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      W. W. ROUSE BALL.

      Trinity College, Cambridge.

       January, 1918.

[vii] TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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Preface		v
Part I. Concerning Trinity College.
Chapter I.	The Foundation of Trinity College	3
Chapter II.	The Tutorial System	26
Chapter III.	The Westminster Scholars	48
Chapter IV.	The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates	71
Chapter V.	The College Chapel	84
Chapter VI.	Some College Treasures	104
Chapter VII.	The College Auditors	127
Chapter VIII.	Wren’s Designs for the Library	144
Chapter IX.	A Christmas Journey in 1319	154
Chapter X.	An Outline of the College Story	161
Part II. Concerning the University.
Chapter XI.	The Beginnings of the University	179
Chapter XII.	Discipline	194
Chapter XIII.	Newton’s Principia	225
Chapter XIV.	Newton on University Studies	244
Chapter XV.	The Mathematical Tripos	252
Index		317

[1] PART I. Concerning Trinity College.

[3] CHAPTER I. THE FOUNDATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE.

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      Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. To obtain a site for it, he suppressed King’s Hall and Michael-House, two medieval colleges which were built on or owned most of the ground now occupied by the Great Court, and with their revenues, largely augmented by property of dissolved monasteries, he endowed it. The scheme of the College and his objects in founding it are stated in his letters patent of 19 December 1546, and particulars of the income assigned by him to the foundation are set out in his charter of dotation dated 24 December 1546. These documents have been printed¹ and are readily accessible, but the history of the events leading up to the foundation of the College is less generally known. I cannot promise that the story in itself is interesting but the material facts have never before been brought together² so its telling is justified.

[4] After the dissolution of the monastic houses, anxiety was felt in Cambridge and Oxford lest they should suffer a similar fate. The policy of the suppression of the

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