A History of University Reform from 1800 A.D. to the Present Time: With Suggestions Towards a Complete Scheme for the University of Cambridge

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W. Heffer and sons Limited, 1913 - 392 pages
 

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Page 103 - Majesty, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to issue her Royal Commission of...
Page 180 - Our weakness of late years has been that we have not felt this ; — we have known no higher level of knowledge than so much as sufficed for teaching. Hence education among us has sunk into a trade, and, like trading sophists, we have not cared to keep on hand a larger stock than we could dispose of in the season.
Page 144 - A superb speech from Gladstone,' he records, ' in which, for the first time, all the arguments from our report were worked up in the most effective manner. He vainly endeavoured to reconcile his present with his former position. But, with this exception, I listened to his speech with the greatest delight. . . . To behold one's old enemies slaughtered before one's face with the most irresistible weapons was quite intoxicating. One great charm of his speaking is its exceeding good-humour. There is...
Page 25 - Greek: he has scarcely a notion that there is any other kind of excellence; and the great system of facts with which he is the most perfectly acquainted, are the intrigues of the Heathen Gods: with whom Pan slept?
Page 97 - Fellows, have met together, and put forward a declaration calling on its members to come up and rally round it and defend it, a chord is struck within him, more thrilling than any other ; he burns with esprit de corps and generous indignation ; and he is driven up to the scene of his early education, under the keenness of his feelings, to vote, to sign, to protest, to do just what he is told to do, from confidence in the truth of the representations made to him, and from sympathy with the appeal....
Page 25 - A genuine Oxford tutor would shudder to hear his young men disputing upon moral and political truth, forming and pulling down theories, and indulging in all the boldness of youthful discussion. He would augur nothing from it but impiety to God and treason to kings.
Page 147 - The hebdomadal council shall consist of the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, the Proctors, six heads of colleges or halls, six professors of the University, dalcouncil and six members of Convocation of not less than five years...
Page 154 - Not to disclose any matter or thing relating to his college, although required so to do by lawful authority; To resist or not concur in any change in the statutes of the University or college ; To do or forbear from doing anything the doing or the not doing of which would tend to any such concealment, resistance, or non-concurrence...
Page 42 - The latter, accessory and contingent, are created, regulated, and endowed by private munificence, for the interest of certain favored individuals. Time was, when the Colleges did not exist, and the University was there ; and were the Colleges again abolished, the University would remain entire. The former, founded solely for education, exists only as it accomplishes the end of its institution ; the latter, founded principally for aliment and habitation, would still exist, were all education abandoned...
Page 25 - A young Englishman goes to school at six or seven years old; and he remains in a course of education till twenty-three or twenty-four years of age. In all that time, his sole and exclusive occupation is learning Latin and Greek...

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