 | Alfred Denis Godley - 1908 - 356 pages
...teaching applies to the Professoriate of a later day, and is founded on Adam Smith's assertion that the greater part of the public Professors have, for...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. The assertion is an exaggeration, apparently : nevertheless, Mr. Hurdis' Vindication of Magdalen College... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer: that in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . The fellows or monks of my time were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer: that in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . The fellows or monks of my time were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...lessons? But all these questions are silenced by one short and singular answer: that in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. . . . The fellows or monks of my time were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the... | |
 | George Trobridge - 1912 - 396 pages
...round of college business, Tory politics, personal anecdotes, and private scandal ' ; in the other, ' the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.' Yet so deeply rooted were this state and these abuses in ' law and prejudice, that even the omnipotence... | |
 | 1919 - 766 pages
...neighbor may neglect his duty, provided that he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.1 Indifference is so quickly felt and resented that a structure brought into direct relations... | |
 | 1919 - 754 pages
...neighbor may neglect his duty, provided that he himself is allowed to neglect his own. In the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.1 Indifference is so quickly felt and resented that a structure brought into direct relations... | |
 | Edward Alsworth Ross - 1920 - 744 pages
...Wide Contact with the General Public Indifferent Ism May Be Cured by the Bight Leader the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.' Indifference is so quickly felt and resented that a structure brought into direct relations with the... | |
 | Robert Theodore Gunther - 1920 - 530 pages
...were among those Oxford Professors of whom Adam Smith in 1776 had asserted ' the greater part . . . have for these many years given up altogether, even the pretence of teaching '. Three years later, in Nov. 1779, James mentions him as ' reading a course of lectures. His terms... | |
 | 1922 - 542 pages
...any responsible head to university affairs. Adam Smith gave his own hard thrust: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching." That this is not only an ancient grudge is witnessed by an editorial remark... | |
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In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching. 
