Calendar: 1937-1938 Page 72
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68 prizes No Student may obtain this Prize second time The Prize will be awarded on the result of an Examination and an Essay to be submitted by the Candidates Half the total marks will be assigned to the Essay Names of Candidates and their Essays must be sent to the Secretary of the College on the Saturday preceding the Examination The subject in 1937 will be the poetry of George Herbert The subject in 1938 will be Boswell's Life of Johnson For the Examination in 1937 Candidates will be expected to show acquaintance with the life and times of George Herbert and in 1938 with the life and times of Dr Johnson I&bicbelow TCeabina ri3es These Prizes were founded in 1917 under the will of the Rev James Shearer Whichelow Vicar of St James' Muswell Hill Fellow of King's College who bequeathed £100 to found Prizes for Proficiency in Public Reading for Students in the Theological Department of the College The Prizes consist of standard works in Theology Two Prizes will be allotted if sufficient merit is shown and may be either First and Second Prize or two Prizes of equal value The Prizes are open to all Students who are preparing for the Associateship in Theology in the Final Year of their course Every Candidate must produce Certificate from the Lecturer in Elocution of satisfactory attendance at the Elocution Classes or of exemption by him from such attendance of competence in Reading list of approved Candidates will be drawn up by the Lecturer in the Lent Term of each Session and the Examination will be held at the close of that Term The Examination will be taken in book of the Bible and selection of the printed Sermons of great Preacher These books will be selected from year to year and announced some time before the competition takes place The Examination will be con- ducted by members of the Professorial Board Bisbop Collins IDemorial 1pri3e This Prize was founded in 1920 by the Theological Society from funds subscribed by the colleagues and old Students of William Edward Collins Bishop of Gibraltar Professor of Ecclesiastical History in King's College from 1893 to 1903 The Prize of the value of about £2 10 is awarded annually in the Michaelmas Term after examination in some subject connected
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