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posed at the beginning Of the present session , by Robert Philips , Esq . of the Park , to the best Classical Scholar . It was thought advisable that the competition for it should be opened to the Junior Class ; and it has , accordingly , been
awarded as follows : —To Mr . Beard , in the Senior Class , Books of the value of One Guinea ; and to Mr . George Lee , in the Junior Class , a Book of the same value . The attainments of Mr . Brown , of the same Class , place him nearly on a level with the successful candidate .
" A Prize , of the value of Five Pounds , was offered by a Friend of the College , under the signature of Euelpis , for a translation of a passage , not less than six octavo pages in length , from some English historian , into Greek , the style and dialect of Xenophon being taken as a model . The passage selected was from Mitford ' s
History of Greece , Vol . I . pp . 68—74 ( 8 vo . ed . ) . The Prize has been adjudged to a Translation which has for its motto , ( C Si quantum cuperem possem quoquey S $ c ; the letter accompanying it , inscribed with the same motto 9 is found to be subscribed John Relly Beard . Another translation ,
very creditable to the diligence of the author , has also been given in , bearing the motto , " Conamur tenues grandia . " If the author choose to claim it , he has now an opportunity of doing so , by rising up and acknowledging it as his . Acknowledged by Mr Payne . )
" I have heard it hinted that the system of Prizes is objectionable , as exciting more of jealousy than emulation ; as holding out an improper motive to exertion to one set of Students , and extinguishing all motives to it in another set , when once they have ceased to expect a
prize . But I should feel the discharge of this part of my duty very much abated as to the satisfaction attending it , if I could suppose that the trifling distinctions thus conferred on some should produce any such unpleasant effect in the minds of others , as if an implied censure were
thereby necessarily passed upon those who are not so distinguished . 1 hope that gentlemen who arc members of this Society are actuated to the diligent pursuit of their studies by higher and better motives—the approbation of their parents and other friends ; the prospect of honour and usefulness in the world , and rewards
of a nobler nature still ; and that if these sprigs of laurel , plucked in their way through the academic grove , afford a little temporary gratification , any momentary feeling of disappointment , if at all awakened in others , will speedily be laid asleep in the feeling of congratulation with their more successful friends . I am sure there will be a generous sentiment of regret in the mind of more than one
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who have succeeded , that that young friend * is absent through ill health , who if he had been present , would uudoubt ! edly have maintained the honourable station of former years .
" It may probably have occurred to many , that some events have occurred since our last meeting , which may seem to require some brief notice . At least I should feel myself inexcusable if I should have closed this Address without
adverting to the blank which we must all feel in the absence of that inestimable person—my father ' s friend , my own friend , and my children ' s friend—the patroness of every benevolent and useful institution ; to whom this College in particular owes a great part of its prosperity and success ; to whose kind notice and friendship most of your predecessors , my young friends ,
have been so deeply indebted , and who used to grace the close of these Anniversaries with her mild and venerable presence . She , however , " came to her grave in a full age , like as a shock of corn cometh in its season ; ' * and we felt disposed to hail her peaceful and easy passage to her great reward . There are other blanks ,-f- which will occur to those who have been accustomed to attend
these yearly meetings , for which it may seem not so easy to account , and in which some of us may find ! it difficult perfectly to acquiesce . But on these it is not for us to enlarge ; we would not disturb either your composure or our own ; it is rather our wish to bow to the
disposals of Infinite Wisdom , and endeavour to habituate ourselves to the practical conviction , that all His disposals are ultimately for the best . " Let us , before we part , commit
ourselves to Him , in whose presence we shall still remain the favoured objects of his bounty , however divided by absence from each other in the present world , or even though separated for a time by worlds themselves "
The company then adjourned after a short devotional exercise , highly gratified with the proceedings of the week . At dinner , on Wednesday and Thursday , were present , besides the Tutors , Joseph Slrutt , Esq ., President ; Robert Philips , Esq ., Robert Philips , Jun . Esq ., Robert Busk , Esq ., James Darbishire , Jun . Esq .,
C . H . Dawson , Esq ., J . C . Langlands , Esq , Thomas Martineau , Esq ., J . Worthington , Esq , G . W . Wood , Esq ., Treasurer ; and the Rev . Messrs . Dean , Grundy , Ilorsfield , Kentish , Lee , llobberds , Secretary , Shepherd , C . Wallace , and Turner , I'isitnr . V - t -
* Mr . John Howard Ryland . t See Mon . ltcpos . for Oct . and beb last .
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444 Intelligence . —Manchester College , York
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 444, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/52/
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