UNIVERSITY CEREMONIES, &c. Caius College Commemoration of Mr Mickleburgh. Examination for the Moral Sciences Tripos commences. Ash-Wednesday. Litany Day, or else Concio ad Clerum. TH First Tripos Day. M T W 7 8 F First Sunday in Lent. Cambridge Lent Term divides at Midnight. Caius College Commemoration of Dr Branthwaite. Ember Day. Second Sunday in Lent. Voluntary Classical Examination of B. A. 22 F 23 S 24 JF 25 M Caius College Commemoration of Mr Wortley. AN ALMANAC, &c. St David. Fourth Sunday in Lent. Midlent Sunday. The Vice- Second Tripos Day. Statutable Congregations for M.A. Inceptors. Election of Bell's Scholars. Fifth Sunday in Lent. Fellows of St Jhn's Coollege elected. Cambridge Lent Term ends. S Oxford Lent Term ends. Sirth Sunday in Lent. Palm Sunday. Princess Louisa Carolina Alberta born, 1848. Good Friday. University Library is closed. Easter Sunday. Scarlet Day. Sermon at St Mary's in the Afternoon only. Anthem. Easter Monday. University Library closed on this and following day. Easter Tuesday. Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Founder's Day at King's College. Sermon in the Morning before the University at King's Chapel, by one of the Society. Commemoration of Foundation of Caius College. Library open from 10 o'clock till 4. Library closed on this and following day. First Sunday after Easter. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SACRA. DEUM TIMETO: REGEM HONORATO: VIRTUTEM COLITO: Stat. Acad. Cantab. THE UNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE is a society of students in all and every of the liberal arts and sciences, incorporated (13th Eliz. c. 29,) by the name of " The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge." This commonwealth is a union of seventeen colleges, or societies, devoted to the study of learning and knowledge, and for the better service of the Church and State. All these colleges1, or halls, have been founded since the beginning of the reign of King Edward I. and are maintained by the endowments of their several founders and benefactors. Each college is a body corporate, bound by its own statutes; but is likewise controlled by the paramount laws of the University. The present University Statutes were given by Queen Elizabeth in the 12th year of her reign, and, with the former privileges, were sanctioned by Parliament. They are the foundation upon which all new laws are framed. Each of the seventeen colleges, or departments, in this literary republic, furnishes members both for the executive and legislative branch of its government. The place of Assembly is the SenateHouse. All persons who are Masters of Arts, or Doctors in one or other of the three faculties, viz. Divinity, the Civil Law, or Physic, having their names upon the College-boards a sufficient time, have votes in this assembly. Those who erase their names from their respective College-boards, lose the privilege of Members of the Senate, unless they re-enter their names, and reside the greater part of three several Terms. The SENATE is divided into two Houses, denominated the Regents' and Non-Regents' House, with a view to particular 1 Colleges and Halls are synonymous here, though not so at Oxford. Thus Clare Hall is called "Collegium sive Domus, sive Aula de Clare." 2 The first authentic charter is said to be dated 45 Henry III. and to be found among the records in the Tower. 8 Those Bachelors in Divinity who are Members of the Senate, deduce their privilege from having previously taken the degree of M. A. duties allotted to the members of the Regents' House, by the Statutes of the University. Masters of Arts of less than five years' standing, and Doctors of less than two, compose the Regent or Upper House, or, WhiteHood House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the Non-Regent or lower house, otherwise called the Black-Hood House, from its members wearing black silk hoods. But Doctors of more than two years' standing, and the Public Orator of the University, may vote in either House, according to their pleasure. Besides the two Houses, there is a council called the Caput, chosen annually upon the 12th of October, by which every University Grace must be approved before it can be introduced to the Senate. The CAPUT consists of the Vice-Chancellor, a Doctor in each of the faculties, Divinity, Civil Law, and Physic, and two Masters of Arts, who are the representatives of the Regent and Non-Regent Houses. The Vice-Chancellor is a member of the Caput by virtue of his office. A few days before the beginning of each Term, the Vice-Chancellor publishes a list of the several days on which a Congregation or assembly