The Subject for Latin Prize Hexameter this year was “Marathon.” The Sixth, Remove & Shell entered compulsorily & did the verses during the Christmas Holidays (1855-1856).
The Greek Iambic verses were from Shakespeare “Troilus and Cressida” verses “Troy yet upon his basis had been down” 33 lines.
The subject for Latin Prose was the prospect of the world in case Carthage had conquered Rome.