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

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had no vote in the Chapter until March, I858; while the
Christ Church Ordinance by which the question was determined appeared on January 9 in that year. On first
coming to Oxford, therefore, Stanley at once began
to moot the subject in the University at large, but he
could only do so indirectly until he was himself elected
a Professorial Member of the Hebdomadal Council in
November, i860.
The course which Jowett took under these circumstances was to work the Professorship in addition to
the Tutorship, and on the same lines, without asking
for reward. He would not even exact the Statutory Fee.
Not only were his lectures gratis, but he invited all
who attended them to send in exercises to be personally
looked over by himself. A special duty which was fulfilled about this time, was, in conjunction with Liddell,
the new Dean of Christ Church, to make regulations
for the Greek Composition Prizes, which had been established by subscription as a Memorial to Dean Gaisford.
The examination of the exercises sent in by competitors
for these prizes, and the arrangement of the subjects,
was another piece of work which came in annually,
and was entirely gratuitous. It appears also from a letter
of Mrs. Jowett's, that in order to do his work as Professor, he again relinquished the College Bursarship,
which was a salaried office.
These absorbing cares and occupations were not
1 Jowett never admitted the chetical instruction in the Unibroad distinction that is some- versity, and the substitution of
times drawn between Professorial lectures to large classes, for the
and Tutorial teaching. All teach- College lectures of old times;
ing that is worthy of the name though this was perhaps an inevitappeared to him to involve close able result of the inter-collegiate
dealing with individual minds. system which he approved.
He regretted the decay of CateR 2