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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. 1818. Excerpt: ... I.took my Master of Arts' degree at the Commencement in 1762, and was made Moderator for Trinity College in the following October. I look upon the office of Moderator to be the most difficult to execute, and the most important to the interests of the University, when well executed, of any that there is, not excepting the Professorship of Divinity itself. If in any thing we are superior to Oxford, it is in this, that our scholastic disputations in philosophy and theology are supported with seriousness and solemnity. An evil custom has, within these few years, been introduced into the University, which will in its consequences destroy our superiority over Oxford, and leave our scholastic exercises in as miserable a state as theirs have long been. It is the custom of dining late. When I was admitted, and for many years after, every College dined at twelve o'clock, and the students after dinner flocked to the philosophical disputations, which began at two. If the schools either of philosophy or divinity shall ever be generally destitute of an audience, there will be an end of all scholastic exertion. I remember having seen the divinity-schools (when the best act (by Coulthurst and Milner--Arcades ambo) was keeping that 1 ever presided at, and which might justly be called a real academic entertainment, ) filled with auditors from the top to the bottom; but as soon as the clock struck three, a number of masters of arts belonging to colleges which dined at three slunk away from this intellectual feast; and they were followed, as might have been expected, by many under-graduates, --I say as might have been expected; for, in all seminaries of education, relaxation of discipline begins with the seniors of the society. Some persons may contend that scholastic exercise...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154049411
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154049418
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 199 gr


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