A Guide Through the University of Cambridge: ...W. Metcalf, 1808 - 178 pages |
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Page 19 - GENIUS of the place. It is a sort of inspiring deity, which every youth of quick sensibility and ingenious disposition creates to himself, by reflecting, that he is placed under those venerable walls, where a HOOKER and a HAMMOND, a BACON and a NEWTON, once pursued the same course of science, and from whence they soared to the most elevated heights of literary fame.
Page 139 - Death hath broke his girt, And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt, Or else the ways being foul, twenty to one, He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; For he had any time this ten years full, Dodg'd with him, betwixt Cambridge and the Bull.
Page 18 - MA who composed the best Dissertation in the English language, on the Evidences in general, or on the Prophecies or Miracles in particular, or on any other particular argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence.
Page 86 - Ye brown o'erarching groves, That contemplation loves, Where willowy Camus lingers with delight ! Oft at the blush of dawn I trod your level lawn, Oft woo'd the gleam of Cynthia silver-bright In cloisters dim, far from the haunts of Folly, With Freedom by my side, and soft-eyed Melancholy.
Page 28 - Occupies between three and four acres, on the south-east side of the town, conveniently disposed, and well watered. This piece of ground, with a large and ancient edifice that formerly belonged to the Augustine Friars, was purchased by the late Dr.
Page 13 - ... tanquam Nobiles. BY an interpretation made May 31, 1786, it was determined that the following persons are entitled to Honorary Degrees : viz. 1. Privy Counsellors. 2. Bishops. 3. Noblemen : — Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons.
Page 114 - ... devised these estates to trustees, who, with the consent and approbation of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Masters of St. John's and Clare Hall, should found a college within the University of Cambridge, which should be called Downing College.
Page 176 - This book is due on the last date stamped helow, or on the date to which renewed. Renewed books are subject to immediate recall.
Page 12 - Fellows shall have power to examine for, and after examination to confer in such mode, and on compliance by the Candidate with such conditions, as they shall from time to time determine, the several or such as they shall think fit of the Degrees of Bachelor and Master of Arts, Bachelor and Doctor in Laws, Science, Medicine, and Music, and Master in Surgery ; and also to confer the several Degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor in any Departments of knowledge whatever, except Theology, as the said...
Page 12 - University, before each can be qualified for taking the said degrees, is three years for a bachelor, and about four years more for a master of arts; seven years after that he may commence bachelor of divinity, and then five years more are required to take the degree of doctor in divinity. In law a student may commence bachelor after six years, and in physic after five years, standing: both may be proctors at the end of five years more.