The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-05 00:00:00

THE 2' EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF
PRIZES AT CTIVERSITI COLLEGE.

The yearly ceremony of distributing prizes to
the successful students attending this University
was performed yesterday. Lord Stanley, M.P.,
was called an to preside. The attendance was
numerous, and included, among others, with the
professors and students, Sir Edward Ryan, Lord
Fortescue, Mr. George Grote, Sir Francis Gold-
amid, M.P., Mr. John Miller, Mr. Edward Romilly,
Dr. Booth, &c.
The CHAIRMAN, who was received with loud ap-
plause, expressed the pleasure he felt in being called
on to preside on the occasion. He did not consider
it necessary for him to state the object of the meet-
ing, as they were anxious to hear the report read,
and to congratulate those students who had gained
the prizes of the year.
Prof. NEWMAN, the Dean, read the report of the
session, and the various professors each read a list
otthe successful prize candidates and those thought
worthy of commendation in his own class, •Nhen the
latter came forward in the following order, and re-
ceived their prizes from the hands of the chair-
man :-
FACULTY OF ARTS AND LAWS.-SESSION 1859-60.
ANDREWS SCHOLARSHIP, for proficiency in Latin,
Greek, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy.-Examiners,
Professors Newman, Malden, and Potter, Mr. John C.
Addyes Scott, A.M., Fellow of University College, Lon-
don, and Mr. J. R. Young. £6O Scholarship.---Julian
Goldsmid, of London. A Scholarship of £6O was also
awarded to Mr. George Ralli, but as that gentleman did not
purpose to continue his studies in the College, he could not
hold the scholarship.
JEWS' COMMEMORATION SCHOLARSHIP, of £l5 a year,
tenable for two years, awarded to the student of the Faculty
of Arts of not more than one year's standing in the College
who was found to be most distinguished by general profi-
ciency and good conduct.-Scholar (1858-59).-Nathaniel
Nathan, of London.
LATlN(ProfessorNewman).-Senior Class-Prize 1. John
Arthur Owen ; Prize 2, Alfred A. Tupp. Certificates-3.
Theodore Waterhouse ; 4th, equal, Nathaniel Nathan,
Edwin C. Such, Charles T. Martin, T. E. Jevons ; sth,
equal, Benjamin Kisch, of London, Stanley K. Welsh ;
6th, equal, Edwin Waterhouse, Ernest C. Benecke, T. C.
Jarvis, John Moxon ; 7th, Ernest Satow. Junior Class.-
Prize 1. James E. Odgers. Prize 2. W. H. Brown. Cer •
tificates 3, Nowrojee Cawasjee Pohcha, of Bombay; 4th,
equal, Richard Pilcher, J. Hawthorn Kitson, James Ernest
Clapham; sth, equal, C. J. Albrecht, Framjee Bomanjee
Cama, of Bombay ; 6th, equal, J. Howard Gurney ; E. H.
Busk; 7th, James Charter.
MATHEMATICS.-111 consequence of the illness of Pro-
fessor De Morgan no announcement of the result of the
examinations in the Class of Mathematics was received.
The award of the prizes and certificates in these classes was
necessarily postponed.
GREEK (Professor Malden).-Extra Class.-Prize, Edwin
Waterhouse. Certificates. -2. Alfred Roscoe ; 3. Alfred
C. Tupp ; 4. William Jardine ; 5. Benjamin Kisch; 6.
Thomas Edwin Jevons. Senior Class.-Prizes, equal-
Henry Enfield Dawson, Robert R. Hyatt. Certificates,
equal-3. Henry Lister, G. Franklin Browne; 5. John A.
0 wen ; 6. equal, E. C. Benecke, Campbell Orme, Thomas
H. Hepburn; 9. Charles T. Martin • 10. equal, Frederick
W. Janson, Ernest M. Satow; 11. John Moxon ; 13.
Charles F. Fester ; 14. Edwin C. Such ; 15. Frederick W.
Paterson. Junior Class.-Prizes-1. George S. Joseph ,
2. J. Hawthorn Kitson. Certificates-3. William Henry
Brown ; 4. James E. Odgers ; 5. Samuel Walker ; 6. R.
Pilcher; 7. Edward H. Busk; 8, James E. Clapham; 9.
John Collins Baker.
HEBREW (Professor Marks).-Prize, John A. Owen.
