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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 53 which firmly believe to be admirably well suited to promote their best interest in professional point of view But there are other conditions besides those of purely Medical kind which are such as will satisfy us that the candidates for these Scholarships have not neglected studies which have reference to their highest interests and that their education has been conducted so as to enable them to cultivate general literature with some hope of pleasure and profit to themselves The Candidates for the Senior Scholarships are required to pass the same examination in Divinity as that held for the Warne- ford Prize namely in the Holy Scriptures and in Butler's Analogy and those for the Junior Scholarships are recpiired to pass an examination in Scripture History and in Latin In conclusion cannot avoid congratulating your Lordship who has been the zealous and efficient Chairman of the Council and the other distinguished members of that body on the present effective and prosperous condition of the Medical as of the other departments of this College And hope may be excused for remarking that whilst the last few years have witnessed much angry discussion upon what has been called Medical Reform whilst Minister of State has failed in his efforts to introduce more generally improvements into medi- cal education those who administer the affairs of this College have unaided by State patronage or by large pecuniary en dowments founded and brought to maturity system of Medical Instruction which has not only wrought the most beneficial iniluence upon the Alumni of the College but has dilfused spirit of improvement throughout all the metro- politan establishments for medical education -the changes in which whether existing or proposed are all in the spirit and in imitation of that system which by the fostering care of your Lordship and the Council has been now for many years successfully pursued at King's College In 1831 the College was first opened-the matriculated Medical Students were recpiired to conform to Collegiate rules-and shortly afterwards the Leathes and Warneford Prizes were instituted for the encouragement of religious knowledge