“Two universities have been founded in this country, amply endowed and furnished with professors in the different sciences; and I should be sorry that those who have been educated at either of them should undervalue the benefits of such an education.”

—  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

King v. The College of Physicians (1797), 7 T. R. 288.

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