The Cambridge University Calendar

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Benjamin Flower, 1818
 

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Page 262 - Park, in this county; who, by a will, dated 20th December, 1717, devised his estates in the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, and Suffolk, first to Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, and afterwards to other relations in succession, and in failure thereof to build and found a college in this University, upon a plan to be approved by the two Archbishops and the Masters of St.
Page 65 - MA, who composed the best Dissertation in the English Language, on the Evidences in general, or on the Prophecies or Miracles in particular, or on any other particular argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, in order to evince its truth and excellence.
Page 5 - 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 43 - Divinity of the age of 30 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, as may, in the opinion of the trustees, or any two of them, seem best or most proper to deserve or require an answer...
Page xi - All these • colleges or halls have been founded since the beginning of the reign of King f Edward I. and are maintained by the endowments of their several founders and benefactors. Each college is a body corporate, and bound by its own statutes ; but is likewise controuled by the paramount laws of the university.
Page 219 - 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 ahiding in the said college and university.
Page 72 - 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...
Page 136 - The Respondent mounts the rostrum, and reads a Latin dissertation, called a thesis, upon any one of the three questions he thinks proper; generally upon the third or moral question. As soon as the Respondent has finished his thesis, the Moderator calls upon the first opponent to appear.
Page 258 - College shall consist of a Master, two Professors (one of the Laws of England, and one of Medicine), at least six Fellows, and at least six Scholars.
Page 40 - ... done. Their plan is — 1st. To trace the history of national wealth from the rudest to the richest state of society, and to examine each change as it naturally arises in the progress of opulence and civilization ; 2dly.

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