...commissioners in behalf of the professors. In the first place — " It is generally acknowledged," they say, " that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly...science, and to the direction of academical education. It is felt that the opening of such a career within the University would serve to call forth the knowledge...

...commissioners in behalf of the professors. In the first place — " It is generally acknowledged," thev eay, " that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly...science, and to the direction of academical education. It is felt that the opening of such a career within the University would serve to call forth the knowledge...

...be held in honour and esteem, and should be adequately rewarded. A body of men devoting themselves to the cultivation of science, and to the direction of academical education, are the salt of the society in which they live. Professors, according to the ideal eloquently sketched...

...Commissioners who reported on the University of Oxford in 1850 is open to no challenge. Yet they write : — " It is generally acknowledged that ' both Oxford and...to the direction of academical ' education. " The fact that so few books of pro" found research emanate from the Uni"versity of Oxford, materially impairs...

...the purpose, and give up the old form for one fully adapted to modern habits of life. Let us have " a body of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of science and the direction of academical education." Let the colleges be once again what they were designed to be....

...Lincoln | and the Commissioners tell us the 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 edu" cation." They are not " boarding i schools for youths," nor clerical...

...and law, Oxford and Cambridge may yet regain the proud position which was once theirs, as " bodies of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of Science, and the direction of academical teaching." To point out more particularly the source from which the endowments...

...no challenge. Yet they write : — " It is generally acknowledged that both Oxford and the countiy at large suffer greatly from the absence of a body...and to the direction of academical education. " The fact that so few books of profound research emanate from the University of Oxford, materially impairs...

...and law, Oxford and Cambridge may yet regain the proud position which was once theirs, as " bodies of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of Science, and the direction of academical teaching." To point out more particularly the source from which the endowments...

...that both Oxford and the country at largejsuffer greatly from the absence of a body of learned im'ii devoting their lives to the cultivation of science,...and to the direction of academical education. " The fact that so few books o! profound researeh emanate from the University of Oxford, materially impairs...