Calendar: 1850-1851 Page 33

annual report 1850 20 vote of 000 to be paid to the Committee for the Building and Permanent Endowment of King's College Hospital on such conditions as the Council shall think fit VII That Motion founded on the foregoing Resolutions be submitted to an Extraordinary General Court of the Go- vernors and Proprietors of King's College London to be held at the College on Friday December 21 at two o'clock Such then were the arguments which induced the Council to recommend grant of 000 to this object and such were the motives which prevailed with the General Court on the 21st of December 1849 and led the Proprietors present at that Meeting unanimously to accede to this proposition The Council rejoice to be able to add that the Funds for promoting this work have been rapidly increasing until on the day on which this Court is assembled upwards of 25 000 have been subscribed When they remember that this Hospital as Charity is relieving upwards of 22 000 patients annually and as school of instruction is now affording practical informa- tion of the most important kind to 159 of their Students the Council cannot refrain from commending this work to the co-operation of individual members of this Court Dr Major reports most favourably of the state of King's College School It appears that under his able superin- tendence the behaviour and diligence of the Pupils have been exemplary that no case of misconduct has occurred which it has been necessary to visit with severity that the Terminal Examinations have given satisfactory evidence of the good and sound progress made by the Pupils and that the judgment formed of them within the School itself has been confirmed by the distinctions of various kinds which have been obtained by them at the Universities In particular it deserves mention that amongst those who graduated as Wranglers at Cambridge in the last examination five had been Pupils of the School and that at Oxford the same Pupil who was noticed in the last Report as having gained an open Scholarship at Balliol College has been elected in the past term to the University Ma- thematical Scholarship open to all Undergraduates Dr Major