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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. HISTORY AND OBJECTS OF CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP. Scholarship Confined To The Church. ? Its Character. ? Revival Of Greek Literature. ? Ekas- Mus Bentley. ? The Newtonian Mathematics. ? General Character Of Cambridge Scholarship. ? Advantages nr A University Course Op Mathematical Study, ? And Of Classical. Ladies And Gentlemen: ? In my last lecture I endeavored to present to you some of the local characteristics of the town of Cambridge, and also some description of the University, of its connection with the colleges, and separation from them. I propose in the present lecture, to go a little more at length into the constitution of both these corporations, and particularly the objects of their original establishment, and of their present existence. We conceive here of a college and University almost entirely as a place for training young men. It may be the simplest academy in the Western country, that calls its head-master President and Professor in the Ancient and Modern Languages and Physical Science, and itself Fremontville or Felicity College, up to Harvard and Yale, ? allpurposes besides the instruction of youth are made strictly subordinate, if indeed they are allowed at all. But such was not the case with the English Universities at their foundation; and such assuredly is not the case now. I have already stated that the Universities in the Middle Ages were the guilds or companies of men studying the liberal arts. It might be further added, that they were a species of monastery, where the vows were not perpetual. We commonly say that in the Middle Ages there was no literature out of the Church. But this means a great deal more than we at first suppose. Not only were the abodes of the regular clergy ? the monasteries ? the only places where learning was kept ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217521413 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021752141X |
| Weight | 0.62 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.43 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 186 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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