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

  • Charles Henry Pearson
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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    extent?” I would say, that if the degree so to be obtained tend to any substantive advantage, i. e., if it be the passport whereby the student can the easier advance and establish himself in life, whether in the church, law, or physic, that such degrees will be largely taken advantage of. Eut that if it be an honorary degree only, it will be little, or not at all, sought after, by either of the above classes of students. The question then, resolves itself into this : will students of the middle classes, or the poorer of the upper classes, to whom, now, a degree is difficult, seek, if means are offered, so to educate and qualify themselves as to promote their advancement in life in the paths of the several learned professions. Undoubtedly they will; for with the latter, professional life has long been deemed a legitimate sphere, and poverty has often inter- fered with the desire to educate so as to fulfil it; while, with the former, the sphere of professional life is esteemed to be a marked and decided advancement, and if, by lowering the expense of qualifying for this, the middle classes can achieve this meritorious aim they will, undoubtedly, avail themselves of it. I am. Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, T. Shapter, Physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. T. RICHARDS , PRINTER, 87, OT. QUEEN STREET.