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ACADEMIC EDUCATION acquaintance admit adopted advantage already arguments attention Bachelor's degree BISHOP OF BRISTOL Cambridge candidates Christian class classics classical examination classical honours consideration Demosthenes deserving distinction doubt duate effect enactment encouraged Eubulus Euclid Euripides exceed exclusive expences fact feeling give greater gree Greek holy orders important industry inquiry junior optimés labours lectures less eligible liberal literature Lordship mathematical pursuits mathematical studies mathematicians mean measure ment merit mind neglect object opinion pamphlet perhaps persons PHILOGRANTUS Plato Polybius present system principles proficiency proposed pursue their mathematical Queen of Sheba reading reason remarks rewards scheme scholar scholarship Senate senate-house examination senior wrangler shew speaking sufficient supposing each class taken their degree taste Theology thing Thucydides tical tion tripos trochaics truth tutor University education University examination UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE urged versity whole wish words writer Xenophon young youth
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Page 9 - The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. The frame of this little commonwealth standeth upon the union of seventeen colleges, or societies, devoted to the study of learning and knowledge, and for the better service of the Church...
Page 4 - Of the senior optimes, do any two in each year keep up or pursue their mathematical learning, so as to make farther proficiency in it after they have taken their degree ? Of the wranglers, do many of the lower wranglers, and all, or nearly all the higher, pursue their mathematical studies farther than to qualify for fellowship examination, which at some Colleges, as at Trinity for instance...
Page 4 - Butler, in the senate-house, the University must be supposed to know nothing of their progress in these things. Their University examination for their degree is in mathematics, and if they have got four books of Euclid (or even less), can answer a sum in arithmetic, and solve a simple equation, they are deemed qualified for their degree, that is, the University pronounces this a sufficient progress, after three years and a quarter of study. So much for the...
Page 7 - After the time that he puzzled the Philistines, the sphinx puzzled the Thebans, and the Queen of Sheba tried to puzzle Solomon. And, in conformity with this custom, in which sacred and profane histories alike concur, after a lapse of between three and four thousand years, the examiners in the Senate-house still propose riddles to their EXAMINANTS. " What is the greater part of that examination but a set of mathematical conundrums, in which each examiner tries to display his ingenuity by quibbling...
Page 10 - A university is a society of students in all and every of the liberal arts and sciences. How then can that society deserve the name, which confines its studies almost entirely to one ? This exclusive preference militates against the very spirit of our institution, and certainly damps the ardor and cramps the genius of many a man who might excel in classical or metaphysical pursuits, by compelling him to adopt a course of study for which he has neither talent nor inclination, but in which he is compelled...
Page 2 - Mathematics,' in the words of an English reviewer, 'are a high and important branch of study. They are a science closely concerned in the investigation of abstract truth, requiring intensity of attention, accuracy of research, acuteness of application, and severity of judgment. ' They are intimately connected with the most useful arts, and with the sublimest speculations, with those inventions which give man power over the world in which he is placed, and with those discoveries which elevate him...
Page 8 - Mathematics," says he, in page 4, " are no doubt a high and important branch of study. They are a science closely concerned in the investigation of abstract truth, requiring intensity of attention, accuracy of research, acuteness of application, and severity of judgment : they are intimately connected with the most useful arts, and with the sublimest speculations ; with those inventions which give man power over the world in which he is placed, and with those discoveries which elevate him to the...
Page 57 - Are not practical mathematics the great source of useful inventions; and are not the Cambridge mathematics almost exclusively speculative ? " Take a junior or senior optime, or even a wrangler, into an irregular field with a common land-surveyor, and ask them severally to measure it ; •which will do it soonest and best ? "Let one of each of these academic graduates and a practical sailor be sailing towards an unknown coast ; which...
Page 38 - ... University was very differently constituted in the year 1772, than it is at present, could hardly have been turned to any practical benefit. Several different schemes of reform were subsequently proposed by Mr. Jebb without success ; all tending to reduce the whole University into the state of one vast and unwieldy college, but without making any effectual provision for its administration in this altered state. One of these plans, were it to be named at the present day, would meet with loud and...
Page 57 - Eubulus's pamphlet is, his complete misapprehension of the real object which the University has in view, when it encourages the study of philosophy among its youth. He does not appear to have the slightest suspicion, that it is intended by this course of reading to strengthen the reasoning faculties, to produce habits of close attention, accuracy, and discrimination, to exercise acuteness, and to improve the memory.