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 CHAPTER XVII. OXFORD STUDIES AND EXAMINATIONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Examination statute of 1800, and later amendments—Examination statute of 1850, and later amendments—University Commission of 1850—Act of 1854 and new College Ordinances—Effect of these reforms—Abolition of University tests—Local examinations, and board for examination of public schools—Commission of inquiry (1872) and Act of 1876—Commission of 1877—Character of last reforms 191 CHAPTER XVIII. THE NEO-CATHOLIC REVIVAL, KNOWN AS THE ‘OXFORD MOVEMENT.’ Character of the ‘Oxford Movement’—A reaction against the rising tide of Liberalism—Oriel the centre of the Movement—John Henry Newman—Origin of ‘Tracts for the Times’—Association formed—Newman assumes the lead—Spread and objects of the movement.—Publication of Tract XC.—Collapse of Tractarianism, and secession of Newman—The ‘Hampden Controversy’—Proceedings against Pusey and Ward—Effect of the ‘Oxford Movement’—Controversy on the endowment of the Greek Professorship.—Defeat of Mr. Gladstone in 1865 204 CHAPTER XIX. THE UNIVERSITY IN 1886. Reign of Queen Victoria—State of the University on the Queen’s accession—Influence of recent changes—Present character of the University 217 INDEX 223 THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. CHAPTER I. THE RISE OF THE UNIVERSITY. [Sidenote: Mythical origin of the University]