Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United Kingdom — John Shaqi
Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United KingdomMackinder, Halford John
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Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom for use in India: Reissued for use in the United Kingdom
Mackinder, Halford John
Great Britain
When the boys have grown to be young men, they go from school
to the Universities. There are two ancient Universities in
England, well-known to not a few students from India, Oxford and
Cambridge, each adorned with beautiful buildings and gardens, and
full of memories of the great men of the past. There are also
ancient Universities in Scotland and Ireland, and there are new
Universities in England such as the London University. But the
historic Universities of Britain are Oxford and Cambridge. Here is
the University of Oxford as viewed from the tower of one of its
colleges. We see that it is a city filled with monuments and splendid
buildings. This is the High Street in Oxford, with the Church of the
University and some of the Palaces called Colleges, within which
the young men live, together with some of the Professors who teach
them. There are twenty-one of these colleges in Oxford, each with
200 or 300 students living within. Here is the garden of one of the
colleges, where men may walk and think.
[Sidenote: 31. Cambridge--King’s.]
[Sidenote: 32. Cambridge--King’s Chapel--Interior.]
[Sidenote: 33. Cambridge--Clare Bridge.]
Let us visit for a moment the sister University of Cambridge. This is
the Church in the college that is called King’s College, for it was
founded by one of the ancestors of King Edward. Here is the interior
of that church. You see how delicately the great span of the vault
is built. This church was erected at the close of the Middle Ages,
when men no longer put up fortresses for houses. Therefore they had
learned to build lightly, and to plan arches and windows with daring
skill. Next is a scene in the gardens of the Cambridge colleges, with
a bridge spanning the little River Cam.
[Sidenote: 34. Oxford--Commemoration Procession, with Prince of
Wales.]
[Sidenote: 35. Oxford--Merton College Library.]
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