[简答题](46) When Newman prepared his discourses, the view that a university was more than a place for teaching universal knowledge, that it was also a place for professional education and primarily a place for the "endowment of learning" or research, was prevalent enough for him to reassert the older Oxford position. He was aware of the pressure being exerted on Oxford and Cambridge to provide greater opportunities for teaching that was related to investigation and not to character formation. (47) For centuries scholars and scientists had sought openings within universities for work that was not necessarily directly related to the teaching of young persons or at least teaching dominated by literary, theological and mathematical subjects. There were some successes, and new histories of Oxford and Cambridge universities are uncovering more. Even within the collegiate system, where teaching tutors rather than research professors predominated, research was never altogether out of th