10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DONNISM»
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The English Universities from the German of V. A. Huber
Donnism, ii. (2) 517. Downing Colege, Cambridge, 268. Downing Profesorship of
Law, 374. Drusius, John, ii. 147. Dublin, Trinity College. Vide “ Trinity College,
Dublin." Duelling, ii. 309, 310. Dumfries College. Tables of income, expenditure,
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ...
Mr. Newman makes no attempt to explain what is only a phenomenon by its root
and principle ; but accounts for donnism, formality, and want of sympathy, by
sayingthat they exist. We venture to think that they would never have arisen had
all ...
In short, Donnism, wherever it exists, destroys that simple acting of heart on heart,
and conscience on conscience, which is God's great instrument for regenerating
society and for the training-up of youth ; without which, College restraint on ...
... which it is perhaps rightly said that men so youn , could not rule so arbitrarily,)
that the character is formed w ich technically is called a Don. When this 'Donnism'
is found in more advanced years, it has more excuse, and is less hurtful ...
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, 1837
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]
... is formed which technically is called a Don. When this ' Donnism ' is found in
more advanced years, it has more excuse, and is less hurtful ; but when the
poorness of Fellowships or any other cause leads to very rapid promotion, the ...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
Donnism,”*t says Mr. Wilkinson, “is a blight on all classes from the highest to the
lowest. Between the head and fellows of the same society there is a distance,
between the fellows and the undergraduates an impassable gulf” But those who
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Principal Shairp & his friends: with portrait
Here we have no Donnism, nor any stiff academic air, but quiet easy family life.
The University is too small, the place too retired, and Scotland altogether not the
soil for Donnism to flourish. This is great gain, for the more we cease to /^see
men ...
William Angus Knight, 1888
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The Oxford and Cambridge magazine for 1856
... and were appointed either by seniority, or by reason of what merit they might
seem to possess. To this method of selection, add Classics as the subject of
teaching, and Donnism as the law of life, and you have a notion of the Tutorial
system.
University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, 1856
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The Chambers Dictionary
(Ger) n thunderstorm (used as an interjection ol annoyance, etc). donnish,
donnism See don1. donnot or donnat don '»i. ( Yorkshire) n a good-for- nothing:
an idler. [Appar parll> do-naught Ido1). and partis (liiH-nimglit (dow2)]
Donnybrook or ...
