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 352 DUNHEVED COLLEGE. the existing Grammar School buildings stand, were con- veyed to Mr. Thomas Ching, and eight other gentlemen, in fee. Here the school has, at irregular intervals, been since conducted. We understand that the property, or the management of it, is now vested in charity trustees. Cije £hmi)ebeO College is a modern institution, of growing importance. It was founded in the year 1873, and is under the management of a Council, of which Mr. Dingley is chairman ; the other members being Messrs. E. Pethybridge, Smith, J.P., J. S. Pethybridge, J.P., Pethick, Ralph, Trood, Allen, Nicolls, and Hicks, and the Revs. Mark Guy Pearse and W. H. Cave. Dr. Ralph, A.B., ll.d., Trinity College, Dublin, is the Principal. The College buildings, erected at a cost exceeding ^■5000, are situated at Dimheved Cross, and stand in their own well-arranged grounds. Craigmore, the residence of the Principal, is near the College. There are about sixty students in the boys' department, and twenty in the girls' department. A kindergarten, in the Western Road of Launceston, with about thirty scholars, and a girls' boarding- house at Tamar Terrace, are associated with the College. The Smith-Dunheved Scholarship of £60, awarded annually or biennially to the best candidate from the Middle-class School at Truro, is attached to Dunheved College. A scholarship of £12 per annum is adjudged to the boy in the Sixth Form who is most distinguished in Classics or Mathematics, and several scholarships of £6 per annum are given to other deserving pupils. Ever since the year 1875 Launceston has been one of the Local Centres of the Oxford and Cambridge Universi- ties' examinations. Latterly, however, the Cambridge examinations alone have been held in the town.