of the Senate will be held for transacting University business; these fixed days occur once a fortnight; but in case of emergency, the Vice-Chancellor summons a Congregation for the dispatch of extraordinary affairs. There are also Statutable Congregations, or days of assembling, enjoined by the Statutes, for the ordinary routine of University affairs, such as conferring degrees, electing officers, &c. for which no notice is required. A Congregation may also be held without three days' previous notice, provided at least forty Members of the Senate be present at its first assembling, and twenty-five at the second. An assembly of the Senate held out of Term-time is called a Convocation: in such a case a Grace is immediately passed to convert the Convocation into a Congregation, after which the business proceeds in the ordinary manner. No degree is ever conferred without a Grace for that purpose. After the Grace has passed, the Vice-Chancellor is at liberty to confer the degree. The Grace in this instance is termed a Supplicat. Every degree must have been allowed, or passed, by the College to which the Candidate belongs. It is signed by the Prælector of the college to which the Candidate belongs, and the subscriber is made responsible for the assertion it contains. The penalty for subscribing a false Supplicat, is, "ipso facto," two years' deprivation of the privilege of voting in the Senate, or holding any public office in the University. Lib. Stat. p. 234. For every degree there is a proper form. The University confers no degree whatever, unless the Candidate has previously subscribed a declaration that he is bona fide a member of the Church of England, as by law established'. 1 This suffices for B.A., M.B., and LL.B.; but for other degrees it is necessary that persons should subscribe to the 36th Canon of the Church of England, inserted in the Registrary's Book. The executive branch of the University is committed to the following officers:— A CHANCELLOR, who is the head of the whole University, and presides over all cases relating to that body. In him is placed the sole executive authority within the precincts, except in matters of mayhem and felony. A HIGH STEWARD, who has special power to take the trial of scholars impeached of felony within the limits' of the University, and to hold and keep a leet according to the established charter and custom. He appoints a Deputy. A VICE-CHANCELLOR, who is elected annually on the 4th of November, by the Senate. His office, in the absence of the Chancellor, embraces the execution of the Chancellor's powers, and the government of the University according to her Statutes. He must, by an order of the Heads made in 1587, be the Head of some college; and during his continuance in office he acts as a magistrate for the University, Town and County. A COMMISSARY, who is an officer under the Chancellor, and appointed by him. He holds a court of record for all privileged persons and scholars under the degree of M.A. A PUBLIC ORATOR, who is the voice of the Senate upon all public occasions. He writes, reads, and records the letters to and from the body of the Senate, and presents to all honorary degrees with an appropriate speech. The ASSESSOR is an officer specially appointed, by Grace of the Senate, to assist the Vice-Chancellor in his court, in causis forensibus et domesticis. TWO PROCTORS, who are peace-officers, elected annually. It is their especial duty to attend to the discipline and behaviour of all persons in statu pupillari, to search houses of ill fame. Another part of their duty is to be present at all Congregations of the Senate, to read the Graces in the Regent-House, to take secretly the assent or dissent, and openly to pronounce the same. They must be Masters of Arts of two years' standing at the least; and, of whatever standing in the University, are Regents, by virtue of their office. They determine the seniority of all Masters of Arts at the annual Commencement. A LIBRARIAN, to whom the regulation and management of the University Library is confided. A REGISTRARY, who is obliged, either by himself, or by deputy properly authorized, to attend all Congregations, to give directions (if it be required) for the due form of such Graces as are to be propounded, to receive them when passed in both Houses, and to register them in the University records. Two TAXORS, who must be Masters of Arts, and are Regents by virtue of their office. They are appointed to regulate the markets, to examine the assize of bread, the lawfulness of weights 1 The jurisdiction of the University is a mile every way round, reckoning from any part of the suburbs. |