[42]: These same craftsmen probably made the beautiful ceilings in the Combination Room at St. John's College (which is copied from that in one of the rooms in this Court), and in the University Library.
[43]: See Cambridge Described, p. 443.
[44]: Both clock and bells are due to Dr. Bentley, the famous Master who bullied the College into so many happy and undesired expenses during his tenure of office (1700-1742). The repeating is solely for convenience; one often fails to note the first stroke or two of an hour.
[45]: This was given to the College in 1755 by the then Master, Dr. Robert Smith.
[46]: Wordsworth in "The Prelude" tells us how he loved
"The antechapel, where the statue stood
Of Newton, with his prism and silent face,
The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone."
[47]: Barrow's great wish was that the University should build a theatre (like the Sheldonian at Oxford), instead of having its dramas performed, as they then were, in the University Church. When the Senate boggled at the expense, he declared that Trinity should shame them by erecting unaided a yet finer building than he proposed, and "that very afternoon" himself staked out the foundations of the Library. (Clark's Guide, p. 123.)
[48]: Of the astonishingly wide sweep of Whewell's knowledge many tales are yet told. There was no subject on which he could not talk with authority. It is related how an impertinent Fellow once hoped to puzzle him by getting up an article on Chinese music in a back number of the Edinburgh Review, and introducing the subject in Hall. "Ah," replied Whewell, "it is a long time since I thought of that. But you will find an article of mine about it in the Edinburgh, some ten or fifteen years ago."
[49]: On Sundays and Festivals all wear surplices, and the throng then presents a very striking appearance. It suggested Tennyson's vision of "Six hundred maidens clad in purest white," in "The Princess."
[50]: This is now the College Council, consisting of the Master, the Tutors, and other Members elected for a certain period.