Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character. (John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge)

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

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