Certificate, 2. James Spear.
ENGLISH (Professor Masson).-Senior Class.-Prize 1,
Alfred Roscoe ; prize 2, Edwin Waterhouse and J. Clifford,
equal. Certificates-4. Campbell Orme and E. Davis, equal ;
6. H. H. Watson ; 7. Alfred C. Tupp ; 8. equal, F. W. Jan-
son, Henry Peto, and James De Wet. Junior Class.-
Prize 1. J. Ernest Clapham ; prize 2. A. Shields, S. Walker.
Certificates-4. J. C. Haigh; 5. E. W. Satow; 6. equal
F. W. Paterson and E. Winterbotham ; 8. E. H. Busk
9. H. Lucas ; 10. equal, Framjee B. Cama, and J. Charter.
FRENCH (Professor _Framjee
1. Arthur Wagg;
prize 2. Henry L. Smith ; pnze 3. C. J. Albrecht, Cer-
tiftcates-4. J. Clifford ; 5. J. E. Clapham ; 6. James P. De
Wet ; 7. F. Frederick Churchill.
GERMAN (Professor Heimann).-Senior Class.-Prize,
Benjamin Kisch. Certificates, 2. 'George S. Joseph ; 3.
J. P. De Wet. Junior Class.-Prize' F. W. Paterson,
Certificates, 2. E. H. Busk ; 3. J. J. Fletcher ; W. H.
Cormack ; 5. Samuel Walker.
ITALIAN (Signor Maggionid.-Prize, Julian Goldsmid.
Certificates-2. Elim D'Avig or; 3. Henry Lucas.
COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR Tram= Key).-Prize 1.
Theodore Waterhouse. Prize equal, Julian Goldsmid,
Alfred C. Tupp. Certificates-4. Edwin Waterhouse; 5.
J. H. Kitson ; 6. W. Jardine,. J. P. De Wet.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (Professor Potter)-Senior Ma-
thematical Class.-Prize, Jonas Ashton. Certificates-2.
Thomas P. Gaskell ; 3, equal, Thomas H. Hepburn, Ho-
ratio N. Grimley, Henry C. Fox. Junior Mathematical
Class.-Prize 1. Henry C. Watson ; 2. George de Mor-
gan. Certificates-3. John R. Blakiston; 4. S. Kemp
Welch. Experimental Class.-Prize 1. Nowrojee Cowasjee
Pohcha, of Bombay ; 2. George S. Joseph ; 3. equal, Geo.
W. Knox, William H. Brown. Certificates-4. C. B.
Bright ; 5. R. Ramsey Morton ; 6. C. J. A. Albrecht.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (Professor Williamson.)-
Gold medal, Richard T. Key. Silver medal, C. Houghton
Gill. Certificate, 3. Henry Curtis.
PHILOSOPHY OP MIND AND LOGIC (Professor Hoppus).
-General Course.-Prizes equal, Theodore Waterhouse,
W. Stanley Jevons. Certificates, 2. Thomas E. Jevons :
3. Francis Kossuth ;4. Louis Kossuth. Logic prise, Ed-
win Waterhouse. History of Philosophy.-Certificates, 1.
equal, Theodore Waterhouse Francis Kossuth; 2. Louis
Kossuth. History of 'Moral Philosophy.-Certificates, 1.
Theodore Waterhouse ; 2. equal, Benjamin Kisch, Francis
Kossuth; 3. equal, Louis Kossuth, Astley Weston.
ARCHITECTURE (Professor Donaldson).-Fine Art-Ist
year, prize, Edward Mawley ; 2d year, prize, Ernest Beck.
Certificates, 2. John Henry Tarring; 3. 'Francis Nibbs.
Construction.-lst year prize, Edward Mawley. Certificate,
C. H. Bright i 2d year prize, Francis Nibbs. Certificate,
John H. Tarring.
CIVIL ENGINEERING (Professor Pole).-Prize, James
N. Schoolbred. Certificates, 1. Louis Kossuth ; 2. Francis
Kossuth.
GEOLOGY (Professor Morris).-Prize 1. G. Davis ; 2.
F. W. Janson ; 3. J. Goldsmid. Certificates, 4. equal,
Thomas P. Gaskell, H. C. Fox, G. W, Knox, 11. C. Lister ;
5. Henry Curtis.
BOTANY (Professor Lindley). - Junior Class.-Silver
medal, Jabez Carter. Certificates, 2. Henry Curtis ; 3.
