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His Speculum Moralium Quaestionum

He suggests that a university should be founded in Ireland

FOUNDATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

GEORGE BROWNE, archbishop of Dublin

His scheme for the foundation of a university at Dublin

Scheme of 1563

Instructions given to Sir John Perrot in 1584
Subsequent alteration in his design

The first five provosts of the college all Cambridge men
Walter Travers, second provost .

Speech of archbishop Loftus, on introducing his successor
He suggests a total abolition of religious controversy.
Henry Alvey, third provost.

Sir William Temple, fourth provost

William BedeLL, fifth provost

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They proceed to treat with Trinity College for the transfer

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The measure chiefly owing to the foresight of Sir Thomas Smith
Circumstances which served to suggest his scheme
The system of fines

Its frequent abuse by the trustees of corporations or of cccle-
siastical bodies

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Special provision of the Act: one-third of the college rents to

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Augmentation in the value of fellowships

Various testimony with respect to the results of the Act
Consequent disappearance of the hostel

Increased importance of the office of Hend

Change in the sense of responsibility attached to the office
Some of its difficulties become diminished.

The average length of its tenure during the periods 1560-1600
and 1600-1640 compared.

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The language of Dr Bridges in relation to the office and that of
Fuller compared.

Counter-petition of the universities

Increased value of college fellowships.

M: practices in the management of college revenues
Instances at St. John's and Trinity

Iitin of the senior and junior fellows contrasted

Ladue influences in elections to fellowships and in the succession
to college livings

Growing tendency to look upon the fellowship as a provision for

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Carter tendency to dispense with residence on the part of

bachelors of arts (not being fellows) studying for the

degree of M.A.

The obligation to reside abolished by decree of 1608
Reasons alleged by the authors of the decree in defence of this

inn -vation

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The constitution of the university in the early part of the 17th
entury contrasted with that of a hundred years beforo/

THE UNDI RSPADUATES OF THE PERIOD

Tir insubordination.

The ideal undergraduate of the statute book

Contimacy of the actual undergraduate, especially with
respect to dress.

Statctuents of William Stafford and Henry Peacham with
respect to a certain class of the younger students. .

Many went at too tender an age to profit by a university

curriculum.

Peach.m's description of their habits of life, circ. A.D. 1623.

LIP IN THE COLLEGE.

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Dr Owen Gwyn's order for the registration of freshmen at

St John's

Classes from which students were then mainly recruited
Considerations which serve to qualify the supposed fusion

of classes

FEATURES IN THE UNDERGRADUATE COURSE OF STUDY WHICH DIS-

TINGUISH IT FROM THAT OF THE MEDIAEVAL ERA

'Mathematics' no longer included as compulsory

Subjects then included under that designation

Antiquated character of the text-books

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Rhetoric takes the place of mathematics as the subject of

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Sensation thereby produced in learned Europe
William Temple's testimony to his genuine love of truth
His genius destructive rather than creative

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Its method

His deâuition of logic

Logie divided into three grades

Also into invention' and 'judgement'.

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The Socratic method preferable to that of the schoolmen
Criticisms unfavorable to Ramus's treatise by Hooker,
Bacon, Keckerman, Scaliger, and Casaubon

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