Author: P. H. Nicklin
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Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9781332187096
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Excerpt from A Report Made to the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: At a Stated Meeting on Tuesday the 4th of November, 1834, Concerning the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in England The English Universities are corporate bodies formed by the union of many colleges and halls. In Oxford there are twenty colleges and five halls. The colleges are bodies corporate; the halls are not corporate, and their property is held in trust for them by the university. In other respects they possess the same privileges as the colleges. The universities alone possess the right of granting degrees. The rich collections in literature, science, and the arts, possessed by these institutions, afford every facility for the education of youth, and for the formation of ripe scholars; and the learned, moral, and religious society, consisting of the masters, fellows, and tutors of the colleges, cannot fail to be of great benefit to those who are in statu pupillari. Oxford possesses two great libraries, one of which, the Bodleian, contains four hundred thousand volumes and two hundred thousand pamphlets, and many valuable pictures, models, statues, and relics of ancient art. The other was founded by Doctor John Radcliffe, who bequeathed nearly $300,000 for its benefit. It has been appropriated by a late resolution of the trustees of Doctor Radcliffe's will, to the reception of books in medicine and natural history. The different colleges also have libraries of their own, some of which contain more than forty thousand volumes; and many of them possess valuable pictures by the old masters. Christ Church College, Oxford, was presented by one gentleman with a collection of paintings which cost him $170,000. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
