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n&n 6 would be more ready to submit than ourtielves ; but , convittfcfkl , aa we are , that its beneficial effects would be infinitely iiibteafced by extending its privileges , we feel that We have reason to complain that those who have hundreds , and in many
instances thousands , embarked in our undertakings , have our interests sacrificed to gratify the 100 / . shareholders of the London University and King ' s College , whose shares , too , as in the CBse of the former of these bodies , are , or were lately , to be pflfo&ased for 201 . each .
Our complaints will , I feel assured , be responded toby every judicious parent in the kingdom , when he understands that he will be necessitated to expose his children to all the moral contaminations of the metropolis , if he wish them to enjoy the advantages which a degree in the University will confer ; that for the sake of this honour he must incur a risk , the consequences
of which may be most alarming . But let every parent think for a moment on the danger of placing his child for three or four years in the midst of the metropolis , at an age when there is most need of watchfulness and care , and his own convictions will require no argument of mine to strengthen them . This measure , which might be rendered so beneficial to the community , will , unless care be taken , prove a serious injury—instead
of a national blessing , it will become a national curse . Mr . Tooke , whose labours in the cause of the University are worthv of the highest commendation , is , we must not forget , the official agent of that body which is hereafter to be called the University College—and the responsibility of his situation , and the regard he had for the interest of his employers , might together have operated to make him overlook , "in the first
instance , " which was very prominently placed in my petition . Had not this been the case he would not have apprehended " that the petition proceeded upon an erroneous supposition , viz , that because two schools , those of the London u niversit y and King ' s College , were named , the privileges would be
confined solely to them . " I am quite aware that the power is reserved to the examiners of admitting schools which can show that they have a body of Professors similar to their own , or , as Mr . Tooke explains it , such other schools as may be able to compete with the pupils of King ' s College and the London University ; and I am quite aware , too , and no one knows this better than Mr . Tooke himself , that when one or two schools ,
or colleges , or universities , have valuable privileges attached to them , they are not always very forward in admitting others to the participation in those privileges . I hope , however , when I put nt my claim for the admission of Hanwell School ( if it will pltease tlfem I will call it Hanwell College , and my masters jPtoffeiftora ) I shall flhvd that I have proceeded upon " an erronetnt 0 * u £ porftfoii , " But what necessity can there be to exa-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/42/
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