CHAPTER I✦

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

The northern schools--legends--the town--the river--the fen monasteries--the school of glomery--the religious orders--the jurisdiction of Ely--the clerk and the religious.

School and university--Stourbridge fair--the university in the xiii century--foundation of endowed scholars--hostels.....1-51

CHAPTER II✦

THE COLLEGES

The university and the colleges--the collegiate system--eras of college building--Peterhouse--Michaelhouse--collegium and aula--Clare--college statutes--architectural scheme of a college--Pembroke--founders of colleges--Gonville--Trinity Hall--Corpus Christi--Cambridge in 1353--Chaucer at Cambridge--the schools, library, the university printers and the Pitt Press, the senate house--King’s--King’s College chapel--Cambridge college chapels--Queens’--English sovereigns at Cambridge--S. Catherine’s--Jesus--Christ’s--Lady Margaret and Bishop Fisher--S. John’s--Magdalene--King’s Hall and Trinity College--college libraries--gateways--Caius--monks in Cambridge--Emmanuel--Sidney Sussex--Downing--public hostels--nationality of founders and general scope of their foundations--university and college revenues.....52-156

CHAPTER III✦

THE UNIVERSITY AS A DEGREE-GIVING BODY

Meaning of a degree--the kinds of degrees--the bachelor--the ancient exercises of the schools called acts, opponencies, and responsions--the sophister--questionist--determiner--master--regent master--the degree of M.A.--introduction of written examinations--the tripos.

The subjects of study and examination: the trivium and quadrivium--grammar--Aristotle’s logic--rhetoric--the three learned faculties--the doctorate--development in university studies--the development of the mathematical tripos--the senior wrangler--the classical tripos--Greek at Cambridge--the moral sciences tripos--philosophy at Cambridge--the natural sciences tripos--science at Cambridge--the language triposes--lists of the triposes--changing value of the examination tests--the double tripos--present conditions for the B.A. degree--modern changes in the examinations--standard of the ordinary and honour degree, examples.

Method of tuition at Cambridge--the lecture--the class--the weekly paper--the professorial chairs--readerships--lectureships--Lambeth degrees--degrees by royal mandate--honorary degrees--the “modern subjects”--and the idea of a university.....157-201