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English Drama . The business of Wednesday began with a . very interesting and satisfactory examination on tbe Evidences ; after which , Orations were read by Mr > Squire , on the History and Characte r oi Charles I . ; l > y Mr . Higginson , to shew that the Propagation of
Christianity cannot be accounted for on any other supposition than that of its Divine Origin ; and by Mr . Talbot , on the Nature and Design of Sacrifices under the Mosaic Dispensation , The Class of . Ancient History were then examined viva voce , and the Junior and Senior Latin Classes in writing . Then followed
Orations , by Mr . Rankin , on the Conduct of Cicero ; by Mr . Freeman , to shew that what is Morally Wrong can never be Politically Right ; and by Mr , Ketley , that the Want of Universality is no valid Objection to the Truth of Christianity : and the
business of this day concluded with highly creditable specimens of improvement in Elocution , by Messrs . Davis , Howorth , Paget , Higginson , Gaskell and Applaud . On Thursday , the Fourth and Fifth Years' Students were examined in
Theology , and at the same time the Belles Lettres Class , all in writing ; these were followed by au Oration on the Political Writings and Public Character of Milton , by Mr . GaskelJ ; and a Sermon on Rom . viii . 35 , by Mr . Lee . The Class of Ethics and Political Economy , and the
Senior Greek Class were then examined , both viva voce , after which followed Sermons , on Luke x . 5 , 6 , by Mr . Aspland , and on 1 Thess . v . 21 , by Mr . Howorth : and the Examination was closed by an Address from the Visitor , the following Extracts from which are sent for inser
tion in the Monthly Repository . " Gentlemen , " 1 am happy to be once more permitted to be the instrument of conveying to you our sentiments of general
satisfaction in the result of this long and fatiguing examination . When I consider the vicissitudes of the present state , and the instances of mortality which are daily occurriug around , more especially those * which have contributed so much to
diminish your number as well as ours on the present occasion , 1 feel that 1 ought not to reilect upon the pleasure of so many uninterrupted visits to this place , without expressing at the same time my
thanks to Him * in whose hand our life and breath are , and with whom is the measure of our days . ' Von must be very sensible that it is fiot the intention of these Annual Examinations to deceive you or the public
* See . Obituaries for the last and j > re-8 <** t month .
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by the offei ? qf an indiscriminate praise , but carefully to ascertain , and witlioi ^ t disguise tq report to you , our ideas respecting the progress which you hate made . Never but onee , and that many years ago , was I under the disagreeable necessity of finding any serious fault , and i am not going to do so now , when I express , I believe , the general
impression , that this examination , particularly as to some of the viva voce parts of it , has not quite come up to what may be called the par standard . We are aware , however , of the many interruptions , both of a public and private nature , which have necessarily contributed to this , and we all feel the relaxing effects which the present intense heats must have produced upon the examined as well as the
examiners . But as it is far more agreeable to me to commend than censure , I am happy to be the organ of conveying to you , Gentlemen , the concurrent testimony of this Assembly , that in the com * position , and more especially in the
delivery , of your Orations and Sermons , there has been a very marked improvement . I have no doubt that you will find the great advantage of this in promoting the acceptable ness of such of you as are designed for the ministry , and in the satisfaction with which our
young Lay-friends will acquit themselves , when called either to read to a family circle , or to address more numerous assemblies . " 1 now proceed to the pleasing task of distributing the testimonies of their good opinion , with which I have been directed by the Committee , or made the
instrui ent of individual friends , to distingui those who have been thought most c liuent in their several classes , or in general regularity , diligence and proficiency . The two prizes offered by a Frieud to the Institution , to the Mathematical Students in the Junior and
Second Classes , have been adjudged respectively to Mr . Johnson and Mr , Henry Squire ; the two prizes offered by Robert Philips , Esq ., to the best Classical Scholars , iu the first and second years , to Mr . Charles Fletcher and Mr . Thomas Davis . The prize offered by Euelpis for the best Greek Translation , to Mr .
William Gaskell ; and that by Mr . Bell , for the best Latin Essay ou the subject , ' Opiiex dicendi Stylus , * to Mr . S . C . Freenmu . The two prizes offered to Students in the first year , by Mr . Wood , for the btsst specimens of English
Composition produced in the Weekly Exiercises of the Class , cind by ^ Dr . Carpenter , for the greatest proficiency in Composition during the Session , have been adjudged by the Students themselves ,. Mr . Wood ' s to Mr- H . Wreford , Dr . ¦ Gmnpii-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/51/
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