Cambridge (England) -- Pictorial works; University of Cambridge -- Pictorial works
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
CHAPTER V
UNIVERSITY MEN AND NATIONAL MOVEMENTS
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, and physicians, the
statesmen.
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 of
Indulgence--the Nonjurors--William and Mary and Cambridge
whiggery--Jacobitism and Toryism at Cambridge in the reign of
Anne--George I. and Cambridge--modern political movements.
Religious movements: Lollards, the early reformers, the question
of the divorce, Lutheranism at Cambridge, later reformers and the
Reformation, the English bible, and service books, the Cambridge
martyrs, the Puritans, the Presbyterians, the Independents, the
Latitudinarians, the Deists, the evangelical movement, the Tractarian
movement, anti-calvinism.
Intellectual movements: the New Learning and the age of Elizabeth--the
Royal Society--the Cambridge Platonists--modern science.
Connexion of Cambridge founders and eminent men with the
university--early Cambridge names--a group of great names in the
xiii and xiv centuries--Cambridge men in the historical plays of
Shakespeare--genealogical tables of founders--Cantabrigians from
the xv century to the present day--Cambridge men who have taken no
degree.....250-309
CHAPTER VI
GIRTON AND NEWNHAM
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