SIR ROBERT REDE'S LECTURER. THE endowment was given to the University in 1524, by SIR ROBERT REDE, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of King Henry VIII. A Statute approved by her Majesty, by Order in Council, April 6, 1858, directs that the Lecturer shall deliver one Lecture in Term time in every year. The Lecturer is to be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor during the Lent Term in every year, and to deliver his Lecture in the Senate-House on a day to be fixed by the Vice-Chancellor. 1859 "On the Classification and Geographical Distribution of the Mammalia," by R. Owen, F.R.S., D.C.L. Superintendent of the Natural History Department in the British Museum, Fullerian Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution, &c. 1860 "Life on the Earth, its Origin and Succession," by J. Phillips, M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. F.G.S. Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. 1861 "The Social and Architectural History of Trinity College," by R. Willis, M.A. F.R.S. &c. Jacksonian Professor in the University of Cambridge. 1862 "The Cosmical Features of Terrestrial Magnetism," by Major General E. Sabine, RA. &c. President of the Royal Society. 1863"The Correlation of the Natural History Sciences," by D. T. Ansted, M. A. F.R.S. LADY MARGARET's PREACHER. THIS Preachership was founded in 1502 by Lady Margaret, mother of King Henry VII. and is endowed with a Salary of about £8 charged on the land revenues of the Crown. A Statute approved by Her Majesty by Order in Council, April 6, 1858, directs that the Preacher be appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and hold office for one year; and that he preach one sermon in the University Church at the Commemoration of Benefactors on the Sunday before November 3. By Grace of the Senate, May 6, 1858, the appointment is to be made in the Easter Term, and the Preacher is to hold Office till the first of May in the following year. Any Member of the Senate, who is in Holy Orders, may be appointed. 1858 H. Goodwin, M. A. Caius. 1859 J. Atlay, B.D. John's. 1860 A. Wolfe, M.A. Clare. 1861 J. B. Lightfoot, M. A. Trin. SADLERIAN LECTURES. THE Algebra Lectureships were founded by Lady Sadler, and the Lectures commenced in 1710. By a Statute, sanctioned by the Queen in Council March 7, 1860, no person is to be elected a Lecturer on Lady Sadler's foundation in any College after that date. The stipend of each of the Lecturers is £60 per annum. Every Lecturer produces a certificate signed by the Master of his college, that the Lectures have been by him regularly given, before payment of the stipend, which is annually at Lady-day, at St John's Lodge: The Lectureships are tenable only for ten years. The present Lecturers are J. Porter, M. A. Peter's. J. Lamb, M. A. Caius. H. Latham, M.A. Trinity Hall. J. C. W. Ellis, M.A. Sidney. W. B. Pike, M.A. Downing. MR HULSE's FOUNDATIONS. THE REV. JOHN HULSE was educated at St John's college, became Bachelor of Arts in 1728, and died in 1789, bequeathing his estates in Cheshire to the University for the advancement and reward of religious learning. The various purposes to which he appropriated the revenue of these estates, are first, the maintenance of two Scholars at St John's college-secondly, to recompense the exertions of the Hulsean prizeman-thirdly, to found and support the office of Christian Advocate-and fourthly, that of the Hulsean Lecturer or Christian Preacher. By a Statute, confirmed by the Queen in Council Aug. 1, 1860, the office of Hulsean Professor of Divinity was substituted for that of Christian Advocate; and the office of Hulsean Lecturer considerably modified. The trustees of Mr Hulse's bequest are, the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, the Master of Trinity college, and the Master of St John's college. If the Master of Trinity or St John's be Vice-Chancellor, the Greek Professor supplies his place. The Bishop of Ely is visitor, with power to determine, in reason and equity, in all disputes1. HULSEAN PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY. THE Professor is appointed by the three Trustees of Mr Hulse, together with the Regius, the Margaret and the Norrisian Professors of Divinity. He is to print and publish at least six lectures in the course of every six years. The present Professor lectures on the Greek Testament. His lectures are delivered in the October and either the Lent or Easter Terms. 1860 C. J. Ellicott, B.D. St John's. I 1861 J. B. Lightfoot, M.A. Trinity. 1 For a Memoir of Mr Hulse, with a full ac- | foundations, see Parkinson's Hulsean Lectures for count of the duties required under each of his 1887. HULSEAN LECTURER OR CHRISTIAN PREACHER. THE election to this office is to take place on some day in February, not later than the twentieth. The persons eligible are, Masters of Arts of the University of Cambridge. The office is annual. The duty of the Lecturer is to preach not less than four, nor more than six sermons in the year. The subject of the discourses is to shew the evidence for revealed religion, or to explain some of the most difficult texts or obscure parts of Holy Scripture, -or both. The time of delivery is to be prescribed by the University; and if the duties be not discharged by the person appointed, his salary is divided amongst the six senior Fellows of St John's college. 1831 J. J. Blunt, B. D. John's. 1851 G. Currey, B.D. John's. TEACHERS OF ORIENTAL LANGUAGES. By a Grace of the Senate, Dec. 1863, the Vice-Chancellor was empowered to expend annually a sum not exceeding £150 from the University Chest in engaging teachers of such Oriental languages and for such periods as he may think fit; and also to fix from time to time the fees which the Students should pay for such instruction. TRAVELLING BACHELORS. WILLIAM WORTS, Esq. M.A. formerly of St Catherine's College, in this University, gave two pensions of £100 per annum each, to two recent Bachelors of Arts, presented' to the Vice-Chancellor by the Master of the College whose turn it is to nominate, and elected by the Senate. The Bachelors are required to visit foreign countries, to take different routes, and severally to write during their travels, one Latin letter in each year, giving an account to the University of the religion, learning, laws, politics, customs, manners and rarities, natural and artificial, which they 1 The nomination respecting the colleges is according to the cycle of Procters. shall find worth observing in the countries through which they pass: which Letters, as soon as received by the Vice-Chancellor, are laid before the Senate, and afterwards deposited in the University Library. The income of these travellers is continued for the space of three years, the period during which they are to continue abroad. The following Regulations have been made by the Trustees, with a view to insure greater regularity in the recurrence and filling up of vacancies: 1. That no election of a Travelling Scholar shall take place in any year, excepting between the second Tripos day and the end of the Easter Term in that year. 2. That no persons shall be eligible, excepting actual Bachelors of Arts, who shall have been admitted ad respondendum quæstioni not later than Ash-Wednesday in that year, and subsequently to Ash-Wednesday in the preceding year. 3. That the Travelling Scholarship of each person so elected shall be deemed to expire, if not sooner vacated by resignation or otherwise, on the second Tripos day in the third year after that in which his election took place; when he will be a Bachelor of Arts of three years' standing complete. 4. That, if any college, whose turn it is to nominate, shall not do so before the end of the Easter Term next ensuing after any vacancy, provided its occurrence shall have come to the knowledge of the Master of the college or his locum tenens, that college shall be held to have forfeited its right of nominating for that turn, and such right shall devolve in the succeeding year upon the college, whose turn follows next according to the appointed cycle. 5. That, if a vacancy shall occur by resignation or otherwise during the Easter Term of any year, it shall be at the option of the college, which has the next turn, either to nominate in that same Term or to defer nominating until the following year. Qu. 1839 W. W. Smyth, Trin. Joh. Pet. 1848 J. Lamb, Caius. Pemb. 1850 G. W. Blunt, Pemb. {Cla. The Commissioners, appointed by the Cambridge University Act, have authorized the University to suspend the election of Travelling Bachelors at present; but no new Statute has yet been made for the Endowment. WHITEHALL PREACHERS. THE Whitehall Preacherships were established by GEORGE I. in the year 1724. The preachers were originally 24 in number, twelve from each University. By a recent alteration they have been reduced to two, one from each, who are to hold the office for two years. They must be Fellows of colleges during their time of holding the office, to which they are appointed by the Bishop of London, as Dean of her Majesty's Chapel. The Cambridge preachers since the alteration have been, 1837 H. Philpott, B.D. Cath. 1851 C. Hardwick, M.A. Cath. SERMONS IN THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH. THE Sermons before the University at Great St Mary's, are preached by Bachelors in Divinity and Masters of Arts who have completed their first year, beginning with the former. Persons of sixty years of age, and upwards, are excused from preaching. Substitutes procured by such as omit to preach in their turn, receive three guineas a sermon. The Vice-Chancellor appoints the preachers for the Lent and Summer Assizes, and for extraordinary Fasts and Thanksgivings. The payment is five guineas a sermon. The following Rules were confirmed by the Senate, June 3, 1858. 1. That the Sermons on Sunday mornings and on festivals, excepting Michaelmas day, be discontinued during the long vacation. 2. That the fine to be imposed under the new Statutes on every Bachelor of Divinity or Master of Arts neglecting to preach in his appointed turn, or to provide an approved substitute, be three guineas; and that such fine be paid to the Common Chest. 3. That, excepting the days assigned to the Hulsean Lecturer and the Preacher of the Ramsden Sermon, select preachers be appointed yearly for the Sunday afternoons from the first of October to the second Sunday in June inclusive; and for the afternoons of Christmas day, Good Friday and Ascension Day. 4. That no preacher be appointed in the ordinary course for any Sunday afternoon from the first day of October to the second Sunday in June inclusive, or for Christmas day or Good Friday, or the afternoon of Ascension Day. |