Report of the President of Queen's College, Belfast, for 1903-04

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S Report of the President the list of former students of the College who have attained to places on the teaching staff', and his brilliant academical career leads us to anticipate valuable results from his appointment to this important lectureship. 
The usual long list of high honours was gained by our students at the examinations of the Royal University and else¬ where during the year, and will be found fully recorded in the appendix to this Report. 
To give a full list of them here would be impossible, the numbers being so very large, and a selection would be invidious. 
I may perhaps, however, be excused for mentioning the remarkable fact that of the two Junior Fellow¬ ships of the Royal University which were awarded last autumn both were gained by men from this College, that in Natural Philosophy by Mr. 
T. 
B. 
Vinycomb, M.A., 
and that in Chemistry with Experimental Physics by Mr. 
John Hawthorne, B.A. 
These Junior Fellowships are the great prizes of the University. 
Their pecuniary value is £800 each, and the examination for them is very severe and searching. 
The Medical Studentship (which is the highest University prize on the medical side), was also gained by one of our students, Mr. 
W. 
A. 
Osborne, M.B., 
and the answering of the second candidate, Mr. 
John C. 
Rankin, M.B. 
(also a Belfast man), was of such a distinguished character that the Senate awarded him a special prize. 
The pecuniary value of this Studentship is £400. 

Religious Supervision of the Students. 
During the year the excellent provisions made in the College Statutes, for the supervision of the students, and their instruc¬ tion in the tenets of their respective churches, were faithfully carried out by the several Deans of Residences who have been appointed for that purpose by warrant under the Royal Sign Manual. 
At the commencement of the session each Dean was furnished by the Registrar, according to the usual custom, with a list of the names and addresses of the students belonging to his Church, and I now append the reports which I have received from the Deans as to the manner in which their responsible duties were discharged, and as to their opinion of the students com¬ mitted to their care. 
I give the reports in the order of the seniority of the Deans:— 

" St. 
Andrew's Rectory, 

" University-square, 

" Belfast, June 8, 1904. 
"Bear Me. 
President.—At 
your request, I have much pleasure in reporting on the conduct and deportment of the students of Queen's Col¬ lege, Belfast, who are members of the Church of Ireland, for the past ses¬ sion. 
"Their moral .conduct 
and gentlemanly demeanour are exemplary; nothing has occurred that might be deemed a flaw in this account. 
At the beginning of the session, the Deans, in accordance with what is now th.e 
custom, met the students in the Union Buildings at a pleasant and profitable conversazione, at which also I was happy to welcome many of