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a high standard should be observed by the Council in the selection of candidates
of university posts abroad , as there is intense rivalry between the various foreign
professors in these universities , and it is essential that the British should be ...
a high standard should be observed by the Council in the selection of candidates
of university posts abroad , as there is intense rivalry between the various foreign
professors in these universities , and it is essential that the British should be ...
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C [ a German university , I know by experience that British education has certain
great advantages , easier to feel than to describe . But few will deny that its weak
point is that of over - confidence in the virtue of ' muddling through . Those of us ...
C [ a German university , I know by experience that British education has certain
great advantages , easier to feel than to describe . But few will deny that its weak
point is that of over - confidence in the virtue of ' muddling through . Those of us ...
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the History Tripos , together with the Lightfoot Scholarship and Prince Consort
Essay , published by the University Press — but also by ' the little healthy
humiliations of a schoolmaster's life , ' to quote the significant phrase which I once
heard ...
the History Tripos , together with the Lightfoot Scholarship and Prince Consort
Essay , published by the University Press — but also by ' the little healthy
humiliations of a schoolmaster's life , ' to quote the significant phrase which I once
heard ...
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