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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...so prevalent during the last few years, of committing the whole, or part of a boy's education to gentlemen who take only four or five pupils, makes this, more than ever, a point of importance. At present, a parent has not often any means of appreciating the qualifications of persons to whose care he entrusts ...
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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. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ...so prevalent during the last few years, of committing the whole, or part of a boy's education to gentlemen who take only four or five pupils, makes this, more than ever, a point of importance. At present, a parent has not often any means of appreciating the qualifications of persons to whose care he entrusts his son. It is no trifling recommendation of a measure, that it will procure more certain provision for the meritorious scholar, and will at the same time improve the general state of education. Other arguments might be urged in favour of the proposed scheme; and in particular it might be shown to be more consistent with the original intent of our foundations, and the views of our statutes, than the preponderating encouragement now given to the pursuit of mathematics. But I The mode of their appointment, which is proposed to be vested in certain officers holding responsible situations in the University, is guarded against the opposite dangers arising from individual nomination, and rotatory succession. am unwilling to press the subject to a fatiguing length, and I suspect that enough has already been suggested, to convince those who will candidly reflect upon the intrinsic recommendations of the measure. It is now proper to mention the circumstance which has induced me to lay before the public, at this particular moment, some considerations upon a subject, so deeply affecting the vital interests both of our academical and ecclesiastical establishments. It is proposed, I understand, to submit immediately, for the approbation of the University, a widely different plan, and one comprising very few of the essential objects which the Grace of the Master of Trinity embraces. I must be permitted to express the sincere respect, both public and...
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All Editions of A Letter to the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Bristol, Respecting an Additional Examination of Students in the University of Cambridge
