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HE once-established division of history into centuries of the Christian era has, no doubt, its conveniences. But events and characteristics.

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My object in making this book has been to convey some idea of the conditions of academic life at Oxford in the eighteenth century. It seemed to me that the best way to do this was to make a "subject catalogue" of the various aspects of University life, and give each its separate chapter or so. This is not an entirely satisfactory method: but I do not know any that is better, - unless one could write a good historical novel. Certainly biographies, even of the most eminent Vice-Chancellors and Proctors, or a chronological narrative of events, would be even duller than the present volume. However, I have added a sort of "Who's Who" of Heads of Colleges, which may be convenient. During the eighteenth century Oxford was governed by "tyrannies" and close oligarchies, so that Heads of Houses made University history as they are not allowed to do by our modern regime of Boards and Committees.

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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.