Calendar: 1883-1884 Page 89

REPORT 85 In the Staff the only changes which have taken place are the promotion of Mr Wotherspoon from the Third to the Upper Fifth Form and the election to the Mastership thus vacated of the Rev Elcum of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge The Head Master is able to report most satisfactorily of the general conduct and discipline of the boys during the past year II In relation to the second portion of their Report the Council have little to lay before the Court except the announce- ment of the passing of the new Act of Parliament under which as superseding the old Charter the College will henceforward be conducted It is hardly necessary to say that it will in no way change the fundamental principles or the general system and organisation of the College Its effects will be to ex- tend the sphere of its operations by sanctioning its undertaking to do for the Education of Women what it has already done for the education of men and by allowing the erection of auxiliary Halls or Colleges within fifteen miles of London to harmonise the constitution of the College more thoroughly with the actual condition of facts by converting into Membership carrying no pecuniary interest the position of the Proprietors of Shares and the original Donors who had long ceased to expect from the College any pecuniary returns and by uniting with them in that membership the Honorary Fellows of the College to provide for simpler and more effective working of the arrangements for the election of the Council and the conduct of the Annual and other Courts of the members of the College The Council hope that the passing of the Act may open to the College new period of usefulness not unworthy of its distinguished reputation in the past and may enable it to extend still further its great educational work The Council regret that they are unable to announce any further progress in the organisation of the work for the Higher Education of Women now going on at Kensington The subscription list has reached £G 000 and the Council