Excerpt from Some Account of the Origin and Objects of the New Oxford Examinations: For the Title of Associate in Arts and Certificates; For the Year 1858; Also, Letters From J. Hullah, Esq., W. Dyce, Esq., J. Ruskin, Esq., G. Richmond, Esq., And Rev. F. Temple; And Selected Papers Relating to the West of England Examination; To Which Ar The first edition being exhausted, this volume is reprinted with a few trifling corrections, for the convenience of those who may still wish to refer to the experience gained at Exeter in 1857. I have added the Regulations adopted by the Universities of Cambridge and Durham, together with such information as I have been able to obtain of similar measures in progress under the authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, in order to complete the record of the first attempts to bring the honours of the Universities to bear on what is called Middle Class Education. 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.