The American Journal of Education (Volume 27) - Softcover

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. 1877. Excerpt: ... IXTBODUCTIOK. We begin our account of the University of Oxford with a few paragraphs in which Sir William Hamilton, in an article in the Edinburgh Review (1830) republished with additions, in a separate form, and now issued in his collected Essays and Discussions, has sharply defined the distinction between the University proper and the Collegr-s, and opened a controversy which is not yet ended, and which has already modified, by parliamentary statute, and the action of the University Commissioners, and the Heads of Houses, the relations of the University and the Colleges. To the historical discussion of the relation of the Colleges to the University by Sir William Hamilton, we shall add portions of a chapter from Dr. Newman's Site of Universities, wldch exhibits the advantages of the College system in respect to the domestic life of the student. TBI CUIVERSITT AND TBS COLLEGES. Oxford and Cambridge, aa establishments for education, consist of two parts--of the University proper, and of the Colleges. The former, original and essential, is founded, controlled, and privileged by public authority, for the advantage of the nation. The latter, accessory and contingent, are created, regulated, and endowed by private munificence, for the interest of certain favored individuals. Time was, when the Colleges did not exist, and the University was there; and were the Colleges again abolished, the University would remain entire. The former, founded solely for education, exists only as it accomplishes the end of its institution; the latter, founded principally for aliment and habitation, would still exist, were all education abandoned within their walls. The University, as a national establishment, hi necessarily open to the lieges in general; the Colleges, as private ...