Augustus Austen Leigh: Provost of King's College, Cambridge; A Record of College Reform (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Austen Leigh

9780483625907: Augustus Austen Leigh: Provost of King's College, Cambridge; A Record of College Reform (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483625906 ISBN 13: 9780483625907

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Augustus Austen Leigh: Provost of King's College, Cambridge; A Record of College Reform

His position, however, enabled him to do a very important work in the transformation of King's from a small and close College into one of the most important educational forces in the University of Cambridge; a work in which he was a principal and for the first few years almost the sole - agent. It is thought, therefore, that the members of his College will feel an interest in reading an account (however imperfect) of this transformation, put in the personal shape of a Memoir of the Tutor and Provost whom they loved so well; and for them, and for his relations and friends, it is principally intended. It was necessary, however, in order to reach them all, that it should be published; and there are no doubt oth ers, within or without the limits of his University, who will be glad to have a record of what was, in'i, its] sphere, a noble and complete life.

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