Utrumque tempus consulas, tum antiquius, ut cognoscas, quid optimum fuerit; tum recentius, ut notes, quid fuerit aptissimum. (Ū.)

1838 Quousque, et quibus potissimum rationibus, artium pulcritudinem spectantium formæ nobiliores e pura religione oriantur; eandemque vicissim promovendi vim habeant. (B.)

In iis quæ de Ethica et Politica a Platone scripta accepimus, quænam sint elementa philosophiam revera christianam adumbrantia. (V.)

1839 Quænam commoda Britannia percipiat ex Coloniis transatlanticis. (B.) Inter Antiquorum et Recentiorum eloquentiam comparatione facta, utri palma sit deferenda. (U.)

1840 In illa Philosophia, in qua de vita hominum et moribus disputatur, tractanda, quibus principiis quasi fundamento inniti, quibusque potissimum ex fontibus recte vivendi præcepta haurire oporteat? (B.)

Quid censes plausus et amici dona Quiritis? (U.)

1841 In legibus ferendis, quid propositi habere debeat qui pœnas peccatis irrogat; et quænam sit adhibenda suppliciorum mensura? (B.)

Poetis ea maxima laus est, si summis ingenii dotibus ita utantur, ut virtutis amorem alant. (U.)

1842 Sanctiusque ac reverentius visum de Actis Deorum credere quam scire. (B.) Argentum et Aurum propitii an irati Dii negaverint dubito. (U.)

1843 Principiorum Juris Publici apud Græcos et apud Romanos comparatio. (B.) Quibusnam e fontibus T. Livius historiam Primi Libri sui hauserat, et quatenus historia ista vera sit habenda? (U.)

1844 Quomodo in ædibus sacris ornamenta artesque ad architecturam pertinentes veræ religioni prosunt. (B.)

Quænam beneficia a legibus præseriptis diligenter observatis Academiæ
Alumni percipiant. (U.)

1845 Quæ revera est civitas hominum, eadem civitas Dei sit necesse est. (B.)
In Platonis Republica, dominantur rationes politicæ an morales? (U.)
1846 In politicis rebus æque ac in physicis, nihil tam firmum est cui non periculum
sit etiam ab invalido. (B.)

"Ego multos homines excellenti animo ac virtute fuisse, et sine doctrina, naturæ ipsius habitu prope divino, per seipsos et moderatos et graves extitisse fateor; sed idem ego contendo, cum ad naturam eximiam atque illustrem accesserit ratio quædam conformatioque doctrinæ, tam illud nescio quid præclarum et singulare solere existere. (U.)

1847 Difficile est in philosophia pauca esse ei nota cui non sint aut pleraque aut

omnia. (B.)

Omnis fere error veritatis alicujus simius est. (U.)

1848 De Arturo, Britannorum Principe, utrum aliquid veri memoriæ traditum

sit. (B.)

In cultu divino quænam sint Musicæ partes. (U.)

1849 Baconus an Newtonus in Philosophia felicius elaboraverit, scriptis eorum

inter se collatis, quærendum est. (B.)

Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares; sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est. (U.)

1850 Monumenta priscæ artis in Assyria nuper reperta.

Homerus et Shakespearius inter se collati. (U.)

(B.)

1851 Quænam præcipue fuerint in causa cur Religio Reformata quæ vocatur fines quos in Europa intra paucos annos attigit nunquam superaverit? (B.) Quomodo diversarum gentium indoles a diverso earum situ explicari possit. (U.)

1852 Quidnam de iis sentiendum sit, qui apud veteres Græcos Romanosque se rebus coactos esse crediderint, ut vitæ se ipsi privarent? (B.)

Lingua Latina optimum præbet instrumentum, per quod viri docti de rebus ad literas et scientiam pertinentibus inter se communicare possint. (U.) 1853 Quatenus nobis veteres in coloniis deducendis exemplum quod imitemur reliquerint? (B.)

Utrum ex gloriæ cupidine, an ex honesto erga rempublicain studio, magna plerumque et heroica facta oriantur? (U.)

1854 Quænam commoda speranda sint, si quando India per vias ferro constructas iter facientibus patefiet? (B.)

Magnum est eadem habere monumenta majorum, iisdem uti sacris, sepulchra habere communia. (U.)

1766. WILLIAM WORTS, Esq., M.A., of Caius College, one of the Esquire Bedells, gave two sums of £100 each, yearly, for two junior Bachelors of Arts, who are required to visit foreign

countries during three years, and to write during their travels, Latin letters, descriptive of the customs, &c. to the Vice-Chancellor, which are laid before the Senate.

The candidates for these travelling Scholarships are nominated by the Masters of Colleges, according to the cycle of Proctors and Taxors, and are elected by the Senate.

1768. The Rev. ROBERT SMITH, D.D., Master of Trinity College, left two annual prizes of £25 each, to two commencing Bachelors of Arts, who shall appear, after examination, to be the best proficients in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In cases of equality of merit, a preference is given to members of Trinity College.

1774. Sir WILLIAM BROWNE, Knt., M.D., bequeathed a rent-charge of £21 per annum to the University, for founding a Classic Scholarship. It is open to members of any College who may offer themselves for examination in case of a vacancy, if they are not of longer standing than one year from the date of their matriculation. The successful candidate, if of another College, is obliged to remove to St Peter's College, and may retain the Scholarship for seven years.

Sir William Browne* also left three Gold Medals, each of the value of five guineas, to be given to three undergraduates on Commencement-day in the Senate-House, after the Exercises have been read:

* It will appear from the following anecdote, that the founder of the Prizes for these Epigrams was not deficient in the power of pointing an Epigram himself.

After the death of Dr John Moore, Bishop of Ely, his very valuable library, consisting of 28,965 printed books, and 1790 manuscripts, was purchased by King George the First, and presented to the University of Cainbridge. About the same time a body of cavalry was quartered at Oxford. These circumstances gave occasion for the following epigram, which was probably written by Dr Trapp, the translator of Virgil :

"The king observing with judicious eyes
The state of both his Universities,
To one he sent a Regiment; for why?
That learned body wanted Loyalty:

To the other he sent books, as well discerning,

How much that loyal body wanted Learning.

This reflection on the state of learning at Cambridge called forth from Sir William Browne the following reply:

"The King to Oxford sent his troop of Horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;

With equal care to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument.'

To the first, who writes the best Greek Ode in imitation

of Sappho.

To the second, who writes the best Latin Ode in imitation of Horace.

To the third, who shall produce the best Greek Epigram after the manner of the Anthologia, and the best Latin Epigram after the model of Martial.

Subjects for Sir William Browne's Medals: