By John Venn
First released in 1913, John Venn's number of writings describes university existence within the early days of the collage of Cambridge. Venn, a number one British philosopher and ethical scientist, used to be president of Gonville and Caius university, and were a scholar at Cambridge within the 1850s. This quantity of 'reminiscences of a studying guy' comprises articles he contributed to the varsity journal, The Caian and speeches and addresses given in school Chapel and corridor. those are interspersed with letters written by way of 17th- and eighteenth-century Cambridge students, and embedded in a observation that gives extra insights into pupil lifestyles and college politics. He additionally contains, as an appendix, 'College lifestyles and methods Sixty Years Ago', recounting his personal scholar studies. starting from the Elizabethan to the Victorian period, Early Collegiate lifestyles bargains a decent and pleasant glimpse into the day-by-day lives of Cambridge students of the earlier.
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Who resided in the College for some two years about this time. Poxe, in his Booh of Martyrs, has something to say about him, as he was deprived of his living for his opinions, and imprisoned for two years in the Lollards' Tower at Lambeth.
Our buildings were largely due to such men. Some belonged to the well-known medieval class of statesmen Bishops, men immersed in political affairs at home and abroad. William Bateman, of Norwich, who carried out and added to Gonville's bequest; the lordly De Spencer already mentioned; Colton, the famous Archbishop; Lynwood of St. David's, the greatest canonist, belonged to this class. Such men were deeply devoted to the encouragement of sound learning and religious education, and to securing this by training up young men for the service of the Church and the State.
But the men of that day knew better. " It is this personal element which is so interesting and so characteristic of early times. Each benefactor felt a keen sympathy with those whom he proposed to benefit; each of the latter in turn knew exactly who it was whom he had to thank. In very many cases the gift was probably the outcome of a keen recollection of discomforts and privations experienced in their own youth. Nowadays much of our charity, as of our social efforts in general, is carried on almost impersonally, through some agency or other.
