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Do you really belief a 17th century university didn't have "speech codes"? Just as a hint: to become a professor at the time, you had to be an ordained priest.
by matt4077 9y ago
Do you really belief a 17th century university didn't have "speech codes"? Just as a hint: to become a professor at the time, you had to be an ordained priest.
Edit: From Wikipedia: "In April 1667, he returned to Cambridge and in October was elected as a fellow of Trinity. Fellows were required to become ordained priests, although this was not enforced in the restoration years and an assertion of conformity to the Church of England was sufficient. However, by 1675 the issue could not be avoided and by then his unconventional views stood in the way.[20] Nevertheless, Newton managed to avoid it by means of a special permission from Charles II"
- pjc50 9y agoI don't know why this is downvoted when it's obviously correct about speech codes: Newton's own Cambridge banned Catholics until 1871. I don't think the ordainment requirement is true, I think it's the other way round; the universities were founded in training people for ordainment.