HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND ITS COLLEGES; IN A LETTER TO THE EARL OF RADNOR. BY BENJAMIN DANN WALSH, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. But very insufficiently has the nation been instructed, how much further good SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY AND SONS, PICCADILLY. CONTENTS. General ignorance on the subject: its causes Objections to a Commission of Enquiry :- PAGE 1st. The mustn't argument 2nd. The needn't argument HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, AND ITS COLLEGES. MY LORD, I HAVE been induced to throw together the following account of our University and Colleges, in consequence of perusing the debate on the second reading of your Bill "for appointing Commissioners to enquire respecting the statutes, &c." of the latter bodies. So very little information seemed to have been obtained by the speakers on that question, respecting the matter then under discussion,* that I was led to think, that a plain and temperate statement of facts might not be without its use. And indeed we can scarcely wonder at the condition of our Colleges and Universities having been misunderstood, when we consider, that the old bar *To go no further than the speeches in favour of the Bill, it was alleged of Trinity College alone, that poverty was the principal statutable requisite for obtaining a fellowship; that the senior fellows had unjustly appropriated double fellowships to themselves; and that the junior fellows netted upwards of £300 per annum, which is just half as much again as I myself have ever had the luck to receive. B |