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... senior members of the University were not in residence ; and of undergraduate - life we hear next to nothing , and that little not from personal observation . Soon after his arrival in Cambridge , —that wretched town which he described ...
... senior members of the University were not in residence ; and of undergraduate - life we hear next to nothing , and that little not from personal observation . Soon after his arrival in Cambridge , —that wretched town which he described ...
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... senior sophs and questionists to adopt the New- tonian philosophy in the exercises for their bachelor's degree . I have shewn already in my University Life ( pp . 83—87 ) that at the close of the eighteenth century a large number of ...
... senior sophs and questionists to adopt the New- tonian philosophy in the exercises for their bachelor's degree . I have shewn already in my University Life ( pp . 83—87 ) that at the close of the eighteenth century a large number of ...
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... senior sophs , Tacquet's Euclid ' , Rohault's Physics . 1737. St John's , Camb . Logic . 1738 . Ch . Ch . Oxon . Puffendorf . 1747. Trin . Coll . Camb . Cicero de Officiis . 1752. Magd . Oxon . Terence for freshmen daily . 1755. Trin ...
... senior sophs , Tacquet's Euclid ' , Rohault's Physics . 1737. St John's , Camb . Logic . 1738 . Ch . Ch . Oxon . Puffendorf . 1747. Trin . Coll . Camb . Cicero de Officiis . 1752. Magd . Oxon . Terence for freshmen daily . 1755. Trin ...
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... senior optime in 1790 , being two places below John Tweddell . James Scarlett ( Lord Abinger , Exchequer Baron ) of Trinity , who took his degree in that same year , though not in honours , is said by Peacock ( Statutes , p . 71 n ...
... senior optime in 1790 , being two places below John Tweddell . James Scarlett ( Lord Abinger , Exchequer Baron ) of Trinity , who took his degree in that same year , though not in honours , is said by Peacock ( Statutes , p . 71 n ...
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... Senior Proctor ' to be witty but modest withall . ' Whether it was the contempt for cere- monies which was rife in England in the Reformation period , or the example of the royal patron of Ignoramus ( who would , dictated orally by the ...
... Senior Proctor ' to be witty but modest withall . ' Whether it was the contempt for cere- monies which was rife in England in the Reformation period , or the example of the royal patron of Ignoramus ( who would , dictated orally by the ...
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