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id: 12857
author: Home, Gordon
title: Cambridge
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  The public are unable to see the fine interior with its beautiful dining- and drawing-rooms and the interesting collection of college portraits hanging there, but they can see the famous oriel window built in 1843 with a contribution of Â£1,000 from Alexander Beresford-Hope. DOWNING.--The remaining colleges belong to the period we may call recent.


id: 43764
author: Stubbs, Charles William
title: Cambridge and Its Story
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  A few chosen Englishmen, it is true, pilgrim scholars they were called--William Grey, Bishop of Ely, John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, Thomas Linacre, William Grocyn stand out perhaps most conspicuously--were drawn to Italy by the rumours of the marvellous treasures rescued from monastic lumber rooms, or conveyed over seas by fugitive Greeks, but they returned to England to find that there was little they could do except to bequeath the books and manuscripts they had collected to an Oxford or a Cambridge College, and hope for happier times when scholars would be found to read them. The mention of the name of that most masterful of Yorkshiremen and most brilliant of Cambridge scholars and critics inevitably suggests the picture of that long feud between the Fellows of Trinity and their Master which lasted for nearly half a century, for a year at any rate longer than the Peloponnesian war, and was almost as full of exciting incidents.


id: 42247
author: Gooch, Richard
title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars
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  (_Lort_ was his Christian name.) The finances of the latter obliged him to leave Cambridge _without_ a degree; after he had been assistant at Harrow, had a school at Stanmore, and been head master of the grammar school at Colchester, and had become head master of that of Norwich, they remained so low that once looking upon a small library, says Mr. Field, in his Life of the Doctor, his eye was caught by the title, 'Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ,' turning suddenly about, and striking violently the arm of the person whom he addressed, in a manner very unusual with him, 'Ah!


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  adjunximus assertionem antiquitatis oxoniensis academiæ ab oxoniensi quodam annis jam elapsis duobus


