Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08921_Field_TCGG T686.txt

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     as Fellows, and in some cases young students had been
     admitted on a special footing. Merton had its parvuli .
     Queen’s had its Poor Boys. Magdalen had some very
     young Demies. Poor Colleges had eked out their revenues
     by admitting boarders. Waynflete had sanctioned a
     system of Gentlemen Commoners, which Wykehan had
     been unwilling to permit. But it was not till the sixteenth
     century, when the Colleges became recognized centres of
     teaching, when the lectures in Schools Street were going
     out of fashion, when the training of priests was gradually
     ceasing to be the chief aim of Oxford education, and
     when, after the perils of the Reformation, the expansion
     of Oxford on new lines began, that the great class of
     undergraduate Commoners, with no direct share in
     College endowments, arose to take the College courts and
     gardens for their own.