The Cambridge University Calendar

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Benjamin Flower, 1830
 

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Page 74 - ... college according to the cycle of Proctors, but the appointment shall be made by the University. Or if the Public Orator or the Greek Professor shall be prevented by illness or otherwise from attending the examination, or if the colleges shall have neglected to signify to the Vice-Chancellor the appointment of the electors according to their respective turns, then Deputies shall be appointed by Grace. 3. — The first examination commenced...
Page 22 - 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 47 - 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 177 - ... them are members of the same College); upon this clear understanding, that in the exercise of the powers thus to be vested in them, they shall so limit the examination, that every one who is to be examined may be reasonably expected to shew a competent knowledge of all the subjects.
Page 298 - ... by the students of this college, in the following order : One medal of 15 guineas for the best Latin Dissertation on some evidence of Christianity; another of 15 guineas for the best English Composition on some Moral Precept of the Gospel ; and one of 10...
Page 54 - MA; — and the other two are open to all Undergraduates who shall have resided not less than seven terms at the time when the exercises are to be sent in. The subjects...
Page 40 - After having taken an actual survey of almost every thing curious in the kingdom on such subjects, he contrived a mode of .exhibiting the operations and processes that are in use in nearly all of them. Having provided himself with a number of brass wheels of all forms and sizes, such that any two of them can work with each other ; and also with a variety of axles, bars, screws, clamps, &c.
Page 370 - On the 22d of September 1800, the Great Seal was affixed to the Charter by Lord Loughborough. By this Charter the college is incorporated, with all the privileges belonging to any college in the university, and endowed with the estate devised by the founder with a power to hold landed property (in addition thereto) to the value of £1,500.
Page 5 - The executive branch of the University is committed to the following officers:— A. CHANCELLOR, who is the head of the whole University, and presides over all cases relative to that body.
Page 374 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described upon the side subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares described upon the sides which contain the right angle.

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