Synopses & Reviews
The third of a major four-volume series on the history of the University of Cambridge.
Review
"...it will give a great deal of pleasure to readers..." W.R. Ward, Journal of Modern History
Table of Contents
General editor's preface; Introduction; 1. Townscape and University: topographical change; 2. The University: its constitution, personnel and tasks; 3. Colleges: buildings, masters and fellows; 4. Colleges: tutors, bursars and money; 5. Mathematics, law and medicine; 6. Science and other studies; 7. Religion in the University: its rituals and significance; 8. The orthodox and latitudinarian traditions, 1700-1800; 9. Cambridge religion 1780-1840: evangelicanism; 10. Cambridge religion: the mid-Victorian years; 1. The University as a political institution, 1750-1815; 12. The background to University reform, 1830-50; 13. Cambridge and reform, 1815-1870; 14. The Graham Commission and its aftermath; 15. The undergraduate experience, I: Philip Yorke and the Wordsworths; 16. The undergraduate experience, II: Charles Astor Bristed and William Everett; 17. The undergraduate experience, III: William Thomson; 18. Games for gownsmen: walking, athletics, boating and ball games; 19. Leisure for town and gown: music, debating and drama; Appendices; Bibliography.