at the Free Grammar School at Thornton, and in default of such candidates, to any poor Scholars. These Exhibitions have been reduced to five; and by an order of the Court of Chancery, in 1820, the value of each was raised to £15 per annum. 1724. His Majesty KING GEORGE THE FIRST, in a letter to the Senate of the University of Cambridge, after stating that "opportunities are frequently lost to the Crown of employing and encouraging members of the two Universities, by conferring on them such employments, both at home and abroad, as necessarily require a competent skill in writing and speaking the modern languages," declares his royal intention to found a Professorship of Modern History, and twenty Scholarships. His Majesty also directed that the Professor shall appoint two teachers of modern languages, and concludes by ordering that "the Professor and teachers shall be obliged, once every year, to transmit an attested account of the progress made by each scholar committed to their care, to our principal Secretaries of State, to be laid before us, that we may encourage the diligence and application of such among them as shall have qualified themselves for our service, by giving them suitable employments, either at home or abroad, as occasion shall offer." By letters patent, of date 28 Sept., 1724, his Majesty founded the Professorship, and endowed it with a stipend of £400 a year, charged on the Civil List: and by two instruments under the sign manual of his Majesty, dated 27 Feb., 1724-5, and 31 May, 1725, in one fifteen and in the other five Scholars were nominated for the studying of Modern History, and the learning of Modern Languages, in the University of Cambridge. On the accession of Her Majesty, the Civil List was relieved from the charge for the Professorship. Parliament has since granted £371. 88. yearly for the maintenance of the office. In point of law, Sir James Stephen remarks, that if Parliament should at any time withhold the annual grant, the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury might, by process of law, be compelled to make the payment, to the amount for which the revenues of the crown were pledged by King George I. 1746. WILLIAM BATTIE, M.D., Fellow of King's College, in consideration of his having formerly enjoyed the benefit of one of Lord Craven's Exhibitions, left an estate to found an University Scholarship for the encouragement of Classical Literature. Its present value is between £20 and £35 per annum. Candidates must be under three years' standing in the University, and the successful candidate may retain his Scholarship till he is of nine years' standing, unless within that time he shall have obtained any ecclesiastical benefice or preferment. There are certain conditions connected with the tenure of this Scholarship. In 1749, the Rev. THOMAS SEATON, M.A., late Fellow of Clare Hall, bequeathed to the University the rents of his estate at Kislingbury, to be given yearly, without restriction, to that Master of Arts who should write the best English Poem, on a subject which shall be judged by the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Clare Hall, and the Regius Professor of Greek, “to be most conducive to the honour of the Supreme Being and the recommendation of virtue." The successful candidate is required to print and publish his Prize Poem. In 1796 the estate produced £16 per annum. In 1811 the premium was £40; and in 1831 and 1838, premiums of £100 each were adjudged for this Exercise. The following subjects have been proposed for this Prize: 1750 The Eternity of the Supreme Being. 1751 The Immensity of the Supreme 1771 Conscience. 1781 The Destruction of Jerusalem by 1782 The Call of the Gentiles. 1783 Hope. 1784 The Creation. 1785 The Exodus. 1786 The Resurrection. 1787 The Resurrection. 1788 The Resurrection. 1789 The Deluge. 1790 Faith. 1791 Humility. 1792 The Restoration of the Jews. 1751. His Grace THOMAS HOLLES, Duke of Newcastle, then Chancellor of the University, gave annually two Gold Medals, each of the value of fifteen guineas, to two commencing Bachelors of Arts, who not having been lower than Senior Optimes, have shewn themselves the greatest proficients, after examination, in Classical Learning. His Grace continued his gift yearly until his death in 1768, and succeeding Chancellors have ever since followed his noble example. 