Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense

by Lewis Carroll

  26 “With open Fellowships, Oxford will soon produce a supply of men fit for the work of high education far beyond her own local demands, and in fact with no career for them unless a career can be opened elsewhere.”

  27 “I should seem to you to dream if I were to say what I think the destiny of the University may be in an age which, though it is breaking with tradition, is, from the same causes, owning a new allegiance to intellectual authority.”

  28 “But to fulfil this, or even a far humbler destiny – to escape the opposite lot – the pestilential coils of party, in which the University has lain for three disastrous centuries choked, must be untwined.”