A reservoir for the landed aristocracy, whose sons were inclined to treat college life as a blend of a wine-party and a hunting-box

[Christ Church] stood in particular for two things, each of them narrow, complacent and outworn. First it was held to be a reservoir for the landed aristocracy, whose sons were inclined to treat college life as a blend of a wine-party and a hunting-box, and when they matured translated their college toasts of 'Church and King' into policies defensible in the House of Commons. In sober fact, of course, so far as undergraduates went, till the middle of the last century a second and much larger element were candidates for holy orders, so fulfilling one main purpose of their founders.

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Certainly for the first half of it [the later nineteenth century] the two elements of Church and Land were so fused and and interpenetrated that they made almost one substance. 

K. Feiling, In Christ Church Hall (1960), 129 [chapter on Edward Bouverie Pusey]