Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to OxfordEdmonston and Douglas, 1868 - 348 páginas |
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a-year academical arrangement attendance become body candidates Chancellor charity Church classical college endowments commission compulsory Congregation Convocation corporation course Court of Chancery crown 8vo curriculum degree direction donor duties election eleemosynary escheat examination exercises exhibitions existing faculty favour Fcap fellow fellowships fund German given Goldwin Smith grammar-school Greek head Hebdomadal Council Hertford College History honour income Inns of Court institutions instruction intellectual knowledge lectures legislation Legislature literature ment mind mode moral objects opinion ordinances organised Oxford Pandects Parliament party philology philosophy political practice present principle prizes profes profession professors proposed pupils purpose purses distribut question reform residence revenues scheme scholar scholarships science and learning scientific sity social statute teacher teaching theological tion trust tutor University of Edinburgh University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor whole WILLIAM HANNA
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Página 28 - Will you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh?
Página 246 - ... if I must determine which of the two courses was the more successful in training, moulding, enlarging the mind, which sent out men the more fitted for their secular duties, which produced better public men, men of the world, men whose names would descend to posterity, I have no hesitation in giving the preference to that university which did nothing over that which exacted of its members an acquaintance with every science under the sun . . . How is this to be explained?
Página 170 - To discover and to teach are distinct functions ; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person. He, too, who spends his day in dispensing his existing knowledge to all comers is unlikely to have either leisure or energy to acquire new.
Página 150 - English universities are not; that is to say, corporations "of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of science, and the direction of academical education.
Página 246 - I protest to you, gentlemen, that if I had to choose between a so-called university, which dispensed with residence and tutorial superintendence, and gave its degrees to any person who passed an examination in a wide range of subjects...