was no classical tripos in those days, and to obtain a Chancellor's medal it was necessary that a candidate should have obtained honours in mathematics for which Coleridge had all a poet's abhorrence. Among the poems of his college days may be remembered, "A Wish written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792," and the well-known "Monologue to a Young Jackass in Jesus Piece." Another poem more worthy of record perhaps, though he scribbled it in one of the College chapel prayer-books, is one of regretful pathos on the neglected "hours of youth," which finds a later echo in his "Lines on an Autumnal Evening," where he alludes to his undergraduate days at Jesus:-- "When from the Muses' calm abode I came, with learning's meed not unbestowed; Whereas she twined a laurel round my brow, And met my kiss, and half returned my vow." And with that quotation from the Jesus poet we may perhaps close this chapter, only adding one word of hearty agreement with that encomium which was passed upon the College by King James, who, because of the picturesqueness of its old buildings and the beauty and charm of its surroundings, spoke of Jesus College as _Musarum Cantabrigiensium Museum_, and also with that decision which on a second visit to Cambridge His Majesty wisely gave, that "Were he to choose, he would pray at King's, dine at Trinity, and study and sleep at Jesus." CHAPTER X COLLEGES OF THE NEW LEARNING "No more as once in sunny Avignon, The poet-scholar spreads the Homeric page, And gazes sadly, like the deaf at song: For now the old epic voices ring again And vibrate with the beat and melody Stirred by the warmth of old Ionian days." --MRS. BROWNING. The Lady Margaret Foundations--Bishop Fisher of Rochester--The Foundation of Christ's--God's House--The Buildings of the new College--College Worthies--John Milton--Henry More--Charles Darwin--The Hospital of the Brethren of S. John--Death of the Lady Margaret--Foundation of S. John's College--Its Buildings--The Great Gateway--The New Library--The Bridge of Sighs--The Wilderness--Wordsworth's "Prelude"--The Aims of Bishop Fisher--His Death.