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The northern schools—legends—the town—the river—the fen monasteries—theschool of glomery—the religious orders—the jurisdiction ofEly—the clerk and the religious. School and university—Stourbridge fair—the university in thexiii century—foundation of endowed scholars—hostels | |
[CHAPTER II] | |
The university and the colleges—the collegiate system—eras of collegebuilding—Peterhouse—Michaelhouse—collegium and aula—Clare—collegestatutes—architectural scheme of a college—Pembroke—foundersof colleges—Gonville—Trinity Hall—Corpus Christi—Cambridgein 1353—Chaucer at Cambridge—the schools, library, theuniversity printers and the Pitt Press, the senate house—King’s—King’sCollege chapel—Cambridge college chapels—Queens’—Englishsovereigns at Cambridge—S. Catherine’s—Jesus—Christ’s—LadyMargaret and Bishop Fisher—S. John’s—Magdalene—King’s Halland Trinity College—college libraries—gateways—Caius—monks inCambridge—Emmanuel—Sidney Sussex—Downing—public hostels—nationalityof founders and general scope of their foundations—universityand college revenues | |
[CHAPTER III] | |
Meaning of a degree—the kinds of degrees—the bachelor—the ancientexercises of the schools called acts, opponencies, and responsions—thesophister—questionist—determiner—master—regent master—thedegree of M.A.—introduction of written examinations—the tripos. The subjects of study and examination: the trivium and quadrivium—grammar—Aristotle’slogic—rhetoric—the three learned faculties—thedoctorate—development in university studies—the developmentof the mathematical tripos—the senior wrangler—the classical tripos—Greekat Cambridge—the moral sciences tripos—philosophy atCambridge—the natural sciences tripos—science at Cambridge—thelanguage triposes—lists of the triposes—changing value of the examinationtests—the double tripos—present conditions for the B.A. degree—modernchanges in the examinations—standard of the ordinaryand honour degree, examples. Method of tuition at Cambridge—the lecture—the class—the weekly paper—theprofessorial chairs—readerships—lectureships—Lambeth degrees—degreesby royal mandate—honorary degrees—the “modernsubjects”—and the idea of a university | |
[CHAPTER IV] | |
University and college officers:—chancellor and vice-chancellor—the senate—graces—proctors—bedells—themaster of a college—the vice-masteror president—the fellows—unmarried and married fellows—the combinationroom—dons’ clubs—‘Hobson’s choice’—the dons of lastcentury—classes of students:—scholar—pensioner—fellow-commoner—sizar—ageof scholars—privileges of peers—position of the sizar—collegequarters and expenses—‘non-colls’—early discipline—jurisdictionof the university in the town—present discipline:—the proctors—fines—‘halls’—‘chapels’—townlodgings—expulsion—rustication—‘gates’—thetutor—academical dress—cap and gown—the undergraduates’day—the gyp—the college kitchen—‘hall’—‘wines’—teas—theMay term—idleness—rioting—modern studies and tripos entries—athletics—theUnion Society—Sunday at Cambridge—scarlet days—academicterms and the long vacation—multiplication of scholarships—classfrom which the academic population has been drawn andcareers of university men:—the Church—the rise of an opulentmiddle class—the aristocratic era—English conception of the benefitsof a university—examples of the classes from which the men havecome—recruiting grounds of the university—popularity of colleges—numbersin the colleges—religion at Cambridge—Cambridge politics—universitysettlement at Camberwell—married dons and futurechanges | |
[CHAPTER V] | |
Men who owe nothing to a university—40 great Englishmen—Cambridgemen: the scientists, the poets, the dramatists, other literary men, thephilosophers, the churchmen, lawyers, and physicians, the statesmen. National movements: King John and the barons—the peasants’revolt—York and Lancaster—the new world—Charles and theParliament—James II. and the University—the Declaration of Indulgence—theNonjurors—William and Mary and Cambridgewhiggery—Jacobitism and Toryism at Cambridge in the reign ofAnne—George I. and Cambridge—modern political movements. Religious movements: Lollards, the early reformers, the questionof the divorce, Lutheranism at Cambridge, later reformers and theReformation, the English bible, and service books, the Cambridgemartyrs, the Puritans, the Presbyterians, the Independents, theLatitudinarians, the Deists, the evangelical movement, the Tractarianmovement, anti-calvinism. Intellectual movements: the New Learning and the age ofElizabeth—the Royal Society—the Cambridge Platonists—modernscience. Connexion of Cambridge founders and eminent men with theuniversity—early Cambridge names—a group of great names in thexiii and xiv centuries—Cambridge men in the historical plays ofShakespeare—genealogical tables of founders—Cantabrigians from thexv century to the present day—Cambridge men who have taken nodegree | |
[CHAPTER VI] | |
Etheldreda of Ely and Hild of Whitby connect the school of York withthe monastery of Ely—English women and education—the four“noble and devoute countesses” and two queens at Cambridge—therise of the movement for university education—two separate movements—Girton—Newnham—riseof the university lecture movement—AnneClough—the Newnham Halls and Newnham College—the firsttriposes—the “Graces” of 1881—social life at the women’s colleges—characterand choice of work among women—the degree—statusof women’s colleges at Cambridge and Oxford—and status elsewhere | |
List of Illustrations
A Bibliography
Ackermann.—— History of the University of Cambridge. 2 vols.
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Anstey, H.—— Munimenta Academica. Rolls Series.
London 1868.