Excerpt from New College: 1856-1906 The development of New College, which from the smallest has become very nearly the largest College in Oxford, is one of the most conspicuous facts in the history of the University since the first Commission. Moreover New College was able to take the lead in making many of the changes which in the aggregate have transformed Oxford. Thus its history ought to interest in some degree all who care to trace out the process whereby Oxford has renewed its youth. And its history ought specially to interest its own alumni, who have a patriotic pride in its success, and a good right to know how that success was gained. My pretensions to tell the story rest upon the accident that I alone have been concerned in it all. I was a Fellow before the great changes wrought by the Commission took effect, and have been resident, save for a short interval, ever since. I have taken part in the deliberations which have led to every new step, and in the administration of the College under the gradually changing conditions. No one else, as it happens, has had this fortune; my colleagues in the earlier and more critical years went away to other spheres of duty: my colleagues in the later period entered the College after the chief difficulties had been conquered. 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.