DUBLIN:

Printed at the University Press.

HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., GRAFTON-STREET,

BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

LONDON: LONGMAN AND COMPANY.

Cal. Dubl.

1857

Campanile of Trinity College,

ERECTED BY THE MUNIFICENCE OF HIS GRACE THE LORD PRIMATE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY.

[See Frontispiece prefixed to this Volume.]

ERRATUM.

In the List of Electors, page ccclxiv, line 6, for Williams, George Campbell, A. M., read Williams, Rev. George Campbell, A. M.

avail ourselves of this opportunity to offer to you, un v homage of our dutiful affection.

"The occasion on which we now assemble is peculiarly interesting to, at least, our elder members. In general, each collegiate institution has its own peculiar and interesting recollections connected with its customs and locality. We, too, have ours. The ancient Bell which surmounted our former Chapel had become a part of our collegiate history. Successive generations had been summoned by its tones to the performance of academic exercises, or to the solemn duty of prayer and thanksgiving. In the taking down of ancient buildings that Bell had to be displaced. It is now about to be restored to a worthier home within that noble structure which your Grace's munificence is proceeding to erect; and we pray your Grace, on this day, to lay the foundation of the building with your own hands, and to hallow its uses with your own lips. In spite of the advanced years of many among us, we are not ashamed of the boyish gladness with which we exult in the restoration of our Bell; and for many a year, and at many a meeting, the event of this day will be the cheerful topic of collegiate intercourse.

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'Many of our former buildings have passed away. This new and costly structure, with all its solid grandeur, like every other work of man's hands, must perish but there is a memory that endureth; and when our squares and their architecture shall have crumbled into other forms, your Grace's name will still survive in the grateful annals of our institution.

Campanile of Trinity College,

ERECTED BY THE MUNIFICENCE OF HIS GRACE THE LORD PRIMATE, CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY.

[See Frontispiece prefixed to this Volume.]

CEREMONY OBSERVED ON LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.

Ar 12 lock, on Wednesday, December 1, 1852, his Grace the Lord Primate, in the costume of the Chancellor of the University, was received at the door of the Examination Hall by the Vice-Chancellor and the Provost. Being conducted by them to a seat at the top of the Hall, in which the Doctors, Masters, and Scholars were assembled in full academic costume, the Provost read the following Address:

"MAY IT PLEASE YOUR GRACE,-We, the Provost, Fellows, and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, beg leave, with the most cordial greetings, to hail your Grace's presence among us; and we avail ourselves of this opportunity to offer to you, as our Chancellor, the homage of our dutiful affection.

"The occasion on which we now assemble is peculiarly interesting to, at least, our elder members. In general, each collegiate institution has its own peculiar and interesting recollections connected with its customs and locality. We, too, have ours. The ancient Bell which surmounted our former Chapel had become a part of our collegiate history. Successive generations had been summoned by its tones to the performance of academic exercises, or to the solemn duty of prayer and thanksgiving. In the taking down of ancient buildings that Bell had to be displaced. It is now about to be restored to a worthier home within that noble structure which your Grace's munificence is proceeding to erect; and we pray your Grace, on this day, to lay the foundation of the building with your own hands, and to hallow its uses with your own lips. In spite of the advanced years of many among us, we are not ashamed of the boyish gladness with which we exult in the restoration of our Bell; and for many a year, and at many a meeting, the event of this day will be the cheerful topic of collegiate intercourse.

"Many of our former buildings have passed away. This new and costly structure, with all its solid grandeur, like every other work of man's hands, must perish: but there is a memory that endureth; and when our squares and their architecture shall have crumbled into other forms, your Grace's name will still survive in the grateful annals of our institution.