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52 Μ EDI AL DEPART ג ί Κ Ν Γ is situate cannot avoid expressing my conviction that there is no part of London where improvements calculated to afford great public convenience could be effected at more trifling cost The step which the Committee of Management has just taken in the purchase of the large piece of ground to which have referred will have no doubt pave the זז ay for these improvements and their project is on this account the more deserving of the liberal support of the public have now my Lord to refer to the most important event which has occurred during the last year as affecting the Department which have the honour to represent allude to that extremely wise measure lately adopted by the Council of founding Scholarships for the encouragement of diligent Students in all the departments of the College At the same time must with all humility claim for the Medical Depart- ment the merit of having originating these endowments in King's College In the year 1841 proposal was made to the Council for the establishment of two Scholarships each of the value of 40 per annum provided they would endow one of the same value This proposal was assented to and at the distribution of prizes in 842 had myself the honour of presenting to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury not only the first Scholar in the Medical Department of King's College but the first Scholar connected with any Institution for Medical Education By the late liberal resolution of the Council six Scholarships have been established for Medical Students of the first year-two for those of the second year- in addition to three previously established for those of the third and fourth year in all eleven Scholarships for the encouragement of Medical learning Let us hope my Lord that some modern Cains or Radelitle may be moved to add to these endowments for the good of that Science whose aim it is to diminish or relieve the numerous ills to which flesh is heir The conditions under which these Scholarships may be ob- tained have immediate reference to the encouragement of the Students to pursue the course of education which has been laid down for them by the Professors of this College course