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Page 65 - that it is incumbent on us to supply it and I believe that some such system, which will carry the benefits of the university through the country, is necessary, in order to retain the university in that position with respect to the education of the country which it has hitherto held, and to continue in its hands that permeating influence which it is desirable that it should possess.
Page 54 - Correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 11 vols.
Page 46 - the ideal of a national university is that it should be coextensive with the Nation; it should be the common source of the higher (or secondary) instruction for the community.
Page 84 - The lecturers whom we send through the country are a kind of missionary ; wherever they go, they carry on their foreheads the name of the University they represent. To a great many of those persons with whom they come in contact, it is the only opportunity afforded of learning what Oxford means and what is meant by the powers of an Oxford education.
Page 56 - Some Account of the Origin and Objects of the New Oxford Examinations for the Title of Associate in Arts and Certificates, " by TD Acland, late Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford,
Page 46 - It would be the beginning of a system by which the University would strike its roots freely into the subsoil of society, and draw from it new elements of life, and sustenance of mental and moral power.
Page 68 - ... such a system as I have indicated would be at once responded to, and from which it would rapidly spread. But, while I have based my arguments on the existence of a demand, I at the same time believe that it is not only our duty to foster and encourage it where it exists, but, by the attitude which we assume, to endeavour to call it up where it does not exist or has not had energy enough to express itself. Enquiry and discussion however can alone bring to the surface a clear knowledge of the quarters...
Page 53 - The education of the middle classes suffers at present from the want of any definite aim to guide the work of the schoolmasters and from the want of any trustworthy test to distinguish between good and bad schools.
Page 32 - In 1890 more than 20 such grants were made of which six went to workingmen and four to teachers in elementary schools. At the present time in addition to a main fund of some £182, granted in £10, £5 and £ I scholarships, there are many special grants made by local societies and...
Page 75 - ... course, to raise in their locality subscriptions to the necessary amount. A few poor students, who would despair of begging guarantees for an outlay of ^60, would attack in good heart the smaller task of raising ^30. And it was felt that the local committees might be safely trusted to work their way up to the longer course, with its proportionately heavier expenses, when they had once contrived to make both ends meet in the smaller venture. For, if University Extension Teaching was a good thing...