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annual report affords an additional stimulus to all the branches of instruc- tion provided in this Department The study of Classical Literature and of Mathematics is not neglected or declining but Modern History and English and the Foreign Lan- guages are gradually asserting their claims to proportionate attention It must be admitted however that the number of Students who on leaving the College resort to Oxford and Cambridge has been undergoing no inconsiderable diminu- tion and the amount of distinctions which the Council have annually to record is of course lessened in proportion At the University of Oxford Mr Henry Wace obtained honours in the School of Literse Humaniores as well as in the School of Law and Modern History and in the last-named School Mr Murray Browne was placed in the First Class In the University of Cambridge Mr William Henry Hoare Hudson Senior Mathematical Scholar in 1857 was 3d Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos Mr Walter Bailey 2d Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman of last year has been elected Fellow of St John's Mr Donne Fellow of Trinity and Mr Longden Senior Mathematical Scholar in 1855 and Mr Stone Fellows of Queen's Mr Stone has also received the appointment of Assistant Astronomer at the Royal Ob- servatory Greenwich In the University of London Mr Caldwell and Mr Tovey both Scholars of this College have obtained honours at Matriculation-the former in Mathematics the latter in Classics The following Students were successful in the Examination last year for appointments to the India Civil Service Robert James Leeds Henry James Newbery George Spence Desborough Dale Joseph Smith The Department op the Applied Sciences is in highly efficient and prosperous condition The two Sections-the Civil and the Military-which it now comprises are found
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