[34] The greater part of this chapter formerly appeared in my Mathematical Recreations and Essays, but a few paragraphs on “coaching” have been taken from a paper which I wrote for distribution to those who attended the International Congress of Mathematicians held in England in 1912. The subject is treated in Whewell’s Liberal Education, Cambridge, three parts, 1845, 1850, 1853; Wordsworth’s Scholae Academicae, Cambridge, 1877; my own Origin and History of the Mathematical Tripos, Cambridge, 1880; Glaisher’s Presidential Address to the London Mathematical Society, Transactions, vol. XVIII, 1886, pp. 4–38; and my History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge, Cambridge, 1889.
[35] Budget of Paradoxes, by A. De Morgan, London, 1872, p. 305.
[36] See grace of 25 October 1680.
[37] Ex. gr. see De la Pryme’s account of his graduation in 1694, Surtees Society, vol. LIV, 1870, p. 32.
[38] W. Reneu, in his letters of 1708–10 describing the course for the B.A. degree, makes no mention of the senate-house examination, and I think it is a reasonable inference that it had not then been established.
[39] Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, London, 1806, pp. 78–79.
[40] Quoted by C. Wordsworth, Scholae Academicae, Cambridge, 1877, pp. 30–31.
[41] Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, London, 1817, pp. 18–19.
[42] See grace of 25 October 1883; and the Cambridge University Reporter, 23 October 1883.
[43] See grace of 11 February 1909, and the Cambridge University Reporter, 8 December 1908.