Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Place of the University in National Life
The discipline in the Humanities is so firmly rooted and the atmosphere of classical antiquity so generally diffused in Oxford that the Pure and Applied Sciences, being comparatively late comers, are somewhat overshadowed by the older Muses. In the newer Universities this state of things is reversed. There the great impulse to academic development proceeds from the practical needs of a business community, fast becoming aware of the commercial and industrial value' of Science. The Technical School, which originally was founded to train workmen and foremen for the local industries, was found to need such a background of Chemistry and Physics as it was thought that only a University could supply, and to this development a Faculty of Art, mainly devoted to the training of young women for service in the Elementary Schools, together with Faculties providing qualifications for local doctors and lawyers, were in due course appended. Growing from such a nucleus the Civic University in our great industrial centres is slowly but certainly arousing a hunger for the better things which an intellectual life can offer in a society always active, vigorous, and masculine, but too exclusively engrossed by the material struggle for existence. The obstacles are great, for whereas in Scotlandthe University habit has been continuously present for several centuries, infthe populous and energetic part of England it is a recent innovation, ignored in some quarters, in others still looked upon as an idle and pro?igate luxury oppressive to the rates. By degrees, how ever, the climate is becoming more propitious to that side of academic activity which is least obviously connected with industry and trade. The North is ready to welcome the Humanities and there are no more eager audiences, though there may be many better qualified to criticize, than those which confront the really capable teacher of literature, philosophy, or history in one of our great centres of industry.
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