Calendar: 1855-1856 Page 49

ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 1855 45 altogether open or limited only to those who have received provisional appointments the system laid down in this De partment for the preparation of Candidates will be found admirably suited to its purpose The friends of those who have already joined the Classes speak with great satisfaction of the progress made in the prescribed studies In the course of last autumn Dr Travers Twiss very kindly gave to the Students of this Course and to the public generally gratuitous and most useful Course of Lectures on the Law of Nations It is always with much pleasure that the Council approach the part of their Report which touches on King's College School Dr Major says -" In reviewing the past year can report most favourably of the good conduct and steady diligence of the pupils Of the Upper Sixth Class who come under my daily tuition and observation can bear the strongest testimony to their exemplary deportment and unremitted attention to their studies Of the other Classes am enabled to form judgment from the terminal examinations in which have found the Pupils well behaved and desirous to do their very best and the result has been that consider them pro- gressing soundly in their several degrees The Masters have laboured earnestly in the discharge of their duties beg to add that the part of the School under the more immediate superintendence of the Vice-Master the Rev Fearnley is admirably conducted to the entire satisfaction of parents and to the improvement of the boys in their preparation for the professions they have in view The Principal also reports that in no former year have so few questions affecting dis- cipline ever come under his notice The following Honours have been gained by Pupils of the School during the past year At Oxford Messrs George Winter Price and Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing were placed in the First Class in Moderations William Stebbing and Charles William Bardswell in the First Class in Law and Modern History Frederick Harrison has been elected to Fellowship at Wadham Frederick Hichens to Scholarship at Exeter Henry Robert Anderson