The life and letters of Benjamin Jowett, M. A., master of Balliol college, Oxford.

Letters on University Reform, r846-48 I93

so early as to stand in the place of a University Matriculation;
(13) to extend the studies of the place so as to give passmen
something as well as Latin and Greek which may interest
them; (y) to place the present 'Great Go' at the end of two
years, somewhat contracting the number of books, and allowing
the third year [of residence] for separate studies, as Theology,
Mathematics and Physics, History and Law. I do not expect
that nearly all this will be gained, nor see how the University
could be carried on if it were at present, but something useful
will probably come of it.
I have not heard anything about the Price' schemes;
I quite admit that the plan mentioned above does alter the
character of the place, but not objectionably. At present for
the greater part of the passmen it is little more than a place
of brute discipline, where they may be drawn out by their
companions and amusements, but certainly not by polite
literature. The chief fear is lest we fritter ourselves among
too many things.
To R. R. W. LINGEN.
OXFORD, April 3, 1848.
I send herewith a pamphlet2 which is a joint production of
Stanley's and mine. As there is a good deal of talk about
these things at present, it may perhaps survive into the next
Term, and reappear in an enlarged edition. Will you look
through the scheme carefully and see if you can suggest amendments and alterations?
I am going to attack you about another scheme, which as far
as I can see at present I shall pursue tooth and nail. It is the
formation of an association to give a course of lectures in the
Schools on all principal subjects connected with our present
examinations. Stanley would lecture on Herodotus and early
Greek history, Clough on Livy, myself on the history of the
Greek Philosophy. We hope that Scott and Vaughan would
be induced to give lectures in Scholarship and Moral Philosophy
respectively, also G[oldwin] Smith.
1 Bonamy Price. 2 See above, p. 174.
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