The book of the thousand nights and a night; . f finishing schools; in fact, littlebetter than a huge board for the examination of big boys and girls. Oxford and her education are thorough^ disappointing ; but thesorest point therein is that this sham University satisfies the haplessPublic, which knows nothing about its faineance. It is a mere stumbUng-block in the way of Progress, especially barring the road to one of themain wants of English Education, a great London University whichshould not be ashamed to stand by Berlin, Paris and Vienna. Had the good knight and Pious Founder, Sir Thomas
The book of the thousand nights and a night; . f finishing schools; in fact, littlebetter than a huge board for the examination of big boys and girls. Oxford and her education are thorough^ disappointing ; but thesorest point therein is that this sham University satisfies the haplessPublic, which knows nothing about its faineance. It is a mere stumbUng-block in the way of Progress, especially barring the road to one of themain wants of English Education, a great London University whichshould not be ashamed to stand by Berlin, Paris and Vienna. Had the good knight and Pious Founder, Sir Thomas Bodley,who established his library upon the ruins of the University Bibliothccawrecked by the Reformation, been able to foresee the condition ofOxford and her libraries—Bodleian and Radcliffean—in this lattersection of the XlXth century, he would hardly, I should hope, havecondemned English students and Continental scholars to compulsoryresidence and labour in places so akin to the purgatorial. END OF VOL. XI. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOLIBRARY. Acme Library Card Pocket Under Pat. Ref. Index by LIBRARY BUREAU
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