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. 1847 Excerpt: ...Fellows are placed in a trying position. They reach that station at a time of life when in most men the activity is gone which seeks for reform of abuse, or introduction of improvement. In the routine duties of their office they have moderate employment. Hence the long resistance to much-dreaded innovation; hence the ...
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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. 1847 Excerpt: ...Fellows are placed in a trying position. They reach that station at a time of life when in most men the activity is gone which seeks for reform of abuse, or introduction of improvement. In the routine duties of their office they have moderate employment. Hence the long resistance to much-dreaded innovation; hence the course of education in Trinity College remained almost unchanged from 1637 to the latter end of the eighteenth century. They are principally men who rise from the impoverished middle classes of Ireland, and who rarely have private property, unless what they have acquired in their office. Whilst they remain Junior Fellows, their salary rises from 84 per annum gradually, and during a period of about thirty years, to 900 per annum. When they become Senior Fellows, they are invested with the uncontrolled and secret management of enormous revenues. In such management their interest is plain--their duty half concealed from them. They are contented to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors; and if any increase of revenue come, they are tempted to appropriate it to themselves, as the reward of their own good management. The Senior Fellows of late years have struggled gallantly against the depressing influence of the secret system, and have instituted many new premiums and professorships. These are, the History Premiums (1842), 10 per annum; the Political Economy Premiums, 15 per annum; the Premiums in Irish (1842), 20 per annum; Archbishop King's Divinity Prizes (1836), 15 per annum; the Premiums in Botany (1846), 10 per annum; the Professorship of Moral Philosophy (1837), 100 per annum; of Biblical Greek (1838), of Civil Engineering (1842), of Geology (1844), the Berkeley Lectureship in Greek (184...
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Seller's Description:
8vo, 23cm, xxxv, 256, [16]p., publishers book ads., tinted litho frontis "Park Square, Trinity College", in the original elaborately blind stamped brown cloth, gilt spine titles, edges worn, a good to very good copy (Ihds).
