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TABLE XI.

MEMBERS OF THE SENATE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDge,

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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ADMITTED AND OF THE NUMBER OF GRADUATES WHO RECEIVED TESTIMONIALS FOR DEACON'S ORDERS, IN TRINITY COLLEGE,

CAMBRIDGE, During TEN YEARS, from

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It thus appears that only one-third of the Students admitted ultimately take Holy Orders; which is probably a smaller portion than in any other College of either University.

manner. It is paid to the more dignified material position of the English University authorities; just as the external want of respect with us proceeds from the total want of those external forms of dignity which exercise so much influence upon personal manner. We need only call to mind, how much is done on the part of the other powers of the country to shear the Academic Authorities of their due and necessary dignity. After all, true and inward respect and attachment is everywhere, in England as well as Germany, independent of mere outward signs: and it would be difficult to find instances at the English Universities of that sort of general feeling and independent testimony to the merits of their Professors and Teachers which is offered again and again by the youth of all the German Universities to theirs. The reason lies in the perfectly different and much higher intellectual and scientific position and sphere of action of the German Professors.

[Remarks on the morality of the Universities.

If it were not clear that our worthy Author always looks with an evil eye at would-be University-Reformers, whatever their class or complaint; it might seem truly extraordinary that he should ascribe to the same spirit of Cant, and treat as equally unjustifiable, both the "hypocrisy" (as he says it should be entitled) of ascribing a high moral excellence to our Universities, and the outcry against their immoralities. Is it possible that he can be so unjust, as to shut his eyes to the substantial merits of a cause and a claim, because many voices which swell its cry, come from hearts full of bitterness and ignorance? or can he be so ignorant himself of English feeling, as not to know the disgust, with which tens of thousands of sober (for I need not say, pious) people, regard the immoralities of youth in those Universities, which are held up (to use our Author's words) as "holy asylums," not to be profaned by an unbelieving or Dissenting foot? True; things are altered now: the rake is reformed! but, alas, it will be long before he can earn a new character. News of this sort travels but

* See the Text; p. 313.

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