A letter to the Provost of Oriel on university extension.

  • Daubeny, Charles, 1795-1867.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter to the Provost of Oriel on university extension. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    * Accordingly, even those who would prefer the system of merging in the general body of Under- graduates those youths of slender means, for whom they are anxious to supply the means of academical education as preparatory to the Christian ministry, may well hesitate, before they attempt to extend this plan to the class whose interests we are now con- sidering. Two schemes, however, may be suggested, either of which would seem calculated to meet the difficulty. The first is one which involves no change in the existing system, as it merely takes advantage of fa- cilities already open to us, either by the extension of existing Halls, or by the setting up of new ones; all that is required being to erect an Establishment under academical rules, spacious enough to admit a considerable body of medical students—managed with such attention to economy as to reduce their expenses to a minimum—and holding out to them, from the number received, no temptation to cultivate any great degree of intimacy with the richer members of the other Colleges. Ko doubt this isolation would be in itself an evil, but it seems an inevitable one, if we are to retain this class of students within our precincts at all; and at any rate they would form a less completely detached body than they do at present in London, and although not in habits of daily intercourse with the members of other Societies, would not be beyond the influence of the genius of the iJlacc. The other scheme is the one which has found an advocate in Dr. Temple, and is proposed for adoption by the Dean of Christ Church. It proposes to allow any student, without attaching himself to any Hall or College, to graduate here, upon
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