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allowances for depredation of the buildings , at York , as directed by their Reso * hitioii * printed in the last Report . They have ^ Iso been under the necessity of directing that the admission of Students ou the Foundation be henceforth limited ; so afc not to exceed one admission for
every two removals , until the total number be reduced to twelve , unless a reduction to that extent should , be rendered unnecessary by a future increase in the College income . The Committee , convinced , from the experience of two
Sessions , of the importance of providing for the regular instruction of the Students in the art of public speaking , in the course of the last summer prevailed upon the late Rev . Pendlebury Houghton , in case life and health should be spared , to undertake the office of teacher of elocution
in the present session . The Committee looked forward with great satisfaction to the benefit which the Students might be expected to derive from the example as well as the instructions of a gentleman so deservedly admired , both for the elegant correctness and persuasive eloquence
of his pulpit compositions , and for sim- » pie and unaffected but dignified and highly-impressive elocution . They have great reason to sympathize with Jiis many mourning friends , in the event which has disappointed so desirable an
arrangement , and has deprived the world of one who united to qualifications as a preacher of no ordinary kind , a purity of heart , and an amiable guileless simplicity of manner and character , well calculated to give additional effect to his public ser *
vices . In the absence of direct instructions , the Committee advert , with no small pleasure , to a new undertaking by which the present session has been distinguished , and which , along with other beneficial consequences of even greater importance ,
will be found , they trust , to have had a powerful tendency to form , in those who have been engaged in it , that earnest , impressive and popular manner , which is so essential to their success as public teachers , and without which , the best talents and most eminent attainments in
other respects , are too often defrauded of that sphere of usefulness in which they ought to have been exerted . The insulated situation of York , removed to a considerable distance from the nearest
society of Dissenters interested in the prosperity of the Institution , has sometimes been objected to it , as the seat of academical education for our youth . The consequence , it has been feared , must be , that the Students cannot have sufficient opportunities of exercising their talents in the pulpit , during the conti-
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nuance ^ thei r academical course , - $$ 4 may , therefore , be in danger of entering upon the discharge of the ministerial ofr flee , almost new to many of its duties * . Whatever may hitherto have been the extent of this evil , there is good reason to hope that it is now in a fair way of being remedied . Small societies of
Unitarian Baptists have for some time existed , both in York , and in several places in the vicinity ; till a recent period , how * ever , the influence of their scruples on the subject of baptism was so strong * that , though agreeing with us on other points , they could not be induced to hold much intercourse with their Unitarian
brethren , or to admit our preachers to address them . A more liberal spirit has now been introduced , and the senior Divinity Students have this year been actively engaged in weekly Missionary excursions to Malt on , Selby , Howden ,
Cawood and several adjacent places . At Wellbourne , a village between York and Mai ton , a flourishing Sunday-School has been established , and the numbers whp have sought to attend the services have been greater than the private house * which is as vet all the accommodation
afforded , Will admit . At this place it is hoped that a small chapel may be shortly erected . Upon the whole , the- success has been encouraging , and highly creditable to the young men , who have voluntarily and zealously devoted themselves to an arduous undertaking without the
prospect of any other remuneration than the satisfaction of doing good , and the hope of promoting their own improvement , while labouring for that of others . In this latter respect , the advantage , there is every reason to hope and believe , will prove to have been very
considerable ; - * -and on this account alone , inder pendently of the prospect it holds out of promoting the cause of what , they deeni to be Christian truth , the friends of this undertaking confidently recommend it . to
the supporters of the institution , as likely to be highly conducive to the improve * inent of its members in thost ; qualification ? which are so necessary to the acceptable and useful exercise of the ministerial office .
The number of Students in the last Session was twenty-six , viz . nine Lay Students , and seventeen Divinity Students , of whom fifteen were on the Foundation . Of these , Mr . William Bowen , M . A ., is now settled as minister at Coventry , and Mr . Richard Shawcros 3 , at
LincoJiv-The Annual Examination took place on the 23 d , 24 th , 25 th and 26 th of June last , when the first prize for diligence , proficiency and regularity oi conduct
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374 lntelligtiwe . >~ M&ncheUer College * Ymk *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 374, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/54/
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