6 Report of the President founded, to endow it with the means of doing this, and
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the beneficence of generous friends of education has materially augmented its powers in this respect.
I have the pleasure of reporting that the Council has instituted a series of
New Scholarships for the special encouragement of modern literary studies.
During the three years commencing with next session, it is proposed to offer for competition twelve such Scholarships, ear-h tenable for a year, and of the value of £24.
Two of the new Scholarships will, in each year, be offered for competition to matriculated Arts students entering the College, and it is intended that tho subjects of examination shall be English, French, German and Latin.
The first examination for these Scholarships will be held in October next.
Two of the Scholarships will be appropriated to students entering upon their second year.
The first examination for these will be held in October, 1905.
Two will be available for students entering upon their third year, tho first examination being held in October, 1906.
The Scholarships will be open, like all our other Scholarships, both to men and women.
We have deemed it advisable to take this important step —a new step in our College—in order to meet the needs of those who wish to pursue a modern course of studies, and we have no doubt that experience will prove its wisdom.
We have no intention of faltering in our allegiance to the older learning.
Classics and Mathematics continue, and will continue, to occupy the place which they have always held in our curricula, and the Scholarships which have hitherto been awarded for proficiency in them will still be offered for competition.
The Purser Studentship.
Very happily, just at the time when we are instituting these Modern Scholarships, there has been established a very valuable foundation for the furtherance of study and research'in Mathe¬ matical Science.
The history of this foundation deserves record.
In October last we were called to lament the death of the beloved and ever-to-be-remembered John Purser.
He had only retired from the Chair of Mathematics in the end of 1901, and we had hoped for him a long enjoyment of the rest which he had earned.
But it had been otherwise decreed by the all-wise Disposer of events.
His death caused the deepest grief in College, where we had had such long experience of his lofty character, his unselfish aims, his devotion to duty, his profound scholarship.
It is a great joy to us that his name is to be perpetuated among us in a manner at once most appropriate and most useful.
PI is brother, Professor Frederick Purser, F.T.C.D.,
has placed in my hands the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of founding a Student¬ ship in Mathematics in memory of our departed Professor, and thus carrying on the work in which his life was spent.
We anticipate great advantage to the College and to the cause of Mathematical Science from this foundation.
It has been arranged
