Calendar: 1848-1849 Page 27

annual report 1848 23 proficiency of those who were formerly under training in it continues to be highly appreciated in the professions in refer- ence to which it was instituted former Student has obtained the first Mathematical prize at Addiscombc The Council indulge the hope that besides the professional career which is open to Students of this Department an increased number of other young men will avail themselves of course of practical and scientific study eminently conducive both to their future advantage in the improvement of property and to the still higher object of expanding and advancing their intellectual powers The Medical Department continues to send forth into the world succession of well trained men at once distinguished by their professional qualifications and bearing witness to the religious and moral impressions which it is the design of the College system to encourage The newly entered Medical Students while in point of numbers they do not fall short of the yearly average appear to be more than usually disposed to avail themselves of the privileges held out to them in the College Chapel and in the Divinity Lectures The Council have the pleasure to announce that fourteen new sets of rooms for the reception of Medical Students are in state of considerable forwardness and will be ready for occupation in October The actual and prospective increase in the number of resi- dent Students has rendered it necessary to create an officer who will be specially charged with the maintenance of disci- pline and good order The Rev Ε Plumptre has been accordingly appointed to the office of Censor King's College Hospital notwithstanding the deficiency of its funds as compared with the extended sphere of its usefulness has neither relaxed in its charitable efforts for the relief of the suffering poor nor fallen short of its former efficiency as an auxiliary to the medical education provided in the College