probationers as may be required for the service of the missions and can be maintained by the funds of the institution. The College-property and the ultimate authority in the government and control of the college are vested in the Incorporated Society. The Bishop of Calcutta for the time being is the visitor of the college, with various powers of supervision and direction subject to confirmation by the Society. The ordinary government of the college is in the college-council, consisting of the principal and the two other professors who always reside within the College. Ail the professorships are in the appointment of the Incorporated Society. The principal is chiefly charged with the superintendence of the morals and conduct of the students; the second professor acts as the secretary to the college-council and librarian of the college-library; and the third professor undertakes the duties of the college-bursar and reports on the state of the college-buildings and grounds. The second and third professors may interchange the duties respectively assigned to them. The studies prosecuted within the college are theology with the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages as subsidiary to it; history, both ancient and modern, ecclesiastical and civil; the elements of philosophical and mathematical knowledge; and divers oriental languages, together with the English language to be taught to all the native students. The Incorporated Society has founded and endowed twenty theological scholarships; and scholarships may be founded and endowed on a benefaction of sicca rupee not less than 8,000 with a reserved right to the founder of nominating the first scholar on every such foundation; and on a benefaction of not less than 15,000 sicca rupees, with a perpetual right reserved of nominating to such scholarships. Non-foundation students are also admitted, provision being made for their education by those who send them. The students, whether on the foundation or not, are required by the statutes to be Christian youths, who have been well-grounded and instructed in the principles of the united church of England and Ireland, and they may be either of European, or of mixed, or of wholly Native race. The ordinary age of admission to the college is fourteen, and the residence of the students in college is closed at the completion of their nineteenth year. In addition to various certificates and statements regarding the age, health, dispositions, and abilities of the candidate, it was originally
