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II. THE questions raised by the Cambridge Memorial to which we referred last week are so important that no excuse is necessary for recurring to them. In the first place it may be remarked that the answer of Mr. Gladstone to the Cambridge memorialists, is quite such as any reasonable man might have looked for. University reform is not at present a political question in the vulgar sense of that word. The heart of the masses is not stirred by proposals concerning the tenure of fellowships. The religious element, or rather the sectarian element, has now been largely eliminated from the matter; there remains scarcely anything at stake save the interests of learning and science; and these, as we know, are things of very little value in the eyes of the present Government.
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A Voice from Cambridge . Nature 8, 41–42 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008041a0
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