The Cambridge University Calendar

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Benjamin Flower, 1823
 

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Page 25 - A course of Lectures, containing a description and systematic arrangement of the several branches of Divinity, accompanied with an account both of the principal authors, and of the progress which has been made at different periods, in Theological learning.
Page 158 - Annuities, to be had and held by them the said Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars, and their successors for ever, upon the trusts and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared touching and concerning the same.
Page 138 - That the subjects of examination shall be one of the four Gospels or the Acts of the Apostles in the original Greek, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, one of the Greek and one of the Latin Classics.
Page 65 - That if the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Professor of Hebrew, the Professor of Arabic, or any two of them, shall be members of the same college, no elector shall in that case be appointed by that college according to the cycle of Proctors; but the appointment shall be made by a Grace of the Senate.
Page 40 - Trustees for this benefaction,) or any two of them, seem best or most proper to deserve or require an answer, whether the same be ancient or modern objections, but chiefly such as are most modern, and especially such as have appeared in the English language of late years against Christianity, and which may not seem to have received a full and sufficient answer, if any such there shall be, unto the year preceding his election; as likewise...
Page 1 - The frame of this little commonwealth standeth upon the 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...
Page 7 - To attend the Doctors present in the Regent House, by bringing them to open scrutiny, there to deliver their suffrages either by word or writing, according to the order of the...
Page 40 - Divinity, of the age of thirty years, and resident in the university ; who is to compose yearly, whilst in office, some proper and judicious answer or answers every year, to all such new and popular, or other cavils and objections, against the Christian or revealed religion, or against the religion of nature...
Page 6 - A PUBLIC ORATOR, who is the voice of the Senate upon all public occasions, writes, reads, and records the letters to and from the body of the Senate, and presents to all honorary degrees with an appropriate speech. This is esteemed one of the most honourable offices in the gift of the University.
Page 67 - That if the Regius Professor of Hebrew, or the Professor of Arabic, or both of them, shall decline or be prevented from examining, a deputy or deputies shall be appointed by a Grace of the Senate.

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