Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P., first Lord of Her Majesty's Treasury, on the constitutional defects of the universities and colleges of Oxford [electronic resource] : with suggestions for a royal commission of inquiry into the universities / by a Member of the Oxford Convocation
- Bib ID:
- 6350904
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Row, C. A. (Charles Adolphus), 1816-1896
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- Gale, Nineteenth Century Collections Online
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- Printer:
- (R. and J.E. Taylor)
- Description:
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- London : J. Ridgway, 1850
- 1 online resource (iv, 59 p.).
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society.
- Full contents:
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- I. The right of Parliament to interfere with the property held by the universities and colleges
- II. The unalterable nature of founders' statutes, the oath to obey them, and the degree of its performance
- III. Subscription to the Thirty-nine articles as at present practised at Oxford
- The question of the admission of dissenters
- V. The defective state of the professorships and of the public instruction of the university
- VI. The narrowness of the existing system of instruction
- VII. The abuses connected with the present mode of conferring degrees
- VIII. The imperfection of the constitution of the existing legislative and administrative authorities
- IX. The restrictions imposed on the elections of fellows destructive to the possibility of obtaining efficient college tuition
- X. College elections at Oxford frequently decided on other principles than the literary qualifications of the candidates
- XI. The total inadequacy of visitorial power, according to the existing constitution of the colleges, to redress the abuses of those societies
- XII. The present system of election, coupled with the enforced celibacy of the fellows, destructive of the hope of obtaining efficient tutors in the colleges
- XIII. The necessity of restoring the professors to a state of efficiency as the public teachers of the university
- XIV. The incodierable duties discharged by the heads of houses
- XV. The small practical result produced by the enormous existing endowments
- XVI. The poor man's college: breach of trust on the part of existing institutions. The best-endowed colleges the most useless in the university
- XVII. The necessity of reducing the expenses of studying at the universities
- XVIII. The new statute must remain a dead letter unless it is accompanied with a searching collegiate reform.
- Notes:
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- "Church no. 5115."
- Attributed to C.A. Row.
- Reproduction of the original from the Pusey House Library St Giles.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878
- Also Titled:
- Constitutional defects of the universities and colleges of Oxford
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