Calendar: 1951-1952 Page 369

ANNUAL REPORT xiii Upon the recommendation of the Chemical Engineering Committee application was made to the Institution of Chemical Engineers for tho recognition of the College Diploma in Chemical Engineering as granting exemption from the Examination for the Associate Membership of that Institution Assessors of the Institution visited the College on June 2nd 1950 and as result of their recommendations the Institution has granted the desired recognition of the course for period of five years in the first instance Among the benefactions received during the year was sum of money bequeathed in the will of the late Miss Florence Hughes to provide an entrance scholarship for women tenable for period of three years The endowment will be sufficient to enable scholarship of £40 to be awarded every three years The conditions will be the same as those for the Sambrooke Scholarships in Arts and Science Through the generosity of the Skinners' Company and the Merchant Taylors' Company the College has already two scholarships of similar charac- ter The new benefaction will fill the present gap in the triennium and so enable one entrance scholarship for women to be awarded every year Thus it is hoped to award the Merchant Taylors' Scholarship in 1951 the Skinners' in 1952 the Florence Hughes in 1953 and so on in rotation THE LIBRARY The total stock in the Library now consists of 154 000 volumes Accessions during the session were 024 volumes and 111 periodicals 295 volumes were bound or repaired The Library received number of important gifts list of which will be found in Appendix IV The rise in the cost of books and the consequences of devaluation are being severely felt and if the Library is to meet the demands for teaching and research material considerable increase in its annual grant will be necessary in the next quinquennium The difficulties of accommodation pending the erection of new Library inevitably increase as time goes on Reading space is in- adequate for the number of students and there are no reading facilities in the Library for members of the staff As regards shelf room all the available space in the General Library will be occupied by the end of the session 1950-51 The Departmental Libraries of Classics Zoology Anatomy and Physiology Portuguese and Spanish are either already full or will be full by the end of that session and there seems to be no possibility of adding to their accommodation ACCOMMODATION During the session the accommodation at the former Chesham Hotel was in total use The bottom floors it will be remembered provide the Union Society with home of its own and student social activities are thus more concentrated than when they were carried on in faculty common rooms dispersed in different parts of the College What may be called the club facilities of the new Union have been greatly appreciated