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Affiliation Scheme ance appeal arranged artisans Association attended the lectures Backworth carried classes co-operative societies College committee continuous County Councils course of lectures curriculum of study curve difficulty district earnest students enable engaged establish examination experience Extension of University fcap full course funds give given Grange over sands Gresham College Guildford higher education important institutions intellectual interest JOHN MORLEY knowledge laboratory large number London Society means meet memorialists memorials ment Metropolis Michaelmas miners needs Northumberland obtained old Universities opportunity Oxford People's Lectures persons pitmen practical proved Science short courses Sir Thomas Gresham sity South Shields success summer syllabus Syndicate system of higher teachers technical education term tion Tyneside Univer University Extension Lectures University Extension movement University Extension system University of Cambridge University of Oxford University system University Teaching versity Extension Victoria University villages W. J. LOFTIE week
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Page 89 - We cannot surround you with all those elevated memorials and sanctifying associations of scholars and poets, of saints and sages, that march in glorious procession through the ages, and make of Oxford and Cambridge a dream of music for the inward ear, and of delight for the contemplative eye.
Page 6 - RC JEBB. DICKENS. By AW WARD. GRAY. By EDMUND GOSSE. SWIFT. By LESLIE STEPHEN. STERNE. By HD TRAILL. MACAULAY. By JC MORISON. FIELDING.
Page 6 - Co. beg to announce a series of short biographies, not designed to be a complete roll of famous statesmen, but to present in historic order the lives and work of those leading actors in our affairs who by their direct influence have left an abiding mark on the policy, the institutions, and the position of Great Britain among states.
Page 24 - ... artisans, and among these are pre-eminent the miners of Northumberland. Mr. Roberts, the organizing secretary, writes, after a fortnight's visitation to Northumberland, " I wish I could adequately describe the impression this fortnight's work made upon me. The sturdy intelligence of the pitmen, their determined earnestness, the appreciative and responsive way in which they listened, the downright straightforwardness of their speech, — all these it is impossible fully to express. I am persuaded...
Page 6 - ... [Ready. HENRY II. By Mrs. JR GREEN. [Ready. EDWARD I. By F. YORK POWELL. HENRY VII. By JAMES GAIRDNER.
Page 24 - Sciences dwelt, with feeling that was evidently rooted in personal experience, upon the fact that one of the hardest and most pathetic things in the lot of a young working man endeavouring to educate himself, was the waste of time and money occasioned by the purchase of antiquated or worthless books, owing to lack of guidance in their selection.
Page 6 - WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. By EDWARD A. FREEMAN, DCL, LL.D. TIMES. — "Gives with great picturesqueness . . . the dramatic incidents of a memorable career far removed from our times and our manner of thinking." HENRY II. By Mrs. JR GREEN. TIMES. — " It is delightfully real and readable, and in spite of severe compression has the charm of a mediaeval romance.