Calendar: 1937-1938 Page 438

ANNUAL REPORT XXV de Mead Loans to the Government by the City of London 1272-1485 Ruby Saywell The Development of the Feminist Idea in England 1789-1833 Toye English Societies for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery 1787-1860 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Number of Students Day Evening Intermediate 85 39 General and Subsidiary lst Year 16 2nd Year 27 Honours 1st Year 30 2nd Year 22 11 3rd Year 16 10 Diploma lst 2nd and 3rd Year 13 38 4th Year 10 Journalism lst Year 38 2nd Year 30 Postgraduate 12 Occasional 15 Totals 295 137 432 Results of Examinations In the Final Honours Examination 21 students obtained Degrees being placed in the First Class one of whom Mr Terence John Bew Spencer was awarded by the University the George Smith Studentship and by the College the Inglis Studentship Twelve students were placed in the Second Class in the Upper and in the Lower Division The Brewer Prize in English Literature was awarded to Mr Spencer and the Early English Text Society Prize to Mr Edward Leonard Hillman Twelve students gained the University Diploma Day in English Language and Literature with mark of Distinction In the Ses- sional Examination for Evening Diploma Students lst 2nd and 3rd Year 30 received Certificates 14 being awarded Certificates of Merit and Certificates of Merit with special Distinction Nine students 4th Year passed the Final Examination for the Diploma in English Lan- guage and Literature with Distinction Mr Smith was recommended for the award both of the Churton Collins Prize and the Gilchrist Medal for Literature Higher Degrees Ph Aiyar Literary Groups in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1744 Ph Aughterson The Influence of Radical Doctrine and