CHAPTER IV

COLLEGIATE AND SOCIAL LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY

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--unmarried and married fellows--the combination room--dons’ clubs--‘Hobson’s choice’--the dons of last century--classes of students:--scholar--pensioner--fellow-commoner--sizar--age of scholars--privileges of peers--position of the sizar--college quarters and expenses--‘non-colls’--early discipline--jurisdiction of the university in the town--present discipline:--the proctors--fines--‘halls’--‘chapels’--town lodgings--expulsion--rustication--‘gates’--the tutor--academical dress--cap and gown--the undergraduates’ day--the gyp--the college kitchen--‘hall’--‘wines’--teas--the May term--idleness--rioting--modern studies and tripos entries--athletics--the Union Society--Sunday at Cambridge--scarlet days--academic terms and the long vacation--multiplication of scholarships--class from which the academic population has been drawn and careers of university men:--the Church--the rise of an opulent middle class--the aristocratic era--English conception of the benefits of a university--examples of the classes from which the men have come--recruiting grounds of the university--popularity of colleges--numbers in the colleges--religion at Cambridge--Cambridge politics--university settlement at Camberwell--married dons and future changes.....202-249