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Excerpt from A History of the University of Oxford
Civil Wars, during which the University played a great part in the national drama; while I have passed lightly over the reign of George III., when the University had not only lost all political importance, but had forfeited its reputation as a place of the highest education and learning. In the selection of topics from so vast a mass of materials, I have sought to preserve the continuity of events, so far as possible, rather than to produce a series of essays on special aspects of University life. I have deviated, however, from this method in one or two instances, such as the chapter on Oxford politics in the eighteenth century, and that on the neo-catholic Revival. In several of the earlier chapters, and in those on Oxford in the present century, I have borrowed the substance of passages from my own volume, Memorials of Merton College, ' and from articles on recent University reforms contributed by myself to various periodicals. If I have succeeded in bringin g within a single view the successive phases of develop ment through which the University has passed in the course of seven hundred years, and in paving the way for a more comprehensive and detailed history, the obj ect of this little volume will have been attained.
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