British Universities: Notes and Summaries Contributed to the Welsh University Discussion by Members of the Senate of the University College of North Wales (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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These Notes and Summaries have been prepared, at somewhat short notice, by a few College teachers who, feeling a sincere interest in the future of higher education in Wales, feel also how deeply that future will be influenced, for good or for evil, by the character of the proposed Welsh University. One great want of the moment is (so the writers venture to think) fuller information as to the machinery usually employed in university administration; and in order to help in meeting this want, they have made brief analyses of the constitution and regulations of the existing universities which lie nearest to hand - those of Great Britain and Ireland.

Universities have had a long history. It is a vast tract of time that separates the University of Athens (Greece), which was in full existence long before the birth of Christ, from the University opened at Athens (Georgia) in the early years of the present century. And no less vast is the difference in character between institutions described by the common name of University; for the proud title has too often been rashly invoked. The experience of the past is, however, always valuable, whether it has to tell of a vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself, or of high ideals and of means skilfully adapted to ends.

As has just been implied, the earliest of all universities was that of Athens. The name itself, it is true, came later; but the teachers not only of Athens, but of Alexandria, made their cities what we can only describe as university centres for the then known world. The schools of Athens were philosophical chiefly; the studies pursued in the Museum of Alexandria were mainly 'scientific,' if we may use the word, as in matters academical one would like to see it used, of method rather than of matter. The Library at Alexandria is said to have contained 700,000 volumes; the Museum was a noble college, with provision for Resident Fellows.

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