CHAPTER XVI.

THE UNIVERSITY DURING THE REIGNS OF GEORGE III. AND GEORGE IV.

Stagnation of University legislation in the eighteenth century—Statutes affecting the University—Political sympathies of the University after the outbreak of the French Revolution—Accessions to professoriate in the eighteenth century—Architectural improvements—Effects of the French war upon the University.—Opposition to reforms—Reception of the Allied Sovereigns.—Abolition of the Mayor’s Oath 183