The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . sattended by an older person ; and they were specially forbiddento indulge in the habitual amusements of young men of the , bowls, and archery being among the permitted exer-cises, we shall find that provision was made for them, especiallyfor the two former. Of the sixteen Cambridge colleges, nine had tennis-courts,thirteen had bowling-greens, and eight had both. Peterhousehad a tennis-court; Clare Hall a bowling-green; PembrokeCollege a bowling-green1; Gonville and Caius College2 an
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . sattended by an older person ; and they were specially forbiddento indulge in the habitual amusements of young men of the , bowls, and archery being among the permitted exer-cises, we shall find that provision was made for them, especiallyfor the two former. Of the sixteen Cambridge colleges, nine had tennis-courts,thirteen had bowling-greens, and eight had both. Peterhousehad a tennis-court; Clare Hall a bowling-green; PembrokeCollege a bowling-green1; Gonville and Caius College2 and 1 [The tennis-court at Pembroke College has been omitted from this enumeration,because, so far as we are aware, it was always let on lease; and the ground on which itstood was not hired by the college until 1609, by which time the court had probablybeen already built.] 2 [No bowling-green is marked on Loggans map or print for this college; but thelawn in the Fellows Garden in front of the Perse Building, as shewn in his print, looksas though it were intended to be used as a bowling-green.] EN the collegiate system was fully developed, itwas intended, at least at Cambridge—to which thisessay must be in the main restricted—that theinmates of each house should find within the pre- 568 THE TENNIS-COURT, ETC. Trinity Hall neither; Corpus Christi College, Kings College,and Queens College, both; S. Catharines Hall, a bowling-green ; Jesus College, Christs College, and S. Johns College,both; Magdalene College, a bowling-green; Trinity College andEmmanuel College, both; Sidney Sussex College, a bowling-green. The tennis-courts have all been pulled down ; but abowling-green still exists at the following colleges: Pembroke,Queens, Jesus, Christs, S. Johns, Trinity, Emmanuel, SidneySussex. Besides the provision made for games, it will be desirableto notice more fully than was possible in the separate historiessome other adjuncts to colleges; such as the gardens, thesummer-house
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