Early Collegiate Life

A personal anthology of articles, letters and commentary describing college life in the early days of the University of Cambridge.

John Venn (Author)

9781108000444, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

300 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

First published in 1913, John Venn's collection of writings describes college life in the early days of the University of Cambridge. Venn, a leading British logician and moral scientist, was president of Gonville and Caius College, and had been a student at Cambridge in the 1850s. This volume of 'reminiscences of a reading man' contains articles he contributed to the college magazine, The Caian and speeches and addresses given at College Chapel and Hall. These are interspersed with letters written by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge scholars, and embedded in a commentary that provides additional insights into student life and university politics. He also includes, as an appendix, 'College Life and Ways Sixty Years Ago', recounting his own student experiences. Ranging from the Elizabethan to the Victorian era, Early Collegiate Life offers an honest and delightful glimpse into the daily lives of Cambridge scholars of the past.

1. A college biographer's nightmare
2. 'The memory of our benefactors'
3. Motives and ideals of the early founders
4. The college benefactor
5. Pre-Reformation college life
6. Monks in college
7. An Elizabethan episode in English history
8. Dr Caius
9. The early undergraduate
10. Academic 'sports'
11. Undergraduate letters of the 17th century
12. Letters of an eighteenth-century student
13. College life and ways sixty years ago
Index.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]