Remarks on the extension of education at the University of Oxford : in a letter to the Rev. W. Jacobson, D.D. ... / by Henry Wentworth Acland.

  • Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.
Date:
1848
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    This Letter does not contain any scheme of University Education, the framing of which is neither in my province, or my power. It is only intended by it to press on the serious attention of those who have to prepare, and to make into law, any alteration in our system, two subjects on which I have long and anxiously thought. After repeated conversations on these two points with professional and non-professional friends, and w'ith one especially, who has, with an affectionate kindness that I can never repay, assisted me on many occasions besides this, I have thought it my duty to offer my opinion respectfully to Members of Convocation. But I must henceforward leave the matter wholly to those who have more leisure and in-