...any responsible head to university affairs. Adam Smith gave his own hard thrust: "In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of teaching." That this is not only an ancient grudge is witnessed by an editorial remark...

...have been applicable to Dublin. Gibbon endorses the statement of Adam Smith3 that "in the University of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching " ; and stated that "the Fellows of Magdalen were immersed in Port wine and Tory politics." After attending...

...classes, and the professors ceased to lecture. Gibbon, writing about 1750, said : " In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the Public Professors have for these many years given up even the pretence of teaching . . . The fellows of Magdalen were decent, easy men who supinely enjoyed...

...fellow students at Glasgow in the mother tongue, and had held them spellbound. But ' in the university of Oxford the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching ' (II. 251).1 Equally favourable was the experience of the man. He studied widely before he taught,...

...as in the Church itself, true learning had declined in the eighteenth century. Adam Smith declares "the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretense of teaching." Bentham makes the same complaint. Gibbon says: "The fellows of my time were...

...revival at Oxford toward the end of the century. Adam Smith, writing in 1776, says, " In the University of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors...given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." Things were as bad at Cambridge. EINHARD Yet in this period we find at both universities that the mighty...

...comment on Oxford education; cf. WN Vif8: 'In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the publick professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.' 1 Margaret Douglas Smith (1694-1784), dau. of Robert Douglas of Strathenry, MP for Fife in the Scottish...

...letter to William Cullen of 20 September 1774, reproduced in full in J. Thomson, 1859, vol. i, p. 473. have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching' (1937, p. 718). We have strangely little knowledge of how Smith spent these six years in Oxford - except...

...justified attack on the British universities of his day. "In the university of Oxford, the greater part of public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the practice of teaching."" "In the universities the youth neither are taught, nor always can find any...

...not vary with the number of students they are able to attract, as in 18th century Oxford where "... the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretense of leaching." (p. 718). Note also Smith's quotation of Hume's plea for an exception in the...