"Pattison lived through a formative period in the history of the modern university in England, and in his person he embodied many of the transformations that occurred in the half century he spent at Oxford. To re-trace his life and thought is therefore to explore through the eyes of a key figure the elements of that transition to the modern university: the secularization of intellectual life, the emergence of the professional academic, and the challenge posed by the emergent German idea of the university to the traditions of English university life. When Pattison arrived at Oxford as an undergraduate in 1832, the University's chief purpose was to provide a gentlemanly education for intending clergy."
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H. S. Jones in Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don (2007), p. 1
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Mark Pattison
Mark Pattison (10 October 1834 – 30 July 1884) was an English biographer, historian, Anglican priest, and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.
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