1752. The Honourable EDWARD FINCH and the Honourable THOMAS TOWNSHEND, then Members of Parliament for the University, gave yearly four prizes, of fifteen guineas each, to two senior and two junior Bachelors of Arts, who shall compose the best Dissertations in Latin Prose, to be recited publicly on a day to be appointed near the Commencement. These prizes have been given annually ever since by the late and present Members for the time being, of the University. In 1826, these Prizes, called "The Members' Prizes," were modified. It was then arranged that in future two of them should be open to all Bachelors of Arts who are not of sufficient standing to be admitted to the degree of M.A., and the other two to undergraduates who may have resided not less than seven terms at the time when the Exercises are required to be sent in to the Vice-Chancellor. The following subjects have been proposed for these prizes; the first for the Senior and the second for the Middle Bachelors in each year until 1827; and after that year the first for the Bachelors and the second for Undergraduates. 1753 Examen vitæ et philosophiæ M. Bruti, præcipue habita ratione carminum quæ moriturus recitavit : Ω τλῆμον ἀρετὴ, λόγος ἄρ ̓ ἦσθ'· ἐγὼ δέ σε Ως ἔργον ἤσκουν· σὺ δ ̓ ἄρ ̓ ἐδούλευες τύχῃ. (Senior Bachelors.) Quod Ratio docet, idem testatur Historia, 'veram Gloriam nisi ope Virtutis comparari non posse.' (Middle Bachelors.) 1754 Athenis et Roma inter se collatis, exquirendum est, Quodnam adjumenti singulæ artes acceperint ex ipsis imperii formis in iis urbibus constitutis. (S. B.) Enarratio, et comparatio, doctrinarum moralium Epicuri et Stoicorum. (M. B.) 1755 Utrum Veteris Comœdiæ apud Athenienses licentia magis ad emendandos mores, an corrumpendos, contulerit? (S. B.) Utrum Leges Solonis an Lycurgi magis tam ad singulorum virtutem, quam ad 1756 Quidnam adjumenti ab institutis Christianis Morales Ethnicorum Doctrinæ acceperint? (S. B.) Quousque Romanorum depravati mores ad labefactandam et evertendam Rempublicam valuerint? (M. B.) 1757 Utrum liceat Civi bono, Republica in partes divisa, neutris se adjungere? Utrum Historias legentibus emendentur magis, an corrumpantur, Mores? 1758 Utrum summa hominum felicitas juxta Epicurum, in Sensuum delectationibus præcipue ponatur? (S. B.) Utrum diversarum gentium mores et instituta a diverso earum Situ explicari possint? (M. B.) 1759 Pro Socrate, ad populum Atheniensem, Oratio. (S. B.) Utrum in bene constitutam civitatem Ludi Scenici admitti debeant? (M. B.) 1760 Qualis fuerit in Academia Veteri et Nova philosophandi ratio, et quænam sit ad verum exquirendum accommodatior? (S. B.) Utrum, quo auctior sit hominum Eruditio, eo magis corrumpantur mores? 1761 Utrum sit præstantius nova invenire, an inventis cultum addere et ornatum? Utrum boni plus, an mali, reportent fere qui peregrinantur adolescentuli? 1762 Num credibile videatur populum Romanum magis sub Pompeio, quam sub Cæsare Victore fore liberum? (S. B.) Utrum Virtus magis emineat in rebus secundis, an in adversis? (M. B.) 1763 Utrum institutio Čivilis Societatis ad humani generis felicitatem contulerit? Quænam commoda Reipublicæ ex artium liberalium cultura proveniant? 1764 Examen Philosophiæ M. T. Ciceronis. (S. B.) Quibus Modis institui debeat ad exteras regiones Peregrinatio? (M. B.) 1765 Utrum civitati perniciosior sit Epicuri, an Zenonis, Philosophia? (S. B.) Quomodo intelligendum sit effatum illud, 'Recte fit quodcunque eveniť? (M. B.) 1766 Quomodo vera Historia a falsa distingui possit? (S. B.) Post mortem Julii Cæsaris, a quibusnam stare partibus civem Romanum oportuerit? (M. B.) 1767 Utrum Censoris Romani disciplina Reipublicæ utilis fuerit? (S. B.) Utrum possessorem bearint sæpius, an perdiderint, Divitiæ? (M. B.) 1768 Quidnam causa fuerit, quare Gentes Septentrionales homicidia olim compensaverint pecunia; apud hodiernas autem leviora crimina morte et