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‘Problems…Remote from us’ ‘Problems…Remote from us’
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‘Mr Raeburn’ Looks Back ‘Mr Raeburn’ Looks Back
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Appendix Appendix
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A Changes in the University's Statutes A Changes in the University's Statutes
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B Institutions affecting British universities established after 1914 B Institutions affecting British universities established after 1914
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Abstract
This book has described Oxford University's preoccupations during the last academic year before World War I. In November 1913, Convocation killed the proposed Diploma in Commerce and Economics. This unhappy saga illustrates a recurrent theme of the book. Those who had received the university's stamp during Queen Victoria's later years held the transmission of the cultural heritage to be their overriding concern. They were disinclined to extract money from a ‘plutocrat’ who would provide it only if the university dropped compulsory Greek. They did not think it their role to help in keeping Britain ahead of its competitors. Their country was one of the world's richest; but even for the British there was no general diffusion of affluence. In that world two assumptions were easily made, first, that Britain would retain its leading industrial and financial position, and secondly, that, when an undergraduate chose his career, he might well put the likely material reward above all other considerations: his chief temptation would be towards materialism and avarice.
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