Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ates of other Universities Clareshowed a liberality which was generally unknown ahundred years ago. The constitution of Peterhouse,we feel, is capable of development. Michaelhouseand Kings Hall are pure medievalities which arebound to disappear, with the rest of the old regime,when the axe of Reformation is laid to the Universitytree. Clare has anticipated reform. That is becausethe University had some hand in shaping its statutes. A review of the ordinances laid down for the
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . ates of other Universities Clareshowed a liberality which was generally unknown ahundred years ago. The constitution of Peterhouse,we feel, is capable of development. Michaelhouseand Kings Hall are pure medievalities which arebound to disappear, with the rest of the old regime,when the axe of Reformation is laid to the Universitytree. Clare has anticipated reform. That is becausethe University had some hand in shaping its statutes. A review of the ordinances laid down for the fourcolleges so far established, leaves the impressionthat as yet the University hardly understands what itwants—at least that benefactors, as happens evennowadays, have not always a clear idea how they maybest help the University. Stantons notions arepurely clerical, and his scholars are all to be Peterhouse the scholars must have received clericaltonsure, but they are not required to take the higherorders, and there is a limited tolerance of Law andMedicine. At Clare only six of the nineteen fellows. THE FIRST COLLEGES 45 arc to be in priests orders, and Arts are preferred toany other study. There is no agreement aboutendowments for the undergraduate. At KingsHall all the scholars are of that class : at Michaelhouscnone. At Peterhousc there are only two or three poor scholars : at Clare ten. At Clare a sophistermay be a fellow, but the scholar of Pcterhouse mustbe at admission. The full scholars of Peterhouscand Michaelhousc and the fellows of Clare must bepoor : there is no such condition at Kings may correct a fundamental error of moderngrowth about the function of a medieval college—thatit was a teaching institution. The ordinary collegeof the Middle Ages had few undergraduates, andin their relation to the other members of the societythose few were menials rather than pupils. Therewas no teaching staff; lectures and disputationswere a University
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