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36 ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 1855 his having for more than a'twelvemonth set apart half-an- hour every morning before the opening of the College for private conference with the Students one of whom attends in succession each day The Principal continues to receive from His Grace the Visitor and from many of the Bishops as well as from their ex- amining Chaplains most satisfactory assurances of the effects of the whole system of Theological Education at King's College as evinced in the examinations of the Theological Associates for admission into Holy Orders and subsequently in the efficiency of their Pastoral work The Preparatory Class was during the last term very fully attended and as usual has furnished many recruits to the Theological Department proper Student of this Department the Rev Joseph Abbott Temple who gained the Exhibition in Classics at the Matri- dilation Examination of the University of London in 1851 has highly distinguished himself in the same subject this year at the Examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts The Council continue to regard the Department which was first founded viz -the Department of General Literature and Science-as representing and embodying one of the most important objects of the College They have it is true founded from time to time new Departments for the culti- vation of certain professional branches of instruction with view of bringing those special callings within the in- fluence of the Church of England They have endeavoured to accommodate themselves as it were to the particular and growing wants of great practical and intellectual people the power of doing this being one of the most striking characte- ristics of King's College London but they adhere notwith- standing to the old opinion that there is no basis of education so universally secure and lasting or so well calculated to enlarge the mind as that of careful training in Classics and Mathematics and that there is no one of the higher callings of life which is not furthered as well as adorned by such studies With these convictions the Council advert with un
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