Calendar: 1974-1975 Page 391

Annual Report of the Council xi old students The Reverend Dr Chapman was appointed Dean of Exeter the Reverend Ν Nye was appointed Archdeacon of Maidstone and Canon Jackson was appointed Provost of Blackburn The newly constituted Theological Society held its first meeting in the Strand on the evening of Friday November 3rd 1972 when the theme was The Teaching Church gathering of some 60 in the North was held at Durham on May 15th 1973 At Sung Eucharist in the Cathedral the Dean preached and after lunch in St Chad's College Professor Mascall spoke on the theme The Theologian and the Parish Priest Midland gathering of took place on June 7th 1973 at Ashby de la Zouch king's college hostel Life at the Hostel continued much according to pattern always there is degree of tension between the demands and attractions of under- graduate existence and the modest disciplines of an ordered style of worship and prayer in Community at the same time the companion- ship and support of the Hostel fellowship and its proximity to the Strand are welcomed by most students as advantages Student assist- ance in continuing period of shortage of domestic staff has helped greatly Miss Margaret Jones retired after 38 years of service latterly as Assistant Matron Ever rising costs required further raising of fees for 1973-74 t0 264 per annum st augustine's college canterbury The Council decided that the lease of St Augustine's College from the Corporate Body to the Corporation of King's College London should be continued after August 31st 1974 for period of three years in the first instance The absence of fourth member of staff was in part compensated for by the presence from January 1973 of the Reverend Clive Handford who from several years of ministry in the Middle East had been ap- pointed senior research student made possible by grant from the Corporate Body An interesting proposal for joint appointment by the Diocese of Canterbury and King's College of member of staff to