The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05

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aits. He proceeded 70 endow Trinity Col
lego with the buildings and income yielding
lands OF tho two bodies whose corporate
life had been extinguished. additional
revenues being transferred from religious
houses recently dissolved. I'd
There Ia reason 10 believe that the aca-
demio life OF the students Of Kings Hall
was not interrupted by the merger OF that
institution In q larger society. 80 that In
fact the history OF Trinity College goes
back without a break to the days OF
Edward n. At first the members OF Kings
Hall occupied hired houses, but they we're
established by Edward III. In the building
known to Chauoer as Solar Hall. As this
was built OF wood the society In the last
quarter Of the fourteenth century erected
more substantial structures. Kings Hall
was an aristocratio foundation. and, almost
alone among medieval colleges, did not
require poverty as a qualification for menu
bership. Michael House, the other estab-
lishment absorbed by Trinity College. was
also founded in the reign Of Edward H.,
but It wa designed for the reception OF
a master and six poor scholars, and the
members were required to be In orders
within one year after their admission.
The students OF tho two houses can have
had but little In ommon
Almost from the beginning the new
college acquired the preponderance which
II has since retained In the university. AS
early as 1854 about a quarter OF the resi-
dents In Cambridge University we're mem-
bers of Trinity College. At present the
proportion IL about one to five. Thus In
the Miohaelmas term. 1905, the number OF
resident undergraduates, B. AS and higher
graduates In Trinity College were respec-
lively sos, 6s and 1856. while the figures
were but ASS. ses and e4s for the whole
university.
The original statutes Of Trinity College
regulated the daily life Of members in
minute detail. An undergraduate was ex-
peoted to rise at 4:30, and after saying his
private prayers 10 attend chapel service
| at s; he then adjourned to Hall for break
fast, during which meal Scripture was to
be read and ~expounded. From Q to . the
lessons learned on the previous day had to
be recited and those for the next day
learned. The subjects Of study at that
date for undergraduates were Latin, mathe-
MATES, dialeotios and philosophy, and for
Bachelors philosophy, perspective, astrono-
my and Greek. At 0 the students were
expected TO proceed to the public schools
50 called. either to hear lectures or attend
public disputations. Dinner was served
at IL, and at 1 the students returned to
attendance at the exercises OF the schools.
From 8 until 0 In the afternoon they were
at liberty to pursue their amusements or
their private studies; at Q they supped in
Hall, and Immediately afterward we're sup
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was nj evening service In ordinary days
until the reign Of James I.
By the reign Of James I. and the Master
ship OF Thomas Neville, the great recon-
structor of the college architecturally--
Whitgift. who was Master for ten years
preceding 1877, had revolutionized the
governing machinery Of the university
and enormously increased the powers OF
every college head-the manner Of life at
Trinity had come to differ In many respects
nom that Of medi@val times. Externally
spacious courts and handsome buildings
had replaced the small quadrangles and
dingy hostels of the earlier period. The
internal changes we're even more important.
Only a small proportion Of students other
than Fellows continued to reside after
graduation. Undergraduates (scholars and
pensioners) now formed the bulk Of the
residents, and at Trinity a considerable
proportion were sons not OF clergymen
but Of squires or merchants. The cost Of
the education Of a pensioner at Trinity in
the reign Of James 1. seems to have been
about E45 q year. Boys were still some
times admitted, but 10 wa a not unusual
age at which to men residence. The
actual instruction had by this time drifted
into the hands Of college officials, and
university exercises and lectures were,
with the exception of certain necessary
acts" neglected or treated as formalities.
The tutorial system was similar to that
now in force, except that any Fellow could,
subject to the approval Of the Master, take
pupils. As to discipline, serious breaches
Of rules were punished, so far as non -adults
were concerned, by corporal punishment,
and the Dean attended in hall TO see that
the birch was applied to such students,
and sometimes also to any lad who was
beginning to show himself too forward,
pragmatio and oonceited." The punish
ment OF older students seems to nave con =
sisted for the most part Of fines, imposi-
tons. being placed out of commons or
being confined to the walls of the college,
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ignominiously through the college on a
stang. or pole. In view of the part which
Cambridge men were to play in the great
rebellion it is to be noted that in the later
years Of Elizabeth and throughout the
reign of James I. the civil and religious
discussions of the day were keenly debated
in Trinity College. The majority Of the
senior Fellows we're moderate Anglicans,
but many Of the younger Fellows and
undergraduates preferred a Presbyterian
form OF government,
Especially interesting 10 the record o.
Trinity's distinguished sons. During the
ca rly part OF the seventeenth century the
college seems to have been especia lily favored
by prospective poets. Among these shoule
be pa rticula rly mentioned George Herbert
Fellow from 1914 to 1928; Abraham Cowley
Scholar, 1887, and subsequently Fellow, anc
Andrew Marvel, another Scholar, who era 3D.
uated B. A. In 1888. Dryden entered a few
veal rs later.
In 1912 the bulk Of the college plate we
sent to King Cha rles at his request, anc
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