suppliciis crudelissimis puniantur? (S. B.) Utrum Societatis, nuper institutæ ad promovendas Artes et Commercia, magnos artifices et commercia effecerint? (M. B.) 1769 Speciosa verbis, re inania aut subdola, quanto majore Libertatis imagine teguntur, tanto eruptura ad infensius Servitium. (S. B) Argentum et Aurum propitii, an irati, Dii Germanis negaverint? (M. B.) 1770 Privatorum Hominum Vitia ad Publica Commoda non conferunt. (S. B.) Utrum vera animi magnitudo rebus Adversis magis quam Secundis perspiciatur? (M. B.) 1771 Utrum ii, qui libros in Dialogo scribunt, an qui Continuo Sermone præcepta tradunt, sapere melius doceant? (S. B.) Labor est sapiente dignus, Rei Antiquariæ investigatio. (M. B.) 1772 Natura omnes fecit judices, paucos artifices. (S. B.) Quid leges sine moribus Vanæ proficiunt? (M. B.) 1773 Historia Vitæ Magistra. (S. B.) Oratio ad Græcas Literas excolendas suasoria. (M. B.) 1774 Utrum æquum sit, ut homo homini perpetua obstringatur Servitute? (S. B.) Injurias ulcisci, an remittere, utrum sit animi magis excelsi? (M. B.) 1775 Utrum Divitiarum incrementum plus boni, an mali, Reipublicæ afferat. (S. B.) Qua quis ratione seipsum citra invidiam laudare possit? (M. B.) 1776 Utrum imperium atque artes humaniores Occidentali cursu nationibus sese deferant? (S. B.) An Constantinus imperii sui sedem jure mutaverit? (M. B.) 1777 Utrum Philosophiæ Naturalis et Matheseos cultura ad Poesin alendam magis, an deprimendam, contulerit? (S. B.) Utrum Ars Critices ad bene scribendum plus utilitatis, an incommodi, afferat? 1778 De Sapientia Egyptiaca disquisitio, et judicium. (S. B.) Num una aliqua sit præstans Imperii forma, quæ cunctis gentibus optima foret, vel diversæ formæ diversis gentibus magis sint aptæ? (M. B.) 1779 Utrum ad exemplar poetarum Græcorum Chorus in drama nostrum commode admitti possit? (S. B.) An Reipublicæ Romanæ felicius fuerit arma extra Italiam transtulisse? (M.B.) 1780 An Ridiculum vim istam in se habeat, ut per id solum argumentando vera a falsis rite dignoscantur? (S. B.) Male se res habet, cum quod Virtute effici debet, id tentatur Pecunia. (M. B.) 1781 Quænam sint causæ, cur Asiatici servitutis semper fuerint patientiores, quam Europæi? (S. B.) Utrum is sit in Oratorum numero habendus, qui non sit omnibus iis artibus, quæ sunt Libero dignæ perpolitus? (M. B.) 1782 Utrum auctoritati Sacrarum Literarum confirmandæ inserviat Mythologia Græca? (S. B.) Utrum ad emendandos magis, an corrumpendos, civium mores conferat Musica? (M. B.) 1783 Utrum plus boni, an mali, Europæis gentibus attulerit Transatlantici orbis patefactio? (S. B.) Ex quibus præcipue causis in tantam magnitudinem creverit res Romana? 1784 Utrum in bene constitutam Rempublicam Supplicia Capitalia admitti de beant? (S. B.) Quænam commoda Reipublicæ ex Re Militari proveniant? (M. B.) 1785 An liceat nolentes in Servitutem dare? (S. B.) Utrum civis perniciosus, an hostis acerbissimus, acrioribus suppliciis sit coercendus? (M. B.) 1786 Quænam præcipue fuerint causæ, cur civitates Græciæ Persarum imperio tam feliciter obstiterent? (S. B.) Utrum populo Romano melius consultum esset, si Augustus Rempublicam reddidisset? (M. B.) 1787 Utrum insularum in mari Pacifico nuper patefactarum incolæ plus boni, an mali, ab Europæis gentibus accepturi sint? (S. B.) Utrum in Republica bene constituta Debitores in carcerem mittere expediat ? 1788 Utrum Indorum Orientalium commercia plus boni, an mali, Europæ gentibus secum afferant? (S. B.) Americanis (de hac re jam nunc consulentibus) quænam forma Imperii magis apta esse videatur? (M. B.) 1789 An prosit Scientiæ librorum copia? (S. B.) Utrum ad Oratorem fingendum valeat Ars magis, an Natura? (M. B.) 1790 Utrum mutata apud Gallos Imperii forma plus boni, an mali, Britanniæ allatura sit? (S. B.) Utrum Veris, an Imaginariis bonis, magis promoveatur humana felicitas? 1791 Utrum Monarchica, an Democratica, regiminís forma sit potior? (S. B.) Quid pure tranquillet? (M. B.) 1792 An magnum imperium cum æqua omnium Libertate constare possit? (S. B.) An morum emendationem, et virtutis cultum, in nascenti Sinus Botanici republica sperare liceat? (M. B.) |