ABSTRACT
It may … hopefully, if not confidently, be expected, that at no distant future, by proceeding along a course upon which they have already entered, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge may become, not the schools where three or four thousand of the sons of those who have been vulgarly and invidiously called the better classes may receive the stamp of education without its substance, but gold fields where thirty or forty thousand of the sons of the nation, without respect of class, or sect, or condition … will find the results and the rewards of their labours. When these universities shall thus become the unrestricted marts of both general and special knowledge, I am sure we shall all agree that our students should become free and ready purchasers therein.1
