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of the Register for 1919 shows that of the 

 257 men comprising the Heads and Fel- 

 lows of the twenty -three colleges (includ- 

 ing St. Edmund's Hall), only fifty-one are 

 scientific, including the mathematicians. 



It is not very polite, perhaps, to suggest 

 that as transmitters and interpreters they 

 should not bulk quite so large in a modern 

 university. 'T was all very well 



" . . . in days when wits were fresh and clear 

 And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames " 



in those happy days when it was felt that 

 all knowledge had been garnered by those 

 divine men of old time, that there was noth- 

 ing left but to enjoy the good things har- 

 vested by such universal providers as Isi- 

 dore, Rabanus Maurus, and Vincent of 

 Beauvais, and those stronger dishes served 

 by such artists as Albertus Magnus and 

 St. Thomas Aquinas delicious blends of 

 such skill that only the palate of an Api- 



