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Title: Beautiful Britain--Cambridge

Author: Gordon Home

Release Date: July 8, 2004 [eBook #12857]

Language: English

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BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN--CAMBRIDGE

By Gordon Home

[Illustration: THE OLD GATEWAY OF KING'S COLLEGE

This is now the Entrance to the University Library. At the end of the
short street is part of the north side of King's College Chapel.]

CONTENTS

PAGE CHAPTER

3 I. SOME COMPARISONS
6 II. EARLY CAMBRIDGE
15 III. THE GREATER COLLEGES
35 IV. THE LESSER COLLEGES
51 V. THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, THE SENATE HOUSE, THE
PITT PRESS, AND THE MUSEUMS
57 VI. THE CHURCHES IN THE TOWN

64 INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE ILLUSTRATION

Frontispiece 1. THE OLD GATEWAY OF KING'S COLLEGE
17 2. THE LIBRARY WINDOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE
24 3. IN THE CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL
33 4. THE ENTRANCE GATEWAY OF TRINITY COLLEGE
40 5. THE GATE OF HONOUR, CAIUS COLLEGE
49 6. THE OLD COURT IN EMMANUEL COLLEGE
56 7. THE CIRCULAR NORMAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY
SEPULCHRE
On the cover 8. THE "BRIDGE OF SIGHS," ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE

CHAPTER I

SOME COMPARISONS

"..._and so at noon with Sir Thomas Allen, and Sir Edward Scott and
Lord Carlingford, to the Spanish Ambassador's, where I dined the first
time.... And here was an Oxford scholar, in a Doctor of Laws'
gowne.... And by and by he and I to talk; and the company very merry
at my defending Cambridge against Oxford._"--PEPYS' _Diary_ (May 5,
1669).

In writing of Cambridge, comparison with the great sister university
seems almost inevitable, and, since it is so usual