Calendar: 1931-1932 Page 422

ANNUAL REPORT particularly to its President Mr Arthur Reavell for the interest which they have shown and the support which they have given to this development and to Mr Reavell and other benefactors for the very generous gifts of laboratory equipment which are recorded elsewhere in this Report In response to the Appeal issued in connection with the Centenary of the College promises and donations amounting to £87 500 have been received to date While the general Fund remains open it is hoped to organise special efforts to secure the completion of the endowments for the Chairs of Physics and Electrical Engineering and to collect the sum necessary to finance the reconstruction of the Chemical Laboratories From the funds already collected sum of £4 150 6s purchase price of £5 000 Consolidated Stock was handed over to the Delegacy and has been set aside to form the nucleus of Centenary Scholarships and Bursaries Fund The first charge upon the income of this fund will be new Scholarship in Arts to be called the Henry Neville Gladstone Scholarship in honour of an old student who was the principal donor to the fund The income will further be used to raise the value of the Sambrooke Scholarships in Arts and Engineering which have ceased to bear their proportionate value to fees The surplus income of the fund will be used at the discretion of the Principal and the Deans of the Faculties for the award of bursaries or the grant of loans to necessitous students During the year the regulations for the award of all College Scholarships and Prizes were reviewed revised and so far as possible reduced to common form laborious but useful piece of work In spite of the additional accommodation provided by the opening of the East Wing the number of students in the College is causing some embarrassment After very careful investigation it was decided not for the present to adopt any general machinery for the limitation of numbers Upon academic grounds it proved necessary to limit the admissions into the Honours School of History to fixed number but beyond this and the stricter enforcement of existing rules of admission such as those of age qualification it was decided not to go for the present At the same time numbers cannot now be allowed to increase indefinitely and the problem will require attention The Board of Education approved an application of the Delegacy for the admission of 15 additional men and 15 women as recognised day students graduates of the one-year course Teacher's Diploma in 1930 bringing the total number of recognised students for 1930-31 up to 90 75 men and 15 women Lebkary The number of readers and the number of books lent out have been well maintained There is again an increase in the number of books presented to the College complete list of which will be found in Appendix IV The additional reading space which has been provided by handing