PREJASA THIS ESSEY Would have been pluiabad been thought advisable to leave, int of the original AS endeavouring to effect the alteratione mit we Some times the harmony of the vile, and tha is show where he may also to have yo doing so as in t nature of the tas pleteness. LP wished 1 zuumation to THIS ESSAY OBTAINED THE LE BAS PRIZE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE IN THE YEAR 1863. A LARGE number of Members of the Civil Service of India who were Students at the East India College at Haileybury, at various intervals during the thirty years that the Rev. C. W. LE BAS, M.A. formerly Fellow of Trinity College, was connected with that Institution, desirous of testifying their regard for Mr LE BAS, and of perpetuating the memory of his services, raised a Fund which they offered to the University of Cambridge for founding an Annual Prize, to be called in honour of Mr LE BAS, The Le Bas Prize, for the best English Essay on a subject of General Literature, such subject to be occasionally chosen with reference to the history, institutions, and probable destinies and prospects of the Anglo-Indian Empire. The Prize is subject to the following Regulations, confirmed by Grace of the Senate, Nov. 22, 1848: 1. That the LE BAS PRIZE shall consist of the annual interest of the above-mentioned Fund, the Essay being published at the expense of the successful Candidate. 2. That the Candidates for the Prize shall be, at the time when the subject is given out, Bachelors of Arts under the standing of M.A.; or Students in Civil Law or Medicine of not less than four or more than seven years' standing, not being Graduates in either faculty, but having kept the Exercises necessary for the degree of Bachelor of Law or Medicine. The subject for the Essay proposed by the ViceChancellor for the year 1863 was "The State and Prospects of Education among the Upper Classes of Natives in India, and the results to be expected from their more general employment in the higher departments of Government." |