Classical Scholarship and Classical Learning - Considered with Especial Reference to Competitive Tests and University Teaching (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Quadrivium itself, naturally led to the substitution of examinations, -- in which the relative merit of mathematical students was more accurately tested, -- for the school disputations, in which the logic of the Trivium played a prominent part; and the influence of Newton, Cotes, and Smith, not unassisted by the more general scholars, Barrow and Bentley, paved the way for the establishment of the mathematical tripos in the middle of the 18th century. The literary tendencies of Trinity College, and the great scholars produced by that institution, began about the same time to assert the claims of classical learning to similar encouragement in the examinations. First, Chancellor's Medals were instituted for the two best classical scholars in the first mathematical tripos list. Then, Bishop Monk, the immediate successor of Porson, after improving the classical examinations of Trinity College and of the University at large, contrived, with great difficulty, to effect in 1824 the establishment of a classical tripos open to all Bachelors whose names had appeared in the mathematical tripos. And, at last, the students of classical literature are about to be allowed to compete for places in a tripos of their own, without the previous necessity of appearing as class-men in mathematics. By these examinations a broad foundation has been laid for the re-establishment of the school of arts at Cambridge; and the Trivium and the Quadrivium, appearing in a modern dress as learning and science, literature and philosophy, grammar and geometry, philology and physiology, may now be regarded as receiving, or about to receiv...