Preparation of a strictly limited number of the son of gentlemen only, for CAMBRIDGE or the ARMY. Wrangler, late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, Educated at, and, for a time, an Assistant Master at Eton, Receives a few Resident and Non-Resident Pupils reading fo Cambridge or the Army. Special preparation for the General and Previous Examinations at Cambridge. Terms will be sent on application for a Prospectus, which should be made in the first instance to CAPTAIN F. S. DUMARESQ DE CARTERET-BISSON, Office for "Our Schools and Colleges," BERNERS CHAMBERS, BERNERS STREET, LONDON, W. OUR UNIVERSITIES. THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. THIS University, which is supposed to have been founded in the seventh century, is a corporation comprising students in Arts and Sciences, deriving its present legal existence from a charter of Queen Elizabeth (13 Eliz. c. 9), under the denomination or name of "The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge." Its early charters were lost or destroyed during the rebellion of Wat Tyler; but its first authentic charter, which was granted about fifty years after the foundation of its oldest CollegePeterhouse, now better known as St. Peter's College-is said to be dated 45 Henry III., and is to be found among the records of the Tower. Its authority as a University is now derived from the Charter of Queen Elizabeth, together with the "New Statutes," which were confirmed by Her Majesty in Council, July 31st, 1858. The University includes seventeen Colleges and Halls, or, to speak more correctly, sixteen Colleges and one Hall; although, as a matter of fact, Colleges and Halls at Cambridge are synonymous and not different, as is the case at Oxford. These Colleges have all been founded since the beginning of the reign of Edward I., and they are maintained principally by the endowments of their several founders and benefactors. Each College is a separate corporate body, possessing its own statutes, governed by its own regulations, and entirely distinct from the University, although their several members, whether Graduates or Undergraduates, are also members of the University, and, as such, are subject to its paramount laws and regulations. In addition to becoming a member of the University by joining one of the Colleges, a new system, or mode, of doing so, has recently been established. A person who desires to become a Student of the University, without becoming a member of any College, can now do so by entering the University directly as an "Unattached," or "Non-Collegiate," Student. This method of passing through the ordinary academic curriculum, and of subsequently obtaining a Degree, involves far less expense, and is resorted to by a large number of those whose means do not permit the luxury, and consequent increase in expense, resulting to those who enter at one of the Colleges. Non-Collegiate Students have exactly the same privileges as other Undergraduates, so far as the University is conThese Stucerned, and proceed to Degrees in precisely the same manner. dents are controlled and superintended by a permanent Syndicate, appointed by the Senate of the University, called the " Board for the Regulation of Unattached Students; " its executive officer (whose position is analogous to that of a College Tutor), being designated the Censor. The governing body of the University is the Senate, which is composed of all persons who are Masters of Arts, or Law, or Doctors in one of the three faculties, viz., Divinity, Law, or Physic, having their names on the University Register. The Senate elect the more important officers of the University, including the Chancellor, the Lord High Steward, and the Representatives in Parliament. The appointment of many of its officials, however, as well as the transaction of the greater part of the University business, rests with a more select body, called the "Electoral Roll." This is a list of persons which is published annually, in the Michaelmas Term of each year, and is composed of all members of the Senate who have resided within the jurisdiction of the University, i.e., within a mile and a-half of Great St. Mary's Church, for fourteen weeks at least between the first day of that Michaelmas Term and the first day of the preceding Michaelmas Term, together with all officers of the University, being Members of the Senate, Heads of Houses, Professors, and Public Examiners. All matters which are submitted to the Senate take the form of resolutions called Graces, which possess generally the force of Statutes; but before any Grace can be submitted to the Senate, it must have previously received the "sanction of the Council." This "Council of the Senate," as it is called, consists of the Chancellor (who, however, seldom acts), the Vice-Chancellor (who is the presiding officer of the University in the absence of the Chancellor), four Heads of Houses, four Professors, and eight other members of the Senate chosen from the Electoral Roll; the election of two Heads of Houses, two Professors, and four other members of the Senate taking place biennially. OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY. Chancellor.-WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, Trinity S. John's LL.D., High Steward.-Edward James Herbert, Earl of Powis, LL.D., Elected. 1860 Vice-Chancellor.-The Rev. J. Porter, D.D., Master of St. Peter's Commissary.-William Forsyth, M.A., M.P., Trinity 1864 College......... ... 1881 1868 Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, 1868 1882 Deputy High Steward.- Francis Barlow, M.A., Trinity Hall 1856 1876 Registrary.-Henry Richards Luard, B.D., Trinity 1862 Librarian.-Henry Bradshaw, M.A., King's 1867 Counsel.-G. W. Hemming, M. A., Q.C., Trinity 1875 Proctors. Rev. F. Gunton, M.A., Magdalen. Rev. J. C. Saunders, M.A., Downing 1883 Esquire Bedells.-A. P. Humphry, M.A. F. C. Wace, M.A..... Elected. 1877 1505 Christ's. Edward Atkinson, D.D., Master Sir H. S. Maine, LL.D., Master 1448 Queen's......... George Phillips, D.D., President 1511 S. John's 1519 Magdalene 1546 Trinity 1584 Emmanuel ... 1598 Sidney Sussex. 1873 Cavendish...... John Cox, M.A., Warden 1800 Downing 1882 Selwyn Hon. and Rev. A. T. Lyttleton, M.A... 1832 Professors. 1502 Lady Margaret of Divinity C. A. Swainson, D.D., Christ's ...... 1879 1540 Regius of Divinity B. H. Kennedy, D.D., S. John's...... 1867 1870 Professor Robertson Smith. J. Dewar, M.A., St. Peter's 1873 1858 1879 1875 1860 P. W. Latham, M.D., Downing.... 1874 |