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" It is generally acknowledged that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly from the absence of a body of learned men devoting their lives to the cultivation of science, and to the direction of academical education. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 215
1853
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The North British Review, Volume 39

1863 - 634 pages
...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...
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Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford

Mark Pattison - 1868 - 388 pages
...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....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 17

1868 - 556 pages
...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...
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Nature, Volume 8

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 742 pages
...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...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 448 pages
...University of Oxford in 1850 is open to no challenge. Yet they write : — " It is generally acknowledged that both Oxford and the country at large suffer greatly...science, and to the direction of academical education. " The fact that so few books of profound research emanate from the University of Oxford, materially...
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Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 pages
...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...science, and to the direction of academical education. " The fact that so few books of profound research emanate from the University of Oxford, materially...
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Nature, Volume 8

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 584 pages
...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...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...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...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
...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 education." They aro not " hoarding-schools for youths," nor clerical seminaries...
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Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, Volume 1

Randall Thomas Davidson, William Benham - 1891 - 566 pages
...practically ceased. The Commissioners pointed out the loss suffered both by Oxford and the country at large " from the absence of a body of learned men devoting...science and to the direction of Academical education ;" and gave it as their opinion that " for any healthy and complete scheme of University reform it...
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