Cambridge PapersBall, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse)
History
Cambridge Papers
Ball, W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse)
Trinity College (University of Cambridge); University of Cambridge -- History
The sheet for the week ending 17 March, announced the success of the
movement, though in this return only Carus and Perry came up to the
standard. Appended to the sheet were the following notes:
The Society in laying the first list of this month before the
public, have much reason to be pleased with the success of the work
which they have undertaken, for they have been informed, on very
good authority, that the Cruelty System will not be continued more
than a week longer, but that the Master and Seniors have determined
to come to a new Agreement about Chapels.... If this should be the
case, the end which the Society had in view will be accomplished,
and the weekly publications will be discontinued, until called again
into life by some new act of Cruelty upon the much enduring
Undergraduates, but not otherwise. The Fellows have been very
irregular during the last week, in their attendance at Chapel; so
much so that only two of the whole number in residence have kept the
number, which the Undergraduates are compelled to keep, on pain of
being _ipso facto_ rusticated, either entirely, or for one or more
terms. And yet one Member of Trinity College was really sent away
during the past week (who had always been seven times each week
before) because he had the courage to object to compulsory
attendance at Chapel, especially from those men who had set him such
an example!
In the course of the next week a printed notice appeared on the
screens reducing the number of compulsory attendances in chapel to two
on Sundays and four during the week. The paper, type, and setting look
as if this were issued by the authorities. I have, however, seen a
contemporary letter in which it is said that this notice was in fact a
forgery: the suggestion being that the men were tired of the joke, and
invented this way of terminating the episode. I cannot say whether the
deans modified their rule, and the question of the genuineness of this
notice must be left undecided. It is true that no extant minute of the
seniority exists about any new regulation, but the records of the
proceedings of that body are so imperfect that no conclusion can be
drawn from this.
The Society in publishing its last sheet, namely, that for the week
ending 24 March, concluded with the following class list and notes:
The examination of the Fellows is now finished: and in arranging the
different classes the Secretary has attached to each person's name
his number of marks, in order to do away with any appearance of
favour shewn more to one than another, as is too often the case in
other Examinations.
=First Class.=
*Carus 72
Perry 66
*Barnes 50
=Second Class.=
Heath 42
Wordsworth Senior 38
Thorp 35
Whewell 34
Blakesley 30
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