Word: canon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...adjoining the palais des archiues. The courses are public and free. The course of study takes three years to complete. The term opens in the middle of November and ends the first of August. The subjects taught are paleography, languages, bibliography, diplomacy, political, administrative and judiciary institutions; civil and canon law of the middle ages. Such a school is a heaven for the specialist in any of these subjects. The instructors are all eminent men, and the number of students is so limited that each and all of them come in direct contact with the lectures...
...Canon Stubbs, the well known historian, has recently been raised to the bishopric of Chester. This appointment creates a vacancy in the Regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford, and efforts are being made to induce Mr. Freeman to accept this chair...
...universities of three hundred years ago; how recent was the perfection of mathematical teaching, how tardily each one of the present staples of college learning had attained to universal use in the educational world. From this he passed on to notice the fact that ever since the canon had gone forth from the teachers of the sixteenth century that certain studies and no others should be considered the "liberal arts" and be imparted as such, no means had been found for gaining recognition for the languages of today or for the physical sciences as studies of equal weight and dignity...
...discount, none of them getting a tenth of Mr. Tennyson's votes, Black, Shorthouse, and Blackmore being the most favored in that way. Among the poets Swinburn, 262, comes next to Browning. The forty ends with the names of two distinguished biblical scholars, Bishop Lightfoot and Canon Westcott. Though of necessity containing many of the lights of English Literature this "forty " is by no means representative, containing as it does the names of so many second rate writers. A full list of the "forty" is given in the Pall Mall Budget for November...
...from me to say anything derogatory to Canon Farrar who early proved himself a brilliant and accomplished classical scholar, winning fourth place in the first class of the classical tripos in 1854, and a Trinity fellowship in 1856, besides many of the highest prizes in Greek and Latin verse composition. But his studies and experience have hardly been such as to render him a sound judge of university education, and he has shown in his remarks an ignorance of the broad and liberal system that has been doing such good work in England, outside of the small circle of Harrow...