Old Friends at Cambridge and ElsewhereClark, John Willis
History
Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere
Clark, John Willis
University of Cambridge -- History
The inscription runs: munificentia · fultus · Alex. J. B. Hope,
generosi · hisce · ædibus · antiquam · speciem · restituit. W.
Whewell. Mag. Collegii. A. D. MDCCCXLIII. Mr Hope gave £1000, and the
Master himself £250; but the liberality of the College, which spent
some £4000 before the work was finished, is unrecorded. It was on this
occasion that somebody wrote a parody on _The House that Jack Built_,
beginning:
This is the House that Hope built.
This is the Master, rude and rough,
Who lives in the House that Hope built.
These are the Seniors, greedy and gruff,
Who toady the Master, rude and rough,
Who lives in the House that Hope built.
Footnote 6:
The _Times_, February 25 and 26, 1847. Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 285,
prints a letter from Archdeacon Hare, who had been disturbed by
reports of the Vice-Chancellor’s vehemence.
Footnote 7:
The visit of Queen Victoria to the University in 1843.
Footnote 8:
_A Letter to the Rev. W. Whewell, B.D., Master of Trinity College,
etc. By an Undergraduate._ 8vo. London, 1843.
Footnote 9:
_The Victory of Faith, and other Sermons._ By J. C. Hare, M. A. 8vo.
Cambridge, 1840, p. x.
Footnote 10:
Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 216.
Footnote 11:
Dr Lightfoot’s Sermon, preached in the College Chapel on Sunday, March
18, 1866.
Footnote 12:
They appeared in _Punch_ for March 17, 1866.
Footnote 13:
The letter is dated 30 October, 1857.
Footnote 14:
Mrs Stair Douglas, p. 208.
Footnote 15:
Memoir by Sir John Herschel, _Proceedings of Royal Society_, XVI., p.
lvi.
Footnote 16:
Bishop Goodwin’s article in _Macmillan’s Magazine_ for December, 1881,
p. 140.
Footnote 17:
We are not sure that he ever allowed the _Origin of Species_ to be
admitted into the College Library. It was certainly refused more than
once, being probably dismissed with the expression which he was fond
of using when, as Chairman of the Seniority, he read the list of books
proposed—‘a worthless publication.’
Footnote 18:
1. _Remains, Literary and Theological, of Connop Thirlwall, late Lord
Bishop of S. David’s._ Edited by J. J. STEWART PEROWNE, D.D. Vol. 1:
Charges delivered between the years 1842 and 1860. Vol. 2: Charges
delivered between the years 1863 and 1872. 8vo. (London, 1877.)
2. _Essays, Speeches, and Sermons._ By CONNOP THIRLWALL, D.D., late
Lord Bishop of S. David’s. Edited by J. J. STEWART PEROWNE, D.D. 8vo.
(London, 1880.)
3. _Letters to a Friend._ By CONNOP THIRLWALL, late Lord Bishop of S.
David’s. Edited by the Very Rev. ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D. 8vo.
(London, 1881.)
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