Abstract
MR. MANSBRIDGE scores with both barrels. He appeals to both of the classes into which (relative to his book) the world is divided—those who have been at a university and those who have not. In any case, although he has the detachment which comes from never having been through the university mill himself, he not only loves and appreciates the university and what it stands for, but also has actually added something to its nature and functions. By his initiation of the Workers' Educational Association, he gave a new and fuller content to the whole extra-mural side of university activity, and helped to spread the universities' influence more rapidly and more extensively than could have been done in any other way. Add to all this that he was a member of the recent Royal Commission on Oxford and Cambridge, and it will be seen that he has advantages that the most learned historian cannot despise.
The Older Universities of England: Oxford and Cambridge.
By Albert Mansbridge. Pp. xxiv + 296 + 8 plates. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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The Older Universities of England: Oxford and Cambridge. Nature 112, 465–466 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112465a0
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