This is the first attempt for many years to provide a concise, illustrated history of the University of Cambridge from its origins in the thirteenth century up to the present day. It shows how the University has evolved in reaction both to external forces and to internal movements for "reform", and conveys some impression of the day-to-day experiences of students, teachers and university administrators throughout the University's long history. This account should prove useful both as a handbook for immediate reference and as an attractive general introduction to the subject.
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"The author offers a gentle and succint account of Cambridge University....The book contains excellent illustrations, useful tables and appendixes, and a glossary (indispensable for American Readers)....this book fills a need for a shorter history that is also up-to-date. Especially valuable for historians of higher education or others interested in English history." S. Fishman, Choice
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This concise, illustrated history shows how the University has evolved in reaction to external forces as well as internal movements for "reform". It conveys the day-to-day experiences of students, teachers and university administrators throughout the University's long history.
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The University of Cambridge was not founded by Athenian philosophers in the train of Cantaber, the princely Spanish son-in-law of Gurguntius Brabtruc, king of Britain, in the year 4321 after the creation of the world (in 4004 BC), nor yet by Sigebert, king of the Angels (aided and abetted by St Felix) in the seventh century AD. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new triposes, tripos lists, regent masters, college statutes, university officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University Library, Regent House, Senate House, Lady Margaret, Trinity Hall, King's Hall, Master of Trinity, Senior Wrangler, King's College, Old Schools, Regius Professor of Greek, Botanic Garden, Church of England, Classical Tripos, Council of the Senate, First World War, Adam Sedgwick, Gonville Hall, Great St Mary, Master of Peterhouse, Miss Davies, Prince Consort, Sidney Sussex, John Fisher, Matthew Parker New!
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The University of Cambridge was not founded by Athenian philosophers in the train of Cantaber, the princely Spanish son-in-law of Gurguntius Brabtruc, king of Britain, in the year 4321 after the creation of the world (in 4004 BC), nor yet by Sigebert, king of the Angels (aided and abetted by St Felix) in the seventh century AD. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
new triposes, tripos lists, regent masters, college statutes, university officers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
University Library, Regent House, Senate House, Lady Margaret, Trinity Hall, King's Hall, Master of Trinity, Senior Wrangler, King's College, Old Schools, Regius Professor of Greek, Botanic Garden, Church of England, Classical Tripos, Council of the Senate, First World War, Adam Sedgwick, Gonville Hall, Great St Mary, Master of Peterhouse, Miss Davies, Prince Consort, Sidney Sussex, John Fisher, Matthew Parker New!
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- A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750 by Victor Morgan in Front Matter, and page 211
- Early Victorian Cambridge (Academic Profession Series) by D. A. Winstanley in Back Matter
- Oxford and Cambridge (Blue guide) by Mercia Mason in Back Matter
- Evidences of Christianity by William Paley on page 109
- International Law by Henry Sumner Maine on page 168
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- Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes (Woburn Education Series) by Pam Hirsch on page 168, page 190, and Back Matter
- History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe by Rodney Bolt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Alec Ryrie on page 165, and Back Matter
- From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics by Kevin C. Knox in Front Matter, and page 337
- Universities and the State in England, 1850-1939 (Woburn Education Series) by Keith Vernon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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