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suppose it possible that it could injure the old establishments . His Royal Highness concluded by proposing , " Prosperity to the University of London , " which was drunk with three times three , amid deafening shouts of applause . Mr . Brougham , in returning thanks , adverted to the time ( about two years ago ) when the project was first brought
forward in the City of London , the cradle of civil and religious liberty' in this country ; of liberty which had been nurtured and watered by the precious blood of its noblest citizens * On that day he had risen to perform a duty , under very different circumstances from the present —under the cold sneers of some , and
the more open taunts and g ' vbes of others , accompanied by the faint hopes of many friends , and the ardent good wishes of others ; while the project was heard with deep execrations by the enemies of human improvement , and of light and liberty , which gave life and prosperity to this empire . But now those clouds and mists were dispelledthev had lived to see the walls of the
University rising amidst the plaudits of surrounding thousands . The fabric they had erected would be an eternal pillar , handing down their names to the gratitude of posterity . He decried no man ' s occupation—he contemned no man ' s vocation ; but he could not help contrasting that day ' s work with others of passing interest , narrow and confined . They were not gratifying any vain or selfish desires , but administering to the happiness and liberties of mankind . The
great thing which then remained to be done was to take great care in choosing the teachers . On this subject the Council had come to a fixed resolution , in which the whole body had cordially concurred—each of the twenty-four individuals of which the Council consisted , had solemnly pledged himself never to allow such a phrase as a candidate for
votes to be mentioned in his presence . They had resolved to give the places to the worthiest , and to prefer the person , though least recommended , to the person best recommended , if his merits were only so much superior as the dust in the balance . Instead of teaching four , or five , or six months only in the year , it was their intention that the courses of
lectures should laat nine months . Instead of the Lecturer giving a single lecture of an hour each day , it was proposed that each Professor should lecture an hour each day , and he should , during another hour , examine the pupils successively , to aaceitaiu -if they had com-
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prehended the lecture , and if he had made himself understood . A third hour was to be employed at least three days each week , if not six , in discussions , td which such pupils should have access as chose to push their studies , and they should attend the levees of the
Professors , who would have the power of dispensing the highest titles and honours which a sovereign could confer on a subject—he meant the power of helping the pupils in their labours , and directing the higher studies of those who felt
disposed to examine into the operations of nature . He thought it needful to say one word on ariother subject ; he had been unjustly accused of having spoken with disrespect , and of being inimical to the two venerable Universities in which
learning and science had long been carefully preserved , and from which they had been not many years ago spread over the land , where truth and faith had been treasured up—he meant Oxford and Cambridge—whence , at no distant date , the lights of science and the grace of letters had emanated . The Learned Gentleman vehemently repelled the charge , and instanced the great men who had been reared at the two
Universities—the great Newton , the distinguished Wodehouse , Babbage , Copplestone , Wheatley , &c . To its older claims on our esteem , he said , Oxford now added the claims of having of late obtained a victory over itself : it had , in a great degree , almost adopted the lights and spirit of the age .
The Duke of Sussex , after a high compliment to the Marquis of Lansdown as an University man , as well as for his political principles , gave : — " the health of the Duke of Gloucester , and prosperity to Cambridge , " and the " health of Lord Greuville , and prosperity to Oxford . "
The Marquis of Lansdown expressed his great respect for the two venerable and illustrious Institutions alluded to , and at the same time his warm wishes in favour of the new University , which he was convinced , so far from being a rival to the others , would contribute to the progress of science , and be a great means of promoting morality and religion .
Several other toasts followed ; among them , ** Prosperity to the City of Westminster , " for which Mr . Hobhouse returned thanks , and in the course of his address paid very high compliments to Mr . Brougham , without whom , he asked , where would the University of Lqndou have been ? The health of Mr . Brougham
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 469, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/77/
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