The Position of Science at Oxford

Abstract

IN the correspondence which your recent interesting article on this subject has evoked, the writers have mainly applied their criticism to particular aspects of the general argument raised. This is natural, for they have, scarcely without exception, been professionally interested in the teaching and progress of science, and their letters seem to show that an impression exists that there is a cause for blame in the matter, but that there is an uncertainty at whose door this blame should be laid. May I briefly examine the complaints which your original anonymous correspondent brought against the University authorities, and the present system in vogue at Oxford.