This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...by the considerable expense involved in a course of twelve lectures; that working-men's societies, especially, felt the outlay required for twelve lectures beyond the means at their disposal. It was pointed out that it was particularly desirable that University Extension should spread exactly in those ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...by the considerable expense involved in a course of twelve lectures; that working-men's societies, especially, felt the outlay required for twelve lectures beyond the means at their disposal. It was pointed out that it was particularly desirable that University Extension should spread exactly in those places and among those classes to which experience had shown the cost of twelve lectures to be often 1 Oxford and Cambridge Reports for 1889-90; London Report for 1889. 2 Cf. Oxford, Cambridge, and London Regulations. prohibitive. There were also a number of towns in which University Extension teaching had been suspended. In some of these its original promoters had suffered from a deficit. It was extremely desirable to get these towns to try again. "Only let these small towns and poorer districts begin on a modest scale," it was argued, "and you will find them ready to venture on the work, or to renew their connection with it. The local committees consist of men and women who are sincerely interested in education; you may trust them not to rest content with an incomplete course as soon as they can afford a complete one. Financial reasons, not want of educational interest, hold them back. Many of them, too, are not well off, and are unable to afford the risk of a heavy outlay. Above all, they may be trusted not to deal with the two Universities as between rival shopkeepers. They will be loyal to the University with which they have been so long connected. While they would no doubt gladly avail themselves of freedom to employ indifferently Oxford and Cambridge lecturers, no local committee would, in a spirit of mere commercial competition, transfer its allegiance to the cheapest market." To this it was subsequently replied...
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