The Portland daily press., 1899-11-22

of Its own, and the grounds and eiahorate
courts and chapels of each have their
own special characteristics.
Thers are plenty Of funetlonaries CON-
nected with the university, very dignifisd
men, who are delightei to give iuforma-
tion and initiate you into the modus oper.
andi of college existence. The university
is q home for all time for any Of Its
alumni, who, after graduation, are called
fellows and If possessed Of private means.
can live here pursuing whatever literary
or semitic vocation suits them best.
There are over twenty five colleges, each
having events of great interest connected
with Its past history.
Magadaleue College is noted for its Pepy-
Sian Building. which contains the rooms
of Samuel Pepys, who wio the strange
realistic diary. We were shown thess
rooms, In one Of which we saw the por-
trait of this eccentric man. We were not
able to examine his library In whch are
the books he wrote In kind Of cipher.
containing state secrets and the personal
and private affairs of the men OF his
time, on account of which had this diary
been discovered in his lifetime (1633-l t03)
and his audacious criticisms disclosed.
he would doubtless have suffered penal
servitude or been hung. But the latitude
in which he INDUCED, with regard to
noted people, did not come to light until
Lord Grenyille discovered the key in 1926,
when the author as well as the slandsrsd
individuals were all dead. 1t is said that
the history or Charles lis court could
not have besn written without this Diary.
Psterhouse or st. Peters is the oldest
college in Cambridge. founded in 1884.
Gray WAS one of its most famous mem
bers; he occupied rooms in the north side.
Iron bars ara still attached to the win
dows which Gray placed there to factli-
tate the use of a rope ladder in time of
fire.
Adjoining Peterhouss is the church of
St. Mary the Less. which used to serve
as the college chapel of Peterhouse. II
was Of the Decorated style Of the 18th CEN
tury, but has been greatly changed in iti
restoration. Opposite is Pembroke Col
lege, whose chapel was designed by Sir.
christopher Wren. When Queen Eliza
beth Grst saw this old institution she ex
claimed 30 dorlus antigua ct religicsa >
There ara interesting oloisters hsrs and
a mulberry tree in the Gsrden planted by
Speps.r who was q member OF Pembr oke.
Gray moved from Petsrhouse here and
Ridley and William Pitt and othfr dis
tinguished men ara among Its alumni.
Not far off is Quesn's College, founded
in 14is by Queen Margaret OF Anjou,
wife Of Henry VI, and completed BY
Elizabeth Wood vills. the wife Of Edward
~, two rival queens. the He'd Rose and
the White Rose. A quaint structur;
called the mathematical bridge leads into
the garden on the other side Of the Cam.
There is an ancient cloistsr-oours hsrs,
on the south side Of which Ia the Eras.
mus Court and, In the Erasmus Tower
the OH theologian lodged while u student
bers.
Oliver Cromwell was q member Of sgd
ney Sussex College and the best por,raii
OF him In existencs In found hers. Clsr;
College is Uhauoer's college and EmmAn
uel College occupies the site of house oi
the old Dominican Friar,
The glory OF Kings College Is Its ohape
which ls the crown of all the Cambridg,
buildings This Is Q fine Gothic structur'
built In the fifteenth century and II one
long vast nave with its frsttsd roof nnsus