Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 25

annual report 1818 21 The Theological Department is entitled to prominent place in the retrospect of the past year The number of Students including Graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and Associates of King's College has been steadily increasing and there is every reason to believe that many more are preparing themselves both in the Department of General Literature and Science and elsewhere to take advantage of the course of professional education here provided Two years have sufficed to give definite form to what at first Avas necessarily experi- mental The system of instruction which has been tested during that time by daily experience as well as by terminal examinations appears to work well The conduct and diligence of the Students have been exemplary and it may be confidently hoped that those Students whose final examination is taking place during this week will be found under the Divine blessing duly qualified for the sacred duties which they are desirous of undertaking The examination previous to the entrance of such Theological Students as are not Graduates of the Universities or Associates of King's College has been by degrees made more stringent than it was at first In order to provide systematic instruction for those persons who at more advanced age than usual wish to qualify them- selves by their classical attainments for the entrance examina- tion new class has been formed under the name of The class of Theological Candidates No one is admitted before the age of twenty no limit is assigned to the continuance of this preparatory course of study but no length of time spent in this preliminary class will entitle the Student to any diminution of the six terms which must be devoted to study in the Theological Department itself Those who have already been matriculated in this class will probably be followed by many more and thus supply of Students may be kept up who as soon as they are successively qualified under the care of the College authorities will pass into the Theological Department The Council have the satisfaction of stating that they have succeeded in obtaining premises in the immediate vicinity of