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 : with suggestions for a royal commission of inquiry into the universities / by a Member of the Oxford Convocation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Row, C. A. (Charles Adolphus), 1816-1896.

Contributor:

Russell, John Russell, Earl, 1792-1878.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Oxford--History--19th century.

University of Oxford.

University of Oxford--Religion--History--19th century.

Religion.

History.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 59 pages).

Manufacture:

(R. and J.E. Taylor)

Other Title:

Constitutional defects of the universities and colleges of Oxford

Place of Publication:

London : J. Ridgway, 1850.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Contents:

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:

"Church no. 5115."

Attributed to C.A. Row.

Reproduction of the original from the Pusey House Library St Giles.

OCLC:

830949816

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