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worthy of their hire, and above “ carking care” for bread. I 
think they should not be bound to take holy orders, nor yet 
prevented from so doing. At the same time, I do not think 
that these new professors for the university at large should have 
a share in the internal government of any particular college. 
This would preclude any distraction from their proper province 
— might open a safe door for the scientific dissenter —yet re- 
serve to the clerical members of the colleges that prescriptive 
right which they now possess in their discipline and emolu- 
ments; it being the evident, if not expressed, intention of the 
founders to make the marn object of our university education 
the preparing men to serve God and man in the government 
of the Church and State. Science that is not honourably sub- 
ordinate to these great and nobler ends, and directed Heaven- 
ward, is mere temporary “ utilitarianism ;” — a degraded hand- 
maid to personal pride, to pecuniary profit, and to corporeal 
ease, —a thing, in short, of this world only, and to perish with 
its other vanities. I am, 
My dear Sir, 
Your true, though not scientific Friend, 
Tuomas NEwcoME. 
P. S. — Since writing the above, I have been able to pro- 
cure the following document, which at once substantiates 
my argument, and shows to what extent the universities 
administer to the expenses of that government which should 
support them. 
A Return made to Parliament of the number of members 
admitted to the two Universities, and the degrees granted 
by the same, in each of the three years 1831, 1832, and 
1833, with the amount of duty on each degree, and the 
aggregate amount of each year : — 
The number of Noblemen and Fellow Commoners admitted 
into the University of Cambridge from the 10th of October, 
1830, to 1831, 31; Pensioners, 377; Sizars, 45: total, 453. 
1831 to 1832— Noblemen and Fellow Commoners, 33; Pen- 
sioners, 335; Sizars, 41: total, 409. 1832 to 1833 — Noble- 
men and Fellow Commoners, 48; Pensioners, 345; Sizars, 
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