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Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform, Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review
Discussions on Philosophy and Literature Education and University Reform Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review Author:William Hamilton This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...previously. He proposed, that eight accredited professors should there teach the different branches of mathematics, physics, and morals; w... more »hile the colleges should retain only instruction in grammar, rhetimc, and logic. This was to bring matters towards the very statutory constitution subverted in the English Universities by the colleges, and which, with all its imperfections, was even more complete than that proposed by Ramus, as an improvement on a collegial mechanism of tuition, perfection itself, in comparison to the intrusive system of Oxford. faculties, no Universities, for a long time, resembled each other more closely than the " first and second schools of the church," Paris and Oxford; but in the constitution and civil polity of the bodies, there were from the first considerable differences.--In Oxford, the University was not originally established on the distinction of Nations; though, in the sequel, the great national schism of the Northern and Southern men had almost determined a division similar to that which prevailed from the first in the other ancient universities.--InJdx£ordT the. Chancellor and his deputy combined the powers of the Rector and the two Chancellors in. Paris; and the inspection and control, chiefly exercised in the latter, through the distribution of the scholars of the University into Nations and Tribes, under the government of Kector, Procurators, and Deans, was in the former more especially accomplished by collecting the students into certain privileged Houses, under the control of a Principal responsible for the conduct of the members. This subordination was not indeed established at once; and the scholars at first lodged, without domestic superintendence, in the houses of the citizens. In the year 1231, we ...« less