VI. Towards the close of the Session, the "Macfie Book Prize," value £5, is competed for by First Year's Students, who have taken part in all the written Examinations of the Natural Science Class during the Session. This Bursary was founded by Robert, Claud, John, and David Johnston Macfie, Esquires, in memory of the late Mrs. Macfie of Langhouse. VII. In connection with the Fulton Elocution Classes, a sum of at least £30 is set apart for annual distribution as prizes; the gainer of the first prize is not allowed to compete again, and the gainer of the second can compete again only for the first. VIII. There is a sum of £5000 left by Dr. Webster, the interest of which is available for Bursaries intended to encourage young men of sincere piety and good promise, at the discretion of Trustees named by him. Information as to these may be had from Somerville Greig, Esq., W.S., 55 Frederick Street. IX. The late Miss Sarah Duncan, Grange, Edinburgh, bequeathed the residue of her estate (part of which, however, is at present subject to a liferent) to the Free Church of Scotland, for the support of Students at the New College,-Gaelic speaking Students having a preference. The sum in the meantime available for annual distribution is the interest of £3200. The power of nominating to the bursaries is invested in the Principal and Professors of the New College. X. At the close of the Session, the Cunningham Fellowships, £100 each, founded by the late Dr. Webster, are awarded by the Senatus. The following are the Regulations for these Fellowships originally framed by the Founder, and revised by the Trustees under powers conferred in Trust-deed : 1. The Principal and Theological Professors, forming the Senatus of the New College for the time being, shall be the patrons of the Fellowships, and they shall have sole power to appoint and dismiss the persons who are to hold them; and they shall be the sole judges and arbiters of all questions of every kind which may arise in relation to the said Fellowships. 2. No person shall be qualified to hold any of the Fellowships unless he has attended and completed his full curriculum of four years' study at the Free Church College, Edinburgh; has passed the Board of Examiners of Students, appointed by the said General Assembly of said Free Church; has stood as one of the first seven Students having the highest place in point of comparative merit, in the Examination, by the said Board, of Students who, in the immediately preceding Session of College, have completed their Theological Curriculum; and has been one of the Students whom the Board of Examiners has sanctioned and approved of, as duly qualified to be taken on trials for being licensed as a Preacher of the Gospel by one of the Presbyteries of said Free Church. 3. One Fellowship shall be tenable for two years, and another for one year, and each shall be of the value of £100 sterling per annum, and payable half-yearly in two equal instalments; it being understood that if the income of the trust-estate shall be diminished or increased, in consequence of a change in the rate of interest, or otherwise, the value of the Fellowship shall be diminished or increased accordingly. 4. The holders of the Fellowships shall be required to state to the Trustees at their appointment that it is their intention, bona fide, to prosecute their Theological studies during the time when they hold their Fellowships, and within one month from the end of the first year from the date of their appointment, shall give to the Principal in writing an account of the course of study which they have pursued. 5. The holders of the Fellowships shall be disqualified from holding them in the following circumstances :—(1.) Their not being licensed as Probationers of the Free Church within one year after passing the final examination of the Board of Examiners. (2.) Their engaging in any occupation, or in any way conducting themselves in a manner which, in the judgment of the Trustees, is inconsistent with the object for which the Fellowships are founded. (3.) Their ordination as Ministers or Missionaries of the Free Church, or appointment to a Professor's chair. In regard to situations and employments not included under this and the immediately preceding particular, it shall be left to the honour of each Fellow not to accept of any situation or office, unless in his judgment it shall permit him bona fide to fulfil the purpose for which the Fellowships are founded. (4.) If they shall hold at the time any other Fellowship or Bursary of equal value, connected with the Free Church College, Edinburgh. The Fellowships have already been held by the following : 1862... {Robert Mitchell.1 James S. Candlish.2 1 Aberdeen. 2 Glasgow College. 3 By special designation of the David Black.3 1863... Andrew Melville.1 David Somerville.5 4 Glasgow. 5 Rothesay. 6. When the capital sums contained in the railway debentures, in which the funds of this bequest are at present invested, are paid up, the Trustees shall have full power and liberty to invest the same in any security which may appear to them suitable. 7. In the event of the death of any of the parties holding one of the said Fellowships, or of their being deprived of them during the currency of the period for which they are respectively held, or of the Fellowship becoming vacant through resignation or any other cause, the Trustees shall have full power to substitute another person or persons in the room of those who have ceased to hold them, and for the period of time for which the Fellowship so made vacant would have been enjoyed. 8. Full power is reserved to the Trustees to revise and alter further, at any time, any of these conditions and regulations, in conformity with the spirit and the provisions of the Trust-deed. CUNNINGHAM LECTURESHIP. This Lectureship, founded by the late William Binny Webster, who, in 1862, made over £2000 to the general Trustees of the Church endowment, is to be ordinarily held by a Minister or Professor of the Free Church; the Trustees, however, having power to appoint a Minister or Professor from other denominations. The Lecturer is bound to deliver publicly in Edinburgh not fewer than six lectures, on a theme selected by himself, subject to the consent of the Council, in Apologetical, Doctrinal, Controversial, Exegetical, Pastoral, or Historical Theology. He is also to publish the lectures within a year of their delivery. The Council consists of two Professors chosen by the Senatus of the New College; five members chosen annually by the General Assembly; the Principal of the New College; the Moderator of the General Assembly; and the Law-Adviser of the Church. COUNCIL. Rev. Dr. Laughton, Moderator of Assembly, Mr. James Dodds, Dr. A. S. Patterson, Mr. John Cowan, Beeslack, Mr. David Maclagan, Professor Blaikie, Professor Duns, ex officiis. appointed by the chosen by the Senatus. Dr. Rainy, Convener. LECTURERS. Dr. R. S. Candlish, Dr. James Buchanan, Dr. Patrick Fairbairn, Dr. James Walker, Dr. Rainy, Dr. A. B. Bruce, Dr. John Laidlaw, Dr. John Cairns, Dr. George Smeaton. Dr. R. S. Candlish lectured on the "Fatherhood of God;" Dr. Buchanan on "Justification by Faith;" Dr. Fairbairn on the "Revelation of Law in Scripture;" Dr. Walker, on "Scottish Theology;" Dr. Rainy on The Development of Doctrine; Dr. Bruce, on the "Humiliation of Christ;" Dr. Laidlaw, on 66 "The Bible Doctrine of Man;" Dr. Cairns on Unbelief in the Eighteenth Century." Dr. Smeaton lectured, in 1882, on 66 The Holy Spirit." IX. HONOURS AWARDED IN THE NEW COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. SESSION 1881-82. MILLER SCHOLARSHIPS. After the usual comparative trial in November last, in Biblical and General Knowledge, Latin, Greek, and Elementary Mathematics, these Scholarships were adjudged to ORDINARY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS. These Scholarships were, after the usual comparative trial, in the branches of Higher Mathematics, Natural, Mental, and Moral Philosophy, Classics, Hebrew, Natural Science, Apologetical and Systematic Theology, and Church History, adjudged as follows: HAMILTON SCHOLARSHIPS. First Year-John A. Thomson, M.A. ORDINARY SCHOLARSHIPS. First Year. James Stuart, M.A. Chr. J. Roberton. John J. F. L. Fergusson, M.A. James Seth, M.A. Chas. H. Todd, M.A. Gaelic-Donald F. Mackenzie, M.A. Hogg Bursar-John H. Morrison. David Smith, M.A. Wm. S. Matheson, M.A. John W. Hope, M.A. Gaelic-Archibald M'Callum. FORSYTH SCHOLAR-David MacRae Tod, M.A. |