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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Beautiful Britain--Cambridge, by Gordon Home This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Beautiful Britain--Cambridge Author: Gordon Home Release Date: July 8, 2004 [eBook #12857] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN--CAMBRIDGE*** E-text prepared by Ted Garner, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team 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
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