George Herbert and his times . nour of recording their names as their foundersor benefactors; and the long succession from Peter-house to Sidney Sussex was without a parallel,except at Oxford, in the scholastic world. The University had felt the quickening breathof the new learning and the new religion ; it hadfurnished a large proportion of the Marian martyrs,notably Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley ; and it hadlong been the home of Protestartism, though alsoa firm supporter of royalty. T/ie famous statutesof Queen Elizabeth, in 1570, had formulated strin-gent rules for the government of its memb
George Herbert and his times . nour of recording their names as their foundersor benefactors; and the long succession from Peter-house to Sidney Sussex was without a parallel,except at Oxford, in the scholastic world. The University had felt the quickening breathof the new learning and the new religion ; it hadfurnished a large proportion of the Marian martyrs,notably Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley ; and it hadlong been the home of Protestartism, though alsoa firm supporter of royalty. T/ie famous statutesof Queen Elizabeth, in 1570, had formulated strin-gent rules for the government of its members, thesame stress being laid on the fashion of their dressand hair as on the arrangeme/Lt of lectures andthe standards of conduct; but/nany of these en-actments were now more frequently honoured inthe breach than in the observance. The currentroutine might be called that of the contemporarygrammar school writ large ; plough with the im-portant addition of the pub/ic exercises in thecommon centre of academif life known as the. THE GREAT GATE, TRINITY COLLEGE FROM KEUXS ENGRAVING SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY 41 Schools. Here, in the building now chiefly occu-pied by the University Library, the students of allthe colleges attended the lectures of the professorsof Greek, logic, mathematics, philosophy and thelike, or met to hear or take part in the public dis-putations of those students who were preparingfor their degrees. At this time, however, there isgood evidence that the public lectures, and theonce famous word-combats, in which the youngsophisters had crossed their wits over knotty pointsin theology, medicine, or metaphysics, were muchneglected, or treated as a mere formality ; thepractical instruction of the students having beenlargely taken over by the college tutors andlecturers. The extreme youthfulness of the under-graduates has often been commented on ; but asthe Earl of Essex entered at eleven, Lord Baconat thirteen, Herbert at fifteen and Milton atseventeen, the range
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