The Cambridge University Calendar

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Benjamin Flower, 1845
 

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Page 362 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 259 - To most of the preceding appropriations, however, is added the following or a similar limitation :— " If any such person in learning and manners be found, and virtuous and disposed to learning," &c. and in default of these qualifications, then the said Fellows to be chosen of such persons " as be most singular in manners and learning, of what county soever they be, and be then abiding in the said college and University.
Page 135 - The trustees and electors of Mr Hulse's bequest are, the Vice-Chancellor for the time being, the Master of Trinity college, and the Master of St John's college. If the Master of Trinity or St John's be Vice-Chancellor, the Greek Professor supplies his place. The Bishop of Ely is visitor, with power to determine, in reason and equity, in all disputes.
Page 141 - 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 252 - ... 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 guineas to the most distinct and graceful reader in, and regular attendant at. Chapel.
Page 326 - If one side of a triangle be produced, the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior, and opposite angles.
Page 207 - College of Physicians, The Treasurer of Lincoln's Inn, The Master of the Charterhouse, The Governors of the Royal Hospital of Chelsea and of the Royal Hospital of Greenwich, are the Electors.
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 185 - In 1835, a magnificent telescope, of nearly twelve inches aperture and twenty feet focal length, made by M. Cauchoix of Paris, was presented to the Observatory by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland...
Page 11 - ... in conformity with the conditions of their foundation. They are for the most part elected, by direct examination or otherwise, at different periods subsequent to the commencement of their residence at the University, from the most promising and distinguished of the Students.

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