The Teaching of Political Science at Oxford

I HAVE been asked to give an account of the Teaching of Political and Social Science at Oxford, but in order to do this in a way which will not be unintelligible or mis- leading, it is necessary to give some preliminary explana- tions as to the relation between the Universities and the colleges, and as to the system of examination for the degree of B. A.Professor Bryce has helped English readers to under- stand the relations between the States and the Nation in the American Union, by the analogy of the relation be- tween the colleges and the University in Oxford and in Cambridge ; and American readers may profitably reverse the analogy in order to understand roughly an academical system that exists in no country except England.The analogy is, indeed, only a rough one: the University existed before there were any colleges, and there are at the present time collegiate students whom we might per- haps compare to citizens of the United States living in a Territory.But just as every citizen of a State is also a citizen of the United States, so every member of a college is also a member of the University, and is thus subject to two different sets of institutions and rules.The University alone confers degrees and regulates the examinations for them.Instruction is, however, provided by both the University, through its &dquo;professors&dquo; and &dquo;readers&dquo; (the latter may be compared with the &dquo;extra-ordinary professors &dquo; of a German university), and by the colleges, through their tutors and lecturers.University lectures are open to all members of the University.College lectures are intended primarily for the members of particular col

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