Category: History - British

Cambridge

of the literary output. Cambridge indeed does not appear to suggest, does not lend itself to, the numberless little brochures or hymns of praise which accompany the honoured years of the sister university; in weighty tomes and valuable _collectanea_ of MSS., however, it posses...

Chapters

13. CHAPTER VI

Etheldreda of Ely and Hild of Whitby connect the school of York with the monastery of Ely--English women and education--the four “noble and devoute countesses” and two queens at...

9. CHAPTER II

The university and the colleges--the collegiate system--eras of college building--Peterhouse--Michaelhouse--_collegium_ and _aula_--Clare--college statutes--architectural scheme...

12. CHAPTER V

Men who owe nothing to a university--40 great Englishmen--Cambridge men: the scientists, the poets, the dramatists, other literary men, the philosophers, the churchmen, lawyers...

14. Part II., since June 1903, consists of 5 papers on (1) Paley’s

Evidences, for which since 1884, elementary logic may be substituted (2) geometry (3) arithmetic (4) elementary algebra (5) subjects for an English essay from some standard Engl...

11. CHAPTER IV

University and college officers:--chancellor and vice-chancellor--the senate--graces--proctors--bedells--the master of a college--the vice-master or president--the fellows--unma...

8. CHAPTER I

In Saxon times our schools of learning were grouped round York the Roman centre of Britain, which represented not only the Roman tradition but the vigorous Christianity of the n...

10. CHAPTER III

[pp. 157-164] Meaning of a degree--the kinds of degrees--the bachelor--the ancient exercises of the schools called acts, opponencies, and responsions--the sophister--questionist...

7. CHAPTER VI

Etheldreda of Ely and Hild of Whitby connect the school of York with the monastery of Ely--English women and education--the four “noble and devoute countesses” and two queens at...

1. book I was ready to believe that the University had not its fair share

of the literary output. Cambridge indeed does not appear to suggest, does not lend itself to, the numberless little brochures or hymns of praise which accompany the honoured yea...

6. CHAPTER V

National movements: King John and the barons--the peasants’ revolt--York and Lancaster--the new world--Charles and the Parliament--James II. and the University--the Declaration...

5. CHAPTER IV

University and college officers:--chancellor and vice-chancellor--the senate--graces--proctors--bedells--the master of a college--the vice-master or president--the fellows--unma...

4. CHAPTER III

The subjects of study and examination: the _trivium_ and _quadrivium_--grammar--Aristotle’s logic--rhetoric--the three learned faculties--the doctorate--development in universit...

3. CHAPTER II

The university and the colleges--the collegiate system--eras of college building--Peterhouse--Michaelhouse--_collegium_ and _aula_--Clare--college statutes--architectural scheme...

2. CHAPTER I