DUBLIN UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.
App.
No.
XVII.
The following prizes are paid out of the funds of the College, viz.
:-
Archbishop King's Divinity Prizes, Biblical Greek Prizes, .
.
And .
.
• Ecclesiastical History Prizes, «
And Divinity Composition Prizes, of £2 each,
Anui <al Value.
£ s.
d.
20 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Varying in total amount.
There are six Theological Exhibitions founded by the Board with the consent of the Visitors ; three of £60 each and three of £40 each, amounting to £300 per annum.
The total average expenditure of Trinity College on the Divinity School during the three years ending November 20, 1877, was £2,867 16s.,
as shown by the following return, dated 14th January, 1878, and signed by the Bursar:—
App.
Nos.
VII.
& XII.
Rev.
Dr.
Carson, Qq.
3S1-386.
App.
No.
vi.
Particulars.
Salary of Regius Professor, , .
.
Part salary of Archbishop King's Lecturer, over and above endowment,*.
.....
Assistant Lecturers, ......
Salary of Professor of Biblical Greek, , , Payments to Examiners in Divinity, .
, , Prizes and Exhibitions, viz.
:— Archbishop King's Prizes, .
» » • Biblical Greek do.,
» , .
.
Ecclesiastical History do.,
, .
, .
Divinity Composition do.,
....
Theological Exhibitions, and Prizes granted at that Examination, ..,.„•
J.
O.
O.
s s 0 a 1876, .
.
, 187/, a a a
187-
£ s.
d.
1,212 0 0 053 G 8 4G0 0 0 100 0 0 89 5 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 320 0 0 2,901 11 8 2,853 8 8 2,848 7 7 3)8,603 7 11 .£2,867
16 0
£ s.
d.
1,212 0 0 G53 G 8 400 0 0 100 0 0 8G 2 0
15 0 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 300 0 0 2,853 8 8
1877.
£ s.
d.
1,212 0 0 G55 5 7 'J 72 10 o 100 0 0 90 12 0 10 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 12 0 0 260 0 0 2,818 7 7
* Note.—
Cluuged on the decrumcnts.
The question as to whether the present expenditure should be continued, or other provision be made in lieu thereof, and if so what other, has occupied a good deal of our attention.
There has been a strong opinion expressed that the Divinity School should remain within the walls of Trinity College.
At the same time it is generally (though not quite unanimously), felt that it cannot remain on its present footing.
The time may possibly arrive when there will not be a single clergyman upon the Board of Trinity College : several members of it may after a long interval not even be members of the Irish Church.
Should that state of affairs come about the members of the Church would be naturally dissatisfied.
Further than this, as there is no longer any obligation upon the Fellows to take Holy Orders; and as no Fellow has in fact done so, of those who have been elected during the last thirteen years, it is evident that it will no longer be possible to keep up a supply of Professors and Lecturers from amongst the Fellows.
Already two assistant Lecturers have been appointed from outside the Fellows, and the time may arrive when there will not be a single person m the College, qualified to hold a Professorship of Divinity.
Several suggestions have been made to us as to what changes would be desirable.
We have received statements— I.
From the Divinity School Committee of the General Synod of the Church of Ireland.—-The
Committee go into the matter at length, and with regard to the particular subject of our inquiry, viz.,
the sums hitherto expended on the purposes of the Divinity School, have expressed a wish that they should be capitalized, and the amount placed in the hands of the Representative Body in trust.
The Committee, however, do not desire entirely to sever the connexion which has existed between the Divinity School of the Church and Trinity College, and they apparently reserve to the Church its right to bring for¬ ward its claims for^any general loss it may have sustained as regards the Theological educa¬ tion of its future ministers owing to recent legislation, when the time arrives for Parliament to consider the final appropriation of the realized assets of the late Church Establishment.
With regard to their scheme of capitalization, the Committee point to the Advowson
