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Cambridge History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

H. J. Hanham
H. J. Hanham*
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Essay Review IV
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Fall 1975 , pp. 341 - 350
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Copyright © 1975 by New York University 

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Notes

1. Pattison, Mark, Memoirs, ed. by Pattison, Mrs. (London 1885), pp. 89–90. Pattison was rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, 1861–84. This passage appears to have been written in 1883.Google Scholar

2. The secondary schools were left to set their own standards and turned to the universities rather than to the state for assistance in establishing external examinations that would secure general recognition. See Roach, John, Public Examinations in England, 1850–1900 (Cambridge, 1971).Google Scholar

3. Satthianadhan, S., Four Years in an English University, 2nd edn. (Madras 1893), pp. 52–3.Google Scholar

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14. Examinations are set by the university, and colleges are encouraged to regard them as a test of their competitive position.Google Scholar

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