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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 main 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, 



Thomas 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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