OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. BY GEORGE PEACOCK, D.D., V.P.R.S., &c. DEAN OF ELY. LONDON: JOHN W. PARKER. CAMBRIDGE: J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON. M.DCCC.XLI. PREFACE. A 75P4 1841 THE following "Observations" originated in a request to print a Commemoration Sermon preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, which noticed, though in a very cursory manner, some of the topics which they embrace. In preparing the Sermon for the press, I found it impossible to do justice to so important a subject, without entering into a minuteness of detail and an extent of investigation which was totally incompatible with the form of publication which I had at first proposed. I am aware that there are some reforms recommended in the following pages which may appear to many persons to be more sweeping and fundamental than the evils which they are designed to remedy would altogether warrant, and I have consequently never ventured to indulge the hope that the suggestions which I have made would be adopted by the University in the precise form in which I have proposed them: but whatever may be the fate which they are destined to experience, I shall feel satisfied that my labours have 656 |