On Some Questions of University Reform

Abstract

DURING the short life of the Oxford and Cambridge Bills of last year, it was my lot to hear from many of my London friends many dismal, sometimes almost contemptuous, prophecies concerning the future oi natural science at the old universities. For myself, in looking forward towards possible and probable changes, I always lay to heart the hackneyed consolation of the unsuccessful Liberal Orator, “Time is on our side.” Whatever happens, science cannot lose much and may gain largely. How great a progress might with the least possible shock to conservative principles be effected by the help of men in whose minds a broad sympathetic love of learning is associated with a delicate appreciation of the present university feelings and habits, may be learnt by any one who will take the trouble to read Mr. Trotter's brief pamphlet.

On Some Questions of University Reform.

By Coutts Trotter, Senior Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. (Cambridge, Deighton.)