The Cambridge University CalendarBenjamin Flower, 1814 |
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Page 6 - In this court, all causes are tried and determined by the civil and statute law, and by the custom of the University.
Page 45 - Sects amongst Christians themselves, except some new or dangerous error, either of Superstition or Enthusiasm, as of Popery, or Methodism, either in opinion or practice, shall prevail. In which case only it may be necessary, for that time, to write or to reason against the same; and such treatise or treatises to be every year printed...
Page 9 - CONSISTORY COURT OF THE CHANCELLOR. In this Court, the Chancellor, and in his absence the Vice-Chancellor, with the assistance of some of the Heads of colleges, and one Doctor or more of the Civil Law, administers justice desired by any member of the university, or by any requiring the same to be put in execution against any of that body, in matters and causes belonging to this court.
Page 39 - He treats likewise on subjects which relate to the carrying on, or facilitating the commerce of the country, such as inland navigation, the construction of bridges', aqueducts, locks, inclined planes, and other contrivances, by which vessels are raised or lowered from one level to another — of ships, docks, harbours, and naval architecture.
Page 76 - The sum of £1000. given by the subscribers to Mr. Pitt's Statue, for the purpose of founding the Pitt Scholarship, and which has since been augmented by a donation of £500. from the Pitt Club in London, shall be placed in the public funds, until the Syndics shall be able to vest it in land ; and the clear annual income arising from it shall be paid to the Pitt Scholar.
Page 2 - Doctors of more than two years' standing, and the Public Orator of the University, may vote in either house, according to their pleasure. Besides the two houses, there is a council called the Caput...
Page 7 - 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 honorable offices in the gift of the university.
Page 8 - ... to receive from the Vice-Chancellor and the rest of the Caput, the Graces delivered unto them, and to deliver them first to the Scrutators in the Lower House, and from thence, if they be granted, to carry them to the Proctors in the Upper House...
Page 78 - ... epistle, he shall be considered as incapable of being elected at that time. 6. — The Pitt Scholar shall not hold any other University Scholarship. 7. — Every Scholar shall, during the time of his holding this Scholarship, reside the major part of each term ; and if he shall not have kept such residence, he shall vacate his Scholarship, unless he has been prevented by illness or any other cause which shall be approved of by the Vice-Chancellor, the Public Orator, and the Greek Professor.
Page 62 - Hall, bequeathed to the University the rents of his Kislingbury estate, now producing clear £40. per annum, to be given yearly to that Master of Arts who shall write the best English Poem on a sacred subject. The Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Clare Hall, and the Greek Professor (who are the disposers of this premium) determine the subject, which is delivered out...