Excerpt from Suggestions With Regard to Certain Proposed Alterations in Oxford Schools, at all the Examinations. There is no doubt, GBP33333 that the multiplication of honours must tend to di minish their specific value, as mere distinctions; but I am not sure that this very circumstance may not tend to make them more useful as instruments of education. When a particular Honour is a very marked object of ambition, there is danger that knowledge will be sought upon a narrow and superficial system, for the sake of that Honour, and that the studies will be regulated by the expected course of Examination, instead of being merely tested by it. This danger will probably be less, in proportion as the distribution of Honours ceases to be rare and exceptional, and is applied as a general stimulus to proficiency in all the branches and stages of Academical study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.