This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...State. Mr. Goschen introduced a Bill enabling the Dissenter to proceed to the M.A. degree irrespectively of his religious opinions. He frankly avowed that it was his intention that the grant of the degree should admit its recipient to all the privileges which a Master of Arts already held, including ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...State. Mr. Goschen introduced a Bill enabling the Dissenter to proceed to the M.A. degree irrespectively of his religious opinions. He frankly avowed that it was his intention that the grant of the degree should admit its recipient to all the privileges which a Master of Arts already held, including among them a share in the government of the university. The principle of the Bill was that academical degrees in the University of Oxford should for the future be 1 The motion for going into Speaker's casting vote, the number committee was carried by 236 voting on each side being 170, and votes to 226. Hansard, vol. the final motion that the Bill do clxzv. p. 1002. A motion to pass was rejected by 173 votes to reject the third reading was only 171. Ibid., vol. clxxvi. pp. 666 lost by 150 votes to 140, the third 678. reading itself was carried by the Chap. independent of religious tests. The result would have 'been to confer on all graduates the same privileges. 1871. ( re contend, ' so he added, 'for the principle for its own sake. We avow the results and are prepared to defend them.' 1 Mr. Goschen's language was a proof that the question as a whole had made progress in the preceding months, and this was confirmed by the division. For, notwithstanding Mr. Gladstone's opposition, the second reading was carried by a majority of 206 votes to 190.2 The session, however, was already approaching its conclusion, and Mr. Goschen did not consequently find it possible to follow up his victory. A little later the Bill was withdrawn.3 If, however, nothing was done in the session of 1865 for the abolition of tests in universities, another step toward the promotion of religious liberty was taken. The Government, on the unanimous recommendation of a large..
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