Published 2013
“…Within Britain
itself, there was some semblance of this activity at the
University of Oxford- at least as early as 1623 when, as the
first Camden Professor of History, Digory Whear mounted
the rostrum to deliver his oratio auspicalis in the Schola
Grammaticae. By the time of
Edward Thwaites (Regius
Professor of Greek, also at Oxford) in 1708, the inaugural
lecture
had 'become somewhat _forrn alised, and the lecture
has since come to be perceived by scholars as something of
an intellectual feast prepared by the lecturer according to
his own recipe.
…”
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