon
House, Kennington.
Dr. Aldom, Salway House,
Leyton.

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