Early Collegiate Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-1-108-00044-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge

First published in 1913, John Venn's collection of writings describes college life in the early days of the University of Cambridge. Venn, a leading British logician and moral scientist, was president of Gonville and Caius College, and had been a student at Cambridge in the 1850s. This volume of 'reminiscences of a reading man' contains articles he contributed to the college magazine, The Caian and speeches and addresses given at College Chapel and Hall. These are interspersed with letters written by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge scholars, and embedded in a commentary that provides additional insights into student life and university politics. He also includes, as an appendix, 'College Life and Ways Sixty Years Ago', recounting his own student experiences. Ranging from the Elizabethan to the Victorian era, Early Collegiate Life offers an honest and delightful glimpse into the daily lives of Cambridge scholars of the past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Venn, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A college biographer's nightmare; 2. 'The memory of our benefactors'; 3. Motives and ideals of the early founders; 4. The college benefactor; 5. Pre-Reformation college life; 6. Monks in college; 7. An Elizabethan episode in English history; 8. Dr Caius; 9. The early undergraduate; 10. Academic 'sports'; 11. Undergraduate letters of the 17th century; 12. Letters of an eighteenth-century student; 13. College life and ways sixty years ago; Index.