Punch,  8 (1845), 187.

Our University Commission

Anon

Genre:

Proceedings, Spoof

Subjects:

Universities, Education, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy


    Spoof testimony relating to the state of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. One witness boasts that 'mathematicians make the best lecturers on all subjects' but 'does not see what natural philosophy has to do with the University course'.



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