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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 

 j 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- 



