ABSTRACT
A typical Oxford college is a microcosm of the University, each embracing most of the subjects taught for the B.A., the first attainable degree in all subjects. In 1960 Balliol College had four tutors in History, three in Philosophy and in Classics, two in Law and in Economics, two in Chemistry and in Physics and one in each of Politics, English, Mathematics and Biology. In addition there were seven Professorial Fellows and four Research Fellows. The teaching for more minor subjects like Modern Languages, Geography, Music, Zoology, Botany etc was usually obtained by hiring the services of teachers who had university appointments, but who had not yet secured a college Fellowship. They were paid only a fraction of the salary that Fellows would receive for the same work and were described as being ‘tutors and lecturers not on the Foundation’; it was a class system, which in later years the University did its best to eliminate.