Alexander Bruce; 4. John C. Leach.
ZOOLOGY (Professor Giant).-Silver medal, Ebenezer
Diver. Certificate, George Adams.
POLITICAL ECONOMY (Professor Waley).-Prize, Her-
bert 11. Cozens Hardy. Certificates, 2 ; 3. equal, W. Stan-
ley Jevons, Marcus N. Adler; 5. equal, Julian Goldsmid,
Robert E. Graves ; 7. W. Jardine.
ENGLISH LAW (Professor Russell).-Prize, Samuel H.
Behrend, M.A. Certificates, 2. 'Villeneuve Smith; 3.
Richard B. Pugh.
ENGLISH ESSAY PRIM-Subject, "Toleration in Mat-
ters of Opinion." (Examiner, Professor Masson.) £5 prize,
Theodore Waterhouse.
LATIN PROSE ESSAY.-Prize given by Reading-room
Society. Subject, " The Double Royalty of Sparta." (Ex •
aminer, Professor Newman.) prize, Theodore Water-
house.
The CHAIRMAN, after the prizes had been distri-
buted, in rising to address the students, referred
with satisfaction to the statement of the Dean with
reference to efficient discipline, and then proceeded
as follows :-It now devolves upon me to say a few
words in reference to the interesting ceremony
which we have just witnessed • and I assure
the authorities of this college that it is with
more than common satisfaction that I under-
take a duty which has been performed in ear-
lier years by some of the most eminent public
characters of our generation ; for, on looking to the
list of your chairmen from 1828 to the present time,
I find the names of Lord Lansdow ne, Lord Macaulay,
the present Foreign Secretary, and the late Lord
Grey, while there is one name, not less distinguished,
which it would be, indeed, strange to find absent
from any undertaking in which the cause of educa-
tion and of intellectual freedom was concerned-
that of the first ploncer of popular teachinc, in this
country-that of your honoured and venerable pre-
sident, Lord Brougham. In former years this col•
lege was remarkable as being the only one of its
class available, equally, and without distinction, to
persons of every religious profession ; that charac-
teristic is now less singular than of old ; but it is
only less singular because the principles of which
the first practical working was exhibited here have
made their way deep into the public mind, and have
even to some extent modified the practice of the
two ancient ecclesiastical universities of this coun-
try. But it is not only to every variety of belief that
your doors stand open. You have here students
from the remotest portions of the colonial empire of
England, men of all races, of all nations, of every
complexion, acquiring within these walls that in-
sight into nature which is derived from science, and
which has been stored up by the labours of those
who have gone before us for the benefit, not of any
one nation, but of mankind. When one reads on
the rolls of this college names which represent the
descendants of the early Dutch colonists of the Cape
-when one hears of the African of the west, and
the Parsee from India, meeting in the same lecture
rooms and competing for the same prizes-one's
first thought is, how wide the influence of England
spreads-one's second thought, how cosmopolitan is
the power of science. There is one characteristic of
this college, as of the University of which it forms
Parts, which I ought not to pass without notice. You
were among the first to break in upon the old routine
Which practically almost limited English teaching
etaailiattl and mathematical study. Here, too,
the Old
hUniversities have followed your lead ;
both at ogxe much has been done in this respect
there still tred and Cambridge, yet practically it is
proficiency seme5
re that classical and mathematical
valuable end() opts'
highest prizes and the most
branches of study a'artes, while other more recent
this place lam info comparatively neglected. In
student who has taken is otherwise ; and a
natural philosophy, eitihe
.highest honours in
languages, is not looked uglatrY, or in modern
rior to one whose special aca as
. in any way infe-
direction of Latin or Greek:
ulernen
am glad also to
ts lie in the
learn that much stress is laid, bwho direct
the course of teaching here, on i3l:th those
gh, and (if
I may so speak) a scientific knowleiroeuof the lan-
w are oaystet r c
foul -1
guage with which we Englishmen
cerned-I mean English. No word
me in disparagement of classical litere
from
re I
know its value too well ; but it Seems str ;
ange, in a
country where so many men are familiar with every '
dialect of Greek and every variety of classical style,
there should he comparatively so few who have
really made themselves acquainted with the origiu,',
the hi*tery, and the gradual development into its