A letter to the provost of Oriel, on a scheme for making Oxford more accessible to medical students generally / from C.H. Pearson.

  • Pearson, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1830-1894.
Date:
1858
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Credit: A letter to the provost of Oriel, on a scheme for making Oxford more accessible to medical students generally / from C.H. Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hand, Eton and Harrow should claim for lawyers and clergymen, what is asked for the medical profession, it will rest with the petitioner, to prove, that the grounds of pecuniary circumstances and the character of the education received before or after Oxford, are precisely similar. The resemblance is not at first sight great; but any-how English institutions are generally formed not by logic but by common sense. The two checks of the council and convocation will surely bo found sufficient in practice to prevent any great innovation from being suddenly carried. On the other hand the advantage to Oxford of receiving a new class of students will be great. We have at present, or are in the way to have, every- thing that is wanted for the proper teaching of phy- sical science, but the class of regular learners has still to be called into existence. Of course, some acquaintance with chemistry and anatomy will be an invaluable element in a liberal education. But the number of those who can, or will, combine scientific studies with their other work must always be small. On the other hand, men who look forward to a B.M. degree, will naturally go out in the school of physical science as their second school; they will furnish pupils to the professors, and will themselves gain a more liberal acquaintance with science, than the technical teaching of a London hospital can give them : Oxford cannot be substituted for a hospital any more than the hospital can replace Oxford, but each will supplement the other ad- mirably. The new Museum, and the new or aug- mented professorships, will lose half their value, if there are no working men to take advantage of them.