Prize. A triennial prize of £60. Subject. Who may compete. Examiners. XVII. The COBDEN Prize. That the Report dated May 18, 1876, of the Syndicate appointed The Syndicate report : I. They have been in communication with the Committee of the Cobden Club respecting the conditions of the proposed Prize. They have suggested to the Committee, with a view to increasing the importance and influence of the Prize, that it should be of the value of £60 offered triennially, instead of an annual Prize of the value of £20, as at first proposed. They have also suggested some other changes in the original conditions, with the object chiefly of assimilating the regulations to those of other University Prizes. These suggestions of the Syndicate have been adopted by the Donors with obliging readiness; and the Syndicate have now to communicate to the Senate that The Committee of the Cobden Club offer for the acceptance of the University of Cambridge a Prize of the value of £60, to be awarded once in three years under the following conditions: 1. The Prize shall be awarded for an Essay on some subject connected with Political Economy, and shall be payable in money to the successful Candidate. 2. The Candidates for the Prize shall be Members of the University who, having commenced residence, are not of more than three years' standing from their first Degree on the first day of the Easter Term of the academical year in which the subject is announced. 3. The Adjudicators shall be the Professor of Political Economy for the time being, and two persons to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and the Donors respectively, and appointed by Grace of the Senate and the Prize shall be awarded [to the writer of the Essay which in the judgment of June 1, 1876. at least two of the Adjudicators certified under their hand to the Vice-Chancellor is the most deserving. Grace 21 Feb. 1878.] Prizes. subject. 4. The subject of the Prize shall be fixed by the Ad- Choice of judicators or a majority of them; but the subject of the first Prize shall be fixed by the Donors, subject to the joint approval of the Vice-Chancellor and the Professor of Political Economy. fixed by 5. The times when the Adjudicators shall be appointed, Details to be the subject announced, and the Essays sent in, shall be fixed Grace." from time to time by Grace of the Senate. 6. The Prize shall be first awarded some time in the First award. year 1877. 7. The Donors of the Prize reserve to themselves the right to determine the said Prize on giving one year's notice to the Vice-Chancellor. 8. The Prize shall be called the "Cobden Prize." The Syndicate recommend that this offer be accepted. II. They also recommend that the subject of the first Prize shall be announced as soon as possible after the acceptance of the offer; that the Adjudicators first to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor and the Donors be elected by Grace of the Senate some time in next Michaelmas term; and that the Essays be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor on or before the last day of the Easter Term, 1877. occasions. III. They further recommend that the second appoint- on other ment of Adjudicators be made in the Lent Term of 1879; that the subject for the Essay be announced by them before the division of the following Easter Term, and that the Essays be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor before the first day of the Easter Term, 1880 and so on for future occasions at intervals of three years. ORDINATIONES. 28 XVIII. The GEORGE LONG Prize. Report 28 May 1881. Grace 2 June 1881. The pupils and friends of the late George Long, Esq., M.A., formerly Craven University Scholar and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, desiring to testify their veneration for his character and the high sense they entertained of his services to literature and education, raised a fund amounting to £500, which they offered to the University of Cambridge for George Long the foundation of a Prize for the encouragement of the study of Roman Law and Jurisprudence, to be called the George Long Prize. Prize. This offer was accepted and the following regulations were approved. 1. The Prize shall consist of the yearly interest of the capital sum, and shall be given to that candidate for the Law Tripos who shall be most distinguished in Roman Law and Jurisprudence: provided that such prize shall not necessarily be awarded in each year, but only in cases of exceptional merit. 2. Whenever such Prize shall not be awarded, the amount of the Prize for that occasion shall be added to the capital sum. George Prize. XIX. The GEORGE WILLIAMS Prize. Report 8 Dec. 1881. Grace 23 Feb. 1882. The Board report that: A sum amounting to £300 has been offered through the Board to the University of Cambridge by several friends of the late Rev. George Williams, B.D., Vicar of Ringwood, formerly Fellow of King's College, for the purpose of founding an annual Prize, to be called the George Williams Prize, to be given to students who distinguish themselves in the Theological Tripos. They report also that the following regulations for the Prize have been proposed: Prizes. and Ancient 1. The net proceeds of the Fund shall be given Doctrine annually to that Student among the Candidates for Honours Liturgies. in the Second Part of the Theological Tripos, who shall be judged by the Examiners to stand first in the papers on Doctrine and the Ancient Liturgies. adjudged. 2. If in any year none of the Candidates shall be It no Prize deemed worthy of a Prize, the amount shall either be reserved for additional Prizes in subsequent years, or be added to the capital of the Fund, at the discretion of the Board of Theological Studies. Prizes. Name of Prize. 3. The Prize may be awarded for distinction in either Additional or both of the subjects specified above: but if in any year additional Prizes be adjudged one shall be reserved for the special encouragement of the study of the ancient Liturgies. 4. The Prize shall be called the George Williams Prize. 5. It shall be competent to the University to make such changes in these Regulations as shall be judged fit: Changes in provided always that the proceeds of the Fund be given for excellence in the branches of Theological study above specified, and that the Prize be connected with the name of the Rev. George Williams. 6. The first award of the Prize shall be made in June, 1884. Regulations XX. The MASON HEBREW Prize. Report 28 May 1883. Grace 31 May 1883. The Council of the Senate report : 1. That the Prize be called the "Mason Prize for Biblical To be annual, Hebrew" and be awarded annually. 2. That the annual income of the Fund be given to that Candidate for the Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarships who shall be judged by the Examiners to have shewn the best knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and of Hebrew Composition in the examination for the said Scholarships. for Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew Composition, If none adjudged. Successful candidate not to compete again. Regulations may be changed. Proviso. 3. If in any year none of the Candidates shall be deemed worthy of a Prize, the amount shall be reserved and added to the Capital of the Fund. 4. A Student who has once obtained the Prize shall be disqualified from competing for it a second time. 5. It shall be competent for the University from time to time to make such changes in these Regulations as shall be judged fit provided always that the proceeds of the Fund be given for proficiency in the knowledge of Biblical Hebrew, and that the Prize be connected with the name of the Rev. P. H. Mason. XXI. THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL PRIZE. The Resolution referred to was as follows1: That the surplus of the Fund subscribed for the Cambridge University Memorial to the Prince Consort be paid over to the University, and that the Senate be requested to invest it in such securities as they may think fit, and to apply the income thereof to found a Prize or Scholarship, to bear the Prince Consort's name, for the promotion of Historical Studies in such manner as they may from time to time determine. XXII. THIRLWALL PRIZE. That the offer of the Thirlwall Memorial Committee of a sum of Mr Wright's letter to the Vice-Chancellor was as I am instructed by the Committee of the Thirlwall Memorial to inform you that they desire to offer to the 1 See Cambridge University Reporter, June 19, 1883, p. 935. |