Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. To obtain a site for it, he suppressed King's Hall and Michael-House, two medieval colleges which were built on or owned most of the ground now occupied by the Great Court, and with their revenues, largely augmented by propert...
The Mathematical Tripos has played so prominent a part in the history of education at Cambridge and of mathematics in England, that a sketch of its development[34] may be intere...
13. CHAPTER XII.This paper contains some extracts from my notebooks on the way in which university and college discipline was maintained in former days at Cambridge. The records on the subject...
18. part I might be taken at the end of a man's second year of residence,though in that case it would not qualify for a degree. A student who availed himself of this leave could take part II at the end either of his third or of his fourth year as he...
3. CHAPTER III.The relations between Trinity College and Westminster School have always been of an intimate character. Under the Elizabethan statutes of the two foundations a limited number of...
1. CHAPTER I.Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. To obtain a site for it, he suppressed King's Hall and Michael-House, two medieval colleges which were built on or owned most...
6. CHAPTER VI.Those who live among beautiful surroundings and in constant touch with works of art are often apt to take their privileges for granted. Members of Trinity are proud of the build...
2. CHAPTER II.The word Tutor is used at Cambridge to describe an officer of a College who stands to his pupils in loco parentis; now-a-days he may, but does not necessarily, give direct instr...
5. CHAPTER V.The College Chapel, as it appears to-day, is described in many of the guide-books which are pressed on the casual traveller in Cambridge. I am not here concerned with the accoun...
14. CHAPTER XIII.Newton's _Principia_ is one of the few scientific books which has sensibly affected the methods of scientific research and the ideas of men about the universe. It is on this asp...
7. CHAPTER VII.There is no reference in our earliest college statutes--those of 1552--to an Auditor, but the extant accounts show that the office existed from the foundation of the College in...
12. CHAPTER XI.The problems connected with the beginnings of the University of Cambridge and the conditions of life in its early days have always interested me. Much is uncertain and open to v...
4. CHAPTER IV.This is an account of a famous struggle some eighty years ago between the authorities and the undergraduates of Trinity College on the subject of attendance at chapel. The story...
11. chapter 13, verse 2, revealed sincere affection for the place and8. In 1593 Nevile was appointed master, and took in hand the needed reconstruction of the buildings. It had from the first been recognized that the site offered opportunities fo...
15. CHAPTER XIV.Among the Portsmouth papers in the University Library at Cambridge[33] is a memorandum by Isaac Newton, drawn up, I conjecture, towards the close of the seventeenth century, on...
9. CHAPTER IX.In the Record Office in London are preserved some money accounts[27] concerned with a visit of the scholars of King's Hall to York at Christmas in the year 13 Edward II, that is...
8. CHAPTER VIII.In 1914 the College obtained an interesting series of photographs of Wren's original drawings and plans for our library in Nevile's Court. They will well repay inspection by tho...
10. CHAPTER X.I have been asked to take you round Trinity College to-morrow, and by way of preface to say to-night something about its history. The first of these tasks, to anyone who lives h...
17. part II was transferred to four examiners nominated by the board: thisput it largely under the control of the professors. The range of subjects of part II was also greatly extended, and candidates were encouraged to select only a few of them. It w...