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- Frontmatter
- DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES
- DESCRIPTION OF THE WOODCUTS
- LIST OF SIGNATURES
- ERRATA
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY
- THE FIRST MILESTONE FROM CAMBRIDGE
- THE APPROACH AND PRINCIPAL AVENUE
- THE WALKS
- THE INSTALLATION IN 1835
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. I
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. II; COLLEGE HISTORIES
- A DREAM OF THE POETS
- MEMORIAL OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
- FOVNDERS. I
- THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
- THE GOGMAGOGS
- TRINITY COLLEGE CHAPEL
- ON THE ANCIENT AMUSEMENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
- A LEGEND OF THE HILLS
- SIGHED ON KING'S BRIDGE. OCT. 1838
- THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
- MUSEUM OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
- NOTICE OF WILLUGHBY
- THE BOAT-RACE
- NEVILLE'S COURT
- CRITIQUE ON GRAY
- AN INDEPENDENT TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HON WILLIAM PITT
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. III: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- FOVNDERS. II
- PORTRAITURE OF DR. CAIUS
- THE UNION DEBATING SOCIETY
- ALABASTER
- CLARE HALL
- ORGANS
- POSTSCRIPT TO THE LEGEND OF THE HILLS
- ANECDOTES
- MILTON'S MULBERRY TREE
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
- The Cambridge Portfolio pp. 216-236
- VOCABULARY. I
- DR. LEGGE
- READING PARTIES
- THE CAM
- ANCIENT BRICK
- THE WOODWARDIAN MUSEUM
- THE COLLEGE COURSE
- THE CLUBS OF CAMBRIDGE
- OLD PLATE
- THE GARDEN AND COURTS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
- Plate section
- Frontmatter
- DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES
- DESCRIPTION OF THE WOODCUTS
- LIST OF SIGNATURES
- ERRATA
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY
- THE FIRST MILESTONE FROM CAMBRIDGE
- THE APPROACH AND PRINCIPAL AVENUE
- THE WALKS
- THE INSTALLATION IN 1835
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. I
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. II; COLLEGE HISTORIES
- A DREAM OF THE POETS
- MEMORIAL OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
- FOVNDERS. I
- THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
- THE GOGMAGOGS
- TRINITY COLLEGE CHAPEL
- ON THE ANCIENT AMUSEMENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY
- A LEGEND OF THE HILLS
- SIGHED ON KING'S BRIDGE. OCT. 1838
- THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
- MUSEUM OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
- NOTICE OF WILLUGHBY
- THE BOAT-RACE
- NEVILLE'S COURT
- CRITIQUE ON GRAY
- AN INDEPENDENT TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HON WILLIAM PITT
- SOURCES OF HISTORY. III: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- FOVNDERS. II
- PORTRAITURE OF DR. CAIUS
- THE UNION DEBATING SOCIETY
- ALABASTER
- CLARE HALL
- ORGANS
- POSTSCRIPT TO THE LEGEND OF THE HILLS
- ANECDOTES
- MILTON'S MULBERRY TREE
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES
- The Cambridge Portfolio pp. 216-236
- VOCABULARY. I
- DR. LEGGE
- READING PARTIES
- THE CAM
- ANCIENT BRICK
- THE WOODWARDIAN MUSEUM
- THE COLLEGE COURSE
- THE CLUBS OF CAMBRIDGE
- OLD PLATE
- THE GARDEN AND COURTS OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE
- Plate section
Summary
The complaint has sometimes been made, and not without reason, against the situation of our University, that it is placed in the most open and desolate part of one of our least interesting counties. Whether this circumstance is accidental, or whether it is to be accounted as one of the standing monuments of the “wisdom of our forefathers,” we are not prepared to determine; but certain it is, that the desolate appearance of the surrounding country has a marvellous influence in chaining the flighty spirits of our students to the spot intended for their study; and they become more than ordinarily attached to the “brown o'er arching groves” of the Colleges, for lack of other and greater attractions in the neighbourhood.
The same argument is equally applicable, in the case of our University, to its position and appearance in regard to the Town of Cambridge. For if the vicinity to a lately uninclosed dull and unplanted champaign give additional beauty to the walks and wood at the backs of our Colleges, most assuredly their fronts are not less indebted to the foil afforded them by one of the most irregular ill-arranged and ill-built towns in the land.
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- The Cambridge Portfolio , pp. 5 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1840