Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 48

annual report 49 There is yet another subject which the Council cannot overlook in their retrospect of the past year It will be within the knowledge of many of the Governors and Pro- prietors that at the time when the College was founded the Council were unable to complete the Building as it should have been completed by the erection of Chapel corre- sponding in its structure and proportions to the position which it was hoped the College would occupy among the Educational Institutions of England That hope has been abundantly fulfilled The work of the College has prospered new Departments have been founded its usefulness and reputation have increased and yet the Chapel has continued one or two very slight alterations excepted as it was at first-ill-pro- portioned inconvenient unsightly The attention of the Council was drawn by the Chaplain in October last to the importance of doing something to remedy these evils It was represented to them that in College which professed to be founded on the principle of giving to the religious element of education its rightful pre-eminence defects of this nature involved at least the appearance of inconsistencies The Chapel of such College ought to attract not to repel to be remembered afterwards with interest and attachment not with the feeling that it was among the poorest edifices ever set apart in an Institution of this nature for purposes of worship Associations of this kind it was urged are not to be slighted either in their direct influence on the moral training of boys and young men during the time of their education or in the power they exercise over them after that education is completed The Council accepting these principles in their general bearings gladly gave their assent to the proposal that sub- scriptions should be collected for Chapel Improvement Fund It did not seem to them that they would be justified in the present condition of the College in applying any part of the Corporate Funds of the College to this purpose but they trust that the Governors and Proprietors will co-operate heartily in the efforts which the Members of the Council have