Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ins an unfortunate torso, asKings once did. But, in spite of its diminishedopportunities, it has taken a place in the family ofcolleges which is honourable and unique. By thetwo professorships attached to it, Downing has gotan impress distinct from any other college, and inlaw and medicine it may reasonably boast of manydistinguished names. The Regius Professorshipswhich Henry VIII linked with Trinity, no doubt,gave the suggestion for the similar connection atDowning. Recent
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ins an unfortunate torso, asKings once did. But, in spite of its diminishedopportunities, it has taken a place in the family ofcolleges which is honourable and unique. By thetwo professorships attached to it, Downing has gotan impress distinct from any other college, and inlaw and medicine it may reasonably boast of manydistinguished names. The Regius Professorshipswhich Henry VIII linked with Trinity, no doubt,gave the suggestion for the similar connection atDowning. Recent legislation has extended the prin-ciple, while admitting some latitude of choice, to allthe colleges of the University; and at this daynobody will question that the advantage given to thecolleges by their association with the professoriate iseven greater than the gain to the University by theemployment of fellowships as a subvention to itsteaching fimds. With Downing ends the series of Cambridge is likely that the future development of the Uni-versity will be mainly on the lines of college organisation. THE REFORMED COLLEGES 127 as first laid down by Balsham, But the last fifty yearshave witnessed departures which, though new to oiu:times, are in reality a reversion to the practice ofan age earlier than Balshams. The non-collegiatesystem, established in 1869, presents some, but not all,of the features of university life in its primitive hostels, public and private, which have establishedthemselves from time to time since the statutes of1858 in their loose attachment to the Universityrecall the hospicia of the thirteenth century, of whichthe colleges were a development, but they adaptthemselves to students of another type than the hosteller of the Middle Ages. In the theologicalcolleges of various denominations which tend to gatherabout the University nucleus it is not fanciful to seea resemblance to the houses of monk and friar whichderived advantage from
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