A Letter to the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Bristol: Respecting an Additional Examination of Students in the University of Cambridge and the ... Proposed for That Purpose (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Letter to the Right Reverend John, Lord Bishop of Bristol: Respecting an Additional Examination of Students in the University of Cambridge and the Different Plans, Proposed for That Purpose

The subject, upon which I intend to suggest some considerations, is one of no recent origin: it has been a very prevalent opinion for half a century, or more, that our University would do well to require from its students a proficiency in some other descriptions of knowledge, besides those at present exacted, as indispensable passports to a degree. It is, however, to the different schemes for the improvement of our system, which have been agitated among us during the last four or five years, that I wish to call attention; with the hope of being able, by fairly and fully stating the merits of each proposed course of proceeding, to reconcile in some degree the present discordance of sentiment. The strong conviction of my own mind, relative to the method which ought to be pursued, a conviction arising from long and intimate acquaintance with academical education, encourages me to think that a fair consideration of the matter in all its bearings will lead others to the same conclusion.

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