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annual report 55 experiment therefore tried in the institution of the Evening Classes is certainly successful in enabling men excellently fitted for the work to enter the ranks of the Ministry The number of those availing themselves of this arrangement is however still small probably in consequence of severe pressure of the work in conjunction with that of daily professional occupation But the general position of the Department is eminently satisfactory The numbers are at least as high as in the early days when it was exposed to much less competition and the Principal is able to report very favourably of the work-a report confirmed by the fact that of the 31 Students passing out in 1879 12 were placed in the First Class 12 in the Second and only in the Third In this Department the Rev Ball has resigned the post of Chaplain and Censor to which he was appointed last year and the Council have elected on the recommenda- tion of the Principal the Rev Charles Coleridge Mackarness of Exeter College Oxford to supply his place The number of Associates of this Department is now 654 of whom 251 passed out in the First Class jB -In the Department of General Literature and Science the Council have to report slight diminution in the number of Students from 45 to 39 The work however has certainly fully kept up its standard of excellence To meet the wider range of the Classical study of the present day Lectures in Ancient History and Literature have been added to the regular curriculum and Course of Lectures on Moral Philosophy will be delivered each Academical year having special reference to Classical Literature It is the object of this Department while preparing Students for Oxford and Cambridge to supply also an independent system of Higher Education for those who desire to complete their studies in London on the conclusion of their school career In this Department the Council have to report the resig- nation of the Chair of Classics by Professor Mayor after