Cambridge and its history - with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations (1912) (14597274257)

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Title: Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gray, Arthur, 1852-1940
Subjects: University of Cambridge Universities and colleges -- England History
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: OISE - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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nd conventional as themeekest freshmans. Among his Johnian acquaint-ances he had no friend capable of influencing him, andnone who interested him in after life or need interestus. He talked with his companions unprofitabletalk with no thought of the great issues that were thenbeing presented to the world or of the eternal problemsof existence. For all that he tells us in The Prelude,the fall of the Bastille, which happened in his secondLong Vacation, waked no echoes in the first court ofSaint Johns. The questions of the liberty of the in-dividual and the order of society which were stirringthe thoughts even of ordinary men seem to have leftWordsworth undisturbed. To him that dawn when itwas bliss to be alive and very heaven to be young didnot come until Cambridge days were done. In histhird Long Vacation (1790) he made a walking tour onthe Continent in company with a Welshman, namedJones, who afterwards became a fellow of Saint Johnsand settled in an Oxfordshire parsonage. Though they
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