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THE University Commissioners have issued a revised edition of the proposed statutes on the professoriate. The scheme laid before the Hebdomadal Council last November met with considerable opposition, which resulted in representations being made by the Council, to the Commissioners in favour of certain modifications in the duties assigned to the professors. On comparing the revised with the old proposals, it is evident that the Commissioners have become convinced that it is desirable to allow each professor a larger individual liberty in the mode of giving instruction in his department than was granted in the former scheme. In the General Regulations of last November Clauses 4 and 5 ran as follows: —
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The Oxford University Commissioners and the Professoriate . Nature 23, 471–472 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023471a0
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