Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 27
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AjNJMual report 1800 23 objects that the health and outward well-being of the Pa- rishioners should be in their degree cared for as necessary though secondary elements in the cure of souls The local influence of the Clergy cannot be more beneficially employed or more surely increased than in promoting amongst their people habits of cleanliness decency and self-respect in pro- viding sufficient supply of pure air and water and in eradicating the seeds of the various forms of disease and wretchedness which lurk in over-crowded dark unventi- lated dwellings And if attention to these particulars is becoming more and more imperative upon the Parochial Clergy knowledge of the principles upon which physical improvement depends can hardly be acquired too early Such were the considerations which induced the Council to establish this course of lectures open at trifling expense to all Students of the College but especially designed for the gra- tuitous instruction of Theological Students Dr Guy Pro- fessor of Forensic Medicine in the Medical Department has been appointed to deliver these lectures During Lent Term the Professor treated of the subjects alluded to above and he is about to devote the concluding lecture of this most inte- resting course to consideration of the measures to which Clergyman in the absence of medical advice can safely have recourse to meet such emergencies of sudden disease or acci- dent as may easily arise in populous parishes The Department of General Literature and Science fully maintains its well-merited reputation both in the Col- lege and in the Universities At Oxford former Student of King's College was placed in the first Class in Mathematics and subsequently obtained the University Mathematical Scho- larship open to Bachelors of Arts Two others have been elected to Scholarships open to the whole University At Cambridge former Student the first who obtained the Senior Mathematical Scholarship of this College was this year second Wrangler and second Smith's Prizeman Four others were in the list of Wranglers one of whom was also placed in the first Class of the Classical Tripos and four were amongst the
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