Essay (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Those who, thus equipped, went to Oxford found themselves confronted, in degrees of insistence varying with their colleges, with the duty of composing a weekly essay. This feature of the Oxford tutorial system - admirable training for those who chose to benefit by it - is by no means intended to encourage the sprouts of individual imaginations it is looked on as a means of acquiring knowledge and showing that the acquisition has been digested, so that in the severer tests of Collections and Schools the pupil may not be wholly un prepared to give an account of Plato's theory of ideas, to criticize the Athenian policy in assailing Syracuse in the midst of the Pelopon mesian War, or to show similar acumen in tackling more modern historical problems. There are University prizes, too, for portentous essays which are annually won by those who conduct successfully a piece of special historical